Its the first £10 special of the year and there is a full compliment of players so will be hectic
I started out pretty cautiously as normal, going into a hand with Jock when on BB, nothing came and Jock bets and as he had a good hand the previous two hands I folded. He showed a bluff this time, but wasn't worried as it was early on. Couple of hands later I limp in with 33 and the flop comes an ideas A-3-x Sean bets a fairly substantial 500 chips and as Alex was behind me, decided to just call (but Alex folds) Sean checks the turn which was a 6 so I moved all in for around 1000 or so and Sean calls... showing 5-4 for an up and down str8 draw. Of course a 5 comes and gives him the straight so I am first to rebuy !
After that I play pretty cautiously, so raised with 88 when it came to ensure only good hands called me. Jock called and bet out on the Flop and turn but when A came on the river I decided to fold to another bet.... he showed AJ so despite being ahead to the river could easily have been out !
It wasn't long after that when on the button I looked down to see pocket Q's... lucky really as I only had 975 chips and the blinds were 75. As a couple of people had limped, I decided to go all in, being happy to take the blinds and calls.... however Sean calls again, this time with pocket 4's. I am way ahead again, but the flop comes 2-5-6, giving Sean a middle pin straight draw, which comes in on the turn ! I couldn't believe it, but was out in 35 minutes after two bad beats from Sean!
Things are a bit of a haze after that... :-) but what I remember is it being a night of the underdog taking the spoils and crazy things happening..... Sean's large stack seemed to go to Jock and I remember one hand where Jock was betting each street, then Sean put in a huge overbet on the River which Jock thought about but called with A high ! Funny thing was that Sean had a worse hand !!
Later on, Derek was down to being all in blind on the big blind with around 300 chips, but managed to trip up. Darren similarly was all in when low stacked with KK, but hit a K on the flop and also got back into it.
Mick was low stacked and trying to get busted out so he could go home.... so went all in blind and won, next hand did the same... and doubled up... and again.. so suddenly was the table chip lead ! So much for wanting to go home :-)
Time was getting short and the blinds high, but we still had 10 people in entering the last round with 2000/1000 blinds.
The action suddenly came thick and fast with all-ins on both tables pretty much every hand... but it still took 5 minutes before we were down to 8 players when Jock took out Andy, then a hand or two later Mick as well.... so the final table at last (with around 15 min's left to play!)
Lee kept up his 100% points scoring record, but was out in 8th on the first hand of the final table
Derek gave himself a good stack when he busted out Bill, but Jock took an unassailable lead when he bust out Karen and Alex in the same hand... but just in time, as with three players we only had 4 hands left to play
It was a bit of a damp squib in the last few hands as it was mainly folding or calling then folding to a raise.... so the positions remained the same and Jock took the victory with ease !
It definitely seemed to be a weird game, but that is what makes the game so fascinating.... roll on next session as I have got some catching up to do now !
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