London EPT...

Or was it the Wednesday game in the Fitz? The structure was similiar and my exit was worthy of a newcomer's move in a €20 game!

Firstly the organisation at the Vic was akin to a €5 game in the local pub. They even managed to put the wrong chips out at the start and had to change them before we began. Nobody knew how long the levels were until the actual tournament started. Then the blind structure itself was a joke considering it was a £3000 buy in event. 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, 200/400 WTF?

Anyway my first table was interesting with Simon Trumper to my left then Paul Roper, David Colclough, Richard Gryko, Unknown, Jan Boubli & Stuart Nash. Nice. Actually I was pleased with this as unlike most people I seem to do better against better players and prefer it to a table of novices. I didn't get much early on, QQ which I bet on an all hearts flop and won, AK which took the blinds & AK which I re-raised Jan Boubli Pre-flop and won. I nicked the blinds with middle holdings and kept myself at starting stack through the first three levels. Then for some reason towards the end of the third level they moved me from a table of 8 to make a table of 7 back up to 8? strange? This new table I knew no-one and soon the level was over and it was the dinner break.

When I came back from the break I was not in the best of form. Perhaps it was the fact I had not really slept for 36 hours and I was not at my best. I had it in my head that I really needed to start motoring and when I flopped top pair with Q 7 from the blinds I went a little mad and that was the end of my tournament. Doh!