Saturday!!

well hope everyone had a good bank holiday weekend, i had a great wkend!! saturday did some shopping bought some clothes with GF, then got a new toy!! our video been playing up last few months and after failing to record the poker on channel 5 on wednesday for last 2 weeks decided it had to go!! saw a freeview digital recorder on sale in argos. got that home and set it up, its just like sky plus without the sky!! anyway it will do for me!!
Sunday spent another day in the garden with GF and my mum, man its hard work but its slowly getting there
Monday just did a few bits round house and relaxed!!!

So good wkend all in all, oh yes MAN UTD are CHAMPIONS!!!!!

so no doubt ur all gagging to hear bout my first official poker session, with the GF's consent

well on saturday after shopping and setting up new toy it was bout 4 or 5pm, i lgged onto stars, after checking my blog, alas no tips for where to play, anyway as GF was hanging up the washing i saw that there were quite a few games that looked interesting
couple of $10 double & triple shoot outs to sunday million and warm up etc, interesting but wood lead to play on sunday could be an issue...
then i saw the 2 tournys i had to play..
a $10k guaranteed and a deep stack tounry for $22 & $11, i knew it was a 3rd of my roll but i had to try, if u dont shoot u dont score right??

well, surprise!! i didnt make any money in either of them, however i was very happy with my play and but for 2 unlucky hands and 1 bad decision i could have done so much better!!

so what happened??

well in the 10k u start with 3k chips, got off to a slow start in this, taking it easy. i slowly got up to bout 4k was prob under average, there were 700 in it. got up to 5k and was nearly average.

then with Q10diamonds i flop open end str8 flush draw!! chased it to river and didn't hit str8 , flush or anything that saw me drop to bout 2.5k

i then lost another hand or 2 and down to bout 1.7k

so i knew i had to make some moves, i stole a few blinds got just over 2k, then with a good pocket pair i pushed all in, i got a call and i held out, next hand i get aces!!
so i raise a small stack goes all in and i call and win and back to 6k!!

still under average and am bout 135th of 300-400 , this is where i went sour!!
with AQ i raise 3xbb, small stack goes all in for bout 3k, i call
he has 22 flop turn and river all miss me and he is good and now i am down to 3k ish

few hands later i get AK so i raise 3xbb again, another small stack goes all in so again i call
he has 10J
flop K97, looking good!!
turn 2, nearly there
river Q and he makes a str8!!!

so now i got bout 1.2 k and blinds are coming round at 200/400
i get K8 so i push
the big stack on 11k calls with A2, no luck and i finsh in the 300's

all in all fairly happy, but for some luck and chasing the str8 flush mite have been a good day, top 100 or so got paid

ok so what bout the deep stack, well i did better in this!! there were bout 500 in it and 65 paid, starting stack of 5k

hit some hands early on to get to 6 and then 7k, was playing patient as the clock was 30 mins blinds so no rush
kept moving along nicely and after 1hr 30 mins or so was on 10k and 90th of 300 ish, bit under average but leader on my table and going well

then this is where it went wrong

a min raise from early few callers i call with 35off, not good i know but i had the chips for a speculative call here and there
flop 249, 2 spades
early bets less half pot, figure i getting odds for my str8 so i call as does 1 other
turn 6!!! of spades,
tricky here as flush is on board but i made my str8.....
early bets bout half pot i feel he not got flush so to be sure i reraise to bout1.8k, folded back to early
he reraises to 3k........ i dont buy it, i dont know why but i didnt so i reraise all in for 10k!!
he thinks and then calls his last 3k
he shows ... KK with a spade
i have my str8
river....... a spade!!! he takes it on river with king high flush and i down to 5k!!

damn it!!

no need to worry though still time and chips, funnily enough i just got busted out the other tourny as this happened

i won some back off some other players

but ultimately the same guy wood take me out a few hands later
i cant remember now
but i remember i raised and got it in either pre or on the flop, was ahead again until he hit on river to take me out again in 300's

so but for some luck could have done ok there too!!

well at least thats what i can remember now on tuesday, i do recall this:
i was pretty happy afterwards and apart from the guy making king high flush and then hitting something on river i would have been ok in deep stack

and in the 10k twice i called short stack all ins and was unlucky, once against 22 which held out and another against 10j which made a str8 on river

so i happy

also if any of u are wondering what the monster hand was from shattered dreams when my aces lost.....
it was 26!!! for a str8!!
$10 all in with 26!! what can u say bout that??

PK69