Midland masters. Day 1 & 2

Well back to my regular casino, walsall.

First tourney is a £200 freezeout and i am going to see if my new TAG approach is going to work.

To be honest i dont have much to say about the tourney, i picked up a set early on and picked up a lot of small pots to stay just above average for a long time, when the blinds started hitting the 600/1200 stage i was getting slightly short.

After 2 limpers from early position i shoved with 33 since i only had 11 big blinds, everyone passes.

I know have about 19k with 800/1600 blinds when a crazy hand occured.

UTG raises 3x to 4800, im next to act and i shove with AhQh.

The player to my immediate left who has about 30k chips says "call". Well i about crapped myself because this usually means aces lol.

Comes back to the chap UTG who passes quickly, so i turn to my right and say "have you got a pair mate?" He says "yep".

He then confidently flips 44. LOL! What the hell is he thinking, oh well race time.

I smile when the flop comes 89A.

Turn J.












River 4.

It was 20 minutes before the day was over, how painful, i finish 21st and storm out of the casino. Not happy!

Well day 2 is next, the £300 double chance freezeout, again i play pretty tight and after 2 hours i still have my starting stack which is fine. After some cool maneouvering i climb to about 20k in chips when i get AA UTG. Yep for once i decided to limp and the guy 3 seats after me says "All-in" Fine, but the blinds are 400/800 and he has 16000 chips. All pass to me and he flips AK. Im pretty sure he said Merry Christmas. My AA held up and i had quite a large stack.

Its getting late into the tourney and i have been with the same few people as when i started, including two tight players that give away what they have depending on their bet sizes preflop.

On one hand the chap to my right raised about 2.5BB so i just assumed he was weak, i was on the button so put in about 1/4 of my stack with 56. I was absoloutly confident he would fold right here, the blinds were high...any move meant all of your stack but he then announced a minimum raise. Oh god, its great relying on your reads isnt it. I spend a lot of time and announce to the table im laying down Queens (hehe).

Well the other player who i said makes his raises compared to his strength raises just 3xBB in early position (this player im even more sure) So i look down at 55 in the SB and push about 5x his bet, the blinds were super high and this was really worth it, also there is only about 30 minutes until the day is over so it would be really nice to take this down. He passes immediatly whilst flipping 99. Lovely :)

Well the first day of the double chance is over and with only 23 left, i have 60,900 chips and the average is about 31k so im doing good.

Final table here i come!