PKR live trip report

So the weekend started with us getting to the pkr party at about half 9 friday night where I met loadz ppl who Id played online with. Plus also some ppl who Id met b4. The place was pretty cool, with 5 bowling lanes, a games room, table tennis, karaoke room and most importantly...... a free bar!

Id decided before I went that I was going to completely abuse the free bar. I mean not to the extent that I would feel like death the following day, after all it was a big tourney for me. However that kinda went out the window pretty quick. After they chucked us out (at midnight! WTF) a few of us got a taxi to the empire casino. I actually felt like such a fish in this taxi as I shared it with some huge names from PKR;

pokey85 - High stakes player and a PKR team pro
dappadan - plays 5/10+ and finished 2nd in stars million this yr (i think)
Beyne - A russian guy who's won over 400k in tourneys this yr
1kevboy - Literally the best player on PKR, plays 25/50-100-200
kingand77 - meh
Some fat swedish guy - no idea who he was but seemed like a nice guy

Regular followers of this blog will know that me and casino's dont mix to well, especially whilst hammered and friday was no different. I dropped about 1k after losing 6 flips in a row on roulette. So after this I went to the bar and ended up talking to 1kevboy for about an hour about poker and other stuff. He's seriously one of the nicest guys Iv ever met. A lot of ppl who've have that kinda wealth/success when still young are complete wankers.

We left the casino at about 2am and I had no money at this point as id done it all at casino and id exceeded my daily limit plus I was wasted, so I just wanted to go back to the hotel and sleeeeep. But kevboy persuaded me to stay out so me andy, beyne and kev went to some club in Leicester square, in which kev spent about £350 getting us all in and into the VIP area, which tbh was pretty shitty. I hated the club, it was just full of eyes and teeth if you catch my drift. I felt like I was gona get stabbed.

So after about 5 hrs drunken sleep we headed to loose cannon to play some pokers. A few cans of red bull and some pro plus perked me up for a few hrs but half way through the day I just wanted to sleep. If it wasnt for ppl having a % of me id have just played super agro to either get a huge stack, or bust out and go back to the hotel. Anyway despite not doing alot I managed to find myself in a good position with 25 people left. There was 20 places paid so I decided to try and take advantage of all the short stacks who just wanted to make the money. However they kept picking up hands vs me and after doubling a couple up I found myself nursing a short stack.

With 21 ppl left I shoved 7 big-blinds with AK utg and got snapped by my mate Jason (piratenation) with QQ. As soon as the bubble burst the days play would be over. It was like 1am and we'd been playing since 1pm so everyone in the room wanted me to bust so they could go home. Plus everyone still in wanted to make the money. Anyway the board ran out x x x x...........K! I fist pumped the King whilst everyone else groaned pmsl :)

The very next hand Jason opened the cut-off and I shoved from the BB with QQ. He insta-called me and I shit myself. I felt sure I was in trouble until he flipped JJ. I held and eventually made it through to day 2 with the chip-lead.

I started day 2 completely owning all the shorties. I played so fucking well imo. There was one bit of controversy when I knocked maur1ce out. He wasnt very happy with me. It had folded round to me on the button. I had a huge stack and had najammq (16bb's ish) in the sb and maur1ce (20 bb's ish) in the bb. It's such a great spot to open here, my hand doesnt even matter. Naj is capable of shoving pretty light in that spot if he had maybe less than 12bb's, and maur1ce was just a nitty old guy. So when its folded I open for just over a min-raise without looking at my cards. Maur1ce calls (with 99) and the flops 432. He now open shoves and im like 'i guess I should look at my cards now'. I look down and 42o and snap call, and take the nit's stack. That always makes me very happy :)

I made it to the final table as 2nd in chips. The chip leader was badboy579 and he sat across from me so I was happy he wasnt on my left. However the 3 players on my left bust pretty quick and this made it hard for me. badboy was able to take advantage of the shorties alot more than me as they were on his left and my right. Also, now he had position on me he was able to play back at me. I think I played the FT pretty well, maybe I could have opened a bit more but Im still happy. I ended up busting 3rd for 14.7k after I shove A4 from the button with 11bb/s and get snapped by AJ. I wanted badboy to go on and win as I think he played v well and was the best of my opponents on the final. Although I was very impressed with Vaswini as well. vd12345 ended up winning it so congrats to him. He was a really nice guy.

After I busted I got taken away by 2 models for a photo shoot then shoved in front of a tv camera and got interviewed by Ashley Hames. I wasnt really prepared for it so probably came across like a complete loser but w/e. Ill post some pics and the interview on here when it gets put up.

Hope your all running as well as me ;)

Jamie, aka bulletproofJ