DTD 20/20 Weekend
Me and my mates usually have a little poker road trip over the festive period. When we weighed up our options there was only one serious choice, the DTD 20/20 on 27th/28th December.
The Sunday game saw the poker room at capacity with alternates in play and a £8.5k first prize. We opted for the Monday game on 28th december which attracted 227 runners from memory. The game was perfect for us lads having a day out at the poker. There’s the £100 early start at 14.00 then a deepstack £40 at 20.00 in case if you get knocked out and even a £15 game for those wanting to watch the budget after Christmas. Let’s also not forget the numerous and varied cash games on offer to suit all poker tastes.
Myself, Mark ‘Wilko’ Wilkinson, Chris ‘Poker Dog’ Goward, Stuart ‘Tourist’ Clarke and Big Kev set out around quarter to twelve and due to a little traffic congestion on the M6 and around Nottingham managed to get there just in time for kick off. I must say that having registered online and checked my entry with customer support, the club still delivered the first class service that I’d expect before I even got there.
So we sit down for the £100 er and I start to weigh up my table. I’ve got a nit to my left, a TAG left of him, most players in mid position from me appear to be standardish and the player to my immediate right is playing very tightly but without seeming like a big gob seems to play some pretty big games. The first few levels are pretty uneventful, I get my 10k stack up about 3k with one TPTK hand I get two streets of value for with a bet, check, bet in position and another bluff on the turn after a checked flop. I then lose a couple of k or so with a few hands like with a missed AK in a mulitway pot and other standard missed boards. I then lose a decent chunk to the player on my right.
He raises my BB from the SB by a small amount, think it was just above a min raise. I call with Q-10 offsuit, partly for value but partly to defend and I’ve got position. Rag flop which he check calls a half pot flop bet by me. A Queen comes on the turn which gives me top pair albeit with a weak kicker. He checks again and I check as I’m not mad about my hand but think that I now look like weak and can call a bluff on the river; a bet here only gets called by hands that are beating me so I don’t see much value in it. River blanks again and he makes a very big bet, about twice the pot. I’d decided on the turn to call any river bet, I was bluff inducing but on reflection I maybe should have known that often these massive river bets after two checks are desperate value attempts, after slowplaying the early streets. I actually snap called but should have thought about the hand a little more and decided not to risk another 3k on the river when there was only maybe 1500 in the pot to begin with. Anyway, it’s not a horrendous call given the way I played then hand but he flipped a set of 7’s and I’m back down to about 7k.
This hand tilted me a little as it was the first big pot I’d shown down in, and I came off the worst. Add the fact that I was also 7/8 bottles of Peroni in now and I started getting itchy fingers. I’ve got a common fault which I think many players have who sometimes over-egg their strategy at times rather than reading the situation a little better. It occurs especially when I’ve had a drink, but if I’m getting short stacked (by the M ratio) then I just can’t wait to get chips in, I’m looking to open every pot I can, re-squeeze when I can, C-bet every time. It’s not terrible but I’m far too aggressive as I see my stack as far shorter than it actually is, I use over-aggression as opposed to controlled aggression. I can’t specifically remember many more hands after the one mentioned above as I got myself into a couple of raise, bet, fold pots until I got to about 4/5 big blinds, shoved over an AK and went home. It’s a pretty common occurence in my tournament game which I need to sort out.
Meanwhile, some of my fellow team were faring a little better. Tourist and Big Kev went out at around the same time as me. I decided to try the DTD burger which I would wholeheartedly recommend to any potential diner, one of the best burgers I’ve ever had. Big Kev also ordered onion rings with his. They are massive, fresh and tasty but please share them, they were far too much for even the two of us with our burgers.
Wilko and Poker Dog were going along very nicely indeed. By about the second or third break (say about 12 levels in) they were both well above average chipstacks. They were also amongst the leading alcohol consumers in the comp and during one of the breaks they decided they’d split any prize money won as they figured surely one of them would cash. As the tournament continued it became clear that Wilko was doing well, he had a chipstack dwarfing every other player. As he got drunker I could hear him getting louder. He was pulling stunts like deciding to call an all-in 3bet holding 55. He flips tails, makes the call and duly wins a monster pot, it was that soprt of scenario. Chris is going well too but I can hear him even more, at one point I overheard him say runner-runner-runner-runner-runner very loudly. The upshot of this is that Chris missed the final table but cashed for £300. Wilko went into the FT with 700k of the 2.2m chips in play and ended up agreeing a split when three handed. He cashed for £4k, finished third but had to give Chris £2k of his hard earned winnings!!!!
When all said and done though, a class comp, in a class card room with class service. I can’t find a single thing wrong to say about DTD, except that it’s not in Northwich.
As well as the 20/20 I decided to take part in the £40 deepstack and some £1/£2 cash, I’ll update this in my next piece as I did slightly better than in my first attempt of the day!!!
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[...] Mommy wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptMe and my mates usually have a little poker road trip over the festive period. When we weighed up our options there was only one serious choice, the DTD 20/20. … I’ve got a nit to my left, a TAG left of him, most players in mid position from me appear to be standardish and the player to my immediate right is playing very tightly but without seeming like a big gob seems to play some pretty big games. The first few levels are pretty uneventful, I get my 10k stack up about … [...]
Nice report squirmy. Well Played Wilko. Sounds like you all had a great trip.
[...] DanM wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptMe and my mates usually have a little poker road trip over the festive period. When we weighed up our options there was only one serious choice, the DTD 20/20. [...]
Thoroughly enjoyable read sir