Kev and myself decided that we were going to play Day 1a of the UKIPT. We thought it'd be a little softer, with a lot of the pros like Tim travelling in a day later to save on accommodation. I got a much tougher table draw than I had in previous UKIPT's. Although there was a still a couple of soft spots. It wasn't long before I was hating live poker again. People are just so incredibly slow, and it's so tilting. I ended day 1 with a decent stack, mostly coming from me constantly bet, bet, jamming with air. They literally just can't call in live poker. Refuse to put their tournament life on the line. I also had one hand towards the end of the day where a vamoooo spazzed out to me. Think I went back with approx 50k, going into 500/1k. My hat got me a bit of attention, even got up on the pokerstars blog. It's funny how some people can just make day 2s of UKIPTs and get pics, yet others can't even get there pic in the top 35 of a EPT.
Kermit Hat...
Tim (bakinc00kies) arrived in late on the Thursday night, so myself or Kev didn't get to see him as he went and stayed in Marcs hotel that he had won as part of the package from Stars. The two of them were playing 1b on the Friday. Of course Marc got to head back to bed early as he failed to make the antes in yet another live tournament. Tim however, been the live pro he is cruised into day 2 with a similar stack to myself. Now obviously with Day 2 on the Saturday, the smart thing to do would have been to get a good nights sleep. And obviously that wasn't going to happen. We had to show Tim what 'The Home' was all about. Our local night club.
So Marc and Tim got the €100 taxi fare from their hotel in City West out to our house in Skerries. And the drinking began. Of course we were full of good intentions. However, a bottle of grey goose and a lot of beers later these were all out the window.
UKIPT Tomorrow? 5 more shots.. We got this...
To be quite honest, with the length of time ago this was I can't remember much of the night. I just know that I'd lost my card, and ended up having to get two girls to bring me home in a taxi as the lads had ditched me. When I got there, Marc and Kevin already had themselves girls. I actually found a picture of Marc's one on my camera funnily enough!!
This is her good side!!!
So obviously this had worked out quite well, meant myself and Tim had a girl each. The only problem was it was about 5am and had to back at the poker room for 12. So was working off borrowed time. These next few lines do not make me a proud man. I managed to get one of the girls up to my room, however she was having none of it. And to be honest at this stage I was just tired so didn't care. Tim however was a determined man. He managed to convince the two of them to stay, and got them up to bed. So shit surely went down now right? Nope. The four us just spooned in the bed. At least we went Boy-Girl-Boy-Girl. I eventually fell asleep after what felt like forever. At least when I woke up the girls had fucked off so it was a little bit of a result.
My Dad been the sound man he is, agreed to bring myself and Tim over in the morning. So en-route, after stopping off for some much needed water supplies, he made me feel slightly guilty for been in such a state because he had bought 10% of me in the UKIPT. I assured him I'd got this. Tim bust an hour or two into the day when he lost JJ-AA. I was somewhat envious of him getting to go up and enjoy bed. It was also the day of the play-off final, the Heineken cup and the Champions League Final.
I can honestly say I played the best poker I've probably ever played on day 2 of the UKIPT. I had a lot of fun, and felt like I was constantly putting people in tough spots. However it all sort of unraveled after about 6 hours play. I think the lack of sleep caught up on me, I called down for half my stack on a paired board with a flopped straight. I think if I had of still be completely in the zone I would have found the fold. Then when it was about 10 off the money I 4bet A9o into AQ and that was that. It felt like a good spot, however maybe I should have just nitted it up until the money then gambooled. I had lots of fun and even sported some more Kermit gear. I would have went ALL out if I had of made the final table.
Day 2 UKIPT...
The plan was originally to go out on the Saturday. And to be honest, I can't even remember if we did. I just remember watching Chelsea literally rob Bayern Munich of the Champions League. I have to say though I was delighted for Drogba. Even though at times I didn't like him over the years, he really deserved it in the end I think.
Tim was staying with us for the week, and then flying on to Manchester on the Friday to meet some girl he knew. He had just start playing on his own recently, so he was getting his grind on. And what a life he leads. He used up some of the Irish IP address run goot and shipped the Big 55 for approx $17k which was a decent bank roll boost.
Just shipping the Big 55...
After a week of grinding, we convinced Tim to delay his flight by one day to Manchester and have another night out with us. He duly obliged. He bought us all Blue for the week early on Friday afternoon. That was when the drinking started. And with it been over a month ago, again I can't remember much of the night. So I'm just going to leave some pictures and say Tim, it was a pleasure <3
The lads...
Getting our creep on with randomers...
Bro love
Just want to say a quick thanks to Danny from IPB for the two pictures of me in the Kermit gear. Always does a ridiculously good job on the updates for liveaments and takes some good pics imo.
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