Home Game Hat-trick

The home game I hosted this weekend was a marathon, lasting from 11am Saturday till 7am Sunday morning. I had a stormer, winning the £40 warm up event, the £50 heads up tournament as well as the £100 main event. We had 12-17 runners for each event, so I guess in terms of achievement this must rank right up there, as the fields were tough.

I drew a blank unfortunately in the Omaha, busting about 7th, as my KK55 was no good on a 645K board to Hass’ flopped nut straight. In fact, this spot is pretty bad considering I have two sets, as I have my own blockers to the house if I am indeed against the straight.

Far too many hands to report in any detail, but admittedly I got my fair share of luck in every tournament – winning all in with 62 against KJ in the warm up, hitting a flush draw against Devski in the final of the heads up when all in to get back in it, and hitting with A7 against the QQ of Racist when trying to squeeze out Uncle Paulie with an all in move, and finding the monster hand behind me. Nonetheless, the super slow structures of the events allowed suited my game as I was able to play patiently early on and then up the aggression once the antes kicked in later on. The net haul from the tournaments was £1,050 of profit.

I also posted a 5 hour cash session after all the tournaments were complete, and grinded out a £988 win in that as well. No major hands to report, just a succession of £75/£100 pots heading my way over the session. I played super solid and never really got into trouble at all I don’t think – probably one of the lowest variance cash sessions I have had as I normally end up taking once big £500 flip at some point but that didn’t materialise.

A great event, but I doubt there will be much poker (if any) now before January, so I’ll probably just post a year end review next week.