GUKPT Main Event Day Two

Where do i start... arrived at the vic just as everyone was taking their seats, starting table was good, had a really good seat. One of the chip leaders was to my direct right, he opened two of the first 5 pots or so and i had already decided to 3bet him next time he raised, didn't have to wait long the following hand he makes it 3600 at 600/1200/100 on the cutoff, i didn't look and made it 13,600, and then i dunno what the hell happened im usually totally fine live but i could feel my heart suddenly beating really fast and i was getting hotter and hotter as he tanked, i was very relieved when he finally folded, must have been a few nerves early on or something because i was fine after that.

The table was super tight and i was playing pretty loose opening a lots of pots, picking some good spots to 3 bet and pretty much running over the table, then i pick up AK of clubs on the cutoff and made it 3200, the sb jams for like 20k i snap and he has A3 and i hold, off to a sick start and up to around 92k. I tighten up a little, and at 800/1600/100 i raise to 4200 on the hijack with AA, the bb Peter Peter Charalambous, raises half his stack, i put him in and im in great shape to win a 60k+ pot with AA vs TT, T3347 and im down to 55k but still in with a shot. I then pick up 99 in ep at 1k/2k/100 and make it 5100, Dave Colclough flats from the sb playing a 27k stack, and the bb folds, now Dave has been flatting raises oop a couple of times already with less than 20bb so i don't assume he has a huge hand even though he should in this spot, the flop comes K34 2 diamonds, Colclough checks and i bet 5k, he shoves and i call, he has KQ sigh and i don't spike a 9, down to 30kish.

I shove a few times and then the table is broken, and i get on the new table with 38k at 1200/2400/200. One of the first hands at the table i make it 6k utg with AQ, the button flats and the blinds fold, flop is 1093 and i lead out 6600 he raises i fold, down to 26k, i then shove the following hand, and then an orbit or so later Josh Gould who was to my left on the first table, who raise folds a lot makes it 7k, the button flats and i shove for 28kish with 88, both fold and im upto 46k. The next hand Josh raises again to 7k and i jam with A10, the sb then tanks for eternity then finally shoves with JJ, Josh folds and JJ holds and im out in around 60th.

So the trip to London has been a lot of fun, but poker has been really really disappointing. But i can't really take too much from it as its still a really small sample size of live tournaments iv played and another time things could have gone a lot different. Thats a big downside of live poker it could take years to put enough volume in for variance to even out a little. Anyway back home now, feels good to be back, currently playing some sunday donkaments so you neverrrr know!

Random hot asian chick to comiserate imo...



gl at the tables
neverbluff67

GUKPT Main Event Day1

Huge field of 398 runners with around £600k in the prizepool and £172k for 1st place! I was sooo tired when day one began, i only had around 3 hours sleep so i was in for a longgggggg day. Started off ok winning a few small pots and grinding up to 20k in the first two levels, things were pretty agonising after that and i grinded my ass off for most of the day to maintain a 15k stack. At 300/600 i had been super tight so elected to steal from early postion with 85off, the only short stack at the table shoved and i was priced in vs his AQ and didnt get there. So im down to 8k at 300/600 and things aren't looking to good but i pick some good spots to steal and resteal and grind up to around 13k. Micky Wernick shoves 9bb from middle position and i look down at AJss and i get it in and make a flush on the river to get to the heights of 22k ish.

My seat sucked Ben Vinson had been moved to my left and was playing super lag with Kellett and Kabbaj both to his left and a bunch of short stacks to my right i had little option than to just lock up and sit tight for a while. The last hand before the break at 400/800, i make it 2175 with KK, and get 4 callers which was pretty disgusting but i had little room to manouver and would be getting it in on most flops. Flop is Q23 two clubs, the blinds check and i lead out 7k, two folds and John Kabbaj tanks then flats from the sb and the bb folds. Turn is an offsuit 4, Kabbaj checks and i shove my last 14k, Kabbaj tanks again and reluctantly folds, later telling me he had a f/draw, so im up to 35k and have a playable stack.

I start to open up a little and got played back at pretty much every hand i raised, kinda frustrating. Kellett and I had been involved in a few pots and he had 3bet me a bunch and had been playing super fast and loose and showing bluffs etc, so the following hand was a perfect set up, the final level of the day at 500/1000 both sitting at around 30k, i make it 2700 with AQss and he instantly 3bets to 8k, i jam and he has AK sigh. The flop brings no hope, and it looks like this could be it :(..

