So I played the $5,000 NLHE 6-max tournament today and was really pumped since it was the first event I played in over a week (being gone to Mexico / back to Bay Area for the past few days). I land at a fairly unknown table and quickly realize that I struck gold with my table draw. There was a retard playing every single pot and staring people down like he was da man. There was an old guy who was limping a ton and minraising a lot, and doing very random bluffs with small sized bets. Joe Beevers from The Hendon Mob was at my table (more on this epic failure in a bit). The only somewhat competent player at my starting table was a european kid to my right who seemed to be fairly solid / aggro.
So I chip up to 16k pretty easily, mostly from value towning the retard who was playing every single pot. Then I pick up KK UTG, and I swear I haven't done this play in the longest freaking time because its sooo transparent, but at this table I felt like I could pull it off. I limped in from UTG, the kid playing every single pot makes it 400 to go (with 5k behind), Joe Beevers flat calls (with 5k behind), small blind calls. When action got back around to me I obv bomb'd it to 2,000. I get called in 3 places!?!?!?! Is this really the $5k 6-max event? R U SRS? So the flop comes down Tc-9d-7c, and I put both the retard & Joe Beevers all-in for their remaining 4k. The retard tanks for a little bit then calls with A9o. Joe Beevers insta-ships it in with 9c8c, and obv binks his suck out on the turn. Uggg, whatever shit happens, that knocks me back to 11k. Then Joe Beevers says something dumb like