At least I was out quick enough to go to the lake! Not too much to talk about here.

1st hand: Limp w/22 for 50, next player makes it 325, I folded. 4k in starting stack.
2nd hand: Limp with K Q . Later player raises to 125, we see flop heads up. It comes all rags. I check, he checks, and I decide that I am check-raising any non-threatening turn. It comes 9 putting two spades on board. I check, he bets 200, I raise to 500, he calls. OK fine, he’s on a flush draw. River Jx, I bet 700, he calls with J9. Oops… good read on flop though!

About four hands later UTG raises to 175, Men the Master calls in UTG+1, and I make it 700 with AKo in the next position. The original raiser pondered for a long time, asked me if I was bluffing again, and re-raised the minimum-ish. Men put all his chips in the middle. This was the first hand he was dealt period. I put my last 1500 into the pot and see myself up against AA and JJ. Flop TJQ and it held up :-). Nice. Up to 7100.

Two hands later: Men opens to 175, I re-raise to 575, he goes all-in for 3275, and I call with my kings. He had AK, and an A hit immediately on the flop.

Then, I didn’t do anything for an hour, got short, doubled up with QJ on a J high flop, lost some chips, and went into the first break with 4200.

First 10 minutes back I see a flop from the SB for 500 with A Q . Flop 762 one spade. I check, he bet 700, and I called. I read him for ace high at best. Turn 7 , I bet 1100 (probably should have just went all-in at this spot… I only had 2900 in my stack going into the turn), and my opponent put me all-in. I still really didn’t think he had anything so it was a pretty easy call for me. He had AK! Wow! Not sure if he had a read or was just spewing, but it sure looks like he had a read! River bricked out and I was sent packing. Oh well.

Tomorrow is the $2k+100 NLHE event. Hopefully things will go a little better this time!

Peace and good luck,

Devo

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Yep… I took as bad as I possibly could have expected Long story short, I took fiftth.

Good news: We made a percentage adjustment at five handed that gave an extra two percent of the prize pool to firth and fourth, and an extra one percent to second and third while taking six percent off of first. Thus, for the second time in my career, I got the best of a deal/save.

Bad news: I took fifth.

Honestly, not a damn thing I could have done. Here’s the key hand: I open raise from the cutoff six handed with the J T , and get called by the button and BB. Flop K 9 2 . Check, I continue, button raises, BB folds, and I peel a card. At the start of this hand I had about 75k and was right up there in top three and we kept trading off the “chip leader” title.

Turn gin: Q .

Check, he bets 4k, I raise to 8k, he calls.

River: Worst card in the deck. J . I still bet because I had him squarely on a Kx, and so what if he had KT, cause then we chop it up.

He raises.

I say, “Really?” But, I cannot fold at this point. I call, and he show me K T and scoops the 80k pot, the biggest one I saw the entire tournament.

Classic suck/re-suck, but still… No possible way it goes more expensive for me, even if it flops KTT, although I suppose it could have come that flop and turned a J… but… arrgh.

From there I could never recover. I re-built to 60k, and then went downhill from there, losing with an overpair to trip tens on a TT8 flop (I had JJ) and I finally busted with the A 3 when I saw the ATT flop vs. T 8 and got all-in on the turn. Oh well…

Today: 1500+80 NLHE event #4, and I need to go to sleep for that!

Peace and good luck,

Devo

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