I had decided this evening that I was going to play 6 Mtts solidly and maybe grind 1 cash table throughout the night for some variety. I felt the pressure was on somewhat due to the fact some of the other Tps seemed to be playing a huge amount of Mtts. This is great. I just felt for me personally 5 Mtts was sufficient to be able to play my game to its optimum.
Not a great start to the evening as I began with the 7pm sleep stack. I got coolered early on with QQ vs. KK. I could have possibly got away from this I think, though the betting suggested pre flop that Mr Villain was isolating a 4 way pot so had put him on a big ace, not kk.The 8:30pm BH, went pretty much the same way, I got unlucky and ran into a set of nines on a 9 high board vs. my Jacks, now due to the structure of a BH I was more than happy to get my chips in here on this flop every time.
Onwards and upwards and the Deep stack at 8pm began. This was the one for me, the one I wanted a good result in. My goodness I really felt the “star” took an affect this evening, 1st time I have really experienced this. However this worked in my favour as my hands were holding, but I was being called down frequently by some very colourful hands! My initial table was incredibly laggy and this enabled me to get a good chip lead early on, then tighten up and let them knock each other out winning huge pot showdowns with ace high! My aim was to take down a lot of smaller pots without too much risk to my stack early on, to gain a gradual increase in chips. I had no hands in the 1st hour so had to find some good spots to make a few steals, so difficult on a super lag table. Then I looked down, and Find AA, what a dream! I was UTG, so not the best position and made it 5 x BB, Praying I would not get 5 callers to the flop. I got 2 callers with a low rainbow flop, dream! I villain hit top pair after calling with 98o and I managed to get him to put his whole stack in by the turn for a nice double through. Lovely 1st hour underway in great shape and stood in the top 20 with 300ish still left.
A couple of new faces had joined and the blinds were now 200. Time to change gear, loosen up and steal these blinds. I have J8ss in cut off and make it 3 x BB. I’m pretty sure I can outplay 1 opponent on the flop if I get a call, though ultimately I am looking to take it down pre flop with speculative hands like these...That is of course unless you flop the second nuts! 1 caller and the flop came down QT9 rainbow! To cut to the quick all the chips go in on the turn which brought me a FD also, and he flips KJ. Oh joy I run so well. I accepted at this point it just wasn’t my night. I Played the tournament really well so was quite disappointed. Coolered 3 out of 3...
The Final 3
These 3 were all much quicker structures. You need to adjust your game in these, as people are quite willing to get their chips in a lot lighter pre, and makes it more difficult to make moves. I found myself quite short in the £700 guar, and got it in pre with KQS on the button, to be called by 66 which held. The £200 Guar. I got it in pre with AQ in position to a min raise that called with A7 and turns a 7 lol. Finally the Velocity, this was the Icing on the cake and lost an all in race which I knew I’d lose just because of how I had run all night. I decided not to play any further Mtts, feeling quite deflated I would not have played any others as well as the previous ones, so called it a night.
Results below
7:00pm sleep stack50/51
8:00pm Deep Stack249/419
8:30pm BH105/108
9:00pm £700 Guar.89/196
9:40pm £200 Guar.28/42
10:00pm Velocity 173/206
End BR£923.07
Loss£74.00
Disappointing results overall, but I am not at all unhappy with the way I played. Thanks for the support and rail, much appreciatedJ
ul m8--I know how you feel---very high variance in these tournies, you usually have to win at least six races in a row to make the cash, when the blinds get big its usually a bingo festival innit, A lot worse hands than A-7 are shoved all in pre----donkey derby half the time---floppa whoppa!
Baddddd start, lost 2 HU games to nutter - had 2.2k v 800thou first one, and 1.9k v 1.1k 2nd one, within the first level, I guess my inexperience showed tonight. The plan was to play more, but tournys got in the way.
Heartbreaking main event. I came 11th/400 - This is the stage of the tourny (10th-40th) When I normally build a huge stack, or bust in style. Unfortunately, maybe because of the tp thing, I didnt do either.
I put the pressure on wherever possible, and was surviving on scraps of hands. Then when I needed a hand, I got AK and AA in successive hands!!! 10 and 11 bb's deep, I shoved both times. I showed the AK, thinking Im unlikely to find another hand, and I wanted a solid image to exploit with rubbish. Then the very next hand they give me AA!!!!
(how much was I regretting the show last hand now!!)
Anyway - another shove, and show.
