 Vegas June 2025 (WSOP Part 1) |
| Day 7 - Battle of the Ages |
| Last Updated: 2025-06-23 13:06:13 |
| I'm just gonna say up front that yesterday was so bad I almost forgot to write this ... this is gonna be real short. I don't even have any notes!
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| Interesting format tho. 10am start for people 50 and over, 4pm start for people under 50. The two groups play seperately down to the money (top 15%) and then combine on Day 2 and complete the tournament.
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| Salt and Ivy for the third day in a row, but this time I got breakfast rather than lunch. And the waitress was overly attentive (opposite of yesterday, careful what you wish for!) but I very much appreciated that she had earlier told me that the bar was getting behind and asked me while I still had 1/3 of a tequila sunrise (my breakfast drink of choice, it's got OJ in it so it's a breakfast drink!).
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| Bought in a little late, put at a new table, had to wait until we had at least 4 players and sat there for a little bit with three of us. But, four more people walked over almost at the same time and cards got in the air.
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| I've not played a lot of Hold'Em on this trip, but when I have I've been trying to be mindful of light 3-betting spots. Early on a woman early to act raised out and I 3-bet with K-9 suited (most suited kings are 3-bet material when deep stacked).
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| Flopped a straight! J-T-Q two spades.
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| Last time this happened to me was a hand with Rast in the 9-game the day before where he had 9-T vs my K-T on a 9-J-Q flop. Naturally a K came on the turn and one of my rare opportunities to pick up some chips in that tournament evaporated on me ... that was a big pot that could have totally changed that tournament for me if my straight hadn't been counterfeited.
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| She led out, and with the non-nut straight and a flush draw on the board I was not letting her get a cheap look at another card so I raised and she thought a while and folded.
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| I don't know that I won another pot the rest of my time in the tournament.
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| I missed literally every flop, even when I caught a flop the board would run out terrible for me and I'd have to give up the hand. One example, I'm in with K-7 suited and the flop comes 7-high. Someone leads out, I call as does everyone else. Turn card was an ace, old guy who was clearly playing any ace immediately leads out and I'm done with the hand. Had I raised him on the 7 high I'm fairly confident I would have just lost more chips because he had shown he was not inclined to fold to a flop raise.
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| Raise out with A-K/A-Q hands, miss every flop but multi-way (because almost every pot was multi-way) so hard to c-bet with usually at least one person behind me and enough high cards that someone probably caught one.
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| Oh now I remember I did win one pot where I had A-Q and raised out and we all missed the flop, turn and river and my A-Q was the winner of a small pot. So two pots on the day came my way.
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| I do have one somewhat amusing anecdote. We had a harried waitress who was making some mistakes, but three guys at the end of the table gave her a new order and wanted to be ready to tip. One guy asks if the other guys can break a 5 for him, the other two check their wallets and they all have 5s and 2 singles.
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| Guy at my end of the table chimes in:
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| "I've got singles, my wife's a stripper"
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| (pause)
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| "Third wife ... not my first"
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| Ok then...
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| The guys at the other end figure it out on their own, tho, a combined tip from everyone.
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| They did not get as many people as they expected and started breaking down tables including mine. I was down to 8400 from a 20k starting stack, paid the blinds so down another 1300 chips and got moved ... and of course was going to be in the big blind in a few hands at the new table.
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| Hand before I'm in the big blind I look down at A-J offsuit, good enough to get all-in, folds around to the big blind who woke up with A-K, no help on the board and I'm done in about 2.5 hours.
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| Ugh.
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| Spent the rest of my day hanging in the room and watching streaming, did hit Tom's Watch Bar for dinner and watched the NBA Finals Game 7 ... which I had utterly no interest in, but I couldn't help watching. Even if I'm not a fan of a sport I can appreciate a huge event. Good for Oklahoma City bringing their first ever championship to that city!
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| Back to the room planning to have one more whisky and go to bed ... but sat down "for a few minutes" first and half passed out on the sofa. My day was done :-)
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| Monday I'm going to play in the 1pm Daily Deep Stack at the WSOP and call it a trip. Nothing multi-day for me now since I'm heading home tomorrow for 8 days before coming back for the Main Event. |
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