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A truly surreal experience

TalonTalon Member Posts: 1,621
edited January 2015 in Poker Chat

 A very strange few days indeed for me. 

 I suffer from the same delusions of competency as most poker players but realise that i am not as good as i would like to think i am.

 Got very lucky on monday and grabbed myself free entry to the Tuesday mini.

 Got my realistic head on and hoped against hope to run well and get a min cash. Would have been great for zero outlay.

 Went through the 700+ runner field quite nicely and somehow chipped up so was in the top 10 at bubble time. With this being NLHE(my weakest discipline) and a tourny(my weakest format) i was amazed to be doing so well. As with all things dished out a few beats and took a few as well.



 Then as we got deeper strange things happened. People actually railed the table i was on and wished me luck. This is when the likes of tommyd and divsdreams were going well.

 Then the dream was achieved and i made it to the FT, very short stacked but i had got there. 

 I am there playing this with skypoker legends tommyd and others, with mattbates railing us.
Am not a big player and probably never will be, but this gave me my moment in the sun. Nice to see how the other half live if only for a little while.

 Crashed out in 6th, no real bad beat but just wish it happened via a gutshot coming in. But £146 pound in the BR and my moment of feeling like a big player. Give me a few years and i might just manage it again

 And whilst this was happening won another free entry to sundays mini. Sometimes it is just all roses
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  • mrsduckmrsduck Member Posts: 1,901
    edited December 2014
    WTG Talon, a great evening, a great attitude!
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  • powell1058powell1058 Member Posts: 48
    edited December 2014
    Well done mr Talon.
    All the best for the coming year
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  • HENDRIK62HENDRIK62 Member Posts: 3,235
    edited December 2014
    Very well played Mr Talon, always enjoy sitting at a table with you, absolute gent.
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  • Phantom66Phantom66 Member Posts: 5,542
    edited December 2014
    VWP Talon

    Please dont abandon the PLO8 community though!

    PS Any chance of the return of a cryptic thread?
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  • Sir-GarySir-Gary Member Posts: 1,052
    edited December 2014
    Well done hope you do it again next year
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  • a00rocka00rock Member Posts: 832
    edited December 2014
    Well done mr Quiz man ;-)
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  • scotty77scotty77 Member Posts: 4,970
    edited December 2014
    Well done, hopefully can go a bit further on Sunday!
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  • GlenelgGlenelg Member Posts: 6,620
    edited December 2014
    VWP  C. Oh and run well on Sunday.
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  • waller02waller02 Member Posts: 9,111
    edited December 2014
    Wp Talon. I have enjoyed our little battles in the 2.20 @ 2.20 recently and wish you all the best for Sunday
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,707
    edited December 2014

    Lovely story Colin, thank you.

    We are so often ungrateful, & take these little hot runs for granted.     
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  • TalonTalon Member Posts: 1,621
    edited December 2014

     Thanks for the comments guys. Was an amazing experience for me and worth more than the prize i won.

    Some people would moan about only getting 6th when hitting a final table but i was still buzzing for quite a while after running way over expectation
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  • ajmiltonajmilton Member Posts: 1,458
    edited December 2014

    Well done Talon,
    It is a Great feeling being there with the big guns.
    Been there myself m8 buzz buzz buzz

    Regards Alan (plo8 future champion)

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  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,189
    edited January 2015
    In Response to Re: A truly surreal experience:
     Thanks for the comments guys. Was an amazing experience for me and worth more than the prize i won. Some people would moan about only getting 6th when hitting a final table but i was still buzzing for quite a while after running way over expectation
    Posted by Talon
    Very well done mate. Lets hope you go on to even greater heights! All the best for 2015. Cheers Graham (StayOrGo)
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