Hell is Ikea in the School Holidays. (PS. I just won $1575)
I was getting a bit concerned at the weekend that the variance monster was ready to pounce, Friday I played a ton of STT’s and made a small profit of $180, the money is fine, but it was only rescued by a late run of 1st’s and I felt I was playing and running badly. Sunday was essentially the same thing, except I played fewer games and registered a $200 loss, my first 3 figure+ loss in over 3 weeks, it was pretty sick, I was getting 2 outered and 3 outered every other hand.
Anyways, Monday, I felt fresh and confident so sat down for what I planned as a heavy session of beers and grinding in the STT’s. My first set of 3 x $33’s went: 4th, 5th, 2nd, acceptable. As these were running I joined the $55 PL MTT and the $3 re-buy donkament, by the time the STT’s had fininshed I was running v.good in both the MTT’s so figured I would just focus on them. Good plan!
I creamed the $55 MTT after building a big stack early as a direct result of being hit in the face by the deck, I then abused the bubble to the point of ridiculousness. The final table was actually hard work and I nearly busted at one point but caught a lucky river card to stay in, after that I got heads up with a guy I hadn’t even noticed at the final table he had been so quiet. Anyways, 1st hand….
Andiell: "you wanna do a chop?"
MrQuiet "what are the figures, how long it take?"
Andiell: "50/50 we keep $100 on the table to play for, takes 5 mins"
MrQuiet: "nah lets play"
Now had the stacks been deeper, I wouldn’t have offered the split, this guy had been completely anonymous at the final table and sneaked his way here, I was confident my aggression would win, but with the stacks at 70k (me) v 60k, and blinds 2/4k I felt that locking up the extra money was more important, one unlucky pot and I was done.
5 mins later, the stacks were, approx 110k me v 20k, I had won every hand unshown.
Andiell "No offense but you should have taken that split"
MrQuiet "Yeah I know"
Final result… 1st place for $1575
The re-buy donkament was less successfull, I ran really deep in a huge field, with a stack of over 300k at one point, but ended up busting in about 40th place with KK v AA. I made a small profit on this tourney after I subtracted my 16 (!!) re-buys.
So what do I do with my sinful winnings? Well yesterday I went to Ikea…. word to the wise, Ikea during the school holidays is just a bad idea! At Ikea I bought some Swedish cheese, and Swedish Dill chips, as you do (oh and some bookcases too). Rock n roll lifestyle folks, today I’ll be trashing a room, no literally, as I have to assemble the damn things!
P.S. If anyone actually reads this, please do leave a comment, I’m not sure if I’m talking to myself at the moment.
P.P.S Does anyone know how I can change the image at the top of this page?!?!
Yep, I’m reading! Good stuff, not quite sure why you decided to take your bounty to Ikea instead of “to the pub” but nice work nonetheless!
Comment by Wayne — 3 August, 2006 @ 11:30 am
hello andi. Didn’t even know you had this blog going on.
Can I link to you from my blog?
Comment by hoose — 7 August, 2006 @ 3:39 pm
I’d love to be able to make that kind of money, nice one Andi keep it up!
Comment by metz — 8 August, 2006 @ 11:41 am
Hurrah, comments!
Sure Pete, have added your blog to my links aswell now.
Comment by Administrator — 8 August, 2006 @ 12:36 pm
Top blog mate, keep it up - esp the poker bits. Notice you haven’t put anything about the Birmingham games LOL
Comment by Madbias — 10 August, 2006 @ 1:07 am
Hiya!
Sorry I haven’t stopped by to comment.
The picture will be set as a background somewhere in the CSS (”stylesheet”) for your blog. If you edit your files, you should be able to spot it. A REALLY useful bit of freeware is CSSVista (Google it) - you can bring your blog up in a window, along with a copy of its CSS, then have a play, with changes being applied in real time. Once you’re happy with it all, cut-and-paste into Blogsome and job’s a good ‘un!
If you look at mine in CSSVista, you’ll be able to see how I’ve done my images, too.
Comment by Mahinda — 10 August, 2006 @ 11:49 am
Hurrah, cheers Mahinda.
Comment by Administrator — 10 August, 2006 @ 12:13 pm