Slightly down on numbers this month, but also see the welcome return of Colin to the fold.... and Martin also managed to make it as well.... and with only one of the White clan, the evening had a different feel to it.
My tournament got off to a dodgy start... dealt pocket 3's first hand decided to raise... but ended up with 4 players all-in ! Sean took the first hand and went on to start calling with all sorts of rubbish (normal game for him then ;-) )
My chips kept going down, but got a breakthrough against Roger and managed to get a bit of a stack together, but never really got a stack going through the early levels. In the last session before buy-in I managed to accumulate more chips, so went into the break with around 3000 chips (slightly above average) Alex had been struggling all game and had lots of buy-ins so inevitably needed two buy ins at the break (as did Andy)
After the break Alex raised and I put him all-in with my pocket 4's which he called with A-6 Nothing came to help either of us, so I managed to take Alex out. Couple of hands later I put Andy all-in and we had another race, but this time me having two overcards. Luckily one of my cards came and I took Andy out as well... giving me a decent number of chips. Unluckily for me, I then get a good hand and only Sean calls my raise. My AQ looks reasonable with KQ5 flop, but Sean calls my flop bet and goes all-in on the turn. I decide to call and of course he has the K, and my AQ gets turned over by K-6
The final table is with us quickly this evening due to the number of players and only Mick has less chips than me, but at least I have made it into the points. Two players go out in quick succession and I am roaring up the points positions by not playing a hand. I win one small pot uncontested which leaves me with 2000 chips and the blinds 500-300
I look for a place to go all in and soon get a good opportunity. My 76 on BB sees two 7's on flop. Roger bets the flop and both me and Jon call. The 6 on the turn means I want Roger to bet out again, but he checks. Having only 1500 and a huge pot, I go all in and Jon calls me with a straight against my nut Full house.... so nearly tripled up
A couple of hands later I am lucky to take Roger out when I hit a card on the River and I am chip leader and in the money
It is definitely my night tonight, as I flop a straight draw and Jon prices me in to see the turn when I hit the straight. He bets out and then calls my re-raise but he has no hope and I take a massive chips lead. I even manage to dodge Jons AA next hand, although it got done by Dereks K-5
It was soon all over, when I take out both Derek and Jon, so Jon gets another 3rd place but I make my first win of the year !!
I am really pleased especially as I really felt I was up for it this time round.... and didn't play badly (admittedly did get lucky a couple of times, but hey... :-) )
As ever a great game, but have to wait an extra week for the September game, so looking forward to that !
Results posted to http://www.statsgenie.com/Poker/ as normal, make interesting reading...
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