Early exit but everything irie!!

Well St Kitts is fantastic, I managed to bring a faulty plug adaptor and blew up the baby monitor and the laptop but hey… in the Caribbean nothing gets you down. Even a day 1 exit from the main event didn’t dampen the spirits too much. It was a bit of a strange day to be honest. The table I drew was really really tough and I could not hit a flop for about 4hours, AK 4 times and missed everytime and QQ once with an AK flop. Still plenty of play left with 15k starting chips and only 155 runners in a 4 day event and even though the chip stack got down to about 6k I managed to dig in once again and get back up to about 20k by level 6 playing a little on the deserved tight passive image I’d done so well to foster for the 1st 4 hours.

20K was just a touch below ave when I was moved to table one. My 1st impressions were that it was a bit softer (then I spotted a WSOP bracelet on the wrist to the guy to my right! ) won a few then I managed to donk off a few chip with an ill timed move and needed to get busy when I picked up AsAc 1st to act and put my standard raise in. Two callers and I’m liking the 4d 4s 9d flop. Check – Check and last to act bets 3500 into a 6k pot. I tank in my last 11k and he calls with the nut flush draw…. Two diamonds later and its back to the pool for me in about 95th! Again not to worried about the play, get it in favorite and win and I’m sitting OK for day two where anything can happen… just not to be.

The hotel is great, the food is good and WH upgraded us to a suite so it makes life much easier with Jack having a bit of space. I’m about 1k up from the (wild) side action after getting paid in full with quad 8s buy TT!?!?! Me and the Mrs just going to chill for the rest of the week and maybe play a few STTs and a little cash…. Best to take it easy when the rum punch is flowing ;)

Cheers,

Jim

Singapore Report and off to Kitts

Got back on Saturday evening and legged it up to Manchester on Sunday as Michelle had bought us tickets to see The Killers at the Manchester Apollo on Monday… back down to Leamington on the Tuesday to let the guys in for having a new kitchen fitted and start packing for St Kitts …. Head of to Kitts on Thursday 23rd. I think I need to go back to work for a rest. The first few days in Kitts will be strictly R&R.

As for the look back at the Singapore Main event, it was relatively uneventful to be honest all very ABC for most of the time, I got into trouble early on day1. AK on a AKQ flop a fair chunk went in on every street until the river when a J fell…. I just didn’t have him for JT at all but checked the river, he value bet and I called and he shows a fairly disgusting QT!

From then on it was a grind back up from 5k (started with 10k) , I touched 3900 at one point but was not too worried as there was still plenty of play in that stack in the early stages. I worked it up to 15k and then dipped to about 10k as the blinds started to bite a bit, the table raiser made it 2.5k to go and I look down to find AA, it was just a question of when the chips go in, I flat call hoping he catches a piece of the flop and sure enough he bets out when the flop comes Q high… what I didn’t bargain for was the fact that he was holding QQ, I push to his bet and he calls in a instant ..as you do!

I walk away from the table when a collective gasp at the turned Ace has me called back to fight another day. I know I’m going deep from this point.

A little while later and I’m lucky enough to pick up AA again and get action again. A mid stack had pushed to my preflop raise obliged again and I’m somewhat surprised to see Scott Grey push all in behind him, automatic call and its AA v KK (Scott) and AQ. This sees me chipped up for day one in about 10th spot with 68k with 70 of 315 runners returning for day 2.

Day two was spent picking fights with the short stacks and mostly winning. The bubble came and went in a flash… so no repeat of a 4 hour bubble as in Estonia thank god! With about 30 left it was my turn on the TV table next to Tony G, sadly no huge hands on the TV table for me so I will prob end up on the cutting room floor… good fun though.

Eventually went out in 15th after re-raising all in to a Singaporean chap who’d been making some interesting moves all day. I’m hold AJ and more importantly the table ROCK image …. Still he calls with 77 for 80% of his chips. I catch the jack first off the deck but I’m drawing thin as you like when he hits his set on the next card. He finished 2nd for the best part of $300k and I picked up $15k. Better than a kick in the nuts I know but I win the coin flip and I’m on the final table with a shot at paying off the mortgage! It didn't do the confidence any harm...next time!!

Later that evening Rob ended up winning the $500 side event after receiving some very bad news from home, I can honestly say it was the strangest days I've had in a long time. And while the money is no compensation for what happened I hope it sets him and the Mrs up for the next year or two and whatever they may bring!

