Day 7 (The Biggie)

2 hours to go ive eaten and im ready for hopefully a long slog. Yesterday finished with just over 1/3 of the starting players so my target chipstack if i survive will be 60,000+. As expected it went on till the early hours, finishing just under 16 hours after the midday start. The good thing about big fields is you are miles away from any money so that will help me focus on the cards, not the buy in similar to last year. OK gotta go shower before heading off in 40-60mins. I know i will be experiencing one of 2 things within 18hours, knackered or gutted.

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END OF DAY 1 : CHIPS: 79,100 (average about 60)

Where to start ? So many hands i could blog and probably a few a may add later that i forget to.
Very happy with the day as a whole, only made 2-3 noticable mistakes but apart from that played good solid poker and actually bluffed my ass off more than i ever have done before in a live game. Just over 15.5hours long at the table inc. breaks and i didnt get back to my hotel until 4:30am. May only put a few hands down for now and come back and edit later, ive only had 4.5hrs sleep and know i will probably snooze again sometime soon to catch up. Should mention Punterz gave me room key so i can shower at dinner break, was big bonus and i actually was less knackered the 2nd half of the day !

OK lets start with some juicy ones (all have antes from 200,400up) towards the end of play or when blinds were higher:

1 table all day until 30 mins of day to go i moved and this happened about 6 hands in or so:
400/800 i call a 3200 raise on the button with AQss and the flop is K92 (all clubs) , check check.
turn is Ax and matey bets 4000, i call. river is a 6c and matey checks pretty quickly, i put him on a club but a middle one so make it 12,000 to go. he goes in the tank for 2-3mins even counting out his 12,000 chips before i call the clock and he gets his hand made dead after what seemed a very tough decision for him.

200/400 i make it 1200 to go from mid with QQ and just bb calls.
flop is Ah4h2x check check, turn is a Qh and he bets 2500. i make it 10,000 and he moves in for 6400 more which i obviously call. he has AJoff (no hearts) and i take my 2nd scalp (first was a weak stack)

100/200 i call on the button QJoff a 600 raise from ABC cutoff guy. nutty scandi makes it 2300 from the bb. ABC calls and i decide to take a flop obviously looking for a monster or nothing for massive (debatable) implied odds. Flop is Axx rainbow and it quickly checks to me (weak or very strong), i make it 4000 to go and they both fold fairly quickly.

100/200 i raise to 600 with J9cc from early/mid and get guy nxt to me and blinds in.
flop is KQ4 rainbow and i check to guy behind who makes it 1200 which i call, followed by a check in the dark. turn is 10s and he checks quick too after he sees i have (lowers his range big time) river is a Qs (3rd spade). i put a pay me 2500 out but he quickly makes it 10,000. i go into the tank and review all the hand details b4 getting a clock called on me and making the call. he shows 66 and i take a big key pot at the time.

100/200 i have QQ mid and make it 600 to go which sb calls. flop is 456 rainbow and he leads for 800ish. i put him on air or poss 77-JJ and decide to just slow play and call. turn is an Ax and he bets 1200, i make it 3200 to go and he makes the call somewhat reluctant. cant say whether i would have fired again if the river didnt come the Q but when it hit i made it 6000 to go and he called with A10std.

My mistakes inc paying off an allin guy with top pair to his trips when i put him on a flush/straight/both draw. Calling down a new guy who looked like he would play tight with top pair, again he had trips. Betting a J42 flop unraised after a limper from the sb with A9, i couldnt help firing again on the turn J only to be raised and showed the jack, very daft bet for me, u gotta know when to give it up.

100/200 3 limpers and i make it 1200 on the button with 34hh, just utg calls. flop is AhQhAx and i bet 1600 which is smooth called by the tight (played 3-5hands so far guy). turn is a blank, check check. river is a blank when i knew it was worth so so much implied odds. he checks and i resist any fire out, he shows AK !!! . boy he had 15k at that time and i know if the H came i would have got 7-15k off it , gutted !!!

OK this one is funny but i probably should have doubled up. 50/100 THE 3rd HAND OF THE TOURNAMENT. so far ive raised cutoff 9,10off and folded to a reraise and it folded round first hand. AJhh and i call a 300 raise with postion.
flop is 10h,8h,5x and i call mateys 400 continue bet.
turn is a unlinked heart and he checks quickly so (unusually for me) i check as well
river is a blank 6 and he now bets about 1200. i make it 2700. he makes it about 2500 more and i move allin. he goes into the tank for ages before i call a clock and eventually he folds what was a definite flush (this guy was on table all day and rarely bluffed other than continuation bets. Without a doubt this was the quickest allin within the room, but no scalp :((

200/400 and im only about 26k after losing vs trips hand b4.
make it 1400 from mid with A6std which bb huge rock calls.
flop is 955 and i bet 2200 which is called. turn is a blank 7 and he checks, my read on him is he weak so i fire another 5500 out. he reluctantly folds.

Generally i didnt get many J10std sort of hands all day, but feel i got an average set of cards and flops hit so i have to be happy with the day since i never had all my chips in jeopardy or close.

Right here is the most nutty thing of the day. Just over half the way through after i had the QQ vs AJ hand and had bout 50-60k Montel Williams (The chat show host) was moved to my table on 80-90k+ . He was an absolute nutter with his betting, but played like a total beginner post flop. All i needed was to hit a hand hard and he would rarely lay down in a raised pot. No exaggeration i was so excited inside as i knew there was a massive chance with the right cards of making day 2 with 120k+ but i could just not hit against him big. He busted one guy KK vs AQ on a Q high board and another AK vs JJ becoming chipleader before throwing the chips at half of the table. It was gutting to watch and not get a piece of it. The most extreme example (plenty of these) was him raising to 5400 at 300/600 before a 40k stack moved allin. He called with 76hh and missed against the AA but there were several of these type hands to hand the other rocks wads of chips :( When we broke he had about 20k left and was playing about 10% of hands compared to the 50% earlier. Most were preflop but another was a limped 4 way pot (utg had AA!!) at 300/600 and flop was 356. Montel bets 8-9k and utg moves in. Montel calls another 20-30k and has 44. turn is a 4 but river is a 2 for a split. This quote below is taken from blonde forum when i introduced myself to snoopy and told him to put something non offensive on about how unreal this is.

Just a couple of seats along is Robert 'animal' Price. Robert is licking his lips like a dog spotting the rabbit, that rabbit being Montel who he says isn't the greatest poker talent in the world and perhaps the best chance of obtaining a monster stack. If anyone can get his hands on the Montel stack, then it would be Robert, who, himself, is sitting pretty on 60k


OK think im done for now but if i can think of any more interesting ones i will put them below at a later time: