EPT Time

This week I make my 2nd attempt to win an EPT title in the wonderful (so everyone keeps telling me) city that is Barcelona. I've not actually seen any of it yet as I arrived late this afternoon and decided to get some shut eye as I was totally and utterly shattered. I was eventually awoken by the loudest crack of thunder I'd ever heard in my life and could hear the torrential rain lashing down outside. I'd been planning to head down to the Casino tonight to have a look around but to hell with that idea lol. I'm staying in the Hotel Princess and it looks pretty damn fine to me...although I've yet to fully explore it.

I played a bit of online poker yesterday without too much success. I played the $150 doublestack on Full Tilt and had a stack of 40k (ave 25k blinds 500/1000) with 13 left when I picked up 89o in the cutoff and make a raise to 3k which the button called. SB passedthen BB thought for a while before re-raising to 13.5k. Normally I pass here however I had played with the BB in the past and I was sure he was making a move here, he was also playing a 40k stack as was the button. With now over 20k in the middle I make a bold/rash (you decide) move and jam which the button insta calls..that wasn't part of my well thought out plan, i hadnt been overly concerned by him as he had been calling preflop raises with a wide range of hands. Anyway the BB folds (hardly surprising as he would need AA to call here now) and the button shows AA and I'm a goner. Oops!! That was the proverbial spanner in the works, I'll never know if the BB would have called had the button passed but I was certain he wouldn't, even without the buttons intervention he would have needed a "big" hand to call me. A play gone wrong but not a bad play methinks ;-).

Anyways time for some more shut eye. Heres hoping my next post is detailing how I've built up a healthy stack by the end of day 1.