BSOP October 2011

Finally the day had come that I walked into the Breda Holland Casino again for my first tournament of the series a 550 Freeze-Out. I followed the directions to the pokerroom upstairs. The pretty and cosy room was filled with 150 players, came from all across the country. With a startstack of 8.000 points and 30-minutes levels the tournament was still quite a crapshoot. Unfortunately lady luck was not with me and I was busted soon in this tournament. After busting I joined the cashgames, which were very good. I made a decent profit.

Next day I played one of my least favorite tournaments: 330 Bounty (25%). I've never collected any bounties in a live bounty tournament before. But in this was I even succeeded to collect 3 bounties. Too bad my pocket kings could not hold against A9. After that I was busted after losing a 3 times average pot with 99

My last tournament of the BSOP was the Main event. My Poker 770 BE-NL team members (Benjamin, Jamel, Anthony and Mustie) also joined me in this event. The startstack was 10.000 with 40-minutes levels. I had a very good start and built up my stack to 15.000 after 3 levels. I was lucky to be seated at a soft table. There were two aggressive players (Jorrit van Wijk and Patrick Renkers) on my left side. But they didn't make it tough for me, since I was not involved in many pots with them. There was such a big calling station at our table who played almost every hand. After the first break I lost a few big pots against him by missing big draws. I had to lay down my middle set on a 7643 board against him as well. Soon my stack was dropped to 5.000 when I found pocket kings. I was so happy that Jorrit 3-betted my and called my all in, but unfortunately outdrawn me with his AJs.

So that was the story of my life :)

My next event will be the Dutch Open @ Rotterdam on the 27th of Octobre. I'm really looking forward for it. Many well-known players will be present: Lex Veldhuis, Marcel Luske, Noah Boeken, Ruben Visser, Jasper Wetermans, Rolf Slotboom and so on.....