{"id":7769,"date":"2010-10-20T11:54:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T10:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2020-09-29T06:13:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T06:13:14","slug":"good-to-cash-and-turn-a-profit-for-the-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/good-to-cash-and-turn-a-profit-for-the-trip.html","title":{"rendered":"Good to cash and turn a profit for the trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog<\/a>. Since then, I’ve played in the EPT London, come home\u00a0 from London, spent a couple days at home, then gone to Melbourne over this last weekend for the ANZPT Melbourne.<\/p>\n

London was great, but my tournament results weren’t really. In hindsight, there are only a couple hands that I can legitimately say I wasn’t happy with how I played.<\/p>\n

So, even though the results weren’t there I kind of felt like it wasn’t meant to be for this trip. Also, the whole time there I only played 7 events, which is basically nothing.<\/p>\n

Things need to be put in perspective<\/h3>\n

I mean, I can play 20 tournaments a day online easily and not have results for a whole week. So these things need to be put in perspective.<\/p>\n

Highlights of the month were the Spurs v Villa game, which Spurs won 2-1. Great stadium, great atmosphere, good game so that was really fun. Then, I’m a bit of a nerd so I thought the museums were great, especially the Imperial War Museum and the British Museum.<\/p>\n

The overall vibe in London is pretty cool and it seems like there’s always something going on and there’s a lot of activity around the streets so it’s just fun to walk around and soak it in. Other than that, we went on a tour of Wimbledon, which was cool and makes me want to go back for next year’s event and did a bunch of other touristy stuff, some of which is worth doing like Hampton Court and some of which I could live without like the London eye. Although admittedly we picked a stupid day to go as it was raining and there wasn’t great visibility.<\/p>\n

So I came home and\u00a0 spent\u00a0 a couple days here and before I knew it I was in Melbourne again. I got to Crown at 12pm on Friday and was planning on playing the high roller event at 12:30. I went down to the poker room<\/a> and saw they only had 13 players registered, most of whom were pretty competent so I decided to leave it.<\/p>\n

Then I went for lunch, took a bit of \u00a0a walk around and went back to my room at about 3:00. I was going to go the gym and do some other stuff in the afternoon but I closed my eyes and next thing I knew it was 8:30 at night. Was really hungry, so I ordered some room service and then slept from about 12:00 till 10:00. This is not regular behaviour for me. It just showed me how\u00a0 buggered I was.<\/p>\n

Maybe good things will follow now<\/h3>\n

Anyway after I woke up I was ready for the main event. The first day was almost a perfectly textbook effort despite some late night setbacks that I recovered from through some overly aggro play, which the table was happy to let slide. Overall though, I’d be pretty happy if every first day was roughly the same; double the starting stack without getting all in, through mostly small pots on my terms.<\/p>\n

The second day I lost a pot for most of my chips early on to an adventurous opponent’s squeeze play with 7h3h, that hammered my 1010. Then I had a good spot to double up with QQ against AJ. From there, I went on a very nice rush to get to chipleader with about 40 left (36 cashed). Even though a lot happened between that point and the next hand, my stack basically stayed within the 280k – 350k range.<\/p>\n

With 20 left at 3k\/6k (opponent had 300k and I had 312k), I opened JJ UTG+1 and he 3bet me to 45k. It was the 4th time he’d 3bet me and this was not the sort of player I had any intention of folding to. Anyway, most of the time in that spot I’d probably jam it all in and try and get the guy to level-talk himself into calling with a medium pair or possibly fold AK\/AQ. But in this spot, I wanted to try and induce the shove that I thought there was a good shot he’d try with his medium suited connector’s. So I made it 105k and he shoved it in.<\/p>\n

I called and he flipped the 99 which went\u00a0 on to flop a set with a 9 in the window and I lost a monster pot to go to chipleader by a fair margin and was left with 12k. Then I made a classic comeback and went all the way back to 200k. But in the last level of the day at 5k\/10k my 7h3h nemesis who I couldn’t beat in a single pot all day opened the hijack, I shipped in my full 170k with KQ and he called with AQ.<\/p>\n

That was the end of my tournament in 16th place for just under $AUD9k. Always disappointing getting so close, but good to cash and turn a profit for the trip, also it ended the drought I was having with cashes so maybe good things will follow now.<\/p>\n

Don’t have much planned for this week and a bit, but I am heading down to South Africa for the WSOP Africa and despite another long-haul flight, I’m pretty excited for it. Also, it’s starting to hit summer in Sydney now and that’s definitely the best time of the year here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog. Since then, I’ve played in the EPT London, come home\u00a0 from London, spent a couple days at home, then gone to Melbourne over this last weekend for the ANZPT Melbourne. London was great, but my tournament results weren’t really. In hindsight, there are only a<\/p>\n

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