Sept 8th - £20 NL Hold'Em (Rebuy) - Grosvenor - W1

Since Sept 1st things have changed a little down the Grosvenor. The Saturday £20 rebuy now starts at 1.45pm but 'late arrivals' now mean that the number of runners can increase by upto 50% in the hour that they're allowed to join the game after the start.

And so we began with 35 runners and 6 tables. By the time the rebuy period was up we'd upped to 54 runners, still with 6 tables!!

I like these £20 rebuy events although in order to accumulate chips you just HAVE to gamble and on the ocassions I gambled this afternoon the winners were smaller pots than the losing ones!

Buy-in 1 lasted all of 5 mins when my all-in move with 8-8 got called in 2 spots by A-J & A-K. A King hit.

Buy-in 2 lasted a little bit longer. Approx 10 mins. My shove in with Qd-Jd on a flop of 9-10-6 totally missed on the turn & river and I was onto buy-in number 3 which lasted much longer...all of 35 mins!

I'd actually managed to chip up somewhat to 3k (from the 1k start point) and we were five minutes before the break when I get dealt Qs-9s UTG. There was a small raise to 250 from the button and I duly called. A flop of As-Ad-2s gave me second to think before pushing all-in. The player on the button paused for several seconds, at least, before calling and flipping A-5.

Its times like these that you need the luck and as it was, on this occasion, it wasn't on my side as two red cards appeared to complete the hand and me in my pocket for buy-in number 4.

The top-up was buy-in number 5 and so at the break I had 2k in chips. Hardly enough for one round but all I needed was a double through to be back in the game.

My chance came 3 hands after the break when I got dealt 9-9 in EP. I pushed all-in and was called by the dealer with a mountain of chips and Qd-Jd to boot.

A flop of A-6-6-Q-5 and I was out...£103 the poorer!

Entries -> 54 - Place -> --- Loss-> £103 Profit/Loss for 2007 -> -£585
(As from 20th April 2007 rate of exchange is calculated at £1 = $2.00)