GUKPT side event report part 2, railing FTW and the summer series

My second attempt at the side events lasted until level 3. Have a fairly good image at the table, and at 100/200 on my BB I was dealt AK, 5 limpers and I have 4.5k so shove the lot. One bloke insta's with KJ and spikes the J, go out soon after.

Then watched Simon Moorman, father of the pretty famous Chris Moorman proceed to rip the final table of the main event apart, which lasted until 2am.. up for work at 6, totally worth the lack of sleep just for the look on Chris' face!!

Using part of my winnings from my 5th place, I'm wanting to play in the summer series main event in Bolton, £550 buy in. Am putting in £275 myself, and selling off the rest at 1:1. Of that half, I've already sold 50% of it, not bad as I only put it up late last night!!!

In other staking news, got a cpl of decent results on Monday night, 4th in the 4.5k on Blonde, where I ran KQ into AA blind on blind for just over $400, and 21st in the 10k, where I lost a 3 way all in KK v 77 v A2, obv the A2 got there sigh. I've got roughly $300 of tournies to play ( will check properly tonight) and am about level, so 1 decent result puts us in profit for the period.

GUKPT side event report..

Thursday 23rd April was my first glimpse into the GUKPT world, playing in the £100 f/out. Met up with Claw from Blonde about 6ish, had a bit of a wander sampling the atmosphere and meeting a few Blondes around the place... then to kill time...

£20 each in a fruity.. Claw wins £75, I win £110... we stick £20 each in another one, similar results :)

feeling flushed, we go and play 3 card poker... never played it before.. started with 40 quid, and just continued winning... came off the table with £100.. so was freerolling in the tournament already. Obv Claw and myself swapped 10% and we were off.

Started in seat 2 on table 9, noone recognisable on my table, so went about playing my own game. On my 1st BB I get KK, only limper is the SB, so I raised 4bbs to 200. He calls, flop is J 4 3, he checks I bet 350 and he calls.. turn is a 2, again he checks and I pot bet, again he calls. Turn is a 5, pretty big danger card, to which he checks. Weigh up carefully, am behind to any A and even with just 2k back, I don't want to go out on 1 pair.. so check.. he shows 42os. Sigh. It was the sign of things to come from him, I just knew I had to get in my chips at the right time.

At 50/100 after multiple limpers he raises to 700, don't even look at him as I shove with KQ, he has KJ and calls, J turn and Q river weeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Only one other time was an all in of mine called in the first 4 levels, raised UTG with 66, s/stack shoves so I call, he has QQ and I hit a 6 river ( although I did have many more outs). From then I on, I just quietly accumulated chips, picking on the weaker members of the table, still trying to bide my time to bust the guy on my SB, however he got knocked out with 2 tables remaining, calling all in on a K J 9 7 flop with J3, and was drawing dead.

We were down to about 16 at this point, with 13 paid, and the table noticeably tightened up, apart from 3 players, myself, and the 2 guys to the left of me. Shoved all in on my SB a cpl of times with nothing, causing agony for the BB, both times he folded however. The pivotal moment for me came when, on my SB I had 88, I had about 42k at 2k/4k, and UTG had raised to 12k. He'd been playing a lot of pots with suited cards, KJ, Q10 etc so decided I could get him to fold with a shove. He called however with KQs, 1st card out was an 8 and had safely housed up by the turn.

Once the bubble had gone, we were playing 6 handed, so started opening up a few more pots, and eventually made the FT with 70 at 3k/6k.

Was pretty card dead during the 1st 2 orbits, managed to get a raise through twice to keep my head above water, and eventually we were down to 6. At this point, get chatting to a guy opposite, he's only tommymfkinC from Blonde, so we have a quick chat, wish each other gl gl, and he goes out next hand, QQ into KK!!

