Played at the local casino in Leeds yesterday, it"s a £50 comp with a good structure and clock. Now I haven"t played much this year so don"t know what the current trends are (raise 2 bigs or 3 bigs etc). Now I may be a nit but help me understand this. Starting with 25K chips first level 50/100, first raise 700 followed by 4 callers, eventually gets to shown down with 2 in the pot one shows K4 the other shows 97 for a 15K pot (ish) very first hand. This could have been a one of trying to be the table captain but no this goes on throughout the first level, seems that the trend in Leeds is to bet anything from 7 to 10 big blinds followed by 4 or 5 callers. It"s not a re-buy comp but you can re-enter once. Into level 2 75/150 and the mayhem just keeps on going still betting 7/8 bigs and getting calls. Level 3 and 4 just the same not with big hands (AA v KK ect) but with A7, K9, 64 (because they are suited) . Before anyone says it, this should be good for a player like me just to wait and then play my big hands but if the big hands never come you have to make a stand at some point.
Level 4 I decided to join in (I could have just keep on folding but no guarantee that I would get a hand). In the small blind J9, as norm someone raises, 3 or 4 callers so with those odds I call, J high board so I put out a pot sized bet. Gets 1 caller the only other player on the table that seems to be playing a ABC game (He asked what I had behind). K on the turn, I should have continued but made a mistake and checked, so did he. Rag on the river, I have no idea where I"m at. Is 2nd pair good? If I had bet the turn I think I would have known wear I was. So I check, he puts out a sizable bet, which was 3/4 of my stack. So the decision I had did he hit the K or hit a set or did he pick up that I was a nit and missed the K so was putting me to the test. I folded, if had been any of the other lose players I would have called, but was the only person that when it went to a show down, was playing premium hands. A few more hands came and went with me calling and folding (not one of my best games). Big blind call again with K 10, 3 spades came down (I had the K spades). He bets, I just have enough to make him lay down so I ship it, he ponders for a while the makes the call with 2 pair. Not with say Ak or KQ or JQ no no no, but he was playing 9 4. He called a bet (pre flop) with 9 4 and hit two pair. No spade on the turn or river and I"m out.
What I learnt from this game is don"t play a way that you are not comfortable with. I knew I was making mistakes but still made them.
