April Review

April Live Trip Part 1

Spring Holdem Challenge in Belgium

Ok so I had a busy April for live events, First stop was The Spring Holdem Challenge in Belgium where I was playing the Main Event and some sides. I set off on the 6th April this trip I went on my own and was meeting Tim Davie (timmmy182) at the Aiport in Belgium. All was going well till I landed in the Airport and rang time and we both said we were waiting outside the arrivals gate...... With no sign of tim we realised that we were both at different airports :) Woooopss. So after a few hours travel etc we eventually met up in Brusscles where we had a short walk around and ended  up in the pub. A few pics of Brussels;

After a look around we headed off to Namur where we were staying in the Casino Hotel, we arrived that night and played some 1/2 cash games this is when we realised how soft it was going to be in Belgium everyone was just so passive and easily exploitable me and Tim were sat at the same table and pretty much cleared up.... I was up around 3 buy ins after maybe 3 hours play.
The next day we were playing the 1k Main event, This had a pretty good structure with a 25k starting stack and 45 minute clock (for the first day) I managed to double my stack in the first hour and halr and the moved table. The second half of the day was pretty slow not much happened till the last hour of the day, I lost JJ<a9 for a pretty big pot and had to grind the short stack for the last half hour. We both made day 2 I was set to start with around 13 bbs and Tim was above avg stack.
Day 2: First hand I picked up AKo and  3 bet shoved a mid position open I got re shipped on from the BB who had 1010 that was GG for me.So the rest of the day I spent playing Cash and I regged the 330 side event which again was super soft, Couldnt get much going and busted 99<AQo for around 50bb pot 4 hours in...
Later on into day 2 Tim was still nursing a decent stack so I railed him, After being at his table for only a few minutes I saw him make a sick call much to the disgust of the villian and his rail birds.... Tim was sat on the BB and the btn/cut off opened (std 2.2 ish raise) Tim flats, flop K74ss checks round turn 10s Tim leads villian calls river Q Tim checks and villians fires 3/4 pot tim tank calls and tables A9o villian mucks with a disgusting look... Tim was pretty much owning the table after that. He managed to Make the FT coming in 3/9 playing for 48k, he lost a pretty big flip early on for like half the chips in play JJ<AQ and a few players busted he got to 4 handed and had Q9 on a 1078 J J board he reluctantly called a all in shove on the river where the guy tabled J8 and Tim finishes 4th for 15k wp Tim not bad for his first ever live cash.