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Its official, mission accomplished on Littlewoods tonight when i won a 10 handed final for a $15000 seat in the main event of the World Series Of Poker 2006 at the end of July.

Im absolutely drained after the weekend away with Ladbrokes (which was great, although the horse didnt over impress me) and the 3.5hrs 10 seater game, almost 1hr of that being heads up against a guy i could not finish off. Fortunately he was as passive as they come so i kept eating into his stack before he had to double up just to get back to anything between a quarter to a half of the chips in play. This must have happened at least 6 times where i was anything from 30% to 60% to win the hand when the chips went in. Definitely the most intense heads up game ive ever played for many reasons , time taken, value and strategy taken to name a few.

Finally with the blinds at 300,600 and 25k in play i was on about 18k vs 7k stack when i was dealt jj. I had about 18k vs his 7k at this point and i had been very agressive in the several hands preceding this.

He topped up and i raised to 1800, with a flop of 976 (2 spades) i pushed all in immediately knowing he would call with any part of it for his last 5k and also to protect and make any drawing hand (could be a fair few with that flop) pay over the odds. He called immediately with A9off and another spade on the turn meant he only had 2 aces and 2 nines left to draw at as i had the jack of spades in my hand. A lovely blank river and i was there after as ive mentioned above the most intense heads up ive had to date.

Earlier i had started badly and was 10th/10 for a while before surviving a AK vs 10s just to get back to the starting stack of 2.5k when the blinds were 25,50. I believe that was the only hand i was allin preflop where i wasnt left with any stack if i lost. One big bluff and 1 semi bluff gave me 2 medium to big pots when there were 5 or 6 players left and suddenly i was chip leader at a table which had tightened up as i had hoped it would as it went more shorthanded. Lost 1 pot with worse kicker and top pair and got overraised 3 handed when i had AJ and was never gonna call when i still had 6k left if i folded my 900 raise. Suddenly i was 3rd/3 , i didnt panic and attacked the tightest player for blinds which sustained me nicely before i got pocket aces against the chip leader on a queen high flop , he had Q10 and it held. Shortly after we were heads up when he busted the other guy and it was level chips, both having stack in the 12000s. The rest is above , if i fancy it ill pick out all the hands i had him all in to win from my hand histories tomorrow but that will depend on how easy i can find them.

Party On !!!