Nov 17th - £10 NL Hold'Em (FullHouse Club - Reigate)

Form is a wonderful thing. It comes & it goes...not always in equal proportion and people say that it always evens out. At the moment though I'm on the down slope of form, with ocassional peaks, but definately on the down slope.

Tonight was the £10 NL Hold'Em rebuy event at the FullHouse Club in Reigate. Scene of last weeks 2nd placing I was hopeful of more good fortune. It just wasn't to be!

With any £10 event these days you're always going to get the crazy players and if you have enough rebuy money then you can usually buy your way to 10k in chips with no bother. £100 isn't what it used to be though and where once upon a time that would be one of the top wedges in the room in todays card rooms the £100 will go in 10 hands and you're still staring at young players with £400-£500 in cripy fifties just looking for more action.

My BIG chip stake was 6k which, with usual dramatic effect, got whittled away to zero after one too many races came unstuck. These young fellas call with anything and they're encouraged when their 10-2 ('it was only 3k to call' look) batters A-Q & A-K relentlesly. I couldn't compete.

At the break I'd spent £90 and had 4k in chips. At least people would play properly now right?

Three hands into the 2nd session I get 9-9 in LP. One bloke, from across the table had limped in, another went all-in for 1100, and I duly followed suit to get rid of the limper. Trouble was that the 'limper' held A-A and was glad to call.

No 'shocking' 9 came to save me and I was home by 11pm. Not bad from Reigate!

Entries ->68 - Place ->??th - Loss -> £90 ($167) Profit/Loss for 2006 -> +$12743
(As from 7th August rate of exchange is calculated at £1 = $1.85)