I started day one in a focused and very motivated mood.

After observing my opponents, I figured out that one kid 2 seats to my left was a nit (preflop and postflop) and would not engage his chips with anything than the nuts. Two seats behind him was an aggressive scandinavian young kid, raising every second pot, squeezing preflop and post flop against scared money weak players.

The rest of the table was quite weak.

Seat 8 was a young girl who qualified on a european site, I saw her raise 44 early position, get 3 callers(!), bet on an 862 flop with two hearts, get a caller, fire another bullet on the turn (but like 30% of the pot...) and finally give up the bluff on the river...


So, probably not being coached by Phil Ivey, this girl raises UTG to 300, I start the hand with 8900 chips, I decide to flat-call and take a flop in position against her, but the aggro scandinavian player squeezes from the big blind to 1200, so it's 900 more to me; the girl folds, I don't have exactly the odds for set value, but I guess the value of my hand is too strong against the range of this particular opponent, and I decide to call.

Flop brings 972, two clubs, I have red tens.The scandinavian player makes his obvious continuatiuon bet of 2500, and I decide to call, maybe inducing a shove on the turn by AK or AQ.

Turn is a small club, i decide to protect , the money goes in and he shows QQ with the Qc, so I m drawing to one out.

Well, more interesting hands are in Nick's trip report, as he played really well, and a few levels longer than I did :)