| Well, what a game! 180 players.
1st shock was getting 10k starting chips. One of my 1st few hands was KK. BB=50, I raised 300. Had no effect. Everyone called. Put lots more chips in, chap pushed, AQ on the board. Knew If he held an ace I was out so I folded. leaving me with 3.7k in the 1st 5 minutes.
Adusted my game, battled on and before long was back from last to 17th. Memorable win was JJ and flopping tips. Nice board, slow played it, made loads.
Ended up chip leader eventually (20 players). Kept on going. Made one uber call. Had pocket 3's, KQx on the board, lots of chips in the pot. I raised on the river, opponent instantly raised x2. It stank. Why raise just by x2? and why so quickly? I called with 33 and won :-)
Final table, At one stage I was chip leader - called AQ with my A10 and got lucky. He'd been stealing a lot. The blinds were huge with the Antes. Stealing blinds was worth 25k each time.
Spent a lot of time in 2nd, then it went wrong. One guy raised x3 and I called with 46diamonds. or similar. I've had a lot of luck using small connectors or near-connectors. It was a small call for me, having about 300k.
Flopped a gut shot and flush draw. Turn gave me open ended straight draw and flush draw.
Hit my flush on the river . Went all in. He showed me the 2 cards I didn't want to see. AJ Diamonds.
Down to 25k. All-in'd it back to 70 k then bust out.
Finished 5th (might have been 6th, think it was 5th) - top three places = 12k wsop package.
I'm happy with my performance. shame, but happy.  |