Day two we headed to the Rio to play the $1500 6max NLHE. Rainkhan hadn't registered for this event, so decided at 11.30am (tournament starts at 12) that he needed to get money from the bank. We arrive 20 minutes later (luckily this is live, so probably only missed two hands) and I found my seat. Three 30yr women at my table and two middle aged men... awesome. As expected the women sucked and were weak/passive and the two guys weren't much better.
The first hand I played was my second at the table. Folded to the younger of the two guys who raises to 150 (25/50 blinds, hour long levels and 3k starting stacks). I just called in the BB with 88 since I have no idea how he plays. Flop comes A72 and goes check check. Turn 5 check check and river K, I check planning to probably fold but he checks behind and shows his Q6d after I show my 88. Glad he didn't try to win this pot!
I then raise the CO with two cards since I have two women to act behind me (I think I had T6s) and picked up the blinds. Sadly we play a few more hands (all of which I fold) and then I am informed the table is breaking. Bad beat #2 of the trip so far. The last hand of the table I am in the SB and weak passive woman is in the BB so I raise her to 200 with J2o. She calls and turbo folds to my 250cbet on the Kxx board.
I get moved all the way across the room to seat 2 at my new table. Seat 4 has ~10k, but obviously I have no idea how he got all those chips.
I fold for a few hands and quickly notice seat 4 is really aggressive, he basically never folded if it was folded to him, and he'd raise any2 on the button. Seat 5 was a middle aged fat American player who I never figured out, but sucked. (He folded for 30mins, and then coldcalled a 3bet with 95s...) and seat 6 never folded his BB. It was pretty amusing watching seat 4 open every button he could, and seat 6 turbocalling with any2. On several occasions they'd get to showdown with Q2o and T6o.
I picked up aces after a limp and made it 200 and they all folded. I then got JJ and raised to 150 from the CO and bb calls. Flop came JT5dd and I cbet 250, he turbo folded. I picked up AK utg and they all folded again... sigh.
I was up to about 4k now still at 25/50. The moron is seat 6 opens for 150 and I coldcalled with 77 on the button. Flop came QT3r and went check check. Turn was a 5 and he bet 225 and I called. River was 3 and he bet 225 again. I thought for a bit but he sucked so badly I couldn't work out if he had nothing or value betting his T8o or something. He flips AA and wins that... oops.
At this point the kid in seat 1 busts, and gets replaced with an aggressive internet player, who refused to reveal his online ID. I basically raised every so often and picked up pots preflop until 50/100.
At 50/100 I had 3900 and opened 73h from the CO. I basically started opening every CO since button was a predictable nit; sb was aggressive but seemed to never play OOP and bb sucked. The button thought for a bit and coldcalled me, and the SB made it 1300. I then tanked, and really wanted to shove - but I didn't have a good enough read on him that he was capable of squeezing light. It was pretty obvious the button was folding to the reraise too though, which made it a perfect spot for him to repop with air. I eventually folded and the button turbo folds too, meh.
I get repopped again a few hands later, and decide to calm down my raising. The lag in seat 4 now opens from UTG+1 with two cards as expected, the moron in seat 6 calls, and the decent SB calls. There is now 1k in the pot, and I have 3k. I'm really tempted to shove here, but worried that seat 6 will snapcall me with AT or 77, I look down at 32o and chicken out, and seat 4 and 6 get to showdown with QQ and JJ. wooo (despite that, seat 4s range is huge, so if seat 6 wasn't such a moron I would have probably shoved here and busted).
It was now the break and I was on 2900, expecting 75/150 the next level. I met up with the other guys, and ket was the group chipleader with 12k (in kets words 'I never folded top pair, and they kept bluffing')
Back at my table, I found out 75/150 didn't exist and we would be playing 100/200. I raised KTo on the button and the nit in the SB shoved and I had to fold, so was down to ~2200 after blinds passed. Ship push/fold.
The next hand I played, it was folded to the button who raised to 600 at 100/200. I had 1900 in the SB and shoved with AA. He tanked and folded getting 2:1. The next orbit he opened from the SB which he'd done a fair amount, and I shoved on him with A4. He called with AQ but I sucked out, and had ~6k. I made a few raises that didn't work, and was down to 4500. I opened AKs to 600 and the nit next to me shoved for ~6k. I called and won a race vs TT. I then doubled him up two hands later by just shoving on him when he was in the BB with A5, and he had AA.
So I now I had ~11k when my only big hand came up. utg opens for 600, and I made it 1700 on the button. The BB shoved for ~9500 and I snapcall with KK, but before I can turn over my hand he has his turned over, AA. Wonderful.
