Tag Archives: David La Ronde

Heads up No deals, that’s what’s ringing in my head. No deals. I call the wife “Honey what do you think?” She says “Deal”. I say “Trust me” and say “No deal” I’ve come this far and I’m not going to be a coward now. Tureniec asks for a deal, I say “No way”. I have a 2 to 1 chip lead. I decide that I don’t want to get into pots with Michael without a hand and I can afford to be patient. So I fold a few hands that I would normally raise with on the button. He …

Man down Simon Pearson is all in pre-flop, holding QQ only, for Mr ‘Tight Pants’ Leonard to call holding KK. Tureniec doubles up when he gets lucky, after his JQ all in gets called by Leonard holding 99 and turns a Q -  he’s back in the hunt. Action stations Jim Moult has seen his stack dwindle after both I and Tureniec have constantly 3 bet him out of pots. He raised on the button, I’m holding 1010, I decide that I will push him off and if he calls I’m probably in good shape, so I announce All In …

Shuffle up and deal!!! We’re off and strangely enough I am calm and feel sharp. Second hand in folds to Bebb in the cut-off, who shoves his short stack of 40k button folds and I am in SB I look down JQ off, not massive, but enough to look up Bebb whose range is very wide. I elect to raise, to isolate, but only the minimum as the big blind may wake up with a hand. He folds and we turn over, Bebb has K4 off so it’s even Stevens. He flops a K, ouch that hurt, never mind you …

Final Table Did not sleep much as I was wading through YouTube coverage of EPT London 2008 and Michael Tureniec. I had singled him and John Eames as the most dangerous players on the final table. I had clashed on Day 2 with Michael and won two nice size pots from him, one with a ridiculous bluff and the other by inducing him to call with a draw that missed. After I looked at the EPT coverage I was convinced that it would be very difficult to get involved in large pots with him as he is very capable of …