Tournie Bug
I played the Irish Open main event in both 2007 and 2008, but haven’t played for the last 2 years, as I have found myself drifting into cash games and spending a huge amount of time on there (with limited success). This Easter, as with last year, I started to get tournament cravings after reading the updates from the tournament. A big well done incidentally to James Mitchell, the Main Event winner, who I have played with a few times in London, albeit not for a good while.
I’m starting to feel I’m missing out by not playing the lower buy in tournaments around London as this is where I began, but I’m simply too lazy right now. Additionally, I have a non existent bankroll, and only play when I get the time and a bit of spare cash. Saving for a house will be worth it in the end :)
I visited the LC on Good Friday, and 7 of us congregated for some old fashioned £50 SNG action - myself, Shazbo, Sir Mike, Fluke, Devski, Nit and Andreas all took to the felt. I ran pretty good in chopping the first couple for half the prize pool, the highlight being an outdraw of Fluke’s with when more spades than you can throw a stick at appeared on the board.
We only started with 3k stacks with 15 minute blinds so it was crash bang wallop, and a lot of fun. This structure was primarily the reason I disguised my KK first hand in the final SNG, to be busted immediately. In all likelihood I’d have been out irrespective of how I played it.
I flat called Dev’s UTG raise to 150, then flat called Nit’s repump to 500 from the BB (if Dev had called this I would have shoved). The flop arrived low and disconnected and I re-raised Nit’s continuation bet all in, only to be find out he had AA which send me to the rail. Fortunately I was able to recoup my buy in with side bets on the SNG, mostly at the expense of Fluke :)
In the cash games, I suffered a £1,000 loss about a month ago, and apart from that have had a win of £100 and a few £30-£50 wins, so nothing exciting.
I’ve also stopped smoking as well with apparent success, it now being day 15. I have to pay £150 to Gordon Brown’s re-election fund if I fail at the request of Fluke, so that is keeping me on the straight and narrow. To be fair I’d probably bite my own arm to off to avoid having to make that donation.
I definitely want to play more tournaments again now - need to get the motivation together though. Anyhow - that’s enough rambling - I just thought the blog deserved an update after a month of neglect.
Keep well folks