The Grosvenor Grand Prix
Off to Walsall for a weekend of glamour, well maybe not, it was for the grosvenor grand prix. Still with a £303,200 prize pool, £100k for first and 240 runners it's a damn fine tournament.
I sat down at table 12 seat 2, seat 1 was Lawrence Gosney and seat 9 was a very strong young player, Ben Turnstill(some might know him as RookieITB) such is the nature of a PL comp with a 200BB starting stack the first level is just pointless, nothing happens. Well thats what is supposed to happen but how wrong i was, Ben managed to get knocked out in truly shocking fashion. He got 80% of his stack in on the turn when the board read T732, his oppo had AA and when an Ace dropped on the end that was the end of his tournament.
After the first break we came back to the comp at 100-200 (the real start of the tournament) soon after i found AK on a stack of 8400. I made it 600 to go in EP and got it around to the BB who flat called. The flop came KKT, in went the money, i cover the BB by 800. He shows KJ, turn 3 river J.
Now with just 800 left i raise pot from UTG the next hand with K8 and manage a treble up! Soon after the table breaks and i find myself sharing a table with 'Red-Dog' this table was far more enjoyable for me, i play live poker for fun and my starting table would make a funeral look more enjoyable. I stayed around for a bit, got a double up back to 4800. Then on 300-600 found A9d pumped in a pot raise, got around to the BB again, he had 5200 total and put the lot in, i can't pass now, on their backs. He has 55, KK372 board dispatches me to the rail (he went on to final!)
No complaints i can't have played any better and at the end of the day it only cost me the expense of the hotel. Speaking of which about 3am myself Barry Neville and Colchester Kev sat around my lappy in the lobby and played the $5000 g'td tournament on tribeca (well i played they watched) some time around 5:30 it was over and despite a couple of outdraws HU i was happy to take 2nd for $1400. Not such a bad day afterall!
I went back on the Sunday to watch some of day 2, 110 players came back with the average at 20k, blinds of 800-1600. Someone really needs to look at ways of adjusting this structure, its the biggest PL comp in Europe and is nothing more than a crapshoot.
A classic comment on Day 2 though, Paul Parker gets his opponent all in pre flop with AA, his oppo shows AT. Paul comments "how are you going to get out of this one then?" the flop swiftly gets dealt out.....KQJ.
It was an enjoyable weekend and congratulations to "ImMrAlex2u" one of the 'Jersey boys' and a tribeca regular who managed to lock up £10k in a deal coming 13th, also to Tony from Brighton who was in the chop 4 handed and he took £40,000!
I sat down at table 12 seat 2, seat 1 was Lawrence Gosney and seat 9 was a very strong young player, Ben Turnstill(some might know him as RookieITB) such is the nature of a PL comp with a 200BB starting stack the first level is just pointless, nothing happens. Well thats what is supposed to happen but how wrong i was, Ben managed to get knocked out in truly shocking fashion. He got 80% of his stack in on the turn when the board read T732, his oppo had AA and when an Ace dropped on the end that was the end of his tournament.
After the first break we came back to the comp at 100-200 (the real start of the tournament) soon after i found AK on a stack of 8400. I made it 600 to go in EP and got it around to the BB who flat called. The flop came KKT, in went the money, i cover the BB by 800. He shows KJ, turn 3 river J.
Now with just 800 left i raise pot from UTG the next hand with K8 and manage a treble up! Soon after the table breaks and i find myself sharing a table with 'Red-Dog' this table was far more enjoyable for me, i play live poker for fun and my starting table would make a funeral look more enjoyable. I stayed around for a bit, got a double up back to 4800. Then on 300-600 found A9d pumped in a pot raise, got around to the BB again, he had 5200 total and put the lot in, i can't pass now, on their backs. He has 55, KK372 board dispatches me to the rail (he went on to final!)
No complaints i can't have played any better and at the end of the day it only cost me the expense of the hotel. Speaking of which about 3am myself Barry Neville and Colchester Kev sat around my lappy in the lobby and played the $5000 g'td tournament on tribeca (well i played they watched) some time around 5:30 it was over and despite a couple of outdraws HU i was happy to take 2nd for $1400. Not such a bad day afterall!
I went back on the Sunday to watch some of day 2, 110 players came back with the average at 20k, blinds of 800-1600. Someone really needs to look at ways of adjusting this structure, its the biggest PL comp in Europe and is nothing more than a crapshoot.
A classic comment on Day 2 though, Paul Parker gets his opponent all in pre flop with AA, his oppo shows AT. Paul comments "how are you going to get out of this one then?" the flop swiftly gets dealt out.....KQJ.
It was an enjoyable weekend and congratulations to "ImMrAlex2u" one of the 'Jersey boys' and a tribeca regular who managed to lock up £10k in a deal coming 13th, also to Tony from Brighton who was in the chop 4 handed and he took £40,000!
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