Dealers Choice is Mental.....Gamble...Gamble...

I made a mistake in last nights tournament that potentially cost me a cash and won't be repeating it ever again. I have JJ on the bb and the blinds are 200/400 and I have 16k ish, utg raises to 1200 and my m8 whom I have a 5% deal with flats, then short stack goes allin for 2500. Now it's on me and I'm thinking I'm gonna flat to see what initial raiser does because at this point he's my only worry. So I flat it and so does he, so now I know my JJ is the best preflop holding, but at this point my m8 shoves his whole stack of 14k and it's back on me. I ask him wtf he is doing and that I am beating him but pass to see him turn TT and the flop come AAJ. Never again will sentiments and morals get in the way of me taking all his chips, Nuff said!!!

I lost my chips after that allin with 99 v TT which sent me to the dealers choice cash table and the amazing hand I will now describe:

This guy has been winning and it's his button and he says 'this is my last hand guys so lets spice it up a bit'. At this point we are down to 7 players as one has gone for a smoke or something, so he chooses 6 card PLO. Before any cards are dealt it goes 4 & 8 blind with me first to call, so holding KhTh5c6c5h7h I make the call as does the rest of the table upto the 8 blind who then spices it up for the 'last hand guy' by raising 50. I can't possibly pass preflop and call the 50 and at this point the 'last hand guy' bottles it and passes saying he would have called for something sensible like £30 - yeah sure! The £50 gets called in 2 more spots and then the next guy repops the pot for like £50 with £250 or more and at this point I know that everyone still in the hand is going to be allin pre, how can you not? Of course everyone does call and it's also obvious that the dumpling re-popper has AAxxxx, which to be fair is a bit stupid in my opinion!!!

So we are allin pre 6-way with not a flop dealt and a £720ish main pot and a £540ish side pot and the flop comes 7 2 7 giving me a set of 7's, the £50 guy on my right at this point is winning with 22 in his hand. The turn comes a ten giving me a bigger full house and at this point the main pot would be all mine. The river comes a K giving me a bigger full house but another guy also has K7 and we chop the main pot and he wins the £540 side pot.

Mental Mental Chicken Oriental - I love dealers choice!!!

The Ireland Adventure

Before we get there I must mention that I cashed in the £20 rebuy at the G-Casino last Wednesday, but it was only 8th for £200.

So Friday morning I rose at 3am to go and pick Daz up for our flight to Dublin for the Boylepoker IPO 2010, which was being held at the Regency Airport Hotel. The tournament started at 12pm and our flight from EMA was 0635, which we just made after trying to get on one to Spain instead! (I was trying to function on 6hrs sleep since Tuesday night) 45 mins is my kind of flight, take off - quick cuppa - Land! This was my first time in Ireland and although Daz said they were the nicest people in the world, you sort of take it with a pinch of salt, but seriously they are! It started with the taxi driver from the airport to the hotel, who unlike anything you get in England, actually said to give him less money than it said on the meter. If that was Sheffield and you offered him 30p less than the meter, he would lock the doors and take you to the nearest police station. Then the guy on the hotel reception lets us check-in at 8.30am instead of after 2pm so we can get a couple of hours kip before the main event starts.

No one wants to hear about my badbeats so to cut a long story short, I go out of the main event after 2 hrs with AA when the guy rivers a 2-outer and the rest of the weekends poker followed a similar pattern. So in poker terms it was a bad weekend for me, but Ireland was great, the tournament and all the side events were run really well, the Guinness was good and the people are out of this world. My only moan would be about how expensive the food and drink are otherwise I would recommend the weekend to anyone and I will certainly like to go back next year.

On to other business and I have a couple of punts for you today as follows:

16.10 Exeter - Royal Max 9/2

17.20 Yarmouth - Downhill Skier 11/2

1pt singles and a 1pt double

GL Punters!!!

MADMAC's GET ON...

First a quick poker catch-up....I played the £50 rebuy Sunday at G-Sheffield only to go out in a 3-way allin pre, my 99 v AK and AJ. I was infront on the 7 high board until the river comes Ks, giving AJ a flush with the Jack of spades. Never mind I managed to win back my buyins and finish £150 up on the night from the dealers choice cash game. I shall be playin the £20 rebuy tonight, which from tonight is now also a £11k gtd with 80 runners, lets hope it makes it and I get back to winning ways. I could do with a nice bankroll to take to Dublin 15-17th October where I will be play the Boylesports IPO 2010 at the Regency Airport Hotel!!!

Just one for you today:

15.20 Ludlow - Whataboutya 10/1

1pt e/w on this, I'm not overconfident but I couldn't find anything else on today's dull cards and I do wonder what the Irish Mafia are doing down at Ludlow on a wet Wednesday afternoon?