Next challenge - Turn £1,051 into 51p. You may be able to do this one a bit quicker.....in fact, if you give the bag of sand to me or Hoggers......in about a day!!
Drinks in Al's Bar mate when you have crossed that line......but you are paying this time!
Stop Press !!!!!!! The quest was completed at 4-32pm this afternoon Latest balance £1,073.74 Congratulations to DEL560 who wins the free competition Details to follow Posted by GaryQQQ
......Well done Gary, brilliant achievement and tremendous dedication......brm at it's finest and a lesson to us all how to do it......really pleased for you and ty ty ty.
Very well done, glad to see me running my AQ into your A6 on an AK6 board just before the bubble in that very last tournament helped you towards your goal! ))
Congrats Gary. Never realised our little FT was so important and I'll be honest, I never felt like I was coming anywhere but 2nd. Well Played mate Posted by Bear_Proof
Very well played to you too, a tough and worthy opponent as expected. The deck gave it to me tbh, it would have been very hard to lose with the cards that kept coming my way.
Very well done, glad to see me running my AQ into your A6 on an AK6 board just before the bubble in that very last tournament helped you towards your goal! )) Posted by Brrrrrrr
Yeah, that was a harsh cooler for you. Thanks very much for your good wishes in the chatbox, a true sportsman.
As usual I kicked-off with the two morning £3.30 Bounty Hunters. A harsh beat saw me exit the 9-45 after an hour of play; an UTG limper with Q8o called my 4x raise and open-jammed at an 8-high flop. My pocket AA was cracked when he rivered two pairs.
I enjoyed a flying start in the 10-45, in level 1 my turned nut-straight was paid in full by slow-played pocket AA and a lower straight for an early treble-up and head prize. Unfortunately it was all downhill from there. I couldn’t make a hand to save my life and donked off chips with a couple of bluffs that didn’t work out. Before busting I had a rollercoaster ride due a wild run of cards. First my 20BB squeeze-shove with AK was called by a crazy UTG limp/caller who hit with T8o for their entire stack. I was left with just 85 chips with blinds at 75/150. I threw them in with 23o and quadrupled up, then trebled up in the next hand, then doubled, then doubled again! My stack recovered from 85 to 5,300, but I couldn’t quite pull off a ‘chip and a chair’ miracle, my exit coming when I jammed 55 into TT.
Next I bought into the 1-30 £200 gtd for £5.75 Bounty Hunter which went off with 66 runners. It destined to be the final game of this quest. I got myself deep with an average stack by playing my normal game, then one big hand close to the bubble propelled me near the lead for the first time. My pocket TT made a full-house to bust two players drawing dead with flushes, all the chips going in with AKTK on the board and one card to come. Another monster pot went my way soon after that when my A6 busted two inferior holdings on an AK6 flop and I found myself chipleader.
I was rather tense at the final table because I knew a victory would take me over the line. However I didn’t let the nerves get the better of me and I feel I played as well as possible, also the deck was kind to me too, giving me plenty of good cards to work with. After a long final table battle my opponent in heads-up play was Bear_Proof, I already knew him to be a talented player and was well aware that victory wouldn’t come easy. Unfortunately for him the cards and the luck were on my side this time; to my relief Bear_Proof folded when I ran a 3 streets bluff, the times I really did have it I got calls.
The final hand was a dream. I’d been opening nearly every button and found myself with pocket AA on the small blind. Bear_Proof had grown quite short by now and quite rightly wasn’t in the mood to go away with AT, neither would I in his seat. It was a great moment for me as the all chips went in pre-flop and my pair held-up.
I’m going to make another post on this thread later tonight or tomorrow with some final thoughts, analysis and statistics.
Thank-you very much to everybody in this wonderful community who has posted support during this quest, I can assure you it has meant the world to me and helped immensely.
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceGaryQQQ Small blind 1250.00 1250.00 87217.00 Bear_Proof Big blind 2500.00 3750.00 41033.00 Your hole cards A A GaryQQQ Raise 3750.00 7500.00 83467.00 Bear_Proof Raise 7500.00 15000.00 33533.00 GaryQQQ Raise 15000.00 30000.00 68467.00 Bear_Proof All-in 33533.00 63533.00 0.00 GaryQQQ Call 23533.00 87066.00 44934.00 GaryQQQ Show A A Bear_Proof Show A 10 Flop 10 3 A Turn 3 River 4 GaryQQQ Win Full House, Aces and 3s 87066.00 132000.00
Best of Luck Gary! Hope this inspires ppl as beleive it can be done! My guess is 15th of September 2012, coz know u like spending the summer in the sun ) Posted by DEL560
Congratulations to DEL560, I'll be in touch to arrange your prize.
