Strange day. Never been described as a rock before.
Had a 3 hour spell where I played 2 hands and they were 43 suited and K9 suited,and missed the flop with both. But my new found reputation as the tightest player in Walsall let me take both pots down.
Then in 3 consecutive hands found 10s, jacks and jacks again, so fired in 3 and 4bets like a madman and shocked the table into submission.
Ended up grinding my way northwards with a small profit at every one of the 9 levels, but only going to showdown a couple of times all day.
10 minutes before stumps were drawn (400/800/100) I had 56k and found QQ in early position. Put in 1850 fully expecting to take it down and a tight player instashoved his 15k+ from the blinds. I folded quickly faceup and got some stick for being too nitty. But unless he didnt plan to play the next day the only hands I could probably be beating were 10s or JJ. and having grinded all day, the last thing I wanted was to go forward on a downer.
Tomorrow is a brand new day, and with 58,800 I am very competitive. And I doubt if I will be folding QQ in a similar spot.
Pleasure having Sam Bayliss on the same table, for someone who says he cant play tournies he seemed to do quite well !
gl all that are still in, will try and keep reading updates at some point unfortunatly daughter is unwell so am a male nurse today ( NO i`m not wearing the uniform ). great work tikay keep it up.
As you might have already gathered, I had an amazing day yesterday.
I have never played a £1k tournie before, my biggest live experience before this was the £60 Grand Prix @ DTD in Notts. This is also the 1st time I'v met up with some of TSP and they've all made me feel warmly welcome.
The 1st four levels were a real grind and I was just treading water. Things then exploded after the dinner break when I hit a set, then rivered a straight - managed to get three streets of value from both hands. Then it fell quiet again and I grinded down a few chips before all the craziness happened as Tikay updated above.
Tikay has been fantastic, I'm in the hotel next to him and he gave me a lift back after 1am - his hotel has a Starbucks which we're both huge fans of - I'm going to grab a latte now and go into the town centre for a bit before returning for start of day 2 @ 2pm.
The rest of the team have been great too, unfortunately I knocked out Gliterbabe when he ran his KQ into my AQ on a Q high flop.
As you can see from Tikay's updates above, I've had to use every ounce of my considerable poker skill (ahem) to get this far as the cards have not been kind to me - I'll try to run a little better today.
Strange day. Never been described as a rock before. Had a 3 hour spell where I played 2 hands and they were 43 suited and K9 suited,and missed the flop with both. But my new found reputation as the tightest player in Walsall let me take both pots down. Then in 3 consecutive hands found 10s, jacks and jacks again, so fired in 3 and 4bets like a madman and shocked the table into submission. Ended up grinding my way northwards with a small profit at every one of the 9 levels, but only going to showdown a couple of times all day. 10 minutes before stumps were drawn (400/800/100) I had 56k and found QQ in early position. Put in 1850 fully expecting to take it down and a tight player instashoved his 15k+ from the blinds. I folded quickly faceup and got some stick for being too nitty. But unless he didnt plan to play the next day the only hands I could probably be beating were 10s or JJ. and having grinded all day, the last thing I wanted was to go forward on a downer. Tomorrow is a brand new day, and with 58,800 I am very competitive. And I doubt if I will be folding QQ in a similar spot. Pleasure having Sam Bayliss on the same table, for someone who says he cant play tournies he seemed to do quite well ! Posted by penguin7
This looks an instasnap to me. I think you hit the nail on the head when you said he didn't plan to play the next day. I kind of assume anybody under 50 would be happy to double up or bust a short stack at the end of day 1.
In Response to Re: TSP GUKPT @ J10 LU FTW : This looks an instasnap to me. I think you hit the nail on the head when you said he didn't plan to play the next day. I kind of assume anybody under 50 would be happy to double up or bust a short stack at the end of day 1. Good luck today Posted by Doooobs
Great updates tikay, hope you get a good nights rest. Will the rest of the Sky Poker team be popping back to help you out for a couple of hours before they leave again? ;-) Posted by Machka
Thanks Aaron, & everyone else. No, I'm flying solo today, & just as well, as I'm tire & grumpy, so BE AFRAID
I am going to Post the Seat & Table Draw, with chip stacks.
YOUR job is to do some research, & let us know, on this thread, who are the players we need to be wary of, the good ones, the not so good ones, the good seats, the bad seats.