But i bink a queen on the turn, the rivers a blank and i have him just covered and now upto 60k, and all of a sudden im one of the big stacks. We then play out the final 6 hands and i end the day with 60,350! After the way this week has gone i don't think many would begrudge me a little luck in that spot. Play resumes tommorow at 2pm and i will update later tommorow if i get through or get a sick min cash and probably in a few months if i bust lol.

gl at the tablesssssssss
neverbluff67

Such a live donk : ( + rant

Sighhhhh
This trip on the whole has been pretty disgusting poker-wise. So frustrating and its really easy to be down about things at the moment. Played the 500 double chance on saturday and the 300 1r on tuesday, didn't make day two in either :(. Made a stupid live mistake which i was pretty mad at myself for, i misread a guys stack size and made a stupid bet where i was priced into calling his shove drawing dead which sucked. I then jammed 10bb with 85 of hearts and got slowrolled + speech from some old guy, i guess im gonna have to get used to that lol. I had a straight flush draw by the turn but didnt hit the miracle.

On to the 300 1r, with 11k at 100/200 i made it 500 in the cutoff with 86 of hearts the button flats, both blinds fold and the comes 952 one heart i bet 750, he flats turn comes the 9 of hearts giving me a f/draw, i barrel 1475 and he instajams vhbgalfnkm. I then chip up a little without showdown then get allin with J10 on a Q98 board vs QQ, it holds and im up to around 22k. I then get into an annoying spot where i 3bet AK, get flatted, c/bet the missed flop, check/fold the turn probably my biggest pet hate situation online. Anyway then i just grind my stack for a while and get to 600/1200/100 with around 20k, i make it 2900 with A10 and snap the shove from the young guy with around 13k he has AQ and ships it. I then shove a few times and im back to 14k, and pick up AQ and the button shoves and i snap and he flips K6ss, xxxxK... gg. I played a little live cash on wednesday, sat down at 1/2 with £450, very first hand i get it allin vs the only other big stack on A1088 with TT vs AA such coolers... fuck live poker imo.

Iv been writing this as i played online tonight, and just got KOd out of the big 100r on ftp in 10th for 3.3k...1st got 40k, yet another near miss jbnvskdsj;bnmv,nbm nnm, it will come one day! Pretty gross tbh, in this tourny i had AA vs KK allin pre K on flop, AA vs A3ss, allin pre he made a flush, thinking about it i don't know how the fuck i got 10th lol. Anyway i did have 400k with 15 left and was like 2/15, i then lost a standard race, then spewed a little making a light 4bet against another big stack who i thought had to have a huge hand to continue, lol he insta5betallin. I still have 220k with 11 left, then i lose a 350k pot with AQ vs gbecks A8 allin pre and he gets there, then with 11bb i lost a race AK vs 77. So sick :(.

Im trying not to let it get to me too much as its obviously part and parcel of the game. Iv pretty much dedicated my entire life to poker these last few years and it can be the most frustraing bs thing in the world sometimes. Being a poker player is a hell of a lot tougher than it seems. I can see why so many people don't make it, so easy to quit when it gets tough.

Playing the main event tommorrow and will be going straight home if i bust, have had enough tbh this week has been a lot of fun but i just wanna go home now, missing my gf like mad and this is the longest wev spent apart! So ill be pretty glad to get back to familiar surroundings.

Anyway w/e wish me luck in the ME tmoro, it starts at 2pm and its 8am now so im not gonna get much sleep at all so i may need a lot of luck!

gl at the tables
neverbluff67

Will i ever get a live mincash bfihnevuoidkm

Sigh things still aren't quite clicking live, got off to a great start too, from the 7k starting stack i got upto 42k with 0 showdowns which is actually pretty crazy. I then lost a standard race just before the break but it was only a small dent and i was feeling really good about this event and i was playing really well, maybe this would be my breakthrough... I was playing a lot of pots and getting flatted and seeing a lot of flops which worked out pretty perfect, i think i only got 3 bet once the whole night. I then spewed off some of my stack and then double barrelled the turn and river with air in a bvb hand after making it 3x from the sb with Q10ss, on J628K and got my soul owned getting snapped by Q6off :(.. K seemed a perfect card to barrel too. Im still undecided whether he was just a station or it was a sick read.. pretty ugly call pre either way.

