Bruce Poker Festival Green Isle Hotel

JP teamed up with Bruce poker to supply us with a great weekend of Poker, the tournament details were as follows:-

Tournament Details Friday 14th Nov -

€10,000 Guaranteed & €5,000 and €2,500 Trip to Las Vegas Added
Reg 7pm
Game 8pm
Buy €120 (€15 Reg Included)
1 Rebuy or Top-Up €50
Starting Chips 5kRebuy/Top-Up 7k
Blinds 20 Min for 10 Levels followed by 30 Min
Dealer Dealt

Saturday 15th Nov -

€25,000 Guaranteed & €5,000 and €2,500 Trip to Las Vegas Added
Reg 2pm,
Game 4pm
Buy €250 (€30 Reg Included)
Starting Chips 20k
Blinds 30 Min for 10 Levels followed by 45 Min
Same Blind structure as this years WSOP main event
Dealer Dealt

Sunday 16th Nov -

€5,000 Freerole & Trip to Man Utd Champions League Game Added
Reg 1.30pm,
Game 2pm
Free In
1 Rebuy or Top-up 50 (no Reg)
Starting Chips 3k
Rebuy / Top-up 5k
Blinds 20 Mins
Self Dealt Until the Final Table

Sunday 16th Nov -

Est €10,000

Buy In €120 (€15 Reg Included)
Reg 6pm,
Game 7pm
Starting Chips 10k
Blinds 20 Mins
Dealer Dealt

I won a Satellite for the main game on the Saturday and decided to play the Friday night game, aswell to get a feel for the place, try and get an idea of the standard of play etc., It was the usual mix of players, some good, some bad and some atrocious. it was my first time in the Green Isle Hotel and it was a nice place and as usual JP ran a very smooth tournament. There was bounty on Nicky Power (sponsored player for Bruce Poker), which added a little spice to proceedings.

Friday Night Game
My table had only 2 players I knew both to my right. First guy was Damo Kavenagh who for some reason has a very loose agressive image at the table when in actual fact he is nearly the opposite. It is always a pleasure to have him at the table, he really enjoys the game, likes the bit of craic at the table. Beside him was a guy called Gary, who I had only played at a table with once or twice, but he is super super super aggresive, he would make Thomas "The bomber" Nolan look like a tight nitty rock of a player.

The game started with gary raising every 2nd pot and building a big stack. I decided to play tighty mctight and then lost 2.5 k to pocket kings on a 10 high board with air.... sigh. I have found that in tournaments recently I panic when I lose chips early on, so I was determined not to do the same, by the time we got to the break I had playable enough 15K stack. Over the next few hours I have worked my stack up to 80K by picking the right spots and putting people on serious pressure, then one brain fart and my stack is decimated

I played JJ horrendously (is there a good way to play JJ) and lose a 50K pot to pocket kings, then go on monkey tilt and my 8 10 is no good V pocket 9's (rigged I tell ya) out in 30th add at about 3.30 a.m.

Saturday Main Game,
Donal (semibluff) from Boards was on my table for the whole day and put on a masterful display of poker. I sat there like a complete tight nit because I got no cards, none whatsoever over the day. I had Bridie on my left hand side, christ we had a ball of a time chating. Her brother Barney who obviously had shares in Guinness was making sure that the quota was used for the day and was absolutely rubbered by the Dinner Break, so much so that he couldn't remember which table he was at.

I hovered around 9 - 11K for most of the day and then got my double up when My Jacks (at last) held up against AK.

The chips went in the middle preflop and the flop comes out
10 J Q rainbow,

I don't even notice the straight as im in pure shock that I have flopped a set.
The dealer politely paired the board on the turn to give me the pot...

Then Mr. Bruce Poker himself arrives at the Table, and announces that there is a bounty on his head, but the dealer politely gave him Aces twice Queens twice and AK 3 times in the next 15 minutes, so there was no chance of anyone knocking him out.

I gave him all my stack when I checked raised all in with yep you guessed it with JcJh on a
Ad 5c 7c 10c board drawing completely dead. He had top set with the Ac

Sunday Freeroll
I went out on the bubble, dealing myself when I slow played
Ad5d on a
Kh5c5h board,
and shipped my remaining stack in on the 2h turn and was insta called by Jh10h.....

Sunday €120 game
Realising that I have now turned into a charity instead of a poker player, I gratiously donated my whole stack to Denis (playable hand) drawing dead on the turn to his flopped straight....

I will be donatiing at the following venues over the coming weeks, roll up roll up the chips will be a flying.
Fitz Cash League
Fitz Festival
Cavan Poker Open

I think the best way to play pocket Jacks is to fold them..... the should have a warning with them "Proceed with Caution"....