Best of luck everyone. I too just enjoyed catching up on the updates and will look forward to today's, cheers guys. Awesome stack JingleMa, hope you enjoy today as much as yesterday :-)
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Great thread, keep up the good work.
Will the rest of the Sky Poker team be popping back to help you out for a couple of hours before they leave again?
;-)
thanks tikay, great to read ... very well done tsp
Had a 3 hour spell where I played 2 hands and they were 43 suited and K9 suited,and missed the flop with both.
But my new found reputation as the tightest player in Walsall let me take both pots down.
Then in 3 consecutive hands found 10s, jacks and jacks again, so fired in 3 and 4bets like a madman and shocked the table into submission.
Ended up grinding my way northwards with a small profit at every one of the 9 levels, but only going to showdown a couple of times all day.
10 minutes before stumps were drawn (400/800/100) I had 56k and found QQ in early position. Put in 1850 fully expecting to take it down and a tight player instashoved his 15k+ from the blinds. I folded quickly faceup and got some stick for being too nitty. But unless he didnt plan to play the next day the only hands I could probably be beating were 10s or JJ. and having grinded all day, the last thing I wanted was to go forward on a downer.
Tomorrow is a brand new day, and with 58,800 I am very competitive. And I doubt if I will be folding QQ in a similar spot.
Pleasure having Sam Bayliss on the same table, for someone who says he cant play tournies he seemed to do quite well !
Morning Everyone,
As you might have already gathered, I had an amazing day yesterday.
I have never played a £1k tournie before, my biggest live experience before this was the £60 Grand Prix @ DTD in Notts. This is also the 1st time I'v met up with some of TSP and they've all made me feel warmly welcome.
The 1st four levels were a real grind and I was just treading water. Things then exploded after the dinner break when I hit a set, then rivered a straight - managed to get three streets of value from both hands. Then it fell quiet again and I grinded down a few chips before all the craziness happened as Tikay updated above.
Tikay has been fantastic, I'm in the hotel next to him and he gave me a lift back after 1am - his hotel has a Starbucks which we're both huge fans of - I'm going to grab a latte now and go into the town centre for a bit before returning for start of day 2 @ 2pm.
The rest of the team have been great too, unfortunately I knocked out Gliterbabe when he ran his KQ into my AQ on a Q high flop.
As you can see from Tikay's updates above, I've had to use every ounce of my considerable poker skill (ahem) to get this far as the cards have not been kind to me - I'll try to run a little better today.
Thank you for all your support,
Priyesh (AKA PJ / Jingle).
Good luck today
For the record, Penguin is 72 years old.
GOOD LUCK GUYS for today
Great posts from Tony and Priyesh
Bad luck the boys who have gone, and looking forward to the updates today....
P.S I would love to know why Priyesh is called "Jinglema" any ideas anyone?
Now, listen up, all of you.
You can help our lads - yes, you CAN.
I am going to Post the Seat & Table Draw, with chip stacks.
YOUR job is to do some research, & let us know, on this thread, who are the players we need to be wary of, the good ones, the not so good ones, the good seats, the bad seats.
58 runners remain.
Blinds 500/100/125
Average stack 52,300
Those are the stats, to assist.
Seat & table draws coming up next.....
Table 2 ( IN SEAT ORDER)
Note that Ryan is Buttton to Sam's BB.......
Sam1986, 75,675
Joe Laming 64,000
Kevin Steele 46,400
Dipesh Mistry 22,900
Brandon Moore 31,400
Mark Mccluskey 37,825
Chun Law 86,950
Ryan "Scotty77" Spittles 47,850
Steve Holden, 41,350
Table 3
TOUGH Table, this!
Suketu Patel 108,750
Penguin7, 58,800
Allan McLean 35,625 (few playrs in the UK have more live Tourney cashes than Alan, who is 93)
Nick Hicks 19,875 (Nick - "samuriboy " I think on Sky, made this Final last year with Scotty77)
Daniel Hardy 41,400
Simon Deadman 90,750 (also made this Final last year, VERY good player)
Jonathan McCaan 56,775
Stephen Kaf Ng 94,525
James Park 65,775
Only just read this thread, all the best chaps for the rest of the tourny.
Thanks for the updates TK, very good read