KQ Off

Recently I have been to Queenstown and finished 20th just short of the money. I tripled up 3rd hand of the tournament so it was a tournament where it is was fun to be me and I was able open up a bit and play plenty of pots and put peoples stack under pressure, Unfortunately for me I picked on the wrong person just shy of the money. Through the mid-stages I had a guy to my left who exploited how often I was opening but mostly I had my way.

Since Queenstown I went up to the Gold Coast for Queensland ANZPT where we stayed in a nice house with Carlo Graziano, Ash Cartwright, Brendon 'Brendooor' Rubie and Aaron Benton. While staying there I learnt a few things and put them to use in my game. I busted out at the end of day 1. I probably made a mistake early folding out QQ on the first level when a Euro guy check raised me all in on the turn, but I thought there may be better spots later as the ANZPT tournament structures are soooo good and some players are so so.

Next stop is Melbourne next week for the ANZPT. First of all I have to transfer a few things to my new place in Neutral Bay. It isn't at all expensive considering its location and size. It is next door to the Neutral Bay Club which has tennis courts and bowling greens. I am going to join up as a member. I want to do some bowls coaching and also get some coaching. I also want to put plenty of hours in online grinding MTT's during Spring/Summer. The place is really well located, 5 minutes from the City.

In bowls Premier League has started and the Merrylands Magic team have won 4/5. With only 10 games in the regular season this puts us in a good position. In bowls tournaments I have played in the master pairs with Neil Burkett where we just went down in the quarter finals by 1 shot. I also played in the Coffs Master pairs with Neil where we lost by 1 shot in the semi final. In the Lotto Cup triples I played with Zel Trbara and Dave Holt in which we finished 4th.

Today I finished 8th in separate 6 max tournaments on Pokerstars, one was a $77 and the other an $11 rebuy. The first had 350 entrants and the 2nd had 1000. I jammed A7 hearts with (12 bbs 4 handed) with 8 left and was called by my favourite bust/neg me out hand KQ off, I flopped an ace turned a flush draw and he still managed to hit his gut shot, first in that tournament was 5k. 8th was 6 hundo, he finished 2nd, I am not bitter.

This reminds me of a 1k tournament I played a few weeks ago at Star City. It was a part of the Sydney Champs and there were only 56 runners. They decided to pay the final table (last 6). I am sitting 5th of 8 and there are 4 of us with even stacks and we are split into 2 tables playing 4 handed. I have 23 bbs and I have Toothpick Tony to my right, this man is famous around these parts as he plays everything, and nothing particularly well. The guy even had a giant poster celebrating him up on the wall of the poker room in New South Wales' only casino, no it was a full flown banner when they first started promoting the ANZPT!

So he opens his standard 4x and gets flatted by the chip leader who has been owning him in position with what I feel is well and truly is any two cards. I look down at AJ and think it is well ahead of both their ranges and I think if called I will even get called off by hands that I dominate. So anyway Toothpick (Tony K) Kambrialagiushorrendous looks down at his KQ off and says yeah this is the hand I am going to make a stand with. The other guy folds after Tony K calls, I cringe and hope I win this flip as I will be 2nd or 3rd in chips, 8th gets nothing, 6th gets 4k, 1st gets 20k....

You know the story, anyway I have been running bad the last week, and still have made money, just feel like I seriously should have made 10x more. Feel free to ask me any retarded questions.