Yuck...banging head and my phone wont stop ringing.
Shanes brother Gareth arrives as promised and we decide to meet up for breakfast to give ourselves a good start to what promises to be a long day.
Once thats over with (not easy to eat a full English the way I felt) everyones starts to appear in the hotel lobby and once again the beers start appearing. By this stage Lizard and Emmerson have arrived so the gangs all here - I'm overflowing with confidence now and can't wait to get started , so after a bit of back slapping and a few "looseners" we make our way down to the venue.
There are so many good players here , the first friendly face I see is Punkfloyd , my Badbeat mentor who hands me a glass of champagne and a hearty good luck handshake.
So enough frivolities...I'm here for the poker and off I go to my table - its made up of quality - Sandy from Badbeat-Boomer-63Jimboy and Crutchley...all players I know and all very very capable. So 4pm arrives and the tournament begins , 12k stack and with it all to do but I cant wait.
The first 90 minutes fly by and I have increased my stack to 24k without having to show a hand , been a while since I have played live this well and with this amount of confidence . I pass the next few hands and around 10 minutes before the first break I look down to see AA , blinds are 100/200 at this stage and the UTG player makes it 600 to go , i KNOW just KNOW he has a big hand so when its folded to me I re-pop him to 2200.
The call comes very quickly which re-enforces my belief he has a big PP so when the flop comes down 836 and he checks I know hes waiting for me to bet which I duly do (around 2/3 pot) he's instantly all in. I make the call pretty quickly , telling him he has KK and him askin me if I have the aces.......45k in there and I aint lookin - dream start - KING ON THE FKIN RIVER ..............
Never before at a live game have I felt so sick , I'm team captain , the dream start was there and then snatched away by a 25/1 shot with 1 card to come . Words fail me even now.............
The bar awaits.................
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