Sorry I couldn't update as I've have no internet all day! They have wifi at Wembley but nobody knows the password, and despite getting full phone reception I couldn't connect to 3G.
Basically I got knocked out just before the dinner break
Here is a quick summary:
I start with 42k and the very first hand I play I three barrel bluff with a draw and get called down by top pair. This cost me about 4k and gave me a bit of a spewy image, which paid of when next hand I call a limp from LP with 74s and flop is KJ7 and gives me flush draw. We all check and turn is another 7. I bet quite big and get two callers. River is the other 7 to give me quads. I bet big again and get one caller. I then set mine small pocket pairs and make three full houses with the hour to build my stack up to around 65k with the average at about 55k.
After this first hour I get dealt complete rubbish for the rest of the tournament. I saw others at my table show AA 7 times, and the largest pocket pair I ever got was TT which I made a good fold pre when someone re-raiused with JJ. (They ended up losing to A8 who made trip 8's).
So the first dent to my 65k stack was when I had Ax suited and bet every street on a KQTxx board with gutshot and flush draws which both missed. I got called all the way by 77 and lost about 10k.
Shortly after that I raise from MP with A5s and get 3bet by the BTN, I call. Flop is QQT and gives me flush draw. We both check. I hit my flush on the turn (J) and lead out, he calls. River is K. I bet 4k on the river and he re-raises to 14k. The guy had arrived late and so I'd not seen him play many hands yet and I figured he could easily have a weaker flush or even just an ace for the straight. So I call and he shows KQ for the full house.
I'm down to about 30k and every time I try to play a pot with my weak cards, I get 3bet and have to call as stacks are still deep enough to make it worth it when I hit, however I don't hit anything. None of my bluffs work as opponent always has it.
I lose another quite big pot when I see a free flop in the BB with Q4, flop is T43. Opponent bets and I 3bet, he calls. Turn is a T, he checks and then calls when I bet again. River is a J and we both check. He show K4 and has out-kicked me.
Eventually I'm down to 10k and with AT on the BTN, I make a standard raise but decide I will get it in if the BB raises (which he has been doing all the time). He does and I ship it, he has AQ.
It was a great day still and well worth the trip, but the cards were about as bad as I could have imagined. I could have just kept folding but with deeps stacks I think you need to play suited aces and that sort of stuff, I just got unlucky to make nut flush and then lose to a rivered full house.
On the plus side, now that i've got a few days off work I've decided to ride to Scotland on my motorbike tomorrow!
