oldbloke's mutterings

Noon every day.
Amazing structure: the blinds go up EVERY hand.
The prize pool is only $5 or something too.
It's a laff though.

1st place was entry to the Manchester leg of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour - a grand, plus some expenses. Next 24 got entry to a satellite for it. Quite fancied playing for big real money in a Mancy casino, as long as the money wasn't mine.

It might have helped if I hadn't thought it started at 8 when in fact it started at 7. Or maybe it wouldn't.

When I did get there I sat down to pocket4s, which became trips and doubled me up, which was handy as I was only a few orbits away from being blinded out.

I should then have decided to knuckle down and grind, but I was annoyed about the mistake and so just jammed immediately when I picked up K/T next hand.
And the connection dropped...

If I hadn't been all-in I'd have been folded by the disconnect. As it was I won the hand!

So then I did settle and managed to steal a few blinds, but never got any really playable cards and eventually went out 128th of 736.

Well, there's always next year.

The BlueSquarePoker Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (Manchester leg) Feeder Freeroll
1st 5 places get a place on the feeder

Went OK for 40 minutes, then my AKsuited got cracked by J/T.

117th of 317.