GUKPT qualifier again!

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A little success again in the $5.5 GUKPT sub qualifier tonight.
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I had just the add on after my initial buy in and played against 12 other players for the single $109 GUKPT Satellite seat.
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I played fairly solid until down to 3 left when I managed to keep my stack afloat with some moves in different positions. Luckily the other two players got committed to one pot and one went out leaving me heads up with a huge deficit in chips.
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I typed in that " I need some real luck now ... gl!" ... and luck I got as the heads up only lasted 6 hands (blinds at 150/300 a50).
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The first hand of the heads up I found 88 in the SB ... this was going to be my double up to get me back into contention, either that or I will come second and receive nothing, either way this is THE hand. I raise, my opponent re raises and I go all in. He calls and shows A7, the 88 holds up and now we have an almost even chip count (I now had about 15,000 chips, he had about 16,000 chips).
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Very next hand I get Ad8h in the BB. My opponent raises to 1000. It was my intention to play a few small pots to see if I could work an advantage so just called, happy to play the flop. The flop came down As3hQs and I was hoping my A was massively disguised. I checked, he raised and I pushed all in. He turned over Ac9s ... damn I was a huge underdog and was hoping for high cards to split the pot ... but an eight on the river saw the pot sliding in my direction.
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Another couple of pots with his small stack going all in and I took the ticket ... very luckily!
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So I will be trying to get my first GUKPT live event ticket on Wednesday.

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Just to let you know where I am with all my qualifying efforts here are my results to date:
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So far I have played 18 GUKPT Sub Qualifiers and won two Main GUKPT Satellite Tickets and cashed for the remainder of the prize funds twice (buy in's - $172.6, winnings and tickets to the value of - $271)
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Played the Pacific $20K sub qualifier 3 times and won 1 ticket (buy in's - $21.3, won 1 ticket to a value of $55)
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Played Pacific Irish Open Sub Qualifiers 12 times and won one higher level satellite ticket (buy in's $53.29, wins 1 ticket $15)
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Unfortunately I have yet to hit a main event or decent prize from my sub qualifier ticket wins, but I live in hope. Whats more important is that I haven't spent more on qualifiers than the tickets were worth ... so I will continue to play them.
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Until Later



Keep it Tight!