40 players made it through to Day 2 in total. I was about 36th in chips so it was always going to be a bit of a struggle, it started off brightly enough, I got a few chips early on to give me a bit of time, but the blinds and ante,s starting catching up, I was at under 10BB when I shipped a low pocket pair on the button and got it through to get up to about 20k.
Next hand I picked up A 10h, I raised to 8,000 with blinds at 2000,1000,200, only the big blind calls. Flop comes down J 6 3. BB checks, I shove, he calls and shows 5 3 off for bottom pair 5 kicker, no redemption on turn or river and I,m ash. Hmmm.
27th place from 120 odd. Not quite how I,d planned it.
Simon Appleby took down about £10k for first place.
The player must have had a mountain chips in order to call ... right?
ReplyDeleteNo, he would have been at about 20bb, so it wasn,t an obvious call, he was putting in an extra 10% of his stack to defend with 5 high. I think it would go down as a pretty loose call no matter how you look at it. As for history, I hadn,t raised his blind at all previous and had only turned over decent cards in show downs. He never made the final table, so he maybe tried this once too often!
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