The Play @ DTD

So my actual play at DTD, was quite good , although at the end of the day I didn't cash in the tourney and played 4 hours of cash, finishing a massive £2 down.

The tourney started with me hitting the 2nd Nut Flush on the turn of the second hand, but managed to resist raising and so kept the pot small and when the 4th Diamond hit the river , I managed to escape with a very minimum loss to the K high flush also made on the turn. In fact I played really well winning without showing a hand for 2 hours and managed to get my stack from 4k upto 12.1k by the break, although that was as good a sit got as I then got dealt nothing and blinded away before pushing with 33 against a limper only to end up 4-way all-in v 99 v JJ v KK. LOL
The first table I was at was fairly quiet and then the second table contained a couple of know-it-all loud mouths. In fact the first time I showed my cards was against one of these, when a low board with a pair was checked all the way to the river. Gobby number 1 put a big almost pot sized bet out, and I just knew he had none of it, so called with my AJ. He then did that annoying thing of waiting for me to turn my cards over first, which wasn't happening, then he said "I just got an ace" and showed the Ace only. I continued to wait. "Can you beat that?", well even if i could I was still going to wait and see his other card. eventually he flipped over a 4 I think , and i turned over my AJ to take it down. Murmers of "good call" went round the table.
About 3 hands later I made a small pre-flop raise and continuation bet, checked the turn and then bluffed at the river and had to endure a stare from Gobby number2 before he passed and I took it down. The fun then started as for 10 minutes over the next 4 or so hands these two analyzed what I could have been holding based on how I played it. They did this out loud and kept asking me if i had so and so, I just smiled and shrugged my shoulders. Out of about 10 different hands they suggested , not once did they suggest I could have been bluffing. I had these 2 well spooked !

As I mentioned , this was a sabout as good as it got and I faded away and eventually out a couple of hours later. So off to give cash a bit of a go. They had no Omaha going which was a real dissapointment , because that is what I was looking forward to , but sat down at a fairly lively NLHE game. A few young lads here, students I think, but typically LAG players who weren't bad. One of them had the most unreal luck, losing 4 or 5 big pots when holding the best of it.
The funny moment here is to do with the dealer.The DTD dealers were good, but this one was a young , probably 20yo milky bar kid look alike. Anyway a hand played out where I bet small every street and won at showdown. He then went to pass the chips to the guy on my right. A few quick "hoy"s and I got the chips. The young upstart then told me "you need to keep your cards directly in front of you sir". I thought they were but just took the piss with a " ooh, I am sorry, won't happen again". At this point he started with " well i cant gaurantee you will get your chips next time sir, you do need to keep the cards in front of you".
I was a little flabergasted at this point, but without making a big scene, I launched into him quietly but just loud enough for the table to hear. " So lets get this straight, you hand the pot to the wrong player and I am the one who gets a telling-off. I thought you just might have noticed it was mine, seeing as I bet every street and I flipped the cards over. Just thought as dealer that is something you might have noticed, you know who is betting and who has cards, that is the sort of thing dealers often notice ....thats all" and gave him a big smile. Rest of the table were pissing themselves and the lad never had the balls to spoke to me again all evening. DTD allows tipping of the dealers , but strangely enough this lad never got a tip from me.

As for the cash, must have had almost 20 pairs and never hit trips once! Had two big all-in hands, one where I got lucky with AJ pre-flop shove against QQ and then one where I was unlucky on the turn with top pair and upndown straight draw against a guy who hit 2 pair on the river.

enough for tonight, tea is ready.