My first GUKPT

Have come down to Thanet in Kent for Leg 8 of the GUKPT tour. Is a £1k buyin which is my biggest yet. Will try to keep my blog updated with chipcounts etc

Killarney and winning the tournament!

I got into a €500 tournament for free by winning a rake race on ladbrokes. Another of my friends also achieved this and another bought in. We got there on the wednesday (tournament started on friday) and it was completely dead with the hotel being full of old people :( It soon picked up though and we met up with another ladbrokes cash game player (Alexdb). We played some cash game but the rake was pretty rediculous and got some beers.

At the start of the tournament I was feeling quite nervous but played pretty tight and won a few pots whilst being 600bb deep! The whole day was quite a drag and made me remember why I don't play many tournaments. I finished 1.5x the average and was pretty comfortable with such a good structure....2 days to go!

I got off to a fairly bad start dropping down to 1/4 of the average just not winning any pots but managed to win a coinflip 77 vs A8s and catapulted my stack from there. I got moved to a new table and opened the 1st 2 hands and got 3bet twice by the same guy. The second time I decided to slowplay my AA as I felt he was doing it light and with my stack size couldn't really represent a 4bet bluff being 1.2x avg. The flop came 662 and I called his cbet and the turn was a A, this was a great card not only giving me pretty much the nuts but was a great card for him to continue a bluff. He bet about 2/5 of my stack which was a pretty small bet and then shoved the river and lended up having 64o, thank god I hit that ace! Finished day 2 with a healthy stack of about 1.4x avg.

Day 3 was just my day, everytime I did anything wrong I won anyway. I lost quite a few 50/50 and 60/40 but won all my 85/15 wether I was ahead or behind. I played quite aggressive on the bubble but never really went to showdown, accumulating quite a big stack. Once the bubble burst everyone loosened up and I played quite tight. With 2 tables to go it was pretty exciting trying to hold out/accumulate chips for final table. I doubled up with AA vs 88 with 14 to go against a guy I had been particularly pounding on throughout tourney which put me in good stead for final table.

The final table was pretty crazy with around 50 people watching, cameras and the comfortable chairs!! I got off to a bad start losing with TT vs AQ but this was fine as I didn't lose another all in. It was all a bit of a blur with me running very good and the entire crowd standing up every time someone stated ''all in'' and then I was HU. The guy I was playing I had played earlier in tournament and was a very good player. I didn't expect him to be so good at HU as well and he brought back a 4:1 chiplead. In the end we got it in with AQs vs AKo for pretty much the tournament and I spiked a flush on the river :D

I had an interview and a ridiculous amount of photos taken and some champagne! Was pretty tired as it was 5am and the bars finished last orders just after that so we didn't get too merry. All in all very happy with the experience and the result (obviously) and the £64k I got after the deal and splits with friends.

5/10

Played some 5/10 (for the 1st time in since febuary) and 3/6 yesterday and did very well winning €1.5k in 184 hands....then I played again today. I got brutalised for €3.8k and can't see any hands I played badly other than 1...maybe/probably.

I havn't played against 'THE-GOAT' lol much at all but was informed that he's terrible and I had these 2 pots which are pretty difficult spots:

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NL Holdem $10(BB) Replayer Game#2845198926

biglad ($1,059)
Disintegrate ($2,733)
FLOPWINNER10 ($817)
THE-GOAT ($2,226)
r0lfus ($1,000)
Strul ($467)

biglad posts (SB) $5
Disintegrate posts (BB) $10

Dealt to r0lfus Ac 9h
fold,
THE-GOAT calls $10
r0lfus raises to $45
fold, fold, fold,
THE-GOAT calls $35
FLOP ($105) 9d 5h Qc
THE-GOAT checks
r0lfus checks
TURN ($105) 9d 5h Qc 2d
THE-GOAT checks
r0lfus bets $80
THE-GOAT raises to $210
r0lfus calls $130
RIVER ($525) 9d 5h Qc 2d Ad
THE-GOAT bets $1,971 (AI)
r0lfus calls $745 (AI)
r0lfus shows Ac 9h
(Pre 27%, Flop 8.4%, Turn 4.5%)

THE-GOAT shows Qd Ah
(Pre 73%, Flop 91.6%, Turn 95.5%)

THE-GOAT wins $2,012

People don't normally check big hands on 2 streets so I bet/called a small turn check/raise looking to revaluate on river then he overbet shoves and I hit top and middle pair....WTF lol I tanked and lended up calling as I don't have much of a read on him other than he's bad...meh

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NL Holdem $10(BB) Replayer Game#2845215701

THE-GOAT ($3,053)
r0lfus ($1,209)
Strul ($646)
Disintegrate ($2,613)
FLOPWINNER10 ($621)

THE-GOAT posts (SB) $5
r0lfus posts (BB) $10

Dealt to r0lfus As 2h
fold, fold,
FLOPWINNER10 calls $10
THE-GOAT calls $5
r0lfus checks
FLOP ($30) Td Ac 9c
THE-GOAT checks
r0lfus bets $25
FLOPWINNER10 calls $25
THE-GOAT calls $25
TURN ($105) Td Ac 9c 2s
THE-GOAT checks
r0lfus bets $90
FLOPWINNER10 folds
THE-GOAT raises to $230
r0lfus raises to $515
THE-GOAT calls $285
RIVER ($1,135) Td Ac 9c 2s Jc
THE-GOAT bets $2,498
r0lfus folds
THE-GOAT wins $1,132

This was typical for this session where I have a big hand and have to lay it down, very sure it was the right fold.

And here was a fun pot:

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NL Holdem $10(BB) Replayer Game#2845094427

jjflush ($460)
IronBalls_ ($2,865)
bobdigi ($1,224)
panzergus ($1,102)
r0lfus ($1,887)

jjflush posts (SB) $5
IronBalls_ posts (BB) $10

Dealt to r0lfus 4s As
fold, fold,
r0lfus raises to $30
fold,
IronBalls_ raises to $110
r0lfus calls $80
FLOP ($225) 3s 6s 4h
IronBalls_ bets $155
r0lfus raises to $510
IronBalls_ raises to $2,745
r0lfus calls $1,267 (AI)
TURN ($3,779) 3s 6s 4h 2c
RIVER ($3,779) 3s 6s 4h 2c Kc
IronBalls_ shows Qs Qc
(Pre 68%, Flop 50.2%, Turn 67.0%)

r0lfus shows 4s As
(Pre 32%, Flop 49.8%, Turn 33.0%)

IronBalls_ wins $3,776

Safety

September

At the start of the month I was in Belgium/Amsterdam but when I got back I decided to focus on tournaments(due to winning a rake race satelite) and lended up playing 84 tournaments in a week. Didn't really get much going and lost about £700. So I decided to "smash the cash" and have had great results winning £5k in 4k hands.

So all in all am feeling good and feel like I've learnt alot about tournament strategy coming up to the €500 tourney in ireland.

Safety

P.s. Posted from my iPhone