Betfair Eyes Wide Shut Mayhem.....

Got my rakeback for January (only played on Betfair for about a week in Jan so was a piffling $11.40) on Friday. Wildcat kindly pointed out a thread on the footy forum that highlighted an odds compilation error for one of the Blue Square Conference South games, and to cut a long story short I had a quick look at the form of both sides and thought 'what the hell, it's only $11'. Lo and behold, the final scoreline was 1-5 in 'our' favour, SHIP IT!! That gave me enough dollars in the Betfair account for 3 bites at the Eyes Wide Shut cherry, and the chance to turn $10 into $2500 in less than 4 hours......

BF do two turbo (1500 starting chips, 5 minute blinds) satellites per evening, the first a 9 bucker and the 2nd a 7 bucker. For some reason I've always fared better in the $7 satellite, even though there are less seats per entrant. How does that work then? Anyway, I'd decided to play both satellites and save $8 for another day. The first went particularly well, when 20 minutes in an 'advanced' resteal with 97 on a Q64 flop is no match for KK, and no matter how hard it tried the BF software could only muster up half of my runner runner straight. It's all rigged, I tell thee. Resteal indeed. I read good!! Whoops!!

The 2nd satellite started with a bang, to say the least!! Very first hand is below, and I must admit that when I jammed on the flop I was certain I was behind and just wanted an excuse to walk down to the kebab shop!!

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 308693742 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $7 Buy-in + $0.70 Entry Fee, Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante)) - Saturday, February 02, 22:20:07 GMT 2008
Turbo Sat to Eyes Wide Shut #124250
Table 2 9-max (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of active players : 9
Seat 1: Jenpusa ( 1,500 )
Seat 2: EURO 8876 ( 1,500 )
Seat 3: barleyotto ( 1,500 )
Seat 4: baw99 ( 1,500 )
Seat 5: themainman ( 1,500 )
Seat 6: boysvnh ( 1,500 )
Seat 7: von and ( 1,500 )
Seat 8: JJLehto ( 1,500 )
Seat 9: SG3KSG ( 1,500 )
Tourney Level:1 Blinds(10/20-(no ante))
boysvnh posts small blind [10]
von and posts big blind [20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to SG3KSG [ Ah, Kd ]
JJLehto folds
SG3KSG raises to [50]
Jenpusa folds
EURO 8876 folds
barleyotto folds
baw99 calls [50]
themainman folds
boysvnh calls [40]
von and calls [30]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kh, Jc, Tc ]
boysvnh checks
von and bets [200]
SG3KSG goes all-in
SG3KSG raises to [1,450]
baw99 folds
boysvnh folds
von and calls [1,250]
von and goes all-in
** Showdown **
von and shows [ Kc, Jd ]
SG3KSG shows [ Ah, Kd ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qs ]
** Hand Conclusion **
SG3KSG wins 3,100 from main pot with a straight, Ace to Ten
************ Game 308693742 ends ************


SG in suckout shocker!! Nice to be on the right side of it!! I continued to run very nicely for the remainder of the satellite, this hand in particular helping to see me through....

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 308706965 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $7 Buy-in + $0.70 Entry Fee, Level:6 Blinds(100/200-(no ante)) - Saturday, February 02, 22:48:22 GMT 2008
Turbo Sat to Eyes Wide Shut #124250
Table 2 9-max (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of active players : 6
Seat 1: pasax ( 3,435 )
Seat 2: EthanJohn ( 4,035 )
Seat 3: DIMEFI ( 0 )
Seat 4: merly ( 6,495 )
Seat 5: themainman ( 950 )
Seat 6: boysvnh ( 8,620 )
Seat 7: cushty ( 2,090 )
Seat 8: treborkid ( 0 )
Seat 9: SG3KSG ( 4,450 )
Tourney Level:6 Blinds(100/200-(no ante))
EthanJohn posts small blind [100]
merly posts big blind [200]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to SG3KSG [ Kh, Qs ]
themainman folds
boysvnh folds
cushty folds
SG3KSG raises to [700]
EthanJohn calls [600]
merly calls [500]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, Qd, Kd ]
EthanJohn checks
merly checks
SG3KSG goes all-in
SG3KSG bets [3,750]
EthanJohn calls [3,335]
EthanJohn goes all-in
merly folds
Returning uncalled bet [415] to SG3KSG
** Showdown **
EthanJohn shows [ Ah, Ad ]
SG3KSG shows [ Kh, Qs ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2s ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ts ]
** Hand Conclusion **
SG3KSG wins 8,770 from main pot with two pair, Kings and Queens
************ Game 308706965 ends ************