5 way, there's a deal proposed. CL 3k, 2nd CL 2.5k, other 2 2k and me 1.5k, I'm s/stack so happy to take as thats higher than 4th pays, but one guy isn't interested in seat 4 ( as he was on my other table) so we play on. I manage one double up, shoving with Q9d UTG, getting looked up by A2os, hit my Q, he hit his A, but I hit a diamond river. Am still fairly s/stacked tho, so when it comes round to me with no raises on my SB, I sneak a look at a card, its an A, I shove, BB eventually calls with AJ, my kicker was a 5, and I was gone. Was shoving any 2 in that position with the blinds + antes what they were.

Happy enough with my first foray into the GUKPT world, probably will play the £100 bounty on Sunday, but as of yet am undecided.

I'll update this with names of opponents etc when the results get posted

work and more fkin work... staking period 2 and GUKPT side events

Been working a ridiculous amount of hours recently, which is knackering me out. Means when I get chance to play poker, I'm shattered. Have cut right back on playing. Finished work early today for once, so had a pop in a few Blonde tournaments, as well as a few on stars. In the 30k on stars, ran up the 3k starting to 12k within 15 mins, out within 70 mins having lost 2 races, both times chips in 1st and ahead. Finalled the 3k $20 on Blonde 4/10, but went mega card dead, abs no spots to shove/push as most of the time, someone was all in b4 it got to me. Its fair to say I was playing tight...

so when I shoved all in on a 9 hi board, showing 3 diamonds, I didn't expect a call from 10 9 h??? I'd raised pre as well. 8th place for not much more than $100 sigh

Played the $33 NL SCOOP event on stars.. comfortably in the money, then quite bluntly get fcuked over...

[ ] good call pre sir

PokerStars Game #26771983927: Tournament #200904081, $30+$3 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIX (1000/2000) - 2009/04/06 2:41:39 WET [2009/04/05 21:41:39 ET]
Table '200904081 1486' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: hamsterboy (13334 in chips)
Seat 2: ohsportsguy (25809 in chips)
Seat 3: unreality0 (53273 in chips)
Seat 4: dillerdopp (48393 in chips)
Seat 5: alimali63 (110546 in chips)
Seat 6: NotABot (71735 in chips)
Seat 7: Thomas823 (122491 in chips)
Seat 8: malle501 (59252 in chips)
Seat 9: amcgrath1uk (40104 in chips)
hamsterboy: posts the ante 250
ohsportsguy: posts the ante 250
unreality0: posts the ante 250
dillerdopp: posts the ante 250
alimali63: posts the ante 250
NotABot: posts the ante 250
Thomas823: posts the ante 250
malle501: posts the ante 250
amcgrath1uk: posts the ante 250
ohsportsguy: posts small blind 1000
unreality0: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to amcgrath1uk [Th Td]
dillerdopp: folds
alimali63: calls 2000
NotABot: calls 2000
Thomas823: folds
malle501: calls 2000
amcgrath1uk: raises 18000 to 20000
hamsterboy: folds
ohsportsguy: folds
unreality0: folds
alimali63: calls 18000
NotABot: folds
malle501: folds
*** FLOP *** [8c 2c Ts]
alimali63: bets 20000
amcgrath1uk: calls 19854 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (146) returned to alimali63
*** TURN *** [8c 2c Ts] [9h]
*** RIVER *** [8c 2c Ts 9h] [As]
amcgrath1uk said, "sigh"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alimali63: shows [Qc Jc] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
amcgrath1uk: shows [Th Td] (three of a kind, Tens)
alimali63 collected 88958 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 88958 | Rake 0
Board [8c 2c Ts 9h As]
Seat 1: hamsterboy (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: ohsportsguy (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: unreality0 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: dillerdopp folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: alimali63 showed [Qc Jc] and won (88958) with a straight, Eight to Queen
Seat 6: NotABot folded before Flop
Seat 7: Thomas823 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: malle501 folded before Flop
Seat 9: amcgrath1uk showed [Th Td] and lost with three of a kind, Tens

Also using some of my winnings from my live win to play the £100 GUKPT side event on 23rd April, same structure as I'm used to at the place, so just the small matter of slightly better players to try my moves on!!