I'm a 31 year old from Ayr in Scotland. I'm an IT Consultant by day and a poker player by night. I am also very proud to be a Volunteer Assistant Regional Manager and long-time Member of APAT (see www.APAT.com) where I post and play under the nicknames 'lukybugur' and 'G3LBOY'.
I've had my Blogspot account open for over a month now after I was introduced to this by some of my APAT friends - my main outlet for all the poker chat my friends don't understand. Due to Christmas etc. I haven't had time to post anything so it's one of my New Year Resolutions to use this to take better notes of my play, results, bankroll etc.
And I'm all the more excited about this first post as I start by telling you about the biggest win of my career / life so far ...
But, having signed up to Titan Poker through PokerListings.com and having racked up more than 250TPs, I entered the PL $50,000 Special last night (6th Jan). A little after 4 hours of play, I had made the final table from the 1315 entrants and was starting with slightly less-than-average chip stack.
My reading of the game was pretty sharp last night and I managed to find weaknesses in a few of the final 10 pretty quickly. From Seat 1 I managed to raise a few pots to steal some blinds throughout but it was Foxtrott11 in Seat 5 that was knocking the folk out!
With five remaining and with blinds as high as they were going (20k/40k), I found myself short stacked after calling down a pot with T7o from the BB with aaaarne (the SB) firing out suspiciously high on the Q87 flop, checking the turn (5) and pushing on the river. I lost around half my stack when he flipped over 96s and I recognised that as the first seriously damaging call I'd made so far.
I managed to double up with A3 against TT when an A flopped and made the final three going in as chip leader when I called and busted aaaarne's All-In with 88 with AJs.
We were three handed for a dozen or so hands when I looked down at ATo on the BB. SB shoved and I called, happy to see him turning over A9o.
Heads up lasted just 4 hands. First one I popped it up to 120k with 88 to which he folded. I folded one, he folded one then I look down to see 22. I min raise to 80, he pushes and I call. It's J9o against 22 and I'm trying to work out my odds when the first card out is another 2! I woohoo reasonably calmly considering, press PrintScreen a dozen or so times to make sure I'm able to record the moment and phone my parents even though I know they'll be in their bed!!!
First prize in this top heavy tourney is a "$45,000 Multiple Live Poker Package"! Once I hear what that means exactly, I'll be back on here.
Thanks for reading :)
Heads up lasted just 4 hands. First one I popped it up to 120k with 88 to which he folded. I folded one, he folded one then I look down to see 22. I min raise to 80, he pushes and I call. It's J9o against 22 and I'm trying to work out my odds when the first card out is another 2! I woohoo reasonably calmly considering, press PrintScreen a dozen or so times to make sure I'm able to record the moment and phone my parents even though I know they'll be in their bed!!!
First prize in this top heavy tourney is a "$45,000 Multiple Live Poker Package"! Once I hear what that means exactly, I'll be back on here.
Thanks for reading :)
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