Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Virgin Poker Festival 12th & 13th April - Aspers Casino Newcastle

What a great weekend, arrived in Newcastle on Friday in time to register for the evenings freezeout, managed to get through half the field before being punched out.

Main event on saturday started very well with me gleaning 7000 chips out of another player on the table, me thinks this is a good start.

Also had Virgin bounty Lucy on my table, dealt a pair of ducks and called to see flop, flop came 10, 2 , 4, I bet in 1000 into a 600 pot and was called by Bounty???, turn was a king so again I bet out 2000 and got called again??? river was a king, thinking my trip 2's were good I bet another 2000 for value, got called and was shown AJ.

My god this woman called my 1000 bet to the flop with just 2 over cards and then sucked the remaining cards out to beat me, I guess I got that wrong????? Having suffered the beat on the trip 2's a few hours later had a sinlar hand where I flopped trip 10's again bet strongly and was called, perhaps I should have pushed as the same person once again called the flop bet with basically nothing and drew the straight out on the river.

Now short stacked made the lunch break afetr which I returned practically card dead, waited my chance and then puhsed with half decent cards and finally knocked out.
Time in tournament 7 1/2 hours, oh well move on for another game.

Excellent experience and a wonderful opportunity to meet all the Pl's, a most enjoyable and well managed weekend by Virgin, will be back again in the future.

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