Dave Uliot & Jennifer 'Fucking' Tilly

You may think that the headline for this piece is derogatory in some way but Jennifer is one cool looking lady.

My table assignment for the €1000 NL Hold'em was to begin with Devilfish immediately to my right with Jennifer Tilly three to my right. Having seen how Jennifer played her set of Jacks on a recent edition of 'Poker After Dark' I had no doubt that I shouldn't be worrying too much about her play neither that of Dave U who seemed to be more pre-occupied with the female dealers than his card holdings!!

Having Dave to my immediate right also meant I'd be giving up on a lot more hands sooner than planned as Dave, the ultimate professional, would always come into a pot with a raise meaning that my 'looks playable' hands would be hitting the muck without getting involved without the goodies. That plan seemed to work as Dave hit an early straight with A-2 after I'd passed A-10 to his pre-flop raise. An Ace also fell on the flop as did a 3-4-5!!

With blinds still at 25-50 I got A-K in MP and raised it up to 300. I got one caller and a flop of 6-7-9. I'm not a great fan of flops like that when holding A-K but as my opponent checked in response to mine I felt he was on a similar holding. A 'five' came off on the turn.

Again I checked but this time my opponent bet out 400.

There's no doubt you have to follow your instinct in Texas Hold'Em win OR lose. I called. A 10 fell on the river! With the board reading 5-6-7-9-10 I again checked and again my opponent bet out...this time to 600. Having put him on A-J or A-Q I called and was rewarded as he flipped A-Q. Nice!

My next decision wasn't long in coming.

Holding 10-10 in MP I flat called a raise to 300 from Jennifer. A player, two to my left, then raised it up to 900. It was passed back around to me with JT passing.

The re-raiser had suffered a little at the hands of another player a short time earlier so was down to only 3k after the 900 raise. I felt that he could be making the bet with A-K so called the re-raise and prayed for a reasonable flop which would allow me to go all-in and scoop the pot. The flop was Q-Q-5.

Having put him on A-K I immediately moved all-in. He sat for seemingly an age before calling and flipping A-A. Urgh!

Oh well...one all on the instinct stakes! I now had 4k from a 7k start stack.

Blinds moved to 50-100 and I found 9-10 in MP. Usually these kind of cards, in this position, would be instamucked but with no raise and only 100 to call I was feeling lucky so flat called. There ended up 4 of us including both JT on the SB and the big blind.

Flop was 9d-10d-5d. JT immediately bet out to 300.

Of course on flops like this and two pair in hand you have to take a view on whether the original bettor has a high card diamond (Ace or King) and make it difficult for them to continue. I raised to 1200. Jennifer came back over the top for 4k and I obligingly called.

She flipped Qd-3d and I was hoping for a nine or a ten...which never came! Ho Hum!!

So there you go my adventure in the €1000 event lasted less than an hour and I end up getting knocked out by Jennifer 'Fucking' Tilly...and I mean that in the nicest way :)