What, no 4th Diamond? Shocking!! In all fairness, EthanJohn has played this hand very well in my opinion, and got unlucky that I hit the flop so hard. I managed to use the big stack to my advantage and bully and steal my way to a seat in the $55 buy in, $7000gtd Eyes Wide Shut 'proper'.....

14 minutes in, Proviman came online and wished be 'Good Luck' on MSN. I've played 1 hand (AQ in 3rd, 3 bet pre, 1 caller from SB, I bet 2/3 pot on A high flop and took the pot), and find myself with AKo in the big blind with the blinds to rise to 50/100 the very next hand. There is a limp from early, and SB has raised to 300 (blinds are currently 25/50). I see that as quite a big raise, one that doesn't really want a call, so imagine SB to be on a medium pair or A10/AJ/AQ. To smooth call and miss the flop here would cost me 1/5 of my stack, I'm confident of being ahead or at least 45/55, I might even have SB dominated. The big raise doesn't really want a call, it's fairly early on in a $55 tourney, I fancy him to fold, and don't really like the idea of leaving myself 13bbs in a turbo tourney should I miss the flop, so in they go. SB thinks for a bit and calls, and has AQo. YEE HAA!!!

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 308748133 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $50 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee, Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante)) - Sunday, February 03, 00:14:26 GMT 2008
Eyes Wide Shut $7000 GTD #124251
Table 14 9-max (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of active players : 9
Seat 1: RAMVAS ( 885 )
Seat 2: il tedesco ( 1,785 )
Seat 3: tracey_uk ( 1,210 )
Seat 4: The Sham ( 1,890 )
Seat 5: SG3KSG ( 1,670 )
Seat 6: Oli b uk ( 1,945 )
Seat 7: Gatso ( 1,435 )
Seat 8: piatellas ( 1,730 )
Seat 9: zynth ( 950 )
Tourney Level:3 Blinds(25/50-(no ante))
The Sham posts small blind [25]
SG3KSG posts big blind [50]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to SG3KSG [ Ks, Ad ]
Oli b uk folds
Gatso folds
piatellas calls [50]
zynth folds
RAMVAS folds
il tedesco folds
tracey_uk folds
The Sham raises to [300]
SG3KSG goes all-in
SG3KSG raises to [1,670]
piatellas folds
The Sham calls [1,370]
** Showdown **
The Sham shows [ Ah, Qc ]
SG3KSG shows [ Ks, Ad ]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ac, As, 7c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4c ]
** Hand Conclusion **
The Sham wins 3,390 from main pot with a Flush
************ Game 308748133 ends ************


Gotta love that. Pfft!! I think I used up all my luck on the satellite, like I say I ran very nicely indeed (come to think of it, I don't think I lost a hand that went to showdown, will have to run through the HH in a mo) and was due a bit of a nasty one. Regardless of how I played that pre, the chips were all going in from both sides on that flop, it was just my turn to lose that one. I think I'd have rather the SB had hit the Queen though.....
**Edit 12.15 - During the satellite, I was involved in 10 showdowns, won 8, split 2. Wow. I ran (and dare I say played?) goooood for that hour :D


On the upside, I forgot to mention the small matter of hitting Quads for the first time in ages and getting paid off in a DYM on Hills the other day (Thursday or Friday?). Kerching!! I in fact played 10 DYMs and cashed in 8 of them, bringing my Sharkscope graph back up to an acceptable level after dropping $70 like it was candy towards the back end January, after the 'played 3, won 3' session. Not a massive amount, but nearly half of the challenge bankroll so was a bit scary at the time!!










As ever, good luck to all, and thanks for putting up with the drivel!!