Queenstown continues to be amazing! On Tuesday I headed up to Cardrona again with Pat, Chloe, Hugh, Toby and Tollgate. Got up there super pumped because it had snowed overnight, however the weather was awful on arrival. We spent the first three quarters of the day on and off the slopes, the visibility was shocking – pretty much guessing where you are headed, following poles down the runs and not seeing the various bumps and drops as you went over them. On top of this, my shin splints were destroying my soul; my calves were completely locked up. Luckily, mid afternoon I managed to give them a rub down with some anti-inflammatory cream and had a stretch and was good to go again.
Walk outside and the weather had magically cleared, the sun came out, and there was fresh snow everywhere! I spent the rest of the afternoon shredding the mountain with Tom “Tollgate” Grigg and getting a ton of “freshies”. It was amazing riding the chairlift looking over at the fresh tracks we had just made and getting excited all over again trying to work out where we were going to hit next. Funniest moment of the afternoon was Tom dropping off into a fresh slope and losing his ski in his first turn cause the snow was seriously waist deep. He had to crawl back up the hill a bit and dig through the snow to find it. By the end of it though, my calves had definitely had enough – so totally worth it. On a related note, Tom and I have made a 1k weightloss bet as we were both too heavy to skydive here in QT... We still have to finalise the actual amounts we are aiming for but I will be going to somewhere <100>110 atm).
Wednesday I spent with Casey grinding in the same Internet cafe that had been the scene of so much excitement on Monday. Had a pretty good day, FT’d the 11 cubed and the 55 6max on stars. The 11 cubed was a real crapshoot, 7 handed the CL had like 35bbs and everyone else was 15-20. Unfortunately I busted in a pretty standard spot, I reshoved 77 for 18bbs over a MP raise vs a guy who had already raise/folded to a smaller jam by me in a similar spot. Unfortunately he woke up with pocket rockets and I didn’t get there – 7th for just under 1k. While all this was going on, I was grinding the 55 6max FT too. I love the structure in these, I was 4/4 yet I was perfectly comfortable on my 40bb stack. I managed to keep my stack afloat with a combination of 3betting and opening a ton of pots and managed to small ball my way to a HU match vs another decent reg. It was fairly deep (>50bbs effective) and was actually quite fun to play another good player heads up. He definitely got the better of me early was 3betting me a ton etc. However, my reads on him were pretty good as the following 3bet pot demonstrates:
***** Hand History for Game 47056348564 ***** (Poker Stars)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, July 21, 05:39:06 ET 2010
Table 322011122 9 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: golden_nug ( $443022.00 USD )
Seat 3: ragenut ( $267978.00 USD )
golden_nug posts ante of [$600.00 USD].
ragenut posts ante of [$600.00 USD].
golden_nug posts small blind [$3000.00 USD].
ragenut posts big blind [$6000.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ragenut [ As 9s ]
golden_nug raises [$9000.00 USD]
ragenut raises [$25555.00 USD]
golden_nug calls [$19555.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ks, 7c, 7h ]
ragenut bets [$27855.00 USD]
golden_nug raises [$62000.00 USD]
ragenut raises [$207968.00 USD]
golden_nug folds
ragenut wins $173823.00 USD
ragenut wins $188310.00 USD from main pot
Then I managed to ship the win for 2.6k after this hand, some people might regard this as a “cooler” heads up (top pair v top pair) however I definitely think he overplayed his hand and could take a better line, though I am grateful he stacked off and I held!
***** Hand History for Game 47056364243 ***** (Poker Stars)
Tourney Hand NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, July 21, 05:40:05 ET 2010
Table 322011122 9 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Seat 1: golden_nug ( $348867.00 USD )
Seat 3: ragenut ( $362133.00 USD )
golden_nug posts ante of [$600.00 USD].
ragenut posts ante of [$600.00 USD].
ragenut posts small blind [$3000.00 USD].
golden_nug posts big blind [$6000.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ragenut [ As Jc ]
ragenut raises [$11555.00 USD]
golden_nug calls [$8555.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5c, Ts, Jh ]
golden_nug checks
ragenut bets [$18557.00 USD]
golden_nug raises [$45500.00 USD]
ragenut raises [$88998.00 USD]
golden_nug raises [$288212.00 USD]
ragenut calls [$226157.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]
golden_nug shows [Js, 9h ]
ragenut shows [As, Jc ]
ragenut wins $697734.00 USD from main pot
So yeah overall a good day, still unhappy with a couple of things, I bubbled the FT of the 27.50 turbo on stars came like 13th shoved A9o on the button with 14bbs – SB (3bbs) snaps off with A5o and BB (10bbs) comes along for the ride with A2s. The BB ended up flushing me on the river and I busted the next hand. Also made a very FPS play on the bubble of the 22 rebuy 6 max on FTP, 3bet a reg’s BTN raise he makes a small 4bet and I for some reason decide he is FOS and 5bet ship the ol’ 74 sooooted for about 50ish big blinds. He of course has AK and im sure was very grateful for the donation lol.
In other news I play the main event day 1 in about 2 hours, I have been presented with a rather embarrassing T-shirt which I have to wear today due to having the worst Monday (bit hard when someone binks 4th in the warm up thanks tom!) GL to me anyway vs the live pros...
RESULTS:
Wednesday: +$2,240.13 (ABI: $57/ITM: 24%/MTTs: 34/FTs: 2/Bubbles: 1)
OVERALL: -$4,171.53
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