Likey's Blog

As you’ve probably guessed, I didn’t quite win 4 figures since my last update, easy tell when I win because I’d usually tell the world! I’m not really one for ‘Getting it Quietly’, nor do I keep it quiet when others win, it’s just how I am.

I was very close though, the last two attempts got me very close to the final table in the 20 cubed. One was a silly shove with A5o in the HJ for 11BB, got looked up by 77 but no love on the board so I’m out of that one. The recent one being a cooler where I had AA v 99 and the flop was K9K, busted out 17th (for $220) where if I won that pot (approx 45BB) I’d have easily made the final table to earn 4 figures with a damn good chance of winning the tournament!

If I put enough volume in I’m sure it would be my bread and butter tournament but it takes up a lot of time! LUFCBas was mega chip leader going into the final table over the weekend but got too sleepy to rail, woke up to find that he busted out 4th – I’m disappointed! Especially when a handful of us have already won this tournament including M555SSM, bubs26 and rivermanl so would have been good to see him on the list too. I am still leading with two victories though and looking for a hatrick soon!

In other news, one of my Gutshot friends jono3101 is blessed at the moment. For a laugh he entered a 50 FPP satellite on Friday and won $11 turbo seat. He played it and managed to bash up the whole field of 2160 to win the top prize of $3510, the same night he plays the $100 cubed and finished 3rd for $4949. Amazing stuff but it doesn’t end there – on Sunday he played a $109 rebuy satellite to the WSOP Main Event and won one of the two seats available! That’s over $20,000 from a 50 FPP spin up – why can’t I run this good?!

I intend to play a few live tournaments in the near future, The International Club (Gutshot) have announced their festival coming up and I’m interested in the £500 2-day Main Event on 4th-5th July. With 10,000 chips and an hour clock this should suit me well, there is a BAP on SAS if anyone would like to invest.

They have also announced a PSOP festival in August which is a partnership with Paradise Poker and introducing their first £1000 Main Event with £10K added to the prizepool, apparently they will be using the floor above to allow for 400 runners – awesome!

This lead me to check out DTD’s festival as I’m sure it would clash, it turns out that they have now moved their £250K GTD to December and the £500K GTD is now to be announced for 2010 sometime. I can’t blame them though, would be pretty disastrous to have another big overlay.

That’s it for tournaments but will post a cash update very soon.