Ed's Midlands Masters
Ed's account of his tourney.
My first hand in the comp was KQ clubs, christ I thought, didn't want any playable hands for at least the first hour. So, called a very small raise and had a look at the flop, nothing at all for me, another bet and I bowed out.
Third hand was QQ, oh bloody hell!! Bet 3x the BBand had a couple of callers, flop brought a K and an A so that was the end of that.
So, played a reasonable amount of hands in the next 5 hours or so, even had the luxury of pocket Aces at one point where I ended up all in against 88 and luckily they held out.
At my high point though I was only holding just over 20k in chips so never had a chance to try some bullying.
Anyway, the wee small hours had arrived and I was feeling confident and basically just waiting for the cards. I'm on the big blind, J9 off, nothing doing until Lucy Rokach in late ish position, she chucks in 4x my blind, I thought for a bit and had a good feeling about it, coupled with the fact I convinced myself she was stealing, so I put in the extra 1.8k to call, flop 9J6, oh yess I thought to myself, Lucy throws in a pot sized bet and I decide it's time to take a stand, all in and Lucy calls, now at this stage I'm thinking maybe AJ so still got her covered. WRONG, she turns over her pocket 6's to my disgust, turn river no good and out I go.
Was a tremendous experience which I thoroughly enjoyed, never at any point did I feel intimidated. Finished 63rd so pretty much in the middle, considering it was my first big event I'm fairly happy with how it went.
Thanks to Joe and the gang, brilliant bunch of people.All the people who made the effort to come along, Brian, Diane, Andy, Sam, Big Andy.
My first hand in the comp was KQ clubs, christ I thought, didn't want any playable hands for at least the first hour. So, called a very small raise and had a look at the flop, nothing at all for me, another bet and I bowed out.
Third hand was QQ, oh bloody hell!! Bet 3x the BBand had a couple of callers, flop brought a K and an A so that was the end of that.
So, played a reasonable amount of hands in the next 5 hours or so, even had the luxury of pocket Aces at one point where I ended up all in against 88 and luckily they held out.
At my high point though I was only holding just over 20k in chips so never had a chance to try some bullying.
Anyway, the wee small hours had arrived and I was feeling confident and basically just waiting for the cards. I'm on the big blind, J9 off, nothing doing until Lucy Rokach in late ish position, she chucks in 4x my blind, I thought for a bit and had a good feeling about it, coupled with the fact I convinced myself she was stealing, so I put in the extra 1.8k to call, flop 9J6, oh yess I thought to myself, Lucy throws in a pot sized bet and I decide it's time to take a stand, all in and Lucy calls, now at this stage I'm thinking maybe AJ so still got her covered. WRONG, she turns over her pocket 6's to my disgust, turn river no good and out I go.
Was a tremendous experience which I thoroughly enjoyed, never at any point did I feel intimidated. Finished 63rd so pretty much in the middle, considering it was my first big event I'm fairly happy with how it went.
Thanks to Joe and the gang, brilliant bunch of people.All the people who made the effort to come along, Brian, Diane, Andy, Sam, Big Andy.
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