Vegas November 2014 |
Day 2 - Seniors Deepstack |
Last Updated: 2014-11-10 11:31:52 |
Let's see if this post ends up being as short as I expect it to be...
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No big lunch Sunday, had to be at the tournament by 11 and I also had to walk a fair distance from Luxor to Venetian. Quick bite at Starbucks while I finished off the last BLOG entry, then on to the Aria sports book to make my parlay bet and then over to the Venetian.
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That offensive pass interference call on the hail mary at the end of regulation against the Saints might cost me a nice payday. My other two teams came through, I would have A LOT of interest in the Eagles game Monday had that touchdown stood. But I digress...
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Somehow I put in 11.5 hours playing poker at Venetian (9.5 of actual playing time if you subtract the breaks) and I have almost nothing to talk about. For me it ended up being ABC poker all the way through. I don't think I had more than 6 pocket pairs in all that time. 3's once (didn't play, would have flopped a set), 6's once (see below), 8's once, 10's once or twice, kings once. THAT'S IT!. I might be forgetting a pair or two, but I think I can say with great certainty I never had JJ, QQ and definitely not AA.
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I did have A-K several times and A-Q a few times. That's a lot of poker with not a lot of cards.
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I really had to pick my spots, but I managed to. A-K was my friend for a change. I won almost every pot I played it in, probably about 50-50 hitting vs c-betting (as you would expect!).
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I made the most of what I had and I had a very deep run. At the first break I was up from a 12K start to 16K (breaks every 2 hrs), second break up to 18K with half of the 121 player field eliminated, 38K at the dinner break, peaked out at probaby 50-55K between that and the final break of the night, but probably only 40-43K at that last break. I generally stayed in the 20-40 big blind range once blinds got big, at least until we got close to the money and I had to scratch and claw. So I was always comfortable, but not so comfortable that I could try and run over the table at any point.
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The most interesting hands were the hand where I raised preflop with 66, flop 6-10-Q, short stack with Q-J goes all-in instantly after the flop and I took him out. Awesome how I used my mind control abilities to get a short stack to go all in after flopping top pair, right?
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Then there was the gutshot straight I hit because a guy bet 1000 into about a 6K pot on the flop, another guy called and I called, they gave me a free card and I hit the gutshot on the river. Other guy bets into me, I min-raise, he calls and isn't happy when he sees I hit a gutter. I got the right pot odds, I made the call, it worked out. Takes a lot of moxie to call getting 8-1 on your money with everyone acting so weak and then taking a free card off, wouldn't you say? My min-raise on the river was brilliant, eh?
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And then there was the takeout when I raised out with K-Q, flop was K-10-rag, short stack goes all in, I call, he has K-J.
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That's all I got, folks. No interesting bluffs, no opportunities to try and goad people into giving me more chips than they should. I was probably turning the best hand into a bluff on a fair amount of the bluffs I tried. Like shoving on a J-Q-rag board with just A-10 'cause the other guy looks very uninterested in the flop and I gotta take a few chances to try and make the money.
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Well I made the money! 14th place out of 121, tournament paid 15 places. My bustout came when under the gun, a guy who often limped and made small raises only to fold to any pressure, limped in, it folded around to me in the small blind, I looked down at pocket fours, pushed all in and ran into the limper's pocket queens.
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Obviously I would have like to have gotten deeper. But I am always very happy with myself when I can play poker that long, have so few cards and still eke out a cash.
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So Monday I'll finish up the trip with the daily tournament at Aria. Hopefully only one, since that'll mean I had a good 1:00! |
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Clay "Don Key" Pinyerd: | 2014-11-17 21:52:09 | So that puppet master trick is done with mind control and not strings? |
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Nicholas "nick" Werle: | 2014-11-11 13:21:55 | river min cash was great |
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