As anticipated, the 'Mob' were present en masse on Saturday night, it may have just been a £20 deepstack freezeout but there was a distinct 'buzz' about the room. It was a short-handed (6-max) event, the final table started with all three of us right in there with a chance of taking this baby down... the whole table was pretty even in chips, in fact we all had exactly 10k??
Early doors I had the whole table completely in my pocket, totally baffled by a stunning display of 'power poker'. Unfortunately the wheels fell off after about an hour and a half, when Neil refused to believe that I had flopped a flush, and then after the turn King paired the one in his hand he made a good read and called my 4k river bluff. That was the beginning of the end and I was soon banished to the rail in 6th place. Unfortunately Rich followed suit not long after... Two down, One to go!
Surely a player of Paul's standing could triumph over these other three, after all he is the 3rd best amateur poker player in Ireland!! Well, that's as may be but he's still only 4th best at the TPs.
Teresa fell by the wayside in 3rd... and then promptly fell asleep.
After a lengthy, tactical heads-up battle the victors spoils eventually went to 'anonymous' Steve... leaving 2nd place leftovers for my nemesis - Neil. Well played chaps... the 'Mob' will be back!!!
Sunday night I tried my hand, for the first time, at the 'Sunday Hundred Grand' on PokerStars, an $11 freezeout, with a capped field of 20,000, 3k chips and 10 min levels. I forget just how long I lasted but I finished in about 13700th place... a long, long way off the money.
Monday night saw the first opportunity to win a seat in the Virgin Poker Festival Main Event. This is a £105 buy-in, two day, deep-stack tournament, which takes place at The Broadway Casino, Birmingham on November 24th & 25th. This is a slightly odd set-up as there will be no option to buy directly into the tournament; all seats must be won via online satellites on Virgin Poker. There will be direct buy-in, value-added supporting tournaments on both days so it looks like it will probably be worth a visit anyway.
Last night it was a Freeroll Satellite, which started with 331 entrants. There were 2 seats to the live main event, plus places 3 - 22 won $23 seats in Sunday's weekly final. The weekly finals will provide one live seat for each $230 in the prize pool.
I made it into 'the money' with a decent stack, largely due to some imaginative play while 'on the bubble', only to crash and burn in 15th place following three disastrous all-in confrontations... nicely in front going in, pre-flop, horribly behind on the river!! So I have a seat in this Sunday's weekly final, which I won't be able to play in! Hopefully an email to that (very) nice man, Joe Legge, at Virgin, will see me moved into the following week's final.
Early doors I had the whole table completely in my pocket, totally baffled by a stunning display of 'power poker'. Unfortunately the wheels fell off after about an hour and a half, when Neil refused to believe that I had flopped a flush, and then after the turn King paired the one in his hand he made a good read and called my 4k river bluff. That was the beginning of the end and I was soon banished to the rail in 6th place. Unfortunately Rich followed suit not long after... Two down, One to go!
Surely a player of Paul's standing could triumph over these other three, after all he is the 3rd best amateur poker player in Ireland!! Well, that's as may be but he's still only 4th best at the TPs.
Teresa fell by the wayside in 3rd... and then promptly fell asleep.
After a lengthy, tactical heads-up battle the victors spoils eventually went to 'anonymous' Steve... leaving 2nd place leftovers for my nemesis - Neil. Well played chaps... the 'Mob' will be back!!!
Sunday night I tried my hand, for the first time, at the 'Sunday Hundred Grand' on PokerStars, an $11 freezeout, with a capped field of 20,000, 3k chips and 10 min levels. I forget just how long I lasted but I finished in about 13700th place... a long, long way off the money.
Monday night saw the first opportunity to win a seat in the Virgin Poker Festival Main Event. This is a £105 buy-in, two day, deep-stack tournament, which takes place at The Broadway Casino, Birmingham on November 24th & 25th. This is a slightly odd set-up as there will be no option to buy directly into the tournament; all seats must be won via online satellites on Virgin Poker. There will be direct buy-in, value-added supporting tournaments on both days so it looks like it will probably be worth a visit anyway.
Last night it was a Freeroll Satellite, which started with 331 entrants. There were 2 seats to the live main event, plus places 3 - 22 won $23 seats in Sunday's weekly final. The weekly finals will provide one live seat for each $230 in the prize pool.
I made it into 'the money' with a decent stack, largely due to some imaginative play while 'on the bubble', only to crash and burn in 15th place following three disastrous all-in confrontations... nicely in front going in, pre-flop, horribly behind on the river!! So I have a seat in this Sunday's weekly final, which I won't be able to play in! Hopefully an email to that (very) nice man, Joe Legge, at Virgin, will see me moved into the following week's final.
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After a lengthy, tactical heads-up battle ........ i just remember a nicotine withdraw session lol
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