28th July and I’m sat in two tournaments. I have both screens up and the first to start is the €1 flip to the €110 Sunday major.
By some miracle I win my first table of 9 players with JJ and then it’s down to about 23 players who’ve all won their tables. Sadly I do not make it past that round and after checking, there’s still 6 players left after the two previous rounds. I knew it was going to be extremely lucky to win a seat, but it’s worth doing in the future when I have more funds.
Talking of funds, the €3k Free-Roll starts and with around 470 runners and I’ve got my obligatory 1000 chips I now try to play the very best poker I’ve ever had. Playing super tight, my aim is to make the cash. I check the payouts and chuckle when I see the top 259 players will cash, but it’s just a 11c tournament ticket.......
However, I grind my chips up, admittedly with AA three times in about 15 hands but most players have the 3500 starting stacks and know I’m playing tight, so I get respect even though I min raise with 10 BB instead of shoving which another guy had been doing and getting folds all the time. I wanted to get maximum profit and I did grind it up. I got it up to about 4K in chips when that hand happened.
What hand?
I’m in the SB or BB not quite sure now with AK and a mid position player raises and I 3 bet. A thinking player would of folded knowing I’ve been playing snug all tournament, but this numpty doesn’t seem to grasp any of that and shoves. I have to call and I’m relieved to see A4 off. That was until the flop came xx4. I lose and I have about half a Big Blind left with 300 runners left.
I’m in the SB next hand, so I must of been on the BB last hand now. UTG raises and all fold to me and I’m automatically all in. I have 10 6 spades and he flips KK. I flop a 10 and somehow river a 6 and I win. 2BB I have now and I even fold two hands after when I see 55 and numpty now likes to shove when he is in a pot. I call of course and two players fold. He’s got A8 and he misses and now I have 8BB, I fold a full orbit then get 10 10 and double again and I’m now back in the game with 17BB.
The bubble bursts and yeah, I’ve won a 11c minimum. I continue to play so snug, even folding (correctly) AK with 4 all ins before me. I continue to fold after fold and I get it in again holding AJ and I’m called by A10 and then I’m back to 12 BB after the 10 minute clocks starts to eat into my stack. We take our second break and I check the stats. There’s 160 left but the top 147 win a €1.10 tournament ticket and €2 cash. That’s my next incentive and after 7 minutes we reach it. I then scroll to see the next jump and it’s the top 100 but I have about 7BB left when the UTG who’s been raising my BB almost every orbit does so again, I have KJ and I know I have to play it and so I do and he flips AQ. There’s a King on the flop but so is the Ace then the Q and I scream for a ten but never arrives.
But I’ll take that from being down to half a Big Blind anytime. It almost doubles my cash balance and I have the €1 ticket to.
I’ve not played since Sunday purely because of being so tired. But below is the screenshot of my epic come back. I’ll be playing again tomorrow (Wednesday) getting those raked hands to go again. Hopefully the grim reaper is now no more and I can start to rebuild.
By some miracle I win my first table of 9 players with JJ and then it’s down to about 23 players who’ve all won their tables. Sadly I do not make it past that round and after checking, there’s still 6 players left after the two previous rounds. I knew it was going to be extremely lucky to win a seat, but it’s worth doing in the future when I have more funds.
Talking of funds, the €3k Free-Roll starts and with around 470 runners and I’ve got my obligatory 1000 chips I now try to play the very best poker I’ve ever had. Playing super tight, my aim is to make the cash. I check the payouts and chuckle when I see the top 259 players will cash, but it’s just a 11c tournament ticket.......
However, I grind my chips up, admittedly with AA three times in about 15 hands but most players have the 3500 starting stacks and know I’m playing tight, so I get respect even though I min raise with 10 BB instead of shoving which another guy had been doing and getting folds all the time. I wanted to get maximum profit and I did grind it up. I got it up to about 4K in chips when that hand happened.
What hand?
I’m in the SB or BB not quite sure now with AK and a mid position player raises and I 3 bet. A thinking player would of folded knowing I’ve been playing snug all tournament, but this numpty doesn’t seem to grasp any of that and shoves. I have to call and I’m relieved to see A4 off. That was until the flop came xx4. I lose and I have about half a Big Blind left with 300 runners left.
I’m in the SB next hand, so I must of been on the BB last hand now. UTG raises and all fold to me and I’m automatically all in. I have 10 6 spades and he flips KK. I flop a 10 and somehow river a 6 and I win. 2BB I have now and I even fold two hands after when I see 55 and numpty now likes to shove when he is in a pot. I call of course and two players fold. He’s got A8 and he misses and now I have 8BB, I fold a full orbit then get 10 10 and double again and I’m now back in the game with 17BB.
The bubble bursts and yeah, I’ve won a 11c minimum. I continue to play so snug, even folding (correctly) AK with 4 all ins before me. I continue to fold after fold and I get it in again holding AJ and I’m called by A10 and then I’m back to 12 BB after the 10 minute clocks starts to eat into my stack. We take our second break and I check the stats. There’s 160 left but the top 147 win a €1.10 tournament ticket and €2 cash. That’s my next incentive and after 7 minutes we reach it. I then scroll to see the next jump and it’s the top 100 but I have about 7BB left when the UTG who’s been raising my BB almost every orbit does so again, I have KJ and I know I have to play it and so I do and he flips AQ. There’s a King on the flop but so is the Ace then the Q and I scream for a ten but never arrives.
But I’ll take that from being down to half a Big Blind anytime. It almost doubles my cash balance and I have the €1 ticket to.
I’ve not played since Sunday purely because of being so tired. But below is the screenshot of my epic come back. I’ll be playing again tomorrow (Wednesday) getting those raked hands to go again. Hopefully the grim reaper is now no more and I can start to rebuild.
This is how I stand at the moment. Almost 4 buy ins with loyalty points to which are good for the 11c tournaments
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