My main concern was that I had this big FTOPs Event on Sat/Sun and I needed to readjust my body clock to deal with the possibility of lasting 8 1/2 hours for 2 days in a row.
Friday turned out to be a crappy start to the "holiday". I managed to dust off 10k over breakie which put me in a bit of a shitty mood. I followed that up with a £1k losing sesh at Aspers just moments after arriving in Newcastle at 1am.
My plan had been to stay up till 6 am then sleep at my mate Eds house who had managed to extract £10 out of me as a deposit for sleeping in his bed. Of course when I actually got there someone else was in it. Plus Ed never seems to understand that he needs to return deposits if the service isn't fulfilled.
So without getting to annoyed I grabbed one of my friends and we booked into a hotel with decent wireless for the weekend. It was on Osborne Road (nice) but the room stank of actual shit (guts). Worse still was that i had borrowed Ed's new laptop (£20 deposit lol) and he had already forgotten his password so I couldn't even download Full Tilt.
Anyway after panicking on Saturday evening I finally managed to get setup at Toms house. If only I had rang him before I came up I would have saved like £1500, o well.
| Event #23 Saturday August 16th 16:30 ET |  Eric Froehlich | $100 + $9 PL Omaha Rebuy | $350,000 | 1,058 |
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| Event #22 Saturday August 16th 14:00 ET |  Patrik Antonius | $2,500 + $120 NL Hold 'em Two Day Event | $2,000,000 | 942 |
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942 runners, 30 minute levels, urrrrrrrrg! Can't we just make this a turbo?
I also had 2 Mtts on stars just to ensure I can not concentrate on any of them properly.
I must have played 1000 hands in all of them before i picked up a pair bigger than 99!
I did however win 2 crucial races with AK v TT. The first being against a Laggy European and the other one against FoxwoodsFeind and this managed to keep me near enough av. stack for the first half of the field.
30 minute clock was crazy.....along with 5k starting stacks. On stars it wouldn't have been so long but FT usually has 12 mins and more blind levels so we're looking at comparing it with a 1.30hr clock in a LIVE event....maybe more. I felt like I had to adjust to a play a structure I would only usually play if i was playing the WSOP or WPT Main Event. I made 1 or 2 mistakes early on which probably showed my lack of mega deep stack experience: open limping hands such as AJ/AT suited UTG on strong tables are going to cause more problems then not. 7 7 J A flop v button was a little brutal after a check/pot/call and then another check/pot/shove brought me straight back down to earth which was gutting after doubling through in previous hand.
After these missteps i felt like I played a lot better, i really enjoyed the tournament as a whole because I was forced to bring out my best game that unfortunately only ever comes out in big live events. I enjoyed opening JJ UTG and getting 3-bet, mucking and have the guy show me AA: a standard line with my hand I know but still good to see my radar was on.
It was however JJ which was to be my downfall in the end. I opened from UTG+1 for what was probably 1500ish. Had a shortstack shove for 3k and then the BB shove for 5kish I called to see the shortstack have me beat with QQ but more importantly the BB show TT so I was in for making a small profit on the sidepot. Anyway the Ten hit on the turn and I was left crippled to like 1 BB!
I did in fact make a mini comeback and then played a 3.5k pot with 66 v some maniacs 69ss but he made a straight and i was gone in 250th. Despite it being a losing weekend I was left feeling happy with the way I had played in all my MTTs.
The 100r PLO was unfortunate because I amassed a massive stack off no rebuys. But although I was not short of adequate starting hands I was v.v.v flop dead and I ended up bluff folding flop, then PF stacking-off with K8xx DS against Julian Gardner both times. I play a lot of cash game PLO against him on tilt so he probably knows I capable of some crazy moves.
So FTOPs ended and I made zero cashes but I felt like I highlighted a lot of weaknesses in my MTT game which I will look to sort in time for the WCOOP.
As far as the rest of my poker goes, i took a downswing before I came up in the PLO games. But i felt this was due to not only running badly but playing at unfavorable times ie. When I was in a rush or drunk.
I am please that not only had I broken even but I have added a little profit as well including a 5k$ seat to the WCOOP 10mill Main Event.
However i'm sick to see that FT have a 25k$ PLO HU tourney 64 man Capped! People will probably argue that I am neg EV in this event and I guess I will have to agree but I have played a load of 200$ PLO HU sngs, a fair amount of 500$ and about 6 1000$ matches against Josh Arieh who I am 4-2 down against ( a score that is maybe fair but which i am definitely confident of turning around).
I learned a MASSIVE amount playing against Josh in just a few hours not only about how he plays but about how some of the older heads are likely to play the game. IMO he played pretty badly in a few situations but then very well in others. He's a bit of an action player and bluffs so much that he may turn out to be very light in some showdowns. A good player anyway and one who seemed to finish deep in every FTOP I was in so well done to him.
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