Dusk Till Dawn Caribbean Poker Party Main Event - SOLD OUT

[pokerpops]

Hi all

Please bear me in mind for the next poker adventure

Also Dave stick me down for 1% as well please

Moved from Algarve trip and booked.

[GiMac]

1% please fella, will ship on stars. What is your username?

[pokerpops]

1% please fella, will ship on stars. What is your username?

Booked

[pokerpops]

I"ve opened this up on Blonde too now.

First come first served for the remainder

[pokerpops]

Brief update on twitter for day 1
Slightly less brevity on blog

Will attempt to be more communicative in day 2 but the wifi here doesn"t seem to reach the cardroom

[GiMac]

POKER IS A REAL GRIND!!!!




NO REALLY IT IS!!!





ENJOY FELLA!!!!

[GiMac]

Chip counts going into day 3 later today...

PAUL   GRUMMITT   231,300
ROBERT   YONG   188,700
DAN   CHRISTIAN   158,900
JON   KALMAR   158,600
JP   KELLY   157,000
PUELKS   GEIMAEY   137,500
WAHEED   ASHRAF   135,900
GEORGE   WAINBERG   134,000
DAVID   AMOS   131,000
MARK   GARDNER   128,300
PETE    HASLAM   117,000
CZARNOJAN   MARIUSZ   116,500
LEE   MCMILLEN   115,200
DAN   MURARIU   114,700
GEORGE   GRIFFITH   109,100
MATTHEW   FABIAN   101,000
TERRY   FLETCHER   96,400
STUART   KINGHORN   80,000
ALAIN   MEDESAN   77,600
STU   FOX   77,100
MARIO   PAMEOZ   77,000
HIEU   VAN LE   72,900
RASMUS   GEHL   72,900
FRANK   JONES   67,800
LLYR   OWEN JONES   61,700
MARC    PUJOL   54,300
ANDREW   DUCKWORTH   50,200
MARTIN   CHEESE   49,600
FORTUNATO   BORDIN   46,200
JULES   GARDNER   44,700
DUNG   NGUYEN   42,800
DAVE   ULLIOT   40,000
PAVLIS   PANTOLIS   32,600
JAMES    MOULT   31,400
RAJ   KANABAR   16,500

Go on fella!!!

[pokerpops]

I lived the dream for 16 levels and through 84 exits but AA
I believe I"ve played the best poker of my life hereafter times here. For all but two hands on Day 1 and the entirety of Day 2 I felt totally comfortable.

There was a period today where I lost it, but I recovered with a couple pushes and felt very confident of the cash and perhaps more. Sometimes someone else"s bad call is the difference between success and failure. It was tonight for me.


Thanks for your support. We almost made it happen.
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Exit hand..2500/500/500. I raise    to 21k in mp with one limper, one caller to JP who makes it 52k
I shove for around 190 total, caller folds, JP calls from around 300 I think.
Q on the turn.

mbn

Anyone else calling there? Given the situation, the old bloke with the beard putting all his chips on the line so close to the money bubble, is QQ ahead of, or even in decent shape against anything I shove with?

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

I think a lot of players would call with QQ here... of course I don"t know the table dynamics.
You had a great chance to get a lot of chips close to the money, so congrats with your great performance.

Too bad you didn"t get rewarded for your great play

[AMRN]

Anyone else calling there? Given the situation, the old bloke with the beard putting all his chips on the line so close to the money bubble, is QQ ahead of, or even in decent shape against anything I shove with?

If my maths are ok, going with your numbers, he needed to call 138k to win 259k. I doubt he thinks that even the "old bloke with the beard" has a range limited to AA/KK in that spot - he probably includes AK, JJ, and possibly even TT in your range..... in which case the pot odds are probably right to call. I don"t think he can 3-bet a hand as strong as QQ then fold it to a shove that gives him nearly 2:1 to call.

[mylesfdo]

Unlucky David but vwp to get that far with what looks like a pretty strong field....must be such a gutter to go out like that so close to the money but u cant beat yourself up about it as not much more u can do apart from get your money in good and pray to the gods!!

The prob u got here is that JP obv doesnt really care about the min cash and is always playing for the win so if he thinks he is a fav he is obv gonna call and is also likely to take a coinflip there to take a massive pot and glide to FT....see he is 1/9 going in!!......he could easily put u on 99+ AQ/AK and prob even snaps u off with AQ or AK just to take the chance that he has live cards, hits and builds a nice stack whilst getting 1 closer to the money and FT.

Ul again and let us know next live event to have a piece of.

[pokerpops]

Running hands through pokerstove is all very well if you apply an accurate range to your opponent. Most ranges used to justify a call are wider than reality though, and he may well have given me a wide range including  maybe and maybe mr & mrs bun but he"d be wrong to do that.  Having recovered to where I was, I can say with 100% certainty that I"d only be 50/50 to shove KK there.



meh, what the hell, I rode that ****ing pony all the way to a cooler/suck out from the final table. I took on the Devilfish and The Bandit and saw them off. I outlasted a lot of so-called heroes. I stayed sober enough not to upset the staff and I had a  ****ing marvellous holiday.

[fandango]

Thanks for the report David.. Unlucky not to run deeper, you cant do anything different in the exit hand it was basically a cooler.. Be proud of your achievement to out last so many accomplished professionals who play for a living..

I"m sure I speak for most if not all of us recreational players.. well played sir!!

Thanks for the sweat look forward to future staking  

[GiMac]

meh, what the hell, I rode that ****ing pony all the way to a cooler/suck out from the final table. I took on the Devilfish and The Bandit and saw them off. I outlasted a lot of so-called heroes. I stayed sober enough not to upset the staff and I had a  ****ing marvellous holiday.

Coolers/money aside, this has to have been worth it!!!  

Well played fella.  

[pokerpops]

Last word on the exit hand...

Had I played better earlier of Day3 I"d have survived this. It is a cooler, simple as, but I learnt something along the way, and gained a chunk of confidence.

Am I being touchy though in thinking that maybe the Pro that took me out might have made the effort to say "unlucky" to me at some stage over the next day and a half whilst we were both still there? Or is that just something a recreational player might do?