Friday Freezout - Round 7 Report

I desperately needed some league points after missing 3 weeks to try and catch the top two Alan and Jason, so was very keen to make the final table.  The play seemed quite solid on Friday with very few ‘Double Chances’ being used in the first hour, hence Chips were pretty difficult to get hold of.  I struck lucky against Sam early on when he had raised under the gun with pocket aces, he already had 3 callers by the time it came to me in the Big Blind so I had flat called with my Pocket tens.  The flop came Ten high, and when Sam pushed all-in I called only to hit another ten by the river for Quads!!  I’d not hit quads for a while and by the end of the weekend I’d had them 3 times... strange, anyway this set me on my way to making the final table.

Diamond Dave started the final table as the short stack, and somehow managed to make his way to the final 4 cashing out in fourth place, although he was never sat with a healthy chip stack he managed to hold on for a cash prize which was great to see.  JT made the final table as one of the chip leaders, however he had been down to only 700 chips at one stage and after numerous double up’s and big pots he was running hot and looking strong on the final table.  The final 3 were Ronnie, JT and myself – Ronnie had been one of the chip leaders all the way through similar to JT, and I was a relative short stack to them.  In two consecutive hands I was up against Aces, first JT then Ronnie in two successive hands so I was very lucky to get away with only losing the blinds, it was strange to see Aces twice three handed – however it happened again with Kings, this time it was JT who fell foul losing half his stack to me with Pocket Kings then the very next hand he lost the rest against Ronnie’s pocket Kings Ouch!

Heads up I got lucky when my Ace King hit the river after Ronnie had hit top pair on the flop, this set me up and I finished it off when my Pocket Jacks held up after Ronnie hit a 9 on the flop.  It was a good timed win as it also got me my FREE seat to Mondays GUKPT Blackpool tournament too, along with the cash and the ten league points.