Comments
how good did it feel getting to £1000?
not far to go now m8,
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Stop Press !!!!!!!
The quest was completed at 4-32pm this afternoon
Latest balance £1,073.74
Congratulations to DEL560 who wins the free competition
Details to follow
Estupendo amigo.......congrats fella......
congrats on getting to that magic mark and completing your challange.
......Well done Gary, brilliant achievement and tremendous dedication......brm at it's finest and a lesson to us all how to do it......really pleased for you and ty ty ty.
Closing balance £1,073.74
*****QUEST COMPLETED*****
(up £73.32 today)
As usual I kicked-off with the two morning £3.30 Bounty Hunters. A harsh beat saw me exit the 9-45 after an hour of play; an UTG limper with Q8o called my 4x raise and open-jammed at an 8-high flop. My pocket AA was cracked when he rivered two pairs.
I enjoyed a flying start in the 10-45, in level 1 my turned nut-straight was paid in full by slow-played pocket AA and a lower straight for an early treble-up and head prize. Unfortunately it was all downhill from there. I couldn’t make a hand to save my life and donked off chips with a couple of bluffs that didn’t work out. Before busting I had a rollercoaster ride due a wild run of cards. First my 20BB squeeze-shove with AK was called by a crazy UTG limp/caller who hit with T8o for their entire stack. I was left with just 85 chips with blinds at 75/150. I threw them in with 23o and quadrupled up, then trebled up in the next hand, then doubled, then doubled again! My stack recovered from 85 to 5,300, but I couldn’t quite pull off a ‘chip and a chair’ miracle, my exit coming when I jammed 55 into TT.
Next I bought into the 1-30 £200 gtd for £5.75 Bounty Hunter which went off with 66 runners. It destined to be the final game of this quest. I got myself deep with an average stack by playing my normal game, then one big hand close to the bubble propelled me near the lead for the first time. My pocket TT made a full-house to bust two players drawing dead with flushes, all the chips going in with AKTK on the board and one card to come. Another monster pot went my way soon after that when my A6 busted two inferior holdings on an AK6 flop and I found myself chipleader.
I was rather tense at the final table because I knew a victory would take me over the line. However I didn’t let the nerves get the better of me and I feel I played as well as possible, also the deck was kind to me too, giving me plenty of good cards to work with. After a long final table battle my opponent in heads-up play was Bear_Proof, I already knew him to be a talented player and was well aware that victory wouldn’t come easy. Unfortunately for him the cards and the luck were on my side this time; to my relief Bear_Proof folded when I ran a 3 streets bluff, the times I really did have it I got calls.
The final hand was a dream. I’d been opening nearly every button and found myself with pocket AA on the small blind. Bear_Proof had grown quite short by now and quite rightly wasn’t in the mood to go away with AT, neither would I in his seat. It was a great moment for me as the all chips went in pre-flop and my pair held-up.
I’m going to make another post on this thread later tonight or tomorrow with some final thoughts, analysis and statistics.
Thank-you very much to everybody in this wonderful community who has posted support during this quest, I can assure you it has meant the world to me and helped immensely.
September poker points 233
6867148 12-Sep-12 16:32 NL Holdem £51/66£78.796864976 12-Sep-12 14:51 NL Holdem £0116/243£06866929 12-Sep-12 13:28 NL Holdem £317/72-£2.176866662 12-Sep-12 12:39 NL Holdem £327/74-£3.306864620 12-Sep-12 12:16 NL Holdem £0122/150£0
The hand that did it
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalanceGaryQQQ Small blind 1250.00 1250.00 87217.00 Bear_Proof Big blind 2500.00 3750.00 41033.00 Your hole cards A A GaryQQQ Raise 3750.00 7500.00 83467.00 Bear_Proof Raise 7500.00 15000.00 33533.00 GaryQQQ Raise 15000.00 30000.00 68467.00 Bear_Proof All-in 33533.00 63533.00 0.00 GaryQQQ Call 23533.00 87066.00 44934.00 GaryQQQ Show A A Bear_Proof Show A 10 Flop 10 3 A Turn 3 River 4 GaryQQQ Win Full House, Aces and 3s 87066.00 132000.00
Surely you now have got to go for £1,051 to £10,510