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SPT Glasgow 2010, How Was Your Day?
As I turned up to the Alea, I step up to the registration desk and straight away, problem - my passport was expired by 4 days, they had to phone someone "upstairs" to enquire if I would be let in (!!!)
-Surely it still proves I'm old enough to enter, I'm still me, you don't change identity when your passport expires, if anything I'm older now then when it ran out... :-O
He gave me the nod, phew, I'm in.
The one seat I don't like at a poker table, you can't see the players and their stacks that are betting into you, it's a bit of a disadvantage in a way, but I carried on as a true poker player should.
We played an hour and a half before the first break, 3 half hour levels. My best hand was A3. Card-DEAD!!1!
I must have folded around 90% of starting hands, I suppose it gave me a VERY tight image, which meant when I bet - they folded. I "stole" a couple of pots, bet out with hands that hadn't connected, but that's the advantage of having a tight image. The other side to that is people raise up on your blinds a lot - or it felt like that anyway, maybe they had genuine hands, I don't know. I know a good poker player should be able to play with any two cards but when you're getting raises on your big blind and you look down at Q2, you just can't entertain that sort of hand.
The one and only real mistake I made was calling a re-raise with KQ, which at the time felt like the nutz (TWO picture cards!!1!), I raised it to 300 (50/100) and was re-raised up to 800. I call, once again don't connect, it's checked to the river where he bets and take the pot.
We get moved table, I'm moved to a central table, I'm in seat 9, this time to the right of the dealer, however this time I can see the players who are betting into me.
The hands started coming, the action was folded round to the short Small Blind who pushes for about 1,500. I look down and snap call, AA. The SB turns 6-3 of spades, the flop is T5T - two spades. Turn a blank and river an Ace - relief, the first win of the afternoon (at a showdown).
My second mistake of the day was getting involved in a hand with an 87, I CALLED a raise *shakes-head* from the player on my right, the flop is J46 (two hearts), he bets, I min-raise, he calls. The turn is a Queen. I'm hoping I get a bit of weakness from him and I'll take advantage of that but he bets again, I have 3 guaranteed outs, I decide to cut my losses and fold but I'm disappointed with that hand, I didn't really have enough chips to be making speculative calls, I lost 1,500 chips (150/300) on that one hand. I hated the situation at the time
Soon I pick up pocket Jacks, make a raise and get one caller, the flop is 9-high (perfect). He checks and I bet 3/4's of the pot, he folds, a nice pot for me.
There is a table break up and I get a new player to my right, a medium-big stacked previous SPT winner, Daveyzz, not great for me, 2 aggro players on my right, this wasn't going to be easy but I challenge I was willing to face. (fold fold fold fold fold fold)
After the lunch-break, I get back to my seat with 7,500 chips with the blinds going up to 400/800 with a 100 ante, I'm a few of hands in and look down at AT, I push for 6,000 and get a call from JockBMW in the BB, he has AK, 25% - it's a low flop, it's not looking great, the board pairs on the turn, this gives me chances of a split, the river is a blank and I exit after about 4 hours finishing in the mid-70's.
Overall a good day, I met some nice people, a few familiar faces, I'm not really impressed with the venue to be brutally honest, I felt it was too small, there wasn't much room between the tables and there wasn't much else going on. I know it was mid-afternoon but if you go to either of the Casino's in Edinburgh at the same time of day and it's a bit busier.
I get home at 7.45, enough time to enter the Open. I'm out quite early (top pair into a set), I have something to eat and go into the 10pm Velocity, I bust out of that (I pushed with KJ into a straight flush draw which hits) and then WIN the 23.10 Velocity 
I'm pleased with today.
Does anyone have any tales to tell?
Comments
I only have one issue, and its in the form of an observation and not a criticism.
At my table, T5,there was 2 no shows. Richard O was also seated and in between interviews, we were playing six handed. When Richard went out, we were permanently six handed.
More action, more blinds. For a full 2 levels the tables were not balanced.
Other than that, a most enjoyable day.
ALAN
cheers all at sky and all the guys i played with.
neil
I have to say the venue was shocking, they actually moved Kevilfish to a seat occupied by a no show stack being blinded out, it was pointed out to the dealer we had 11 players at the table and we sat there a full 5 mins before the stack was removed and Kev sat in to play. The dealer misdealt several times and the cards were awful, like balsa wood and were bending and becoming more aerodynamic each hand.
Had a drink or two then settled to play some Sit and Go's, the organisation of these was dreadful and people were having to wait hours to get on one, I think thats why most people went home when they got knocked out. Played a Sit and Go dealt by James Hartigan, good fun - later went upstairs to where the tournament was now continuing and James asked me to deal a super structure Sit and Go which I was happy to so. The casino originally refused to allow us to play a Sit and Go upstairs but James H and Rich O did a stealth chip steal mission downstairs and came back with the bounty!
Super Structure Sit and Go 1
SolarCarro (Dealer)
Penguin7
GregHogg
Dylan12
PDavo100
Yorkie74
Jaegerbomb
Rich Orford
DevoDave
James Hartigan
The 20 minute blinds were perfect for this and we played for several hours, Penguin7 first to exit followed by Yorkie74 and eventually DevoDave cashed 3rd and James H and GregHogg split the win. This Sit and Go lasted so long there were two main event rest breaks whilst we were playing and even a rest break in the Sit and Go!
The second SNG saw Extraman replace Jaegerbomb, this was another marathon game finished well after DaveyZZ took the bacon home, was hilarious when, during a live phone call to the studio, James pushed all in screaming down the phone "I'm going all in" and then commentating the hand! He survived.
Even funnier was Greghogg and Dylan12 exposing their hands with Yorkie74 and James still to decide whether to call Dylan's shove, Yorkie 74 was sat with QQ and with the added bonus of knowing 3 of the 4 hands in play the call was made and Dylan exited! Rich Orford exited to me and Yorkie74 was very proud of me (standing joke after Rich was victim to an earlier SNG hero call when a guy called his shove with Q3 stating his wife would be proud of him if he took out Rich O!) James H ran his 22 into my 10 10 and then I exited running K 10 into Penguin7's AK,
Yorkie74 cashed in 3rd, PDavo100 2nd and GregHogg with a huge stack going into heads up won for £100.
Really good fun in Glasgow's own touch of Vegas (Alea's phrase!!! lol) and we all retired to our luxury hotel, Sky really did put their "stars" in the ETAP !!!!
Congrats to GregHogg and James H for the winning the main events and well done to DaveyZZ who took down the side event, DanTB10 as usual a star man!!
Colin (Hjaltland) charity efforts were a success and myself, Sian and Colin's wife Kathleen won £65 for Breakthrough Cancer on roulette, add to that my £20 pledge and £10 raised from the Sit and Go and then £5 for Colin's AA exit, £100 goes off to the charity in the morning!!
Dave
My first spt event was a great day, started really card dead on a really hard table 12, really had to grind the 1st 3 hours trying to steal any dead money. The cards were absolutly dyer, we started the tournie with cards that were so bent we had to get them changed, busted out in mid 40's trying to put myself in a good position to win. overall good day but that etap hotel was awful!!! even James H was saying on sky poker last night how bad the rooms were. Cant wait for grand final as seems a much better scheldule.