My first ever live tourney ($200+$20 ish)
 

so, the big casino close to me opened its poker room, so i played in the first ever tourney there. I even spotted a couple of actual pro's!!

5k chips to start, 25/50 starting blinds, blinds up every 30mins, break every 2 hours. Not a bad system imo, lots of time to play good poker.

So.... i fold every hand for 1 hour (i know, shocking for me huh?) then finally hit the monster of J9s in the cut off, and as ive folded for a month, i raise 3x, called in the BB, i CB after he checks an A 4 9 flop and take it down! wootness.

Then cards come at once, A9 suited on the button, i call a small raise from the cut off who i noticed likes to steal and both blinds called aswell. I flop a flush (lolz) and bet all streets as i am certain that cut off hit something by the smile he let out (easyest read ever i think). After those 2 hands im at 8k, average chips is about 5.5k

Then i get J9 in the BB, call a min raise from MP along with 2 others, figured for 100 chips im getting 7-1 so fuck it! Flop is 5 7 8 rainbow. shortstack pushes for 1.6k, i think for ages, work out the odds, and put him on maybe pair/gutshot or A5ish. He flips 74, so good read kinda, i think i was 62/38 from there ish (my table math there may have been out), but i miss so im down to 5k again.

Then i get KK which plays itself to a 3k push on my 200 BB from the button, i take out QTs and am back to 8.5k.

From here i didnt remember many of the hands, except calling a small all in with overcards and a flush draw and hitting on the river to get to 14k.

Also i called a push from UTG, he pushed for 1.5k, i was BB for 400, and had T2s. Antes and blinds gave me some odds to call, plus the guy was a prick:cheers: so i called it and took down his A4off. Good times.

then comes the lucky hand, which i defended at the table and the guy to my right (the owner of poker.co.uk weirdly, called matt) also said was a good play, so i was happy.

QJs in cut off, raise to 3.5x BB (about 2k) as im mixing up between 3 and 4x raises randomly. BB calls. Flop J 4 8 rainbow. I bet for 2/3 (3k ish) pot, and he raises to 7k. i push over the top for about 20k at this point. I seriously put him on QJ/KJ or even A8, and my table image should have made him fold to the push, as i wanted the big pot for the table chip lead, as my play there was damn good so i had table respect. He thinks for like 7 mins, then calls for "odds" saying "i need help i think". I then say why call if your behind, he says cant really afford to fold, he had like 9k back, i dont get it either. He flips KJ, turn is a T giving me 9 or Q for the gold, and the river is a lovely lady so i donk it off like a good boy. Hello 40k chips.

40 left now, 8 paid, basically got KK and AK twice, KK and AK won all in vs low stacks, and the AK was in the BB where i pushed to a MP raise. 55k chips!

20 left - 2 tables, i am card dead, fold every damn hand bar 1 steal and its final table time with 45k chips (im in 5th but bad position on the FT), prizes were....

1 - $5.4k
2 - $3.4k
3 - $2.1k
4 - $1.5k
5 - $1k
6 - $800
7 - $700
8 - $600


so as its 8 paid and a FT of 10, we organise to give 10th and 9th $400 each as it took 8 hours to get to the FT so we all didnt wanna go home empty handed.

first hand at FT im in BB for 6k, UTG pushes for 20k, eveyrone folds, i find AQs and instacall with UTGs low chips and huge range.

He flips Q:s:J:s:. flop gives us both a Q and him 2 spades. Turn blank river 4:s::mad::mad::mad:

So next hand i get JJ, push all in over a raise, end up vs 99 and take him out. back to 50k chips.

9th goes out, and its 5am. We all decide to take $1600 each, and leave $1k for the top 4 tp split again. I go crazy, as im tired and about 5/8 in chips. Lose AK vs A7 all in, meh, then J3 vs A2, meh:rolleyes:, then to go out AK vs QTs, who flops a straight.

So all in all i played awesomer!!!! And a nice $1600 to start the day.




And as a final note - ill be back posting regularly in about 2 weeks, been damn busy here.

Nice job eej! Decent report.

Don't you owe me money for a TP hat (shipping costs, as you promised) I sent you a month ago?

Also, did you ever sort out the money transfers you did here that screwed people over and got their accounts closed? Just wondering.

OK, actually had time to read your post. The above questions still apply, but nice score in the tourney. I really need to at least check out the local card room here one of these days. They run $100ish MTTs a few times per week. That might be fun.

thanks, and yes ive just got back so im on that now. a few ppl i know have emailed stars and they sent them a form which they filled in to reopen their accounts. im still unsure as to whats going on, but now i can find out.

Anyone else's banned except jillaj?

And ty for the good words.

If it's anything like it is up here get ready for a small starting stack and ridiculously fast blind levels.

They still tell me I owe them money and I still tell them to lick my taint.

Wow. How'd I miss this??? Eejit is like talkingpoker.com's Anti-King Midas.

Everything he touches, turns to shit.

I also totally missed this? when did this shit happen, just when eejit was becoming repectable around here this shit happens. :rolleyes:

It's because I never posted about it. 2 or 3 months after i did a transfer with eeejit stars tells me they got a charge back and i owe them the money he transferred me. I tell them to fuck off and get it from him. Luckily I had just cashed out my stars account. They suspended my primary account until they get their money back. Which they will never ever see from me.

jillaj PM'd me about this. I asked him (at least twice) to post it, but he never did. And no way was I going to post something like this second hand.

But eejit did allude to the situation himself in this thread:

So many things i can call you, but we wont go down that road today.