Key hand, I had 14xbb at 5/10k, and raised just under 3xbb into the chip leader, who shoved. Now then, what a decision. Is 14xbb to deep to be shoving? and Ace ten too big to fold? I was torn. With an inbetween chip stack. I folded. The BB showed me 77! fat load of good that advertising had done me......
Im most upset coz my exit hand, I went down calling. With AQ in the small blind, 8 bb deep, the chip leader shoves on me. I have to call, but dont like it. He sows QQ, and it holds.
YET AGAIN! With a main event, so close yet so far. 11th aint a bad result - but cud have been alot better. Night all, shattered again. DOHH
n1 dohhhhhh--11th out of 400 is better than 389 players did innit--great result m8---And I would leave that floppin nutter alone if I were you, he's fluppin lethal heads up mate---his sit n go experience is absolutely ideal training for heads up play, believe it or not, I'm a very good heads up player myself, and I know how much of a NUTTER you have to be---lol
I had the beating of him yest, and he changed his game today, all credit to him. I had winning positions twice, but he hung in there far better than I did when I was on the back foot.
I don't think Im out of my depth playing him....But Im definitely more inexperienced.
For sure he played a different game than he did yest, so its upto me to adapt tomorrow, standing at 4-4, its all to play for. And the televised BH
Just wondered who won the Tikay Sleepstack that had almost all the TP-ers playing in it! And I heard was a decent structure and had alot of play in?! Can anyone tell me who won it *Cough-Cough-COUGH* Apologies that must be my Asthma ;-) Posted by lJAMESl
Just wondered who won the Tikay Sleepstack that had almost all the TP-ers playing in it! And I heard was a decent structure and had alot of play in?! Can anyone tell me who won it *Cough-Cough-COUGH* Apologies that must be my Asthma ;-) Posted by lJAMESl
Like I said Rock, Hotel and Casino have been informed. lol..
Just wondered who won the Tikay Sleepstack that had almost all the TP-ers playing in it! And I heard was a decent structure and had alot of play in?! Can anyone tell me who won it *Cough-Cough-COUGH* Apologies that must be my Asthma ;-) Posted by lJAMESl
Imagine if u won on ur TP account. Would have tripled ur bankroll!!!! £39.27
Evening All, firstly wp to all the TP'rs left in. Hope the TP challenge hasnt stopped your income etc if you're a full timer!! you should try and get sky to pay you an hourly wage!!
Anyway, I dont really play Sky, Im A boss media pro (no sites mentioned), but I play E100 - E300 sngs heads up or 5 seater, Mtts and omaha. I tested out sky poker for a bit and as much as I loved the site I had to leave, I may return if they decide to kick back a bit of rake like the other sites (currently get 50%)
Anyway, Im a bit of a sicko and Ive been following TP quite closely, here is a scenario to brighten up you're evening. Now I am not saying I want this to happen, I just want you to imagine how funny this could be...
lets say, Glitterbabe (only used as an example) wins TP, brilliant, we're all pleased classic. Good luck in WSOP main event....so off you fly over to vegas, except wait....Ed is stopped at customs for his previous conviction (check wikipedia)...so Glitter has to trot off to wsop main event on her own....Ed is held for 3 days and is allowed into US 20 mins before start of his pupils first hand of WSOP main event....gets a cab straight down to the rio...runs into the amazon room, finds glitter as the first hand is dealt...and wow....AA first hand, there is a raise...to 120, re raise all in, glitter calls.....everyone else folds, the donk has 2 2, flop 2 2 9, pretty much drawing dead.....all that comotion for one hand....unlucky but I hear the blue man group show is good fun.
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ATTENTION TP-ers.
Tonight there are two nice Deepstacks. If you fancy some action, the non TP-ers will have a Team Last-Longer v you guys & girls.
Up for it? - then Post on the Thread that is HERE please.
Dare you do it?
Another night, another TP Challenge.
Good Luck, all 6 of you.
Reporting in For Phase 3, evening 3.
I had decided this evening that I was going to play 6 Mtts solidly and maybe grind 1 cash table throughout the night for some variety. I felt the pressure was on somewhat due to the fact some of the other Tps seemed to be playing a huge amount of Mtts. This is great. I just felt for me personally 5 Mtts was sufficient to be able to play my game to its optimum.
