IPC & XMAS
I played a $12 satellite for Irish Open on the 23rd which I qualified for the main satellite on the 24th. I was down home for xmas and none of the family have broadband so I had to play on a dial up connection (took over an hour to download the software!!!!!). Was well worth it though as I won a ticket (package worth $5.k) which is great.Iwon one this way last year and ended up winning the paddy last competition which meant on top of my €6k cash I won a trip to the wsop (worth 12.5k) so fingers crossed for this year.
IPC
The IPC was on this weekend in the citywest.I made the final table last year finishing 7th for €11k so was hoping for a similar result. I was in good form for the event as I hadnt played in over a week as I was away on hols. Tourny started well for me (well the hands I got) In the first 90 minutes I got ak 6 times aces once and a pair of sixes twice on both ocassions I hit a set !!!!!! and yet at the ned of all that I had only 12k!!!!!!!!. After that it was down to proper poker. Made one of my best calls in a while when on a board of A Q 4 A 9 i called a river bet of 3.1k when holding 2 4 (I was BB) Just knew the mad scandie was bluffing and was thankfully right. That got me up to 15k circa and I continued to grind it out to over 20k . It went downhill after that and my stack ended the first day with 10.4k well behind the average.
I had a few drinks (it was 4 in the morning) and then saw a €500 sit n go about to begin , you should have seen the state of most players hammered so I sat in eventually doing a deal with three players remaining Nicky power taking 2k and we getting 1.5k each. It was a mad game with only three players left at the start of level three!!!!!!!!!.
Day 2 started really well for me Doubled up with aces and then got kk to pay offf as well as taking down a few blinds. I then won a big hand again when I had four callers to my utg raise (i had aces) flop of 6 3 2 and sb bets put 18k i rerasie all in and sb calls he has 10 10 and I hold up. Eoin (MR Pillow talk ) was in the hand on the bb (priced in) and would of won a another six came on the river but thankfully sb had bet out.
I peaked at 140k in chips when the average was circa 45k but then began to lose chips but I am happy it wasnt through bad play. Around the money bubble i raised to 16k on the button with A5 bb goes allin fro another 24k which would only leave me with 10k if i call and lose. Not happy calling but am priced in and eventually do. He turns over kq and I hold up despite a K on the turn I spike an ace on the river.Back up to 90k and comfortable again. Even though Im behind average stack I am really feeling this could be a very good tourny for me and then of course my exit hand I had AA and got it all in preflop against QQ but of course a Q comes on the turn and thats it. I'm usually fairly good when Im knocked out but this really pissed me off . In the last year I have played 5 tournys in Ireland with a buy in greater than 1k and cashed in four of them but all for smallish amounts (biggest 11k) I really do feel this was the one for the big pay day if I had doudled up there but cest la vie.
A couple of other points Smurph posted on antes up about a slow rolling twat when she got knocked out. I saw two other examples of this over the weekend and it really is pathetic (one of themn from a player who I thought had a bit more class)
Other thing is the amount of players going into the tank when their bb is raised and you know there not going to call is so sad. Fair enough you may need to do it the odd time but some idiots where doing it the whole time it was so sad.
I played a $12 satellite for Irish Open on the 23rd which I qualified for the main satellite on the 24th. I was down home for xmas and none of the family have broadband so I had to play on a dial up connection (took over an hour to download the software!!!!!). Was well worth it though as I won a ticket (package worth $5.k) which is great.Iwon one this way last year and ended up winning the paddy last competition which meant on top of my €6k cash I won a trip to the wsop (worth 12.5k) so fingers crossed for this year.
IPC
The IPC was on this weekend in the citywest.I made the final table last year finishing 7th for €11k so was hoping for a similar result. I was in good form for the event as I hadnt played in over a week as I was away on hols. Tourny started well for me (well the hands I got) In the first 90 minutes I got ak 6 times aces once and a pair of sixes twice on both ocassions I hit a set !!!!!! and yet at the ned of all that I had only 12k!!!!!!!!. After that it was down to proper poker. Made one of my best calls in a while when on a board of A Q 4 A 9 i called a river bet of 3.1k when holding 2 4 (I was BB) Just knew the mad scandie was bluffing and was thankfully right. That got me up to 15k circa and I continued to grind it out to over 20k . It went downhill after that and my stack ended the first day with 10.4k well behind the average.
I had a few drinks (it was 4 in the morning) and then saw a €500 sit n go about to begin , you should have seen the state of most players hammered so I sat in eventually doing a deal with three players remaining Nicky power taking 2k and we getting 1.5k each. It was a mad game with only three players left at the start of level three!!!!!!!!!.
Day 2 started really well for me Doubled up with aces and then got kk to pay offf as well as taking down a few blinds. I then won a big hand again when I had four callers to my utg raise (i had aces) flop of 6 3 2 and sb bets put 18k i rerasie all in and sb calls he has 10 10 and I hold up. Eoin (MR Pillow talk ) was in the hand on the bb (priced in) and would of won a another six came on the river but thankfully sb had bet out.
I peaked at 140k in chips when the average was circa 45k but then began to lose chips but I am happy it wasnt through bad play. Around the money bubble i raised to 16k on the button with A5 bb goes allin fro another 24k which would only leave me with 10k if i call and lose. Not happy calling but am priced in and eventually do. He turns over kq and I hold up despite a K on the turn I spike an ace on the river.Back up to 90k and comfortable again. Even though Im behind average stack I am really feeling this could be a very good tourny for me and then of course my exit hand I had AA and got it all in preflop against QQ but of course a Q comes on the turn and thats it. I'm usually fairly good when Im knocked out but this really pissed me off . In the last year I have played 5 tournys in Ireland with a buy in greater than 1k and cashed in four of them but all for smallish amounts (biggest 11k) I really do feel this was the one for the big pay day if I had doudled up there but cest la vie.
A couple of other points Smurph posted on antes up about a slow rolling twat when she got knocked out. I saw two other examples of this over the weekend and it really is pathetic (one of themn from a player who I thought had a bit more class)
Other thing is the amount of players going into the tank when their bb is raised and you know there not going to call is so sad. Fair enough you may need to do it the odd time but some idiots where doing it the whole time it was so sad.
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