Today I decided to get out of bed unusually early and get a full day of Poker in, it's not too often I feel like this so I was keen to make the most of it. I head over to Matt's as we Battleship it in a few afterdoon donkaments at around 12pm and we get involved in a little $5 buy-in $5K guarantee on Stars. Somehow out of 1300 runners me and Matt end up on the same table at the beginning but quickly went out seperate ways.
This tournament went really well, I was able to establish reads quickly on all the tables I played, played some good hands, made some inspired calls and eve got stupidly lucky on a few ocassions to set me up for a final table finish. The hand in question I shoved in a serial min-raiser with AJs, he had 50% of my chips and would have been happy for a call but shocking I got 2 calls all-in for more chips than I hand behind, even with the min-raiser called. He had J10s, the other 2 had AA and QQ but amazing I made a flush to stack 3 people and take the chip lead in the tournament.
I wasn't particularly happy with my final table play, all my moves were ill-timed and I ended up coming 7th for a $171. Overall very happy with the performance but let myself down slightly at the end. We jumped straight into the $3 rebuy which I managed to negociate fairly cheaply and got real stacked at one point but ended up losing all my chips in a terrible hand, I've raised UTG with AQs, I believe blinds were 400/800 so I make it 2400 to go with around 40K behind, I get a call from the BB, flop is A, 10, x. I want action here so I make a weak looking probe bet of 2400 again, trying to look like I've raised with JJ-KK and don't like the A, I get a call. I pick up a flush draw on the turn also so pot it this time for 8000 and he calls. The river is a harmless looking off suit 2, he checks and I bet 8000 looking to get a value call, instead he shoves for 6k more and I call, he had A2 and was happy to stack off with it and I get unlucky. That was a wrench but was very happy I convinced him that he was much stronger than he actually was the entire time.
This was about 9pm and I was too tired to play after this point. I also got some free monies thanks to the wonderful African Nations Cup, a £25 treble on Ghana, Morocco and Mali returned a nice £94 and a new pair of shoes for me :-)
Looking forward to playing again tomorrow, either online or the FO at Circus.
Bye for now.
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