I was left with 1400 after that, and open shoved the next 6 hands (all were like A8s, 99, AQo etc) on my 6th shove, the BB angrily requested a count (despite someone asking for a count the hand before). I told him, and he asked what my cards were (lol?) I told him it was 2700 to call, and he could find out. He then asked if I had seen my cards, so again I told him it was 2700 to call, and then we could both look at what I had. He finally folds and I pickup the blinds again (I had 99 that time). The moron in seat 6 busts, and is replaced with someone with 8k, he instantly donks off like 5k of that, and I realise he sucks. He limps on the button and sb completes, so I shove KT from the BB. They both fold. The next time he is button he opens for 700 with a 3k stack, and I fold 33 in the BB. I guess I could have stop and go'd, but he seemed to be getting annoyed with people repopping him and I just folded. Very next time he is button, it’s folded to him again. He now has 2400 and raises to 900 at 100/200. Sb folds and I look down at A7c. I had 2100, but he really didn’t seem strong (and he had folded earlier getting like 3:1 after he raised and some kid shoved). I figured it’s likely I have the best hand, and who knows he might fold. I push and he throws his cards into the table towards me, complaining all I do is push. Live players suck. Another hand it’s folded to boring moron in seat 5 (im BB) and he tanks, and asks if im going to push. I ignore him and he folds and sb raises me and I look down at 73o and turbo fold. Seat 5 announces he folded 77 because he was sure I was pushing... lolz.
This table now breaks and I move back across the room close to where I started.
Blinds were now 100/200/25 and ket wandered past informing me that his 12k stack vanished in an hour, and he was going to play cash. He later informs us about his best played hand ever... Basically someone raises and he calls with 64. Flop comes K32 and they pot it, and ket floats. Turn is like a 7, and ket reinvents the rules of poker, and decides he has a straight and calls to TRAP. Turn pairs the 3 and the guy pots it again and ket being a supernit live decides he’s only going to call and confidently tables his 6hi... oops? Despite having created this wonderful table image, he now leaves in shame... lol.
Anyway, back to my tournament, I move to this new table with 1900 and everyone is joking and laughing and buying each other drinks. Seems a really soft table. One table across from me, there was a man who looked really familiar. For anyone who knows about football, I support spurs and he looked SO MUCH like Teddy Sheringham. I kept staring at him and I think he noticed, but then I got distracted by his super hot wife/girlfriend/escort.
NINJAEDIT: After i busted, i wandered over to his table on my way out, and apologised for staring at him and asked if he was indeed Tedy Sheringham, and told him i used to support spurs. He says he is, and i realise i don't have a pen or anything for him to sign. I just wish him luck since he had a huge stack, and wandered off. I expect he doesn't get recognised that much by Americans so he probably didn't care.
Anyway, I basically play no hands since everyone is opening and then showing AKs or AQ etc so I couldn’t even resteal. I push once with A2d from CO and pick up the blinds. Then the CO with 10k limps, and I have 2k and 67s in the SB. I'm tempted to shove but he limped AT earlier, and im not sure he is folding KQ or A9 here to me. I just complete planning on trying to win any flop that remotely hits me. BB checks and the flop comes K72r. I check, BB checks and CO bets 250 into the 750 pot. I shove and the BB tanks for about 4 minutes. Finally he flashes his cards to the guy next to him and folds. The CO explodes claiming he should get to see those cards, and the dealer tells him he can at the end of the hand. CO folds as expected, and BB's KQo is shown, lol. I don't complete here with anything that beats KQ except 22, I’m so glad he wasn't a thinking player.
I bust the very next hand when I shove 84s from the SB for 10bb and BB tanks and finally calls with 33. I'm quite liking the race, but the 3s hold and I’m out. Mig busted about this time too and we go to buy some stuff I needed for the house, and food (mig insulted pretty much every item of food I bought, apparently I pick bad brands? He claims my jam will kill me, so I think I’ll test that out soon).
We head back to the house and ket is already home after his 6hi call, and rain has also busted. We talk about bust hands and random stuff and ket wins money off rain playing pool. By now it’s like 11pm and everyone seems kind of tired so ket goes to bed, and I decide to read cardplayer for a bit and sleep until mig decides to go to the cinema with myth, so I got up again.
We went to see the midnight showing of oceans 13, which I thought was really slow and fairly boring - it wasn't like the first two which were exciting and fast moving. I won't spoil the film since im sure most people will see it, but I thought it should have been much better.
Anyway, that’s my blog up-to-date now, it’s now day 3 at like 2pm and I’m still in bed writing this. Mig has already busted the $5k PLHE (yes, it started at 12). Apparently he had a really tough table (yes, he told us how soft the PLHE would be before the event) with Steve Paul Ambrose, Greg raymer, Scott clemence (bigriskky) and some other live pros. There was one big fish at the table though, so mig kindly gave all him chips (10k stack at 25/50) to the fish.
Actually it was a lame setup hand, fish minraises utg at 50/100 and 3 callers, so mig calls in the BB with J9d. Flop comes 267dd and mig check calls 600 and is HU with the fish. Turn is Td and fish bets 800, mig checkraises to 3k and fish shoves with A3d.
We are going to see either hostel 2 or knocked up in a bit, and then I think im going to play live sats. Hope this blog is kind of interesting; I will get my phone working soon hopefully and start including pictures!
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