Myself, Jon and Bill excitedly escorted Andy to play in the £100 freeze out at the Casino last night.
We were horrified to see a sign at the cash desk saying that as from 4th Feb, the first Friday is now a £50 entry with unlimited rebuys for 90 mins (and an add-on). We retired to the bar to decide what to do, as clearly did not really suit our purpose.
After a discussion we decided to abandon the staking arrangement for tonight as there was no way to predict how much money would be needed. I was not keen to play at all, but as the others were up for playing anyway, and as we were on site and keyed up, decided to have a go.
The problem I have with the rebuy tournaments is you get a lot of people just gambling it up and so you can end up being stacked by all sorts of crap hands. In the early stages my table had a couple of raise anything players and lots and lots of limping, so took it steady (I wasn't getting any decent hands anyway!) In a Blind vs Blind scenario I did win a small pot with my Q-J against Q-2 on a Q-8-8-x-x board, but then in the second level managed to get all-in against a small stack with A-7 on a A-6-2 flop, only for the small stack to have A-2! I didn't improve so was down to about 1/2 my starting stack. Did decide to rebuy straight away and sat there throwing hands away looking for something decent
Just before the end of rebuys, I was in small blind with Q-9o The UTG player (who was a serial raiser) put in a small raise, then the next player folded, but accidently showed a Q. The raiser made an exclamation and seemed dismayed a Q had gone, so when an aggressive player on button also called, the sensible choice for me was to fold my hand even though was tempting from pot odds perspective. The BB called as well so three players saw the 9-9-6 flop ! The UTG player led out and aggro player called, so was livid when the turn came another 9 as I would’ve tripled up.
I was probably slightly tilted, as on the next hand it folded to me on the button and so raised A-6d I expected SB to fold as he was solid/tight, and BB to call… but they both called. The flop looked OK for me being 7-5-4 rainbow, especially as it was checked to me. With just over pot stack left, I decided to shove, expecting SB to fold and BB to call with 2 almost random cards. It almost went to plan as SB folded and BB called, but with 7-6o so was behind and hoping to catch for a split pot! The turn gave small hope with a flush draw, but river was a brick, so had no chips.
Here is the problem for me with £50 buy-in…. had it been £10 or £20 I would have had a double buy-in plus the add-on which was about 5 mins away, to give me a decent 15000 chips to play on with…. but didn’t want to spend another £150 so decided to give up (seems like the Poker gods were indicating this to be a sensible move 
)
There were around 45 players starting in the end, and I was out in about 4oth place as several players had already given up like me.
As it was now the first break (and end of rebuys) I waited to see how the other lads were doing. All three had around 15000 chips each at that point (including add-on) and had all spent just the initial £60 plus one add-on (or rebuy) for £50
I was going to relax by spending my last £50 on the blackjack table (Madame Roulette had already stolen £60 from me 
) but then Andy pointed out there was a cash game starting up (with mostly Tournament players) so thought I may as well give it a go. There were 9 players (including Bill who’d joined) and I recognised one player as a wild gambler. Started steady and managed to win one small pot to take me back to starting stack levels, then folded a few. The wild gambler was raising most hands or posting straddle bet so seemed like a good player to target.
As the tourney was about to restart we were soon on our last hand (only played about 15 hands!) The mad gambler was on BB, the next player had posted a straddle bed (£4) and the next chap (who seemed solid) had limped. With 9-9 decide I wouldn’t mind taking the pot, but more likely get heads up against wild gambler, so raised to £24 Got a call from one player with £21 and wild gambler called as well, the other two fold, so plan working so far. Flop comes 8xx and wild gamber checks. He has a huge range, so shove my remaining £28 odd and he calls. the turn is Q and river is 4. Wild gambler says he’d missed and folds when I show my 9-9 Other caller had A-K so had missed as well and I’ve won a huge pot. After the rake I end up walking away with £120 ! so only £40 down on my Poker activities for the night.
Although slightly disappointing evening, I ended up feeling fairly pleased overall….and of course will have to escort Andy to the Casino another night in February for the staking game
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