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Bellagio: 3rd Place... F*ck My Life :( |
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JonnyCosMo United States. Apr 14 2008 01:12. Posts 7292 | | |
Got 3rd place after 2 and a half hours of playing at the final table. Gigabet is one of the most aggressive tournament players I've ever seen, and everything he does is pretty well thought out. JC Tran on the other hand... apparently misred my ability to soul read, and analyize situations perfectly. I was looking over the final table chip counts last night and realized an interesting dynamic that was going to pop-up:
1 Roy Winston (Las Vegas, NV, USA) Going to the final table with 255,500 chips - seat 8
2 J.C. Tran (Sacramento, CA, USA) Going to the final table with 200,000 chips - seat 3
3 Darrell Dicken AKA "Gigabet" (Waterloo, IA, USA) Going to the final table with 190,000 chips - seat 7
4 Jonathan McGowan (San Diego, CA, USA) Going to the final table with 156,500 chips - seat 4
5 Kevin Iacofano (Concord, OH, USA) Going to the final table with 90,000 chips - seat 5B
6 Frank Cremen (Las Vegas, NV, USA) Going to the final table with 88,000 chips - seat 1
7 James Hoeppner (Las Vegas, NV, USA) Going to the final table with 65,000 chips - seat 6
8 Vasile Buboi (Anaheim, CA, USA) Going to the final table with 64,500 chips - seat 9
9 Allie Prescott (Memphis, TN, USA) Going to the final table with 45,500 chips - seat 2
Note the chip counts and seats, JC Tran is to my direct right. To my left is Kevin Iacofano and James Hoeppner who were easily the tightest two players I have ever met in my entire life. So... on my button, Gigabet is UTG so his raising range tightens up considerably, while both those nits are going to be in the blinds and it is basically a free round of blinds for me as long as JC Tran behaves himself in the cut-off. So naturally JC Tran isn't going to behave himself, and I'm sure he realizes this situation as well. 6 hands into the tournament, and I'm not kidding, litterally the 6th hand of the tournament we are still 9 handed and this spot happens. Action gets folded around to JC Tran in the cut-off and I'm thinking in my head "He is raising the deck" so naturally he pops it up to 11k at 2k/4k blinds. I look down at Q9o with the plan to reraise anything decent, so obv Q9o in position vs the deck range is good enough and I reraise to 33k. Both blinds insta-fold (standard) and action gets back around to JC Tran. This is what I expect him to do: I expect him to fold some of his absolute crap that doesnt flop well, flat call with everything that flops even remotely well (all the way down to as bad as 53o) and reraise a range of like 77+ and AJ+ for value. My plan was simple, if he reships it preflop I have to fold, otherwise I'm more than comfortable to see a flop in position. JC Tran flat calls and instantly I know that to do this profitably with a wide range (which he does flat call here with a retardedly wide range) he will have to be shipping it in insanely light on the flop to give himself some fold equity. So the flop comes T-9-6 which is almost like the effective nuts for my hand. He checks, I bet 44k and action gets around to him and he tanks for a little bit then shoves all-in. Whaaaa? The tanking threw my off a bit, since I expect him to insta-shove if he was actually doing it light. I looked over at him and said "I don't think I can fold this hand". In my head it just felt like the sickest cooler ever if I was beat in this spot since Q9 on that board beats prolly close to 80% of hands he shoves with on that board (KJ, KQ, J9, 98, 76, 65, J8, 85, etc etc etc)so I call for my last 77k and someone asks if I have an overpair, and I'm like "wat?" He turns up 76s, and I yell "HOOOOLLDD" as I table Q9. The look on everyone's face was fucking priceless since half the table had no clue what in the world was going on, or how I thought Q9 could ever be good there. I looked over at Gigabet and obv you could tell he was just like "so standard, how do u not snap call that with Q9 lol" Turn and river brick, and I double up to over 300k + the chip lead. JC Tran shakes his head after the hand saying "I knew you were making a move" trying to justify his play in some weird way obviously not realizing how bad his preflop call was given the situation vs me.
Then I get card dead, which sucked. Finally we get down to 4 handed and the short stack in the sb shoves into me and I look down at Ac and think about calling with just looking at one, then I squeeze out the other one and bam it's the As. LOL GG! Flop comes A-4-4 and the guy's 88 was dead. 3 handed vs Roy Winston & Gigabet, I have the chip lead. Roy is playing very tight and basically letting Gigabet and I clash. I try and establish some dominance and Gigabet insta-puts me back in my place with some well timed reraises. God he's so good  Finally I get coolered when I call out of the bb with QTdd and the flop comes Q-9-9, I check he c-bets from the button and I check-raise an amount leaving enough behind where it looked like I could get shoved off the hand. He shoves, and I snap call caz I felt like I induced the shove given how we were playing and bam he happens to have AQ which was so sick! Finally I squeeze all-in with JTs for my last 12bbs and Gigabet calls with QJo and holds. Out in 3rd place for $58,890. Such a sick life Gigabet proceeds to annilate Roy Winston heads-up and wins. Boo!!!! Fuck my life 
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acdawg712 United States. Apr 14 2008 01:31. Posts 2639 | | |
i would hate to get 58000  |
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Baalim Mexico. Apr 14 2008 01:35. Posts 34252 | | | |
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Highcard Canada. Apr 14 2008 01:54. Posts 5428 | | |
It is going to be sick hearing all your cashes in WSOP this year |
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SemPeR Canada. Apr 14 2008 02:27. Posts 2288 | | |
there's always something to be disappointed about if you don't take it down.
Great cash.Cheer up. D: |
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TheHuHu United States. Apr 14 2008 02:43. Posts 4271 | | |
Anyone else think Jonny is going to FT the Main Event? |
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ahk88 United States. Apr 14 2008 03:08. Posts 635 | | | |
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Cray0ns United States. Apr 14 2008 03:23. Posts 993 | | |
Congrats - Jonny Freaking Cosmo - Xpert pwnage of JC Tran.<3<3 |
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JonnyCosMo United States. Apr 14 2008 03:33. Posts 7292 | | |
How sick would it have been if JC so happened to wake up with AA in that spot and get it in vs me caz then he could just look at me like 'wtf dumb internet kid never gives me respect' when he doesnt realize how sick of a fucking cooler it would have been with my read on the situation. |
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Silver_nz New Zealand. Apr 14 2008 04:26. Posts 5647 | | |
very nice write up. Think I just learned how to play poker better. |
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lachlan Australia. Apr 14 2008 04:27. Posts 6991 | | | |
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BIGlou83 United States. Apr 14 2008 07:02. Posts 305 | | | |
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Honestly i was routing for Gigabet |
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thewh00sel  United States. Apr 15 2008 09:50. Posts 2734 | | |
sick run in vegas jonny, keep it up! |
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