Early Bust-Out

Well, day two of the GUKPT tourney went according to plan – apart from the bit where my second all-in push attracted a caller and I busted out!

There was a live video stream of the event on the web, and I’m strangely proud that apparently I was the first player to get all my chips in (I jammed Q-8o or similar from the button – no showdown). No guts no glory...

Sadly there would be no glory for me. About an hour in, now very short-stacked [M=4.5] I pushed J-To from earlyish/mid position and ran slap bang into A-K. No help on the flop, and a King on the turn meant I was drawing dead. Not an ounce of regret though.

Far from feeling disappointed, I went home feeling elated about my deep run (a respectable 21st place out of 153 entrants, six from the money), proud of my play and having a renewed enthusiasm for live poker.

I met some cool people too – I had a good natter with fellow ‘champions’ David Johnston, Cuong Tran and others, both of whom won big in GUKPT events in 2010.

In the New Year I intend to make a point of playing more satellites to live events, as well as entering a few more tourneys at my ‘local’ casino in Blackpool.