So i was down to 15k at 600/1200 and jammed K10s in the cutoff and the Q6 guy instacalls with AK and it holds and im left with another live dissapointment and thinking what could have been.

One day i will get a live min-cash!!

Playing the £500 double chance tmoro, got nothing on today so gonna head down to the gym later and then think of somethin fun to do tonight.

Ill leave you with another random hot asian chick..



neverbluff67

London GUKPT

Been in London for a few days and played both the LPC side events, the cardroom was really good and well run, the turnout could have been better on both days though. Iv been completely crushed by live donks again though haha. Managed to get a few chips together in the 200 event was running over the table but got pretty unlucky in the end, had shortstacks allin 5 times K4 vs JJ Q9 vs JJ K10 vs QJ 66 vs QQ and AJ vs QQ lol i only got it in good once but im a big favourite to win one or two and i would have been fine if i did. So im left with 9bb and then ran K9 into KK blrghh. Did end up going out in London for St Patricks Day later that night which was funny as hell, sick night out. Got pretty messy and i was feeling pretty bad the next day.

Did manage to make the 300 LPC event and it was extremely uneventful, i played just one hand in the first few levels and came back after the break with around 6.5kish at 100/200, i picked up AJ in the bb and made it 1200 after 5 limps, and got two calls, flop came 884 i led out 1700, got one caller and then it got checked down and he shows up with 64ss sigh. So im down to 4kish and the same player raises and i jam 99 and he snaps with A10off, first cards a 10 and thats that.

The first GUKPT side event starts tonight and im really looking forward to it, should be a really good event which looks like it will be a sellout too. Hopefully i can come back with a successful live tournament report for once lol. So far iv played 7 decent live events and im 0/7 in cashes which sucksssssss. Iv made day 2 in 3 of the 7 though so hopefully i can get a good result soon... maybe even a sick mincash lol.

GL at the tablesssss

neverbluff67

Update with a ton of near misses! ps i suck at keeping up to date with this.

I know, I know i really do need to make more regular posts, I'm sure once i get into the swing of it, it will be fine : ). Soooooo February and early March were bitterly disappointing but it has been a good month or so none the less.

Notable Results from Feb and early March.
Stars $109 freezeout 2nd $1,440
Stars $20r 6th $1,170
Stars $109 7th $1,820
Stars $50r 3rd $7,823
Stars $30r 2nd $2,026
FTP Bracelet Race 1st $2,000

Only recently started putting volume on stars and its been going really good so far.

Now on to the brutal ones....
Stars $100r 300k gtd 16th $2,533
Stars Weds 250k gtd 19th $1,260
Stars Sunday 2nd Chance 34th $788
Stars Sunday 50r 11th $841
And within the last 3 days on FTP...
$75 40k gtd 16th $243
$163 65k gtd 14th $585
FTP 750K gtd 17th $3,966

So on the surface a v good month and a bit but i can't help but be incredibly disappointed about what could have been sigggh : (. I'm not gonna go on about bad beats etc because its just a bore but there has been some gross ones amongst those results above. Nevermind even though that huge score seems really hard to get atm, im sure it will come one day. Been putting in loads of volume and just bought a new 20" monitor and wireless mouse and it does make a hell of a difference especially when playing a ton of tables.

On to GUKPT Walsall, played the £300 side event, played really well on the first day and managed to make day 2 with around average chips, and then lost a pretty standard race early on where i reshoved with KQss and got called by JJ after a long speech by an old guy who went on to slam the table when the river had been dealt, sick etiquette gnjmkbfom. Kinda pissed me off, oh well. Also played the Main Event a few days later which was pretty uneventful really, the usual terrible standard, had to fold QQ early on and i don't really remember much else except my KO hand lol. I ended up getting it allin to some idiot who didn't shut up and went on to give me a rub down after he knocked me out hegijnfm,bh. anyway i got it allin against the donk with KQ vs 53 on KJ53 three diamonds, i missed, gg.

Iv hardly put any headsup cash hours in, but when i did it went quite well around $2k+ hopefully will get some time to put some more in as theres some live tournaments i want to play in the next few weeks. Theres GUKPT London which im definatly going to and will be playing most of the events and theres one iv just heard about called the London Poker Circuit. i checked out the schedule and it looks pretty good so might end up going to that too.

Uggh ill try and have some hand discussion in the next post, and it will definately won't be as long as it was since the last one.

Anyway heres a random hot asian chick just for the hell of it : )



hahaaa glglgllll at the tables.

neverbluff67