Not a great start to the evening as I began with the 7pm sleep stack. I got coolered early on with QQ vs. KK. I could have possibly got away from this I think, though the betting suggested pre flop that Mr Villain was isolating a 4 way pot so had put him on a big ace, not kk. The 8:30pm BH, went pretty much the same way, I got unlucky and ran into a set of nines on a 9 high board vs. my Jacks, now due to the structure of a BH I was more than happy to get my chips in here on this flop every time.
Onwards and upwards and the Deep stack at 8pm began. This was the one for me, the one I wanted a good result in. My goodness I really felt the “star” took an affect this evening, 1st time I have really experienced this. However this worked in my favour as my hands were holding, but I was being called down frequently by some very colourful hands! My initial table was incredibly laggy and this enabled me to get a good chip lead early on, then tighten up and let them knock each other out winning huge pot showdowns with ace high! My aim was to take down a lot of smaller pots without too much risk to my stack early on, to gain a gradual increase in chips. I had no hands in the 1st hour so had to find some good spots to make a few steals, so difficult on a super lag table. Then I looked down, and Find AA, what a dream! I was UTG, so not the best position and made it 5 x BB, Praying I would not get 5 callers to the flop. I got 2 callers with a low rainbow flop, dream! I villain hit top pair after calling with 98o and I managed to get him to put his whole stack in by the turn for a nice double through. Lovely 1st hour underway in great shape and stood in the top 20 with 300ish still left.
A couple of new faces had joined and the blinds were now 200. Time to change gear, loosen up and steal these blinds. I have J8ss in cut off and make it 3 x BB. I’m pretty sure I can outplay 1 opponent on the flop if I get a call, though ultimately I am looking to take it down pre flop with speculative hands like these...That is of course unless you flop the second nuts! 1 caller and the flop came down QT9 rainbow! To cut to the quick all the chips go in on the turn which brought me a FD also, and he flips KJ. Oh joy I run so well. I accepted at this point it just wasn’t my night. I Played the tournament really well so was quite disappointed. Coolered 3 out of 3...
The Final 3
These 3 were all much quicker structures. You need to adjust your game in these, as people are quite willing to get their chips in a lot lighter pre, and makes it more difficult to make moves. I found myself quite short in the £700 guar, and got it in pre with KQS on the button, to be called by 66 which held. The £200 Guar. I got it in pre with AQ in position to a min raise that called with A7 and turns a 7 lol. Finally the Velocity, this was the Icing on the cake and lost an all in race which I knew I’d lose just because of how I had run all night. I decided not to play any further Mtts, feeling quite deflated I would not have played any others as well as the previous ones, so called it a night.
Results below
7:00pm sleep stack 50/51
8:00pm Deep Stack 249/419
8:30pm BH 105/108
9:00pm £700 Guar. 89/196
9:40pm £200 Guar. 28/42
10:00pm Velocity 173/206
End BR £923.07
Loss £74.00
Disappointing results overall, but I am not at all unhappy with the way I played. Thanks for the support and rail, much appreciatedJ
Good night all!
A Battered TP_Sharksb.
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool cough cough
Gliterbabe and Dantb10 were set a challenge they will now post their results, they have performed !!
I think im right in saying 14 tournys 6 cashes 4 toptens and 2 final tables !!!
Thanks you two, really looking forward to Saturday nights cull---- not.
Anyway, I dont really play Sky, Im A boss media pro (no sites mentioned), but I play E100 - E300 sngs heads up or 5 seater, Mtts and omaha. I tested out sky poker for a bit and as much as I loved the site I had to leave, I may return if they decide to kick back a bit of rake like the other sites (currently get 50%)
Anyway, Im a bit of a sicko and Ive been following TP quite closely, here is a scenario to brighten up you're evening. Now I am not saying I want this to happen, I just want you to imagine how funny this could be...
lets say, Glitterbabe (only used as an example) wins TP, brilliant, we're all pleased classic. Good luck in WSOP main event....so off you fly over to vegas, except wait....Ed is stopped at customs for his previous conviction (check wikipedia)...so Glitter has to trot off to wsop main event on her own....Ed is held for 3 days and is allowed into US 20 mins before start of his pupils first hand of WSOP main event....gets a cab straight down to the rio...runs into the amazon room, finds glitter as the first hand is dealt...and wow....AA first hand, there is a raise...to 120, re raise all in, glitter calls.....everyone else folds, the donk has 2 2, flop 2 2 9, pretty much drawing dead.....all that comotion for one hand....unlucky but I hear the blue man group show is good fun.
hope you all enjoyed my story,
Sicko from UK.