In St Kitts now, and finally managed to log on… will post an update in next day or two once I drag myself away from the pool. ;o)
Cheers Jim

Singapore Day 2

Out in 15th for about $15k... happy with the way I played and would not change much, but not so happy to miss out on the final table and a shot a being able to pay off the mortgage... will post a few details once I get chance but in the mean time here are a few pics...



Early Day two with Rob looking on.....


Tank in the tank.....



On the TV table :) ....



Tank cashes for 11kUS (18th I think?) , Noseyboy and Tankdad...




Bit crowded in on the final two tables....

More Pics from Day 1

More pics from day 1.....

1 of tank as promised...



Nice Outfit Flushy?!?!?!?!....

Singapore Day 1

Gawd im knackered... anyway just a quicki and some pics of the BF forumites Still very happy to still be in with 70 odd left from 313 starting and above ave chips. Sorry if i miss anyone out or get a name wrong!

Before the kick off... Doob, Tank , Matty , Rob the OEP , Ruru and Dibble



Ken Barlow and Deejay and Gus Hanson..




Matty at the end and Farrer with the nice head gear...




Waheey and Doobs...




Mandyloo and feck knows what sat next to him.. yank fish i was told :)




Pennick giving Tony G the eye on the TV table...




finally Tank stacked up in the biggest game of his life ordering 2 large brandys and 'diet' cokes!?!??!!? Ummm it wont upload... anyway u get the idea...BED! GN!

Singapore!

Well the play hard for the 1st few days in Singa def happened! Sat here in my room with a stinking hangover. Tomorrow is the main event and I’m feeling a bit crap…. Water and OJ today and should be ok though.

The trip has been loads of fun so far, the hummer was entertaining (although the booze they provided was a bit naff) Pic of Rob, Me and Hawko enjoying the ride....




The flight wasn’t too bad and we arrived in Singa on time to be greated by the BF team. The only bad news was that I (and 150 other players) had to swap hotels today due to some ‘over booking’. To be honest it’s probably a good idea considering the state of my head at the moment.

1st night was the BF welcome do few beers then off to Raffles for several Singapore slings. Met a few people who I know from the tables, 350BHP, Mikka plus loads of forumites.

Last night we went out for a meal that Martin Green booked…. Japanese…. So it was sushi and kobi beef all round and much fun was had trying to figure out WTF we’d just eaten. As usual Dubai was on form ordering everything off the menu.




Not played a hand of poker yet. May play a few STTs tonight to warm up!!

Cheers Jim


PS the winner of the 1st annual Singapore Dubai looki likey contests was.....


;)

Sort out the taxi will you...

True to form I've come down with a stinking cold a few days before we are due to fly off to Singapore. Hopefully it will be cleared by the weekend. Hawko and Kirk are coming down to Leamington to stop the night before we fly. Rob (Highstack) was in charge of getting half of Team Singapore Schlong to the heathrow from Leamington Spa... blinded by his new found fortune after his MTT win last week and no doubt egged on by Hawko I came home to find the details of our transport in my mail inbox....







Last I heard hawko was trying to persuade 4 strippers to make the trip with us was busy making sure we had enough bottles of plonk to entertain us on the way down. I can see the bank roll taking a hit on this trip already. I think the best thing to do will be play hard for the 1st few days and work hard for the latter half of the week. At the end of the day this will be the biggest buy in comp I've ever entered. The plan is to take the camera and update the blog every day or so from Singapore. No doubt there will be some entertaining stuff to report on.

Jim

The power of the collective

Well I decided to give BF a go… OMG I can’t believe they managed to get it so wrong. Not only did it have the basic design issues I listed in the last post but there were also problems with cash tables randomly closing down mid game, PLO games paying out to the losing hand and cash outs going walk-a-bout!! BF had such a good reputation and it’s going to take ages to rebuild it now. Real shame.

Anyway this left me and a few other players scrambling around to try and find a decent deal with another poker room. I approached a few rooms on behalf of a number of medium / high rakers I knew and managed to get a decent group deal out of a very reputable crypto skin who also offer £ accounts so no nasty exchange rates to deal with.

The deal included a seat in a major event for the mega rakers (and I mean MEGA) and very good % gross RB deal, in fact about as good as I’ve seen for a £ based Uk account. Just shows what you can do if you make a few calls and have a few people together. I’m not going to spam it on here cos it was aimed at people who rake a half decent amount a month and I don’t want to dilute it for everyone.. but drop me a mail if you a regular player and want the details.

On a side note I noticed last night that BF had me listed in the market for the APT. Mum will be sooo impressed! Congrats to Rob (Highstack) for his big win on BF this week… Good timing !! :o)

Good Luck..

Jim