Day 2 began at around 08:30 for me and around 08:40 for Blair who was still air-tight in his camp bed!
Having found a pharmacy for plasters and vaginal cream minty enough to brush your teeth with, we headed out to find breakfast. Here's one for you ... why MUST the French give you cheese on your Baguette? Despite explaining that I was happy to pay full price for a Baguette they could 'forget' to put cheese into, my request was refused and we take to the roads again, me starving!
As the Casino doesn't open until 3pm, we decide to do some sight-seeing. (See post "To Jim, Derek ... etc. below)
We arrive back in Cercle Wagram at around 3:30 and it appears quieter today with only 5 tables running - 50 folk is still a good turn out though! We change our money to chips, we register upstairs and then head back downstairs to the bar to wait to be called and seated.
Paul and I are called to start a new E2/E2 table and I'm pretty pleased to see that with 10 players seated the average age is about 30 and average chip stack is about 150Euros (I have bought in for E120). Play is tame and quite controlled in comparison to Friday but it's still not a table Paul or I feel can be bluffed so it's looking like we'll sitting tight again and getting ultra-aggressive with big hands. That's exactly what I have planned anyway when, around 45 hands in, I'm dealt AA UTG ...
I raise to E8 and, having played very few hands up until now, can only pray someone else has another premium enough hand to be willing to play. The button raises it up to E20 and I'm happy to call it to see a flop hoping to avoid only a draw-heavy board. 9K4 (2 spades) so I bet out E24. Button re-raises to E50 and I insta-shove for around E70 more not concerned how strong or weak I look - he's pot committed. He insta-calls and, not before time, I'm curious about what he could have. Why I didn't take my time to think the following through though is beyond me; (I can just remember being pretty over-excited with AA in a game bigger than my usual stakes)
He knows: I've played about 4 hands in 45, I've only ever shown down good hands, I've shown I can fold 88 pre-flop (I did so face-up when Jim - who joined our table on hand 25 or so - showed me AA) and, with 110Euros, I have enough to cripple him although not bust him out.
I know (when I think about it after): He hasn't been the aggressor very often pre-flop but has called pre-flop raises in position and shown down marginal hands like KJ on J high boards regularly enough for me to think that he does have a reasonable enough hand this time around. He has more chips than me (around E140 at a glance) and that he has position on me.
Getting back to the hand, I'm All-In with AsAc on a 9sKs4d board and I have been re-raised and called. WOOPS! Before we can flip over the cards, the turn and river have been dealt (no spades, no King, no cards making a straight so two safe cards for me ... I think). Not so as he turns over 99 for the flopped trips!
Oh, ARSE!
I reload with another 50Euros I scaj from Paul and sit even tighter than before for another 10 hands or so with noticably the smallest stack. Until I'm dealt TT. I raise it up to 12 from mid-position after 2 limp in before me. I get three callers including Paul with around E60. The Flop comes QJ9 (2 spades) and SB bets out E16, BB calls and I work out that, with the T spades for a straight, possible flush draw and possible straight flush draw, and decent implied odds, it's time to push and hope. I'm quite happy to be called by a flush draw, KQ, QJ and even 99, QQ or JJ and two of the callers have two of those hands. It's the limper UTG who takes it down though with KTo (a flopped straight) after the turn and river come out 7 J.
I hit the rail this time, my suspicions 'of it taking you to sit down with a bankroll of at least E400 (200 Big Blinds) to beat this game consistently' confirmed in my mind.
Alas, 5 of the 6 of us were in the losing boat with only Derek, who managed to find a fish big enough to donate E80 to him when pushing with 67o when he held QQ being the only one to turn a E120 loss from Day 1 to a profit on Day 2. Well done that man!
At E510 down I was one of the worst off from Poker - E280 down on Day 1 and E210 down from Day 2. The experience I have gained from playing in a foreign country (at a table where I CAN'T get involved in the conversations), playing at stakes higher than my bankroll, and with guys so loose-aggressive it makes Gus Hansen's play look like Chris Ferguson's, I'm back home a wiser and hopefully better cash game player.
Now, back to my 25c/50c game on BlueSq with all those loose idiot Frenchies!!!
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