I have to second the comments made above about the tournament, excellently run event again and was very nice to get into the money, particularly having bubbled in Manchester, must be something about travelling over the pennines!!
Many congratulations to Brownndog and will hopefully see some of you in Newcastle
Sorry guys, just spent an hour doing a 'mini blog' on my week end experiences but forgot to save it and got logged out! Grrrrrrr.
Just to reiterate everything that has been said already on this thread though.....great event, well done to all who cashed esp Lewis, Mike and Dai. Also well done to Phil (loki) on winning the later tourney on Saturday. Many thanks goes to all the casino staff and all the Sky Poker staff in running a great day. Cheers also to all TSP but esp Wayne and Lisa who I did spend a few hours with on the tables and learned a few things (Q2, piff, and reshove FTW, lol) I suppose I better say well done to Tikay in taking down the Frid tourney....sigh
Finally, I nominate DOLLIE for Team Sky Poker. A top bloke.
Good to meet you in person Dolllie - still can,t beleive you haven,t seen your own advert
Just wanna say a big thx to Sky for making it a gr8 day and congrats to Browndogg.
I didn,t cash but got my moneys worth of entertainment and finished in 23rd or 24th. I thought I played well until my exit hand. I had been on table 4 for the whole game until we got down to about 30 and the table was split up. Went on to table 1 and made a few chips on a nice bluff and was considering tightening right up and laddering for the cash, but if i,d done that I would have been to short stacked to give myself a chance of winning and after playing on the same table as dantb10 for about 6 hours (unlucky Dan - you were looking good after a shaky start) I was feeling quitely confident. Then while holding AQ on the BB I was waiting for some callers to shove on, but as it folded round to me (almost 5k with antes) the SB shoved with a similar stack to myself (about 20-25k) . I put him on a middle pair at best as he had played a cpl of hands in the short time I had been on that table and made the call to see him flip over AK. That was me out
I don,t play live much but its the longest i,ve ever played in a live game and will reflect on this game as a great learning experience. For example don,t start drinking at 11am as by 8pm I was on coffees with a banging headache and don,t lose nearly 2k in chips in blinds and antes by getting back from breaks to late. I was almost half an hour late for the start as well . I know a lot of pros do this , but i,m no pro and this structure is not big enough to do that. I felt i missed out on half an hour of just sitting there and trying to get reads on ppl
All in all, a really enjoyable day and picked up some very valuable lessons
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I have to second the comments made above about the tournament, excellently run event again and was very nice to get into the money, particularly having bubbled in Manchester, must be something about travelling over the pennines!!
Many congratulations to Brownndog and will hopefully see some of you in Newcastle
Sorry guys, just spent an hour doing a 'mini blog' on my week end experiences but forgot to save it and got logged out! Grrrrrrr.
Just to reiterate everything that has been said already on this thread though.....great event, well done to all who cashed esp Lewis, Mike and Dai. Also well done to Phil (loki) on winning the later tourney on Saturday. Many thanks goes to all the casino staff and all the Sky Poker staff in running a great day.
Cheers also to all TSP but esp Wayne and Lisa who I did spend a few hours with on the tables and learned a few things (Q2, piff, and reshove FTW, lol)
I suppose I better say well done to Tikay in taking down the Frid tourney....sigh
Finally, I nominate DOLLIE for Team Sky Poker. A top bloke.
Just wanna say a big thx to Sky for making it a gr8 day and congrats to Browndogg.
I didn,t cash but got my moneys worth of entertainment and finished in 23rd or 24th. I thought I played well until my exit hand. I had been on table 4 for the whole game until we got down to about 30 and the table was split up.
Went on to table 1 and made a few chips on a nice bluff and was considering tightening right up and laddering for the cash, but if i,d done that I would have been to short stacked to give myself a chance of winning and after playing on the same table as dantb10 for about 6 hours (unlucky Dan - you were looking good after a shaky start) I was feeling quitely confident. Then while holding AQ on the BB I was waiting for some callers to shove on, but as it folded round to me (almost 5k with antes) the SB shoved with a similar stack to myself (about 20-25k) . I put him on a middle pair at best as he had played a cpl of hands in the short time I had been on that table and made the call to see him flip over AK. That was me out
I don,t play live much but its the longest i,ve ever played in a live game and will reflect on this game as a great learning experience.
For example don,t start drinking at 11am as by 8pm I was on coffees with a banging headache and don,t lose nearly 2k in chips in blinds and antes by getting back from breaks to late. I was almost half an hour late for the start as well . I know a lot of pros do this , but i,m no pro and this structure is not big enough to do that. I felt i missed out on half an hour of just sitting there and trying to get reads on ppl
All in all, a really enjoyable day and picked up some very valuable lessons
Roll on the nxt one