I arrived at our villa to meet bas and jono last monday afternoon after flying in from Birmingham. After a few hours sleep we went out for a few beers before, the other two lads sharing our villa affrokjell and welsh will arrived. The first 2/3 nights we spent getting pretty drunk drinking till 7-8 in the morning which im pretty sure is ideal leading up to a tournament.
By the time Friday evening came round i was ready to play a little live pokerz.The field had 208 runners with a 1st prize of €110k. I took my seat to which i was extremely pleased. There were 3 females at the tbl, 2 of which to my immediate right (Ship the blinds! :P) and alot of older spanish guys. There was 1 young scandi at the tbl but he was at the other side so no problems there.
A couple of hands in i get QQ in the sb after about 4 limps. I make a 6/7x raise or so and get 1 caller. Flop is 678 2 tone, i cbet 2/3 pot and get insta raised 3.5x my cbet so i hit the muck. It turns out the guy is a huge whale so i think its an ok fold, but this was to set the pattern for my tournament. Nothing else really of note for a few levels other than the play is terribble with a mixture of 10x raises pre and insane limp action. early in level 3 the whale opens for 10x the btn 3bets and i look down in SB to see QQ. sighhhhhhhhhhhhh i muck, fish calls and folds an 8 high flop, 3 bettor shows deem aces.
I then get AKhh otb. same fish limps who's now accumilated a nice stack running hotter than the sun. I isolate his limp and go to a 347hh flop. I cbet he flats, turn is A spades. I decide to check behind as i have the deck pretty crushed and he will be peeling so light he cant take the heat of a 2nd barrel and mite payoff on river. River is 5c. sighhhhh, he pots the river i fold he shows 68o for the nuts.
For the next few levels my stack dwindles down to around 12k from 20k starting stack at 150/300. 3 limps i 5x KK limper UTG shoves, i snap he has 66 and i hold. I manage to get my stack up to around 29k going into last 2 levels of the day which is just above average and put me in good shape for day 2 with 160 left.
Its around 4am at this point goin into final level and im pretty tired and bored. I look down to see Q9dd otb and raise to 1.25k at 250/500/50. Unfortunately i didnt realise UTG limped so i end up getting called by both blinds and orignal limper.
Flop comes a pretty awesome 37kddd. Checks to me and i cbet about 3k into a 5k pot, SB folds and BB asks how much i got behind so i spread my stack and he just flats, whilst UTG folds. At this point hes made it hugely obvious he has Ad but i have a 26k stack and he has around the same. Turn is a blank i cant quite remember i bet 8.7k into around an 11k pot leaving about 12k behind. He tanks for ages before calling. River is the dreaded diamond and he leads for about 3k into 40k pot so i make the call and he shows Adkx. I think my turn betsizing is bad in hindsight,i shoudld either bet smaller like 5k or just ship it in. At this point i had the sympathy of the lady to my left anyway who berated the other guy after anyway lol (she was a scouser!) The misery ended a few hands later when UTG limped BTN iso raised and i shipped in KK for around 16-18bb's. The guy gave me a gentle slowroll with Aces but i couldn't be arsed to rant. I was on tilt from the Q9 hand before really and resigned to the fact i was guna donk out instead of coming into day 2 as a ss.
I made some pretty huge laydowns for me throughout and ran pretty terrible. The field was softer than anything ive played b4 and even I was hugely +EV. Everyone in the villa (Apart from Will) + John Eames went out day1 including Affrokjell in the 1st hour on the feature tbl (LOL).
The next 2 days was spent been sick as i had sum kind of food poisoning time illness along with Jono and Will. I finally plucked up the energy to rail Will as he hit the FT and eventually shipped €32k of which i had 5% of so not a completely wasted trip :P. Final tbl was pretty dull to watch but i was chuffed for Will as the money really is a lot to him and gives him a good chance to build a roll.
So with 1/2 hr sleep in 2 days i went to the airport and eventually arrived back in London Monday afternoon.
Ive grinded online a decent amount since which has gone pretty terrible. Running terrabad at the mo, so my month sits at about +$6k in 25k hands. Plans for the next few weeks consist of grindin alot online and maybe playing GUKPT Cardiff but i'll make a decision closer to the time.
gl at the tbls all
JP
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