So i arrived at DTD early Thursday evening after a surprisingly decent train journey (thanks to free interwebs). I went to meet the others reporting on the ME at DTD and played a £.50/£1 cash game. Nothing to interesting happened until i got it in BVB with KK<
The next day was the day of the £300 side event which i took part in and it got underway around 8pm. It had around 130 runners (more than i expected) leaving around £14k for 1st place. I started the tournament quite well getting up to around 16k from 10k starting stack after picking up AK a few times and 1010 twice and basically taking pots down with c/bets with very little resistance. There was a decent Norwegian player who was playin an aggressive game but everyone else was limp around. I even 5x raised AK into 4 EP limpers from LP and obv everyone called for "pot odds" lolz. Going into the first break i had around 13.5k after first 3 levels just above avg stack after folding JJ on bvb on a A 8 4 K board where the guy showed me his ace.(he played weak/passive and always showed never bluffed etc so i didnt bother c/betting).
After the break it went slowly downhill. I bleed down to around 8-9k after perhaps playin to loosely isolating LP with hands like A9o when in reality this table was limping stronger/dominating holdings. Then the key hand occured. I raised UTG with 1010, ss pushed for around 3.5k i called him showing KQ. flop 3 9 K...... so i didnt hold but meh. THe next 2 hrs or so consisted of me shoving on the blinds and surviving picking up no real hands until finally an uber shorty shoved for 2bb's UTG, i decided to shoved over for 8bb's with K9s a i suspected his range was any 2. He flipped A5o and despite picking up FD, gutterball and 2 live cards.......i did not get there. Next hand i was allin blind with j2S 1.5bb's and the ret was history finishing i think 57th of 131.It was late at the end of day1 at this point so i had a few beers with Ian and Andrew before calling it a night.
Saturday was pretty non-entertaining so i was railing the ME and Dean alot up until around 7:00pm when i played a £1/2 cash game. Bascially i drank throughout the game till around 3:00 am got up to £650 stack open shoved 1010 like a true piss head with a £375 stack to be called by QQ in the bb. Ive never done such a degen thing but i was pretty drunk and enjoying myself up until that point, but felt kinda bad about spunking such an amount when i could have comfortably made a few more £££ instead of losing it all. I also lost a £250 pot when i called a river bet with A high only for the other guy to turn his AK high into a bluff :(. Overall it was a good experience and i meet some good guys and will defo look to play some more live MTT's next yr as they are a good break from the online grind and i feel with a few tweaks to my live game and changing down gears alittle i am capable of a big score.
Last night i played a 200 hands HU pokerz for $1k which atleast has covered some of my losses for the weekend. Im up around $1.6k for the month now after 5k hands and running good which is nice. I intend to grind pretty hard online for the next 2 weeks before things gather pace for xmas.
gl at the tables
JP
