Overdue Update

Been a while since iv posted, mainly been really lazy and just been putting it off. Well im home from Brazil a month now and I guess its been a pretty interesting/eventfull month.

Irish Open

Had a pretty soft starting table, bar Juha Helppi two to my left and a young american kid one to his left who seemed decent. So it wasn't too hard to accumulate a stack. Few hands of interest from Day one: 75/150 15k effective stacks. I open Jd8d to 400 from MP2 (I have been opening alot of pots and not done to showdown often) The button, a terribe Italien player flats, which he has done several times thus far, SB folds and the young american thinks a while before making it 1550. I think he had been looking to get in a pot with me/try outplay with me, it was also such a perfect spot to squeeze as the btn's range is any two cards almost. So I elected to 4bizzle him. I make it 3950, btn folds as does the young kid after some time.
Then got involved with Helppi for the first time. Stacks: me 17k Helppi 15k. I open KQs from the hi-jack to 525 at 100/200. He flats on the button. Flop Qd 7h 2h. I fire 825, he quickly calls. The turn is 2c. It goes check check (semi pot control/dont think he calls the turn with worse hands) river 3s, I bet 1700 and he calls after a small pause. I flip KQ and he mucks, he later said he had 1010.
Then got on the right side of a sick cooler which was nice. Three limpers at 150/300 and its on me in the SB, I peek down at AA and make it 1500. The in the BB is an old american man and he is your stereotypical old player, a massive NIT, he has about 10k. He thinks for an eternity and just calls. His call obv scared the table as all the limpers folded. Flop comes an enjoyable Ah Ks 8h. I bet 2400 and he calls without much thought. the turn is the 4s and I decide to just set him in (which in hindsight probably wasnt great as he was such a nit) and he literally took his whole timebank before calling and revealing......take a guess? AK, so sick, he said he nearly folded also.
This got me up to about 30k, hovered around 28-32k untill the last level of the night. Stacks me~31k...Helppi ~40k.....spewy BB~25k. I open J9o from the cut-off to at 300/600 to 1500, Helppi calls as does the BB. We see a flop of 7d9d10s. Helppi donks 2200, the BB quickly calls. I elected to raise to 8400 for a couple of reason: Helppi had donked two hands that went to showdown before, once turning up with top pair and the other showing up with a flopped flush draw. The BB was a complete Spaz and is call is almost always a draw/weak hand and finally from their point of view, me raising two players on such a drawy board and to show massive strength, I also had decent equity if either of them flatted. Anyway, my plan went horribley wrong as Helppi shoved on me and ofc I had to fold. In hindsight I should have just flatted the flop also, or just fold as the hand is gonna be tough to play on later streets multi-way. It seems super weak to just fold so I think flatting has to be the best option. This meant I finished the day on 21k, which I was a little dissapointed with but still meant I would be in fine shape to make run at it for day 2.
Never got anything going on day 2 and the structure really caught up with me. I had a few raises snapped off and also lost a 11k pot Bvb where I shoved on an 8bb stack with K5 from the SB, he had AQ and the board bricked. I then folded for what seemed like an enternity, as I had no hands and a 10-14bb stack. I finally found a spot to get me chips in at 500/1k, folded to me in Mp2 with 11,500 and 99. I shoved and somehow ran into QQ and AA, no 9 and that was that.
Overall I think I played well but perhaps fell victim to fancy play syndrome and times which cost me in the long run. But a fun experience and good to see/meet up with some people from online.

After the Irish Open played very little online but still managed some decent results. Winning two tounries for $12k total , thus prob 4-5k profit since returning home. Its nothing major but nice to be winning. Also managed to win a WSOP main event package on Ipoker which is sweet. Really nice to do it at first time of trying. I pretty much cruised it to be honest, had like 1/2 the chips in play with 12 left and 4 seats so I basically just kept the pressure on without doing anything crazy.

Will report on Manchester GUKPT soon, as it was unsucessfull it may be a while...
Nick