As promised the conclusion to my trip to Liverpool, I left the story with going to the Leo Casino for a £15 Deepstack and when I say deepstack I mean deeeeeepstack, 15k of chips can't remember the blinds maybe 15/20
minutes (not entirely sure).
For the first hour I continued to feel card dead it was either all or nothing (top end of the starting hand scale or bottom end, no middle ground), during the session I pretty much lost the blinds I posted. Got chatting with a
few of the locals at the break turned out one of them had only been playing poker for 2 months and this was his first time in the casino, stated his mate had told him only to raise TT+ and to be honest you could tell. Funnily
enough this guy went on to win the tournament.
With the resumption of the tournament I wasn't worried about the size of my chip stack so continued plodding along in the tournament, one of the entrants I had spotted in the Circus earlier that day so got chatting with him
(he looked like Noel Gallagher) but the chat was short as he was low on chips and got it all-in with pocket fours just as I got bullets and shoved my stack in as well. Needless to say my aces held.
A few really bad plays have crept in to my tournament game recently and I need to eliminate them as soon as possible, I raised in mid position with 22 and got shoved by the Button, should have folded but called, this guy you
wouldn't have noticed at the table he was that quiet in both the verbal sense as well as amount of hands they played. I make a silly call and lose the majority of my stack as his TT wins unimproved. I get myself back in to the
game with a double up and stealing blinds and I look at AKs and get my short stack in only to be called by JJ again and bust out 15th, think there were about 60 players in the tournament ( I had been drinking since 12pm and
it was now 10:30pm). It was nice to actually play a properly structured tournament in a live environment for a change.
Now at this point of the evening I decide to stop drinking I have had enough alcohol and I finally get a seat at the cash table, after awhile I soon realise that the players are very loose and passive so my tight aggressive game
should reap rewards here. So sipping at the many coffees I drink during my cash table session, I carefully look to pick my spots carefully and back it up with constant aggression and to be honest the strategy worked pretty
well. I didn't manage to stack off against anyone but turned a profit at the table, eventually I decided to call it a night at 2am finishing about £40 up on a £1/£1 table. A fairly enjoyable Saturday of gambling was had.
Sunday day time I spent with the girlfriend seeing the many sites that Liverpool has to offer, during Saturday day girlfriend went to Liverpool cathedral which she would recommend a visit. We had a look around the Maritime
Museum which I think I could have spent the entire weekend in if I had the time, free entry and tons of the stuff to look at, also managed to do the Yellowduckmarine tour, a bit expensive but fun. A tour of the city which also
goes in the water as well as drives on the road, we finished the day grabbing a bit to eat at a great pub called The Pumphouse (amazing food).
The girlfriend was just wanting to chill out for the rest of the evening so left her in the hotel and went back to Leo Casino for a final cash table session before we had to leave Liverpool, it was much quieter in the casino on a
Sunday night but eventually got a table going, a few faces from the previous night as well as new faces. The same strategy from the previous night was implemented but my stack was up and down all night long, it became
easier to identify who had hit the flop and those that didn't believe me when I was out of position and making a continuation bet, so a lot of hands were taken down by firing a second bullet on the turn. I did manage to stack
off against an opponent but I lost the raise with 88 v AJ, it was a straddled hand, most the players called the straddle then the straddler raised and a short stack shoved £24 all-in. I called and everone got out the way, he hit
a jack on the turn and an ace on the river, would have been nice to take that £60 pot.
At 1am I call time on my session finishing up about £15, so I enjoying cash tables in the casinos.
The weekend was great fun and I love visiting Liverpool, I will try and post a review of the two casinos I visited in Liverpool some time this week.
