Believe it or not I used to love FLHE and played it often, it’s a much more fun game than people give it credit for. I use to watch the FLHE WPT events back in the day and realised it wasn’t just a snooze. These days I tend not to play FLHE tourneys as they don’t get the runners so it generally isn’t worth the time and effort.
The satty was 6-Max and I got to the final 6 as the short stack. I luckboxed a huge pot nuthugging a flush draw which obviously paid off. When we got heads up we were both playing 9k and with blinds at 100/200 so it was a slog. It was up and down and he had me on the back foot for a good while. I then began calling him down very light and realised he was playing/raising/betting with junk every hand. I managed to exploit him from this point on and started getting extra value out of my 2nd pairs, etc...
I ungregistered from the event as I don’t fancy this one so it’ll just be a topup for the Stars roll.
Cash
I’ve continued to grind $100NL and will make a post when I reach 5,000 hands. Upon researching, it seems 50,000-100,000 hands is a fair sample size to see where you are. This type of volume is pretty much impossible for me at the moment as an amateur player. However I’ll continue to grind and can hopefully get in maybe 30k hands by the summertime.
Poker Player UK Tour
I played the opening leg in Bristol this past weekend. The blind structure was god awful, 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, etc... on a 30 min clock. Plus it was only a 7.5k starting stack so wasn’t much playing after a few hours. I kept quiet in the early levels then opened up when blinds hit 150/300.
I started 3-betting a lot and quickly got up to 17k. I pick up Qs and some guy opens; I come in for a quick 3-bet which pretty much commits him, its folded back to him, he says “You’ve been doing that far too often....ok! I’m allin”. I snap him off and he shows 99. Flop comes down all blanks however the dreaded 9 on the turn. He fires over the usual rub down “Sorry mate, I had to go with it otherwise I’d be here all day”, blah blah. This left me pretty much crippled and I failed to get going after that, early bath for me.
I doubt I’ll be playing anymore of these, it’s such a shame this is the Coral replacement for last years CBMPT which had a £500 ME at every stop. No one is going to travel up and down the country for a £100 event.
Las Vegas
I’m off next week, everything is now sorted. Looking forward to getting over there and chilling out for a while. Playing some poker and burning some money haha! I noticed that the GUKPT is on in Walsall the day after I get back which runs over a bank holiday weekend. As it isn’t too far I might try and play some sats for the main event, if I fail just head up for some of the side action.
That’s all for now.
