The Good, the Bad and the downright Ugly

After my recent escapades I was feeling rather drained. I met with my consultant last week who wants me to stay on the same treatment for the next 12 months, so I wasn't in the best of spirits going up Dusk till Dawn for the month £80k guaranteed. Fortunately with good company i was in better spirits by the time we arrived there, and things started well.

By mid evening I'd built up a decent stack of chips, circa 50k, and was totally in my comfort zone. Sadly that was the high point of the evening. After that I went completely card and situation dead. If i raised i got re-raised. If i re-raised they shoved all in. Eventually i was whittled down to 35k with ever increasing blinds i took a stand by 4bet shoving with 10 9 suited. I was called and lost most of my stack there. Then with 20 minutes of day one left I lost a coin flip and finished in 46th place. Very disappointing. Even worse i had to stay in the shittiest 'guest house' I've ever experienced. After managing a dismal 4 hours sleep, before doors started slamming and constant noise started in the house I got up and made the quick dash back to London. 1 hour 20 minutes door to door was a record I don't imagine I'll beat any-time soon!

I still felt rotten on bank holiday Monday, but with nothing else on decided to go and play the £100 Bank Holiday special at the International. After several night of poor sleep i had a dull headache which i really couldn't seem to shake. Not that i should have worried, i only lasted an hour. Every time i had a hand an over card would come, when i flopped a set someone river a straight and eventually, after losing half my stack, I took a stand against Nico. He raised in late position, as he had many time before. I called in the SB with rags, and BB called too. The flop came with 2 hearts, a Jack and Queen. Checked to Nico who led out. Now i think he's raising wide before the flop, and he'll continuation bet a large amount of that range on the flop, but will only call a shove with very good made hands. I shoved. He called with AQ. I was out.


With me still feeling ill I didn't play too much in the week. A few online MTT's, but only had a couple of minor cashes, and then I played the £150 on Saturday night at the International. Again nothing went right. I busted when my AA ran into a guy who turned a straight with KQ. His original raise UTG had thrown me, and I pretty much had him nailed on for KK or QQ. Generally I'm happy to trust my reads, but this time I was well off. In hindsight I took a stand too early against Nico, and probably shouldn't have played the competition at all. Yesterday I perhaps should have let it go on the turn, but it's easy to look back and play better!