Vegas June 2015 (WSOP) |
Day 4 - More shopping than poker |
Last Updated: 2015-06-10 09:11:29 |
This unfortunately will be a short one. (Actually now that I'm done and I'm proof-reading, not as short as I expected...)
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I was able to follow through on the simple plan that I couldn't manage on Monday. No WPT tournament at Aria so they had a regular tournament. Apparently, however, Aria now wraps their own poker series around the WPT weekends so it was a $235 buyin this week instead of the usual $125.
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I did think about heading back to Rio for the WSOP deepstack for a few minutes but eventually I came to my senses and realized that I didn't want to play that late if I was successful so Aria it was.
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Joann and I filled up at the Aria buffet, then headed down to the poker room.
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Well...I wasn't card dead. 3-4 hands in I picked up A-K. I was on the button and 3-4 people limped ahead of me. Quite often in the first round or two of a tournament I like to just call in those spots and hope to have a deceptively big hand after the flop. Or, sometimes a blind raises to steal and I can re-steal (tho I probably prefer the former scenario).
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But if you're going to play it that way you have to be able to get away from it sometimes...
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So I call, SB calls and BB checks. Flop comes K-9-2 rainbow. Small blind leads out for 400. Folds around to the hijack seat who calls and I make it 1150 to go. SB then 4-bets to 3200.
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Crud.
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I call, hijack folds. Turn is a blank and the SB leads out for 1/3-1/2 of my remaining stack. I have to give it up. He has to have 2-pr or a set. At best I'm up against another AK and I'm playing to chop. I just don't see any way he plays a worse K than mine that fast. I fold, he shows one king. No doubt in my mind he had two pair.
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Arguably I could have just called the flop with the rainbow board, in hindsight I probably would have gotten to see the river for about the same as what it cost me to fold after the turn...but I think 3-handed I was much better off not letting the hijack stick around and defining the SB's hand as I did. You could also argue I should have just gotten away on the re-raise but I do think calling and seeing what happens on the turn is equally as correct as folding. Only bad decision would have been to go back over the top IMHO.
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Oh well.
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Not exactly devastating, I'm only down 20% of my stack.
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I pick up a pot or two, and roughly 30 minutes into the tournament I look down at QQ under the gun. I make a standard raise to 250 (blinds now 50/100), I get one middle position caller and the button makes it 600 to go. I call, middle position calls.
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Flop comes 6-6-4. I check, middle position checks, button continues for 600.
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Small C-bet given the pot, so I'm immediately feeling good about my hand. I make it 1600. Middle position folds. Button makes it 3600.
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Thoughts of aces and kings briefly come into my head, but then I think better of it. Can't buy either of those hands with such a small c-bet. And the guy already saw me raise/call/fold earlier so he probably sees me as a thief. I call planning to push any turn that doesn't have a king or an ace since he could just be one of those people who can't stop playing A-K like quads.
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Turn is a Jack.
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I do think for a second that he might have just hit a set, but I follow through with my plan. All in.
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He asks for a count, makes the call, then isn't remotely happy when he sees my queens. He rolls over A-J off.
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Got him!!!
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Jack on the river...
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Oh well.
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My trusty poker odds calculator puts me at 88.636% to 11.364%. I can promise you that if I can get all my chips in an 8-1 favorite every time for the rest of my poker "career" I'll take it. Dammit.
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So Tuesday became "shopping day". We hit the outlets and the mall and I made out pretty good. I wanted a thin hoodie for the refrigerators known as poker rooms in this town and picked up two for me and one for Joann thanks to 70% off at Gap; picked up a couple of pair of Oakley sunglasses (buy one get one half off) since I haven't had a really good pair in a long time; and stocked up on some things for the kitchen as well as a few other things.
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I think this is the first time I made out better than Joann did on shopping day. Unfortunately she didn't find much at the places she likes to go, and usually even when I do get stuff for myself Joann does equally as well if not better.
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But after that it was an early night. Not even a thought of playing in the 7pm, need to get a good night's sleep.
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So Wednesday I'll be in the Brasilia room at table 39, seat 8. Since it's an 8-handed tournament that's the equivalent of the 10-seat in hold'em. My second least-favorite seat but I guess it's better than being in the 1-seat.
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Wish me luck! |
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Nicholas "nick" Werle: | 2015-06-10 11:42:12 | great play and analysis |
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