Wednesday, June 18, 2008

100k feels nice

Where to start. Well best score of my life and all said and done a $100k is some chunk of change to bank. It was a long but very enjoyable tourney. Due to the fact it was 6 handed meant one was constantly involved. I have never really gone in to much depth about hands in this blog and dont really intend on starting now. However to go that far I obv put some sick 1's on ppl, the jack of diamonds was my friend and he popped his head up twice when he was required to get me out of 10% underdog situations. For that the Jack of diamonds will always be my friend. I pulled several wild bluffs which served me well but alas it was 2 b my downfall. I came across some unreal players and learned a lot. Played with ept,wsop and wpt winners.
DAY OF FINAL EVENT
Couldn't sleep the night before, got 3 hours sleep from 3a.m til 6.am. Woke up and dicked around for an hour, couldn't get backed to sleep. Went down to the gym and churned out 5k on the thread mill, then protein shake and a bagel. Could barely eat, felt like throwing up. Nerves or excitement I dunno but managed to force the bagel in. Went back and got 2 or 3 hours sleep. Before the cards were in the air and I reckon I had spent about 3 hours going over the final table, how I want to play it, how I taught the rest would play it. It was a tough final table. Due to the fact it was 6 handed fish were exposed and expelled from the tournament much more quickly than in a 9 handed tourney. Final tabled panned out just as I had taught it might however all I was seeing was j2 37 off etc. I'd like to thank Micheal Trimby for the helpful advice he offered me. He turned up at the start of the final table and offered me some v sound advice and also at the break. Hes an experience tournament player and was in this position before. With the cost of an orbit being 50k, 350k was the amount I decided to draw the line in the sand at. I made my move and it wasn't to be.
I said regardless of wat happened I would just b happy even if I got done on 1 outer. To play in the final table of a wsop event is a dream come true and 1 will hope to replicate. In poker terms I am only a kid and am just going to use this as another building block in the development of my game.
I'd like to thank all those who wished me good luck on boards and in texts. It did mean a lot and defo gave me a confidence boost. Good lol walking around with $100k in stacks of $5k made up of $100 bills. For those of you wondering what it feels like, its feels real good. Wired the shit home so wont b doin it in house games.
Highlight of the tourney was sittin beside some ginger lad. Player busts I say were all gettin $20k. Havin not said a word he announces "This has been hard work, defo rewarding myself with a hooker when its done", gingers are just so cute.

3 comments:

Daragh said...

Nice score, well done

nicnicnic said...

great performance John and ignore what the fuckers say about your visor
it was lovely

Chris Ardis said...

gg wp sir. hope u get another and tell trimby hope he does well.