lapc day 03
I'm trying to keep up with the updates but playing 12 hours of poker a day drains the brain. Here are the hands from day 02. Oh the funny thing is, I handed out business cards with my website to the whole table I ended up finishing the day with. Told ya I'd post em:
Blinds 1,000/2,000 with a 300 ante:
It folds to me in the small blind with 2, 2 and I make it $7,500. The big blind quickly calls. The flop comes Qd, Jd, 5 and I bet $7k. He immediately raises to $15k and I fold.
It folds to Joe Tehan in the cutoff who makes it $5,400. I call on the button with J, 9 suited. Everyone else folds. The flop comes 10h, 9h, 3. He checks, and I bet $5,500. He calls and the turn is a 5. Check check. The river is a deuce. He checks and I value bet $8k. He calls and my pair of nines is good.
Later, the table folds around to Tehan in the small blind, who limps. I check with 9, 2 suited. The flop brings K, 8, 6, with two of my suit. He bets $2,300 and I call. The turn is a 6. He bets $3,200. I make it $12k and he folds.
A liberal raiser under the gun makes it $6k and I call in the cutoff with AK suited. The big blind shoves for $31k more. Original raiser folds and I call. He shows AQ offsuit. The turn is a queen and I watch my AK suited lose to AQ offsuit for the second time in the tournament.
Tehan limps under the gun and I limp with 3, 3. The next guy limps, as does the next, and then both blinds limp too. The flop comes 4, 4, 3. The small blind bets out $8k. The big blind makes it $18,500. Under the gun folds. I make it $29k. Fold, fold, fold, and then the big blind shoves in for $52k more. I reluctantly call after a while and he shows 9, 4. 9, 4 people!?!
Tehan raises to $6,200 in middle position. I pick up KK behind him and make it $20k. The big blind decides AK is good and moves it for $50k more. Tehan folds and I obviously call but I’m worried about AA. Why would any other hand do this? He shows the AK and no help for him. I resolve to make better decisions with these chips than he did.
Blinds 1,500/3,000 with a 500 ante
It folds to Tehan in the small blind. He limps and I check my 9, 6 suited. The flop comes Q, 9, 5. He bets $3k and I call. The turn is a 2. He bets $5,500 and I call. The river is a 6. He bets $6,000. I make $15,000 and he folds in disgust.
I raise to $10k with A, J in second position. Fourth position calls. He was a fairly tight player so when the flop came K, Q, 8 I decided to fold to his $15k bet.
The table folds to Tehan in the small blind. He makes it $8k and I call with a 7, 3 suited. The flop comes A, Kd, Q. Check check. The turn is a Qd, giving me a flush draw but I decide to fold when he bets $9k.
Later, it folds to my cutoff and I make it $10k with a K, 6 suited. The button wakes up with AA for the third consecutive time I’ve raised and makes it $25k. I fold. It’s too bad I didn’t have an aces cracker here because I would have called $15k more and I was positive he had AA again because he wouldn’t raise me again otherwise.
Shortly after that, it folds to Tehan in the cutoff and he makes it $8k. I call with KQ of diamonds. The small blind calls and the big blind folds. The flop is Q, 10d, 5d. They both check and I bet $12k. Small blind folds and Tehan calls. The turn is a 5 of diamonds. He checks. I bet $25k and he calls. At this point I’m pretty sure he has a 10 with the A of diamonds so I’m just praying for no diamond. If the river brings a 10, I’ll have to flat call. The river is a delicious offsuit 4. He checks and rather than make a large value bet, I decide to go all-in for $100k because since I’m putting him on the A of diamonds, he’ll know I don’t have the nuts. He just might decide to make a brave call here. He has a long think and does just that, mucking his hand on the way to the rail.
At this point, we’re seven handed with 85 people left. 54 get paid. Middle position raises to $9k. I call on the button with 10, J. The small blind calls. The flop comes 9s, 7s, 4. Small blind checks. The raiser bets $22k. I make it $44k and everyone folds.
Blinds 2,000/4,000 with a 500 ante:
Under the gun limps. I limp with K, Q on the button. Small blind limps and big blind checks his option. The flop is Q, 7h, 6h. Both blinds check and under the gun bets $13k. I call and the blinds fold. The turn is a 6. Check check. The river is a 10. He checks. I value bet $15k and he calls. KQ is good.
It folds to me in the small blind with 6, 6. I make it $17k. The big blind reraises $25k more and I refuse to believe that he has A, A for the fourth time against me so I call. The flop is 9c, 8c, 9. I check, he bets $25k and I call. The turn is an 8. Check check. The river is a J. I bet $40k and he calls. He shows me the aces again.
Blinds $3,00/6,000 with 1,000 ante:
I open raise the button for $20k with A 10. The small blind folds and the big blind raises $35k more. He has about $140k behind. I think for a while and decide he thinks I’m stealing and that he’s reraising with a marginal hand like K, Q. I go all-in and he folds. Later he said he had A, J.
I open raise the small blind for $23k with Q, 9 offsuit. Thankfully the big blind flat calls. Wow, no aces this time? Flop is Ah, Qh, Ad. I check. He bets $25k and I call. The turn is a 4 of diamonds. I check. He thinks for a long time and finally bets $55k. I was pretty sure he didn’t have a big hand at this point because he had always bet with confidence when he had big hands in the past. It was a pretty easy call. The river was a 5d. I check and he immediately grabs as many $5k chips as he can fit in his hand and slams em down on the table. I count out the chips and ask him how much it is and I see that he is extremely nervous. Going on a purely physical read, I call. His missed flush draw is no good and now people at the table realize what most people already knew: I’m crazy, and if I think you have garbage, I’ll call you down until one of us heads to the rail.
Later, I raise to $20k in early position with AK offsuit. Two to my left makes it $90k more. It folds to me and I go all-in. He has to call with 5, 5. The board comes 10, 10, J, X, J. Harsh way to go but he could have picked a better spot.
Scott Clements raises under the gun to $20k and I call on the button with A, Q suited. The flop comes 7, 8, 8c. He bets $40k and I’m pretty sure he has JJ, 10, 10, or 9, 9. Possibly A, Q. All of these will probably fold if I move it for $100k more so I shove. Even if he does call, I have seven outs. He folds 10, 10.
Blinds 4,000/8,000 with 1,000 ante:
I raise under the gun $25k and Jason Strasser goes all-in in middle position for $150k more. I call with 9, 9 and he shows K, Q. Board comes K, Q, X, 10, Q. This was a devastating pot not because of how big it was, but because of the momentum shift. Had I won this pot, I would have gone all-in on every hand in the dark because I would have had a monster stack and it was bubble time.
I raise $25k in early position with 5c, 7c. PartyPSucks calls in middle position. Flop comes K, 7, 2c. I think for a while about what to do. I decide to check and there’s three different scenarios: If he goes all-in, I fold. If he checks, I’m all-in dark. If he bets, I’m all-in. Reason being, if he bets, he either has a K or a pocket pair. If he has a pocket pair, he’ll likely fold. If he has a K, he might fold, though doubtful. Even if he does call with a K, I have six outs. Another thing to keep in mind is that there’s only one more person who doesn’t get paid and there’s a $10k stack at the next table who’ll be blinded out within half a round. He bets $45k. I go all-in for $250k more and he instacalls with K, Q. No help and I lose a monster.
I ended the day with $619,000.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
