EPT San Remo – through on day 1
Posted by Viktoria | Filed under Live Tournaments
After Madrid we flew to Marseille and drove to Nice. It is a lovely little French town on the Riviera. We only had one day to spend there but it was really nice and very pretty.
Then we drove to San Remo for the EPT. I played day 1A and went through with 79,400 chips. The starting stack was 30,000. I don’t think I played well, but I didn’t play badly either. However I could do much better and hopefully will show that in the upcoming days.
First I dropped down to 9,000 thanks to a player who called even on the turn with AK, no pair and hit her K on the river, plus another guy who limped with K2 from EP, called my raise, hit his K and never released the hand, even when I raised his river blocking bet. For the first 6 hours I also never saw a pair better than 88. Anyway, 9k was still 30 big blinds and then I managed to double up when I finally hit a set with my 22. Soon after I saw the flop come T7T for my 77 which meant another 10k or so for my stack (could have been more, I left the opponent 6k which he would have been willing to put in with his T).
Not long after that I doubled up again when a guy with QQ ran into my slowplayed AA. So I was sitting there with over 60k at this point, above average stack. And I finally had a stack big enough to make some moves 
My image was also great, I only showed down really strong hands. So after they announced the end of the day in a couple of hands I made a move that turned out to be the wrong move at the right time. An Italian player, who raised each and every hand from MP and later if nobody else entered, raised again, so I decided to re-raise with Q7o. I was not happy when he called and the flop came J66 so we both checked. The turn brought the a very nice Q so I even got paid in this appr. 40k pot.
Tomorrow, on the second day, the structure is going to be even slower so there is no need to do anything silly, I will just try to play my A-game and slowly increase my stack. Probably day 3 and the bubble are going to be one of the most important points in the tournament, so first I just need to make sure I make it there to be able to use it to my advantage.
