10.000 GBP Gibraltar Masters took place last weekend. With 75 starters the prize pool reached almost 17k GBP with 6k going to the winner. Was the highest buy-in tourney I ever played. The field was redic soft as there was a group coming from a poker club in Sevilla to play this tourney. After the 1st hand at 25/50 UTG made it 600 to go, I knew where this was heading. My whole table did not have a single capable player sitting at it. I guess the only one at my table I could say had a clue about the game at all was a super-tight female who had the look and the voice of a man.
She was running pretty bad against all the calling stations. She had a flopped straight outdrawn twice. Once to a 4 outering two pair that boated up and the other to a back door flush draw. In those moments I thought "god if I was her I would need to puke into the dealers face". I gave her looks of sympathy every time she got outdrawn.
I myself had troubles to find good spots to get something going. I am fine with playing between 10 - 25 BBs but with 25-60 BBs I was a little toothless. Deeper than 60 and I think I am fine again. Played pretty tight and just tried staying afloat with a few open-raise/c-bets. Had a weird hand with a idiot to my left in a BvB battle. I opened the SB with A3o which in hindsight is a bit gay as this guys calling range is probably 90% of all hands. On a T38 board I checked and he checked behind. 8 on the turn goes check,check. 8 on the river now makes me feel I could indeed value bet here which I did and get instantly min-raised. WTF? I didn't see him having a T or 8 and thought he may have a 3 too or some 44-66 and some random gay bluffs. I played my hand completely retarded and called off the min-raise just to be shown KT.
Our table broke and the new table was way better for finding spots for some aggressive play. I got down to 15 - 20 BB and started overshoving in good spots and kept myself afloat nicely. Then found AQs and a 12 BB stack shoved from the CO and I overshoved from BU. My AQ was unfortunately no match against A2 when I was drawing to one out for a split on the turn. Had a little comeback but then missed 18outs to get back on a 12 BB stack.
On Friday I donked off 400 GBP wasted and in frustration about a argument I had with the girlfriend. Lost some more on Roulette and the video poker. Sadly that didn't really make me feel better.
Monday I got back on the cash tables and finished 505 GBP up after 3 hours of play which made me feel better. That's it from the boring poker stuff.
The play last week went really well and I absolutely enjoyed being on stage again. At times the audience was dying of laughter and I had to wait up to 30 seconds for the laughter to calm down before delivering my next lines. I only ever did serious drama before and you don't really get any interaction with the audience going. So this was my first comedy and the interaction with the audience was sooo much fun.
We got a lot of praise and the nicest compliment anyone could get was something in the lines: "If I didn't know that you were amateurs I wouldn't realise that you are. I think there was no difference to a professionally produced show. You all were incredibly good."
There are loads of pictures but I need to get them in digital format before I can get them up here. But here is a little picture that someone from the audience took and put on facebook:
Other than that I played a lot of guitar hero and am drumming half of the songs on hard by now but am starting to struggle with some of the songs on hard. Still the game is incredibly funny.
I am off to Germany on Friday for a week and to make it interesting I am going to bring back my car to Germany. So I'll be driving and will be stopping to see a good friend in Austria who just recently moved there from the UK. Another 3k kilometer trip but at least I am going with the girlfriend so I won't be alone this time.
Next week I am going to Berlin to see "John Garcia plays Kyuss" which is going to be an epic concert as Kyuss have split up in 1995 and this project by the former lead singer is probably the closest I will ever get to see Kyuss live. Kyuss is beside the Queens of the Stone Age my favourite band and I am really looking forward to this concert. I hope that my good friend from England can make it too as that would guarantee the doubling of enjoyment. Have a listen:
Kyuss - HurricaneGibraltar is warming up like a Sauna currently and we are starting having to use the aircon when we are going to bed. From now it's only gonna get hotter and hotter till August but that's exactly what I want with the pool area and the beaches just around the corner.
Good luck to everyone playing in the WSOP and I hope you bring home some great results. I have to look into buying some Main Event shares.
Over and out
Truthans
