A long day of poker...

DeVore

Well, that was fun, I ran a game in Sligo on Friday night and got to bed about 4, up at 12 for the train and hit dublin at 4:30pm. Just in time to get my gamble on in the Sat freeroll. I've been working so much over the last 7 days that I've hardly played and I wanted to sit back, relax and muck about with 74o. So I did just that on my first table, and promptly lost 40 notes, which was fine as I really just wanted a game and a laff. Just before the break I double through twice so I decided to top up and try and retrieve something from my spent 50 quid!
About 2 hours later I get to the second last table and I have a comfortable stack but Charles (a fun asian bloke) has a veritable wall of chips and he's a very good player so I'm conscious that I need to be careful of him. Mostly I stay out of his way but we fence a few times and have a lot of fun. Several times I made raises that he snapped off with all-in reraises but I quickly stopped that and did some all-in reraising of my own.

I really wanted to get away from Charles on my left with his big stack even though I was doing pretty ok so when final table formed I drew 7 ... he of course drew 8. Great.
I kept pretty quiet at first bluffing an ace high flop against just the two blinds and picking up the blinds with JJ. I motored up to 20K and started to speech play Charles a little (we were having a laugh with each other). I knew I could do serious damage to his 24K stack. Then I got KK. Charles had said he knew when to snap off bets of mine because he saw a pattern in my betting. Thats probably true and a flaw in my game but I dont know if its something I would rely to heavily on. I had started to watch my own betting pattern and review my previous bets. I figured he wasnt looking at the amount but at the multiple of the blind or the amount extra on top of the blind. I couldnt see any correlation between my previous bets when I considered the amount I had raised on top of the blind but I could see some correlation between some types of hands and the multiple of the BB I had raised. So I'm sitting there with KK and I make a triple the blinds raise to 5K. Now, this is my standard raise with a big pair, 3-4 times the blinds. A fair number of regulars know that, but its also my raise with AQ, and my raise to steal from early position, and my raise with 67s in late position etc. In fact its quite a common raise for me, probably too common but it makes it hard to fathom what I have if they are all covering each other. I noted Charles earlier watching my hand when I had AQ and raised triple the blinds and he snapped it off with a monster reraise. I dropped the hand, showing AQ.
So when holding KK I raised triple the blinds, hoping for an attempted snap-off from Charles which he duely did and my KK held up to his 22. After that he was soon out and the rest got tickets. He deserved a ticket though as he played great right up until that one "bully" too far....

So I get a ticket for my troubles, but now I'm thoroughly keen to play some more and there is the gamble fest that IS the Round-Of-Each. Also, Oscar is dealing and I do like to drive him round the bend making calls in Omaha that put his teeth on edge

5 hours late I'm on second final table having a whale of a time with about 80k in chips in front of me and easily chip leader of the tournie. We're in a very tense 3-handed Omaha hand when we hear "two players all in" from the other table. Joe (small foreign bloke, funny guy) sits up and says "pot", which is all in at this stage. I burst out laughing and have to fold, I 've a draw but he's enough to seriously wound me before final table. The other guy folds eventually and I dont know if he had anything or not but it was the perfect time to pull a stunt!

On the final table I found short handed Omaha very hard to play, as did the other lads and it somewhat spoiled the terrific holdem rounds. None of us really knew how to play it shorthanded but it was good practise too...
I finished 3rd when my brain simply broke and I slightly misread my omaha hand. I'd been playing for 11 hours solid at that point and should have gotten second (chip leader was sitting on about 200K) but I was happy, 2 tournies, 2 final tables. Felt good!

DeV.

ionapaul

What a fun day

Doc Farrell

That is one of the most incredible stories of poker genius that I have ever read! Strike up the band! Ready the tickertape parade! Marry my daughter!
U are so amazing, a free ticket and then third in omaha (but should have come 2nd) ! give that man a silver ingot! oh my!

have u ever thought about going pro?

(now that's sarcasm! sorry, had to

big slick

did any one see the guy eitw the "stone" in the freerolls latly hes like gus hanson on crack. raise and reraise wit 48 off flops nuts 567 bets it gets called by 2 all in wins ticket every week CAN HE PLAY GENIUS OR LUNITAC??????????????????????????????????????????????

Dub13

big slick wrote:

did any one see the guy eitw the "stone" in the freerolls latly hes like gus hanson on crack. raise and reraise wit 48 off flops nuts 567 bets it gets called by 2 all in wins ticket every week CAN HE PLAY GENIUS OR LUNITAC??????????????????????????????????????????????

Sounds like the average freeroll player....

roryc

big slick wrote:

did any one see the guy eitw the "stone" in the freerolls latly hes like gus hanson on crack. raise and reraise wit 48 off flops nuts 567 bets it gets called by 2 all in wins ticket every week CAN HE PLAY GENIUS OR LUNITAC??????????????????????????????????????????????

I presume this is 'with'?

Interesting how you made a typo such as that! wiht or iwth maybe......

but eitw is just takin the piss

De Deraco

big slick wrote:

did any one see the guy eitw the "stone" in the freerolls latly hes like gus hanson on crack. raise and reraise wit 48 off flops nuts 567 bets it gets called by 2 all in wins ticket every week CAN HE PLAY GENIUS OR LUNITAC??????????????????????????????????????????????

89 would be the nuts fool

mewso

It seems quite apparent alot of posters need a spell checker including me but do we need to jump down their throat every time?

Mark J

yea, no need to act like a lunitac over a spelling!;)