Articles / John Tabatabai / 19 October 2011 /

The observant amongst you will notice that because I am writing this blog right now, it means I am not in the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event so the the hunt for a bracelet is over for another year. Despite the poker being extremely tilting for me I am enjoying it in Cannes, though being here does mean I will unfortunately miss this week's Kunku Wap Ambassador Challenge due to the French regulations for online poker.

So what have I been up to? I've been in Ireland and played in the Betfair Live Dublin, which was cool. Like at most of the events I went out drinking with the players, sat in some cash games and the following day was the Main Event, which didn't last too long for me at all! I flopped two pair and got it in against two different draws and that was that. I jumped on a plane back to London the very next day to take care of a few things before I flew out to Cannes for the WSOPE.

Going into my first event, the €2,620 Six-Max, I felt really confident because before I left London I was in a cash game where I was doing my absolute brains in but somehow managed to turn it around, so I was feeling really good. However, those feelings were short-lived when I got it in with eights against sevens and he obviously hits a seven, so it was onto the €1k. In this one I never really had the card to get anything going and this was made even worse because Roberto Romanello was moved to the table with quite a big stacks and was playing lots of pots. Roberto knows my game quite well too so I had no choice but to wait for hands and they just never really came.

Epic Slowroll and Rubdown

Later in the day I get moved to another table with Jerome Bradpiece and James Mitchell and Mitchell limps on the button, I shove from the small blind for about 18 big blinds with ace-jack and the big blind, who has almost exactly the same stack as me, tanks for at least 3.5-4.5 minutes, keeps staring at me and checking his cards and finally calls. James instantly folds and the big blind demands I turn over my hand first, so I am thinking I could be in with a chance to stay in this tournament, I could be flipping and of course he turns over aces! I was so tilted! The guy had long hair too so you just know he was a raging donk but it got worse too because as I was walking away from the table James shouts me back like, "Hey Tabby come back, Tabby come back, you've still got some chips left over," so I walk back and of course I don't have any chips left so I have to redo the walk of tilt!

Next was the €3,200 shootout and I had a decent table. James Mitchell was there again, Antoine Saout who came third in the WSOP Main Event a few years back, Casey Kastle and a couple of players I didn't know. It wasn't great but it could have been a lot worse too. It got better when Saout busted quickly but I just never got going at all. I ran ace-king into aces which cost me about a quarter of my stack, but still managed to get to the last five. Then I went up against a guy who was a typical French monkey, he was coming in with raises with jack-five, seven-three etc and I ended up shoving on him with ace-nine and he held pocket nines and I couldn't get there.

This post seems to have grown much bigger than I expected so I will cut it short there and tell you about my Main Event, dancing in a ring of fire and betting on old French men playing an unknown game in another entry!

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