Sorry for the late update ladies and gentleman the last few weeks have been very hectic for me! On the poker front I am now doing very well, on the Aussie Millions front I am in smack bang in the middle of depressing failure after failure. Currently I am up over $6,000 on 888, I also have attained 0 Aussie Millions seats; where I have invested over $500 thus far.
This weekend will see the action really heat up for me as I will be playing at least 2 live events where there will be a Guaranteed four main event seats given away! The weekend will kick off at Crown Casino with there massive Aussie Millions Weekend. At 10.10am myself, and the other members of the 888PL management team, will be taking our seats for the Aussie Millions Megastack satellite - $150 buy in for a massive 30K start stack and 20 minute blinds, and with 3 Aussie Millions Main Event seats GTD this will prove to be the best value tournament for me!
Crown will also host a Deepstack Qualifier at 7.10pm with 10K start stack and 25 minute levels then on the Sunday there will Phase 1 and 2 tourneys operating at 10.10am, 12.10pm and 4.10pm which all lead to the 7.10pm Phase 3 Supershot Satellite with a MASSIVE 10 seats GTD. That's over $100,000 in prizes for what could be a mere $65 Phase 1 investment.
Unfortunately I will not be able to participate in the Sunday events as I will be catching a flight out of Melbourne to Adelaide at about 10pm Saturday night. I will be over in Adelaide to play in the $250 888PL Aussie Millions Main Event Satellite! I hope to see some of you there.
So as I said above I have had a terrible run in the Satellites, I finished 6th in the Hoppers Club satellite with the top 3 winning seats and then I finished midfield in the White Horse satellite when I ran my KK into AA preflop. It happens and it is a cooler.
I will recount one of the more interesting hands from the Hoppers Club event that had many people questioning my move; especially one annoying Irishman by the name of Pat Dillon! We were down to the final 16 players and I opened up from UTG+1 holding AT. I get a call from the cutoff; a very loose passive guy who doubled up before the break, to the chip lead, when he did the whole "oh well, time to go home anyways" and reshipped QT into AK and spiked a T on the flop to hold.
The flop falls Q, 8, 9 and I decide to check, as I am sure I will get a call from the villain with any c bet. Villain checks behind and the turn falls a T, which gives me second pair with top kicker. Again I check and villain quickly fires a bet of 1/3 the pot. I am dubious now and it is very possible that any J is in his range, I decide to call and hope to see a river cheaply.
The river falls a T again giving me trips but now the board has completed with a flush. Again I check as my hand has great showdown potential and I could even check raise. Villain now leans back and then fires out a pot sized bet. I am now very concerned that he has a J here and I don't feel that this size bet on the river is a bluff. After the villain radiates many positive tells I decide to fold and he happily shows down JJ. I am absolutely shocked and would never have put him on this hand. Now I have some valuable information.
The very next hand I am in the UTG and look down at AhKh and promptly raise to 16,000 (blinds are 3,000/6,000 and I have a 100K stack). The reason I don't open ship here is because I see villain from left hand look down at his cards and promptly look over his shoulder to his friend who was railing. This generally means that he has a hand and wants his railers to know.
All fold around to villain once again, he now cuts out a raise to 55,000. Now I know that he will call in position with JJ so I can safely assume that the only hands he is going to raise here are QQ, KK, AA and possibly AK. I know that I am smashed by half his range, tieing with the other 25% and racing against the last remaining 25%. This all equals to me a monster underdog against his range, it was still hard for me to really fold this hand but I know if I shove I am definitely getting called, I decide to fold and find another spot where I am sure that I can get my money in better. When I fold the villain shows QQ so I would have been racing, but I only pick off the very bottom end of his range, and even then I need to spike one of my six outs for a win.
I quite often see too many players overplay AK and I guess the virtues of playing AK and why it is such a strong hand preflop should be discussed at a later date. Needless to say I went on to the final table to open ship 77 from UTG to b called by 99, we both flopped sets and I couldn't hit a miracle card to give me magical quads!
Now that the live poker segment is over I will give a quick update on my 888 performance. At the moment I am cruising on 888 and last weekend I shipped my first four figure score since 2008. I won the $15,000 Friday Challenge on 888 for a little over $4,000. I have also shipped another 9 tournaments over the past two weeks for almost another $2,000.
It took just over 100 tourneys to finally win one, and in the proceeding 60 tournaments I have now manage to ship a further 9 tournaments!
Here is my profit graph thus far!
Good luck on the felt and I hope next week I can tell you all about how I won an Aussie Millions Main Event Seat!
Garth Kay
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