The £10 + £20 + £20 at the Genting Casino in Edinburgh is apparently the busiest Monday game in Scotland.
There were 106 entries when I went, with a prize pool of a cool £5,000 exactly. They also allow reregistrations if you bust out early, which swells the prize pool a bit. I managed to blow my first entry before the end of level 3 after a couple of painful hands.
A limp on the button with q8 off was rewarded with a flop of j,10, 9. Not bad, though there were 2 diamonds and I had none. It was checked to me, I bet and get 2 callers. The turn is a king of diamonds, so I slow down a bit as me thinks someone is flushing and I check. River is a q of diamonds? The old lady bets and my near enough the nuts hand is now in the muck.
Couple of hands later I 3 bet pocket tens into Aces - ouch, and my final add on is polished off when I try to exert a bit of pressure with my suited AJ only for the button to repop with AK and I,m toast.
I re register, and manage to accumulate a decent stack, the blinds are at 1200/600/100, when the lady to my right raises utg to 4500. I look down at suited big slick and raise it up to 9500, the rest of the table bails out and then after a bit of posturing, my lady shoves all in for a bit more than my whole chip stack. I call and she flips over queens.
First card out is a queen, and I,m out.
I,m happy enough to take these flips alot more this year and my results seem to show that aggression isn,t really working for me though. If I,d flatted, missed flop I could have got away from it, (on the other hand had I won it, I would have forgotten about the hand and moved onto the next).
I see so many rocks who don't do the jam-any-two theory when they're under 10bb who seem to fold there way down to 2 or 3 blinds until they pick up a playable hand and end up at the final table, Whats the right approach? The eternal question...Vegas beckons, gotta make a decision.
A limp on the button with q8 off was rewarded with a flop of j,10, 9. Not bad, though there were 2 diamonds and I had none. It was checked to me, I bet and get 2 callers. The turn is a king of diamonds, so I slow down a bit as me thinks someone is flushing and I check. River is a q of diamonds? The old lady bets and my near enough the nuts hand is now in the muck.
Couple of hands later I 3 bet pocket tens into Aces - ouch, and my final add on is polished off when I try to exert a bit of pressure with my suited AJ only for the button to repop with AK and I,m toast.
I re register, and manage to accumulate a decent stack, the blinds are at 1200/600/100, when the lady to my right raises utg to 4500. I look down at suited big slick and raise it up to 9500, the rest of the table bails out and then after a bit of posturing, my lady shoves all in for a bit more than my whole chip stack. I call and she flips over queens.
First card out is a queen, and I,m out.
I,m happy enough to take these flips alot more this year and my results seem to show that aggression isn,t really working for me though. If I,d flatted, missed flop I could have got away from it, (on the other hand had I won it, I would have forgotten about the hand and moved onto the next).
I see so many rocks who don't do the jam-any-two theory when they're under 10bb who seem to fold there way down to 2 or 3 blinds until they pick up a playable hand and end up at the final table, Whats the right approach? The eternal question...Vegas beckons, gotta make a decision.
Ship it in and hope for the best..
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