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Been a difficult few weeks where iv been gettin deep but not closing, losing vital pots and not playing my A game anyway near as often as i should. Iv been distracted a lot lately and have had other things going on whilst iv been playing.

Guitar Hero 3 is awesome but definatly -EV lol!

However did manage to pull a decent score last night finishing second in the $10 rebuy for $2.3k.

Starting to get back to playing my best again. Must learn to focus a lot more though and try to avoid playing when i cant concentrate 110%. Anyway as for the 15k, i like this tournament iv only played it a few times and have won it final tabled it a couple of times now. I was confident and playing well things were going my way for once with two tables to go i picked up KK twice and got paid off against AQ and AK and managed to hold for two huge pots which put me up to 600k ish coming into the final table.

I was feelin good, with a lot of the final table pretty weak with the exception of PLAYER BETS and The Yid a player i respect a lot, always seems to cause me problems! Maybe i can learn something from his aggression and fearlessness. Heres an interesting blind vs blind hand, ill explain my thoughts afterwards...

Full Tilt Poker Game #6356539073: $15,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) (48245914),

Table 24 - 4000/8000 Ante 1000 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:13:39 ET - 2008/05/10

Seat 1: DrextheTex67 (149,861)

Seat 2: PLAYER BETS (155,151)

Seat 3: pflippaD12 (24,180)

Seat 4: crunchysox (173,052)

Seat 5: IronButter (543,474)

Seat 6: neverbluff67 (580,693)

Seat 7: Redfran (131,333)

Seat 9: The Yid (154,756)

DrextheTex67 antes 1,000

PLAYER BETS antes 1,000

pflippaD12 antes 1,000

crunchysox antes 1,000

IronButter antes 1,000

neverbluff67 antes 1,000

Redfran antes 1,000

The Yid antes 1,000

IronButter posts the small blind of 4,000

neverbluff67 posts the big blind of 8,000

The button is in seat #4

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to neverbluff67 [Ac 4h]

Redfran folds

The Yid folds

DrextheTex67 folds

PLAYER BETS folds

pflippaD12 fold

scrunchysox folds

IronButter calls 4,000

neverbluff67 has 15 seconds left to act

neverbluff67 raises to 32,000

IronButter calls 24,000

*** FLOP *** [3d 6c 7s]

IronButter checks

neverbluff67 checks

*** TURN *** [3d 6c 7s] [6s]

IronButter has 15 seconds left to act

IronButter bets 30,000

neverbluff67 has 15 seconds left to act

neverbluff67 raises to 66,250

IronButter has 15 seconds left to act

IronButter raises to 102,500

neverbluff67 raises to 138,750

IronButter folds

Uncalled bet of 36,250 returned to neverbluff67

neverbluff67 shows [Ac 4h] a pair of Sixes

neverbluff67 wins the pot (277,000)

*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot 277,000 Rake 0

Board: [3d 6c 7s 6s]

Seat 1: DrextheTex67 folded before the Flop

Seat 2: PLAYER BETS folded before the Flop

Seat 3: pflippaD12 folded before the Flop

Seat 4: crunchysox (button) folded before the Flop

Seat 5: IronButter (small blind) folded on the Turn

Seat 6: neverbluff67 (big blind) collected (277,000)

Seat 7: Redfran folded before the Flop

Seat 9: The Yid folded before the Flop

Ok so this is only the second time it has been folded round to the sb when im in the bb, last time IronButter raised to 30k and i folded, my read on him prior to this hand is tricky but not great player, he likes to bluff, so he limps, i see A4 off.. A high almost certainly the best hand i raise 4x the bb to 32k.. IronButter thinks then calls... now theres a wide range he could have here so i cant really narrow it down too much. The flop comes 267 rainbow now iv missed but its a very raggedy flop, im still fairly confident i have the best hand, IronButter checks, maybe i can bet out here but it really feels like hes ready to make a move and i cant continue if he makes a big reraise on the flop, i decide to check behind, planning to pick a bluff off on the turn, Turn comes 6 spades, board now reading 7663.. IronButter best out 30k, i make a small reraise to 66,250.. he then waits and re-reraises to 102,500.. its smells fishy i think he flat calls with a 7 or 3 and surely raises bigger with a random 6.. it really felt like he was just trying to take it away, so i re-re-re-raised to 138,750 and he instant folds, ship it! :)

Now a lot of the time i tend not to show bluffs but i felt like it would intimidate some of the players at the table so i showed it and im glad i did, next few times IronButter either folded or limp folded to my bb.. i had the momentum and now some of the players were staying away from my bb it felt like they didnt want to tangle with me now!

Things were going smoothly as players got knocked out i was still chip leader 4 handed and to my dismay The Yid had doubled up and accumulated a decent stack. Then within five hands i ran QQ into The Yids KK for a huge pot then flopped two pair with 78 allin on 783 flop against PLAYER BETS KK, only for him to hit a K on the river. So from being big chip leader i was 4 of 4. Which sucked! The Yid then went onto knock out crunchysox in another huge pot AK v AJ to have over 1mil in chips with me and PLAYER BETS having 300kish each, Yid went on to knock out PLAYER BETS KK v A7 then me heads up with 66 v my A4. gg Yid wp. Ship the 2.4k!

So im feelin good at the moment im currently lookin at all possible ways i can to improve my game, and ways i can exploit my ever more 3betting opponents. Im thinking of mixing in some hours at the cash tables to help reduce the swings MTT's can bring..

Thanks for reading, gl at the tables!

neverbluff67

ps COME ON UNITED TOMMOROW BRING THE PREMIERSHIP HOME!!