Hey, FTP is pretty awesome, the seat they booked for me turned into a full out bed that was super comfy, definitely the best overseas flight I've had. Also before I forget, FTP is planning on breaking the world record for biggest poker tournament by having a giant $5 freezeout at 15:05 on July 19th, I'll be registering and hope everyone else joins too.


Anyways, I got here and then hung out with tufat and some of the pkr people who were pretty cool(tufat is sponsored by pkr now). We went to this awesome restaurant called "The Hare and Tortoise" which we went to almost every day when I stayed with him during WSOPE and EPT London and the food was as good as I remember. I made my way back to my hotel which is apparently in the same area as Ali G's character is from and went to bed. I woke up pretty early to get ready for my heat. I would have Ram Vaswani, Josh Gould, Julian Gardner, Josh Gould and one online qualifier at my table.

I arrived at the Sky Sports studio 90 minutes early, do interview, get my mic/heart rate monitor, get my makeup done(never thought this would be part of playing a poker tournament) etc. One of the guys there reads my blog and saw I hadn't seen my episode from last year so he gave me a DVD with the episodes on it which I thought was pretty sweet.

Anyways, after everyone got ready we finally started the heat 45 minutes late because of technical difficulties. In the first level Ram busted to Josh after getting T9 against AT on a T86 flop but I had a very uneventful level. I had the dream seat, Josh(my age, but a live pro) was seat 1, Annette seat 2, Me seat 3, super tight online qualifier seat 4, Ram seat 5, Julian seat 6.

I get the feeling Julian and Josh were playing a bit too tight for the structure although Julian made 2(good) calls against me that I think a lot of people wouldn't have made. Anyways, I continued having just about all my opens be uncontested, I 3bet folded once to Annette's minraise, but other than that played no significant pots until it became a crapshoot.

At 3k/6k I minraised the CO, Josh shoved the BB for 63k, I called with KQo and lost to TT to get down to 22k.
I shoved T9s UTG the next hand and Julian reshoved the button with KTo and I got there. I then won some more small pots during the 3k/6k level to get up to 80k.

At 5k/10k I shoved UTG again with KJo for 80k, Julian reshoved the button for 88k and I beat his KQo. After that he busted and we were 4 handed at 5k/10k with avg of 150k and all of us between about 130 and 170.

Josh shoved A3s bvb one of the first hands into Annette's 77 and she teld to take the chip lead. 3 handed I kept miraising every small blind against the online qualifier and generally just trying to apply a lot of pressure. Eventually Annette busted him and we were HU 245k against her 355k, we swapped some just since it was such a crapshoot and we both think each other play pretty good.

The second hand of HU the blinds went up to 7k/15k, she limped the button 17BB effective, I checked K4o

Flop: K53r

I check,she bets 17k, I make it 47k, she makes it I think 96k or so, I think a little bit. I really feel like its pretty likely she has a K7 type hand, but then realize its Annette, I have top pair 17BB deep and she likely wants to pwn me on TV, and jam but lose to KQ.

Since I got 2nd I play a consolation turbo qualifier on Friday which has 7 hand levels instead of 21 hand levels so it should be ~the fastest tournament I've ever played. That meant that my flight had to get pushed back, and now I'll also be playing the Unibet Open London 09, a 2.5k pound buyin which works pretty well with my schedule. Play starts in 10 hours and although it will mean rescheduling flights again, I feel like I'm going to do well for some reason.

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