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07-08-2008 5:45pm#1
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Trust you Willie to come up with a strange nickname for Dara!
I played 3 of the side events at the festival with no luck in any of them. I finished about 26th in the £100 FO on the Friday night. Ended up crippled when my late postion raise with AQ was called by a shorty with KT. I had a good image at the table and got respect from pretty much everyone at the table. By calling he was only leaving 2k behind and when calling said, "I know I'm pot committed here but I've been card dead and can't hold on any longer" - I knew there and then I was getting dogged! The flop comes 9J9 rainbow and he (as promised) shoved for his remaining 2k. I make the call (getting 6/1) without thinking as it was a short stacked tournament and winning this would give me some breathing space and we were approaching the money quickly enough. Well the Q on the river screwed me nicely there. I exited about 2 hands later as was forced to shove with a medium hand, called by a decent hand which stood up.
The £250 rebuy was rediculously loose . . . I don't know where some people get cash from to play poker! I was completely card dead in this beyond believe and it was a game of survival. Plenty of aggressive players at all of my tables which would have been ideal had I got a decent hand! I managed to tread water with blind steals and the odd move until there were about 15 left. Finally the blinds jumped from 400/800 to 600/1200 and I had no time left to wait. The table had one or 2 very good players on it, Rob can add their names to this later as I can't remember them now. I end up taking my chances with my BB hand which turned out to be Ac9c which I was certainly happy enough with as it had been one of the best hands in several hours. A guy who had just lost most of chips in the hand before shoves in lateish position and I therefore shove behind. He turns over 89os. This would have resulted in a near enough double up which would have been not too bad as the structure for this tournament was decent enough. So just after I hear Rob say "nice one, he's dominated" I catch a glimpse of the 8 on the river to ship him my chips . . . out in 15th (9 paid)
The last of the side events was a £300 FO. I figured I was due a few hands in this after the drout of the tournament before. Right enough I get AsKs UTG int he 3rd level. Again I have an aggressive table and I'm not getting to see many flops cheap. It was a 7k starting stack and half hour levels but through pure aggressive play by 80% of the table and not managing to hit a flop to save my life I find myself down to 4.5k. So I make it 700 UTG (blinds 100/200) and it's folded around to the BB who calls. This guy had donked off most of his stack in like the second hand but through getting a few hands since managed to recoup most of his starting stack again. The flop comes T33, he checks, I make it 1000 and he repops it to 2.5k. I knew straight away he had a T at least and wasn't a bit surprised the donkey had called my preflop raise with his rags. I fold the AK face up and he shows me his T. I asked about the other one and he quickly mucked. So after another couple of blinds I finally get a hand. I was either on the button or the cutoff and look down at KK - FINALLY I'm thinking, time to double up and get going! Well, guy in early pos makes it 800, a guy 2 seats later calls, guy after him shoves for about 1450 and I autoshove 2 seats later. Original raiser calls, as does his caller and 4 of us get to see a flop which is 996 with 2 clubs. Original raiser then goes all in and the other guy folds. Raiser turns over JJ, shorty that shoved turns over 66 and my Kings are immediately behind his set. 2 blanks make up the board winning me the sidepot of about 2k and losing me a main pot of about 6k. Talk about gutted, I would have loved to have 8k at that point, especially with the tight image on an incredibly loose table. I end up all in with AQ the very next hand called by the 66 guy with his JJ and I'm gone.
So, all in all no luck whatsoever but hopefully I learned from the experience. When in England, ideally play even tighter than normal in the early levels and when you make a move make sure you shove (as opposed to make a standard raise) with anything you don't want called, as they don't see strength in smaller raises or even early position for that matter. Note to self, next time - very few tight players over there, 90% of them are fish or hyper aggressive - wait for a hand (if possible) and trap like fcuk!
I would definitely intend on playing those side events again as there is incredible value in them, I was card dead through the most part and there wasn't much I would change with my play but they are very doable as a standard and would recommend them to anyone wanting to have a crack at them. The average standard in Ireland is much higher than the average standard in England imo!:D0 -
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