Last night I played in the officepoker.net tourney at the Stanley Casino on Sauchiehall Street here in Glasgow. £50 buy in, 10,000 chips, 20 minute blind levels until 500-1000 and then it is half hour levels, 27 players.
I started out card dead and that pretty much continued for the rest of the night. I had QQ once and AK twice. After that 88 twice, 66, 44 and AT. Nothing really. Anyways, I was quickly whittled down to 5500 chips. Blinds were taking me down and I paid off a value bet with a pair of aces on a 3 club board. I knew he had it and I still paid it. Silly play. As the blinds rose, I took some blinds and stayed afloat. Before I knew it, it was the final table. By this time the blinds were 700-1500 and the average was 27,000 but because there were 2 big stacks, the majority of players were nearer to 20,000. Needless to say not much postflop play occurred. I had AK hold against QK all in preflop, and on the cash bubble (5th place was dinner for 2) I moved in with 88 UTG and was called by TT. Window card was an 8, and I sucked out to basically double up (I had her outchipped by about 10,000) to 63,000. Four handed saw another player from the Blonde Poker Forum, Teacake, (a strong player) get it all in with AT v AQ from 'Div' another Blonde poster. The AQ held up and shortly after I hit another set of 8's to take out a shortstacked Teacake. Three handed we talked about a deal. I had 80,000, Div had about 70,000 and the big stack from the beginning had 120,000. We discussed but in the end I wanted to keep playing. I went up and became chipleader at around 140,000. I then tried a bluff from the button when I knew the other guy had little. He ended up calling me down with second pair no kicker. It was the right call, but one I would not have made. Upon reflection and after talking to Div and Teacake, I should have reraised him more on the flop setting up a large bet on the turn. I will know for next time. In the end we did a deal and I got £340, Div got £340, and the other guy took £535 and the trophy. Not a bad night and though I was disappointed with my final hand, I thought I played position excellent and was greatly pleased at my ability to come back from a shortstack.
£340 (minus: £50 entry, £2 registration fee, £10 dealers tip, £1 tip to front desk for calling taxi, £5 taxi) = £272
Live Poker = £386 profit
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