Stylez' Sydney Shenanigans

On the weekend I made my way down to Sydney with Jarron and Tamim, just to sit at the Star City tables for a while, make a quick buck, and head home.

While it was a fairly lucrative night at the casino (I made a few greenbacks), we didn't end up going home particularly early. On no sleep, we decided to wander around the city and look for a game at the Jade Tavern or Pokerdome. The Jade was dead quiet so we went to Newtown to play a Sit'n'Go there. I got told there was a big Pokerdome jackpot tourney that night and no less than three people offered a bootleg ticket into the event.

I heard people asking for $330, $180 and $150 respectively, and though I was cashed up from Star City, I still talked one guy down to $100.

So, having been awake for around 28 hours, I mapquested my way to Coogee in Sydney to play the event. Jarron and Tamim by this time were sleeping in the car, but I was running on pure Red Bull.

I thought the best approach to the tourney would be to build a tight image... which was the easiest thing to do when I didn't see ONE premium hand for over 7 blind structures. I padded my stack with a few blindsteals and lost a few when I tried to bluff a guy who pretty much hit the 4c5s6c flop as hard as one CAN hit that flop (with the 3c5c). So I nursed my poor chipstack through so many blinds, grinding it down before I picked up Jd8d in the BB, called a min raise, and flopped a flush with a board of 9dTd3d. I pushed after a small bet from the other player, he called, tabling the KhQd. I had to dodge a diamond on the river.

Of course, it dropped.

THE SEVEN OF DIAMONDS FOR MY MOTHERFUCKIN STRAIGHTFLUSH.

So that was a morale booster. I continued to fold fold fold, stole one round of blinds and antes with Ace 9 (which at the time was my best opening hand for the night), was moved to another table and was on the brink of being blinded out to the crazy 500/1000/ ante 50 blinds; picked up AKs and pushed, won a race against 4s, padded my stack up to 7 odd thousand, in the SB next hand it was folded to the button who made a hefty 3500 raise, I instapushed with QQ, and lost the race to his AK. All in all I think I played the game ok; if a little tighter than I originally intended.

More updates on the life of Stylez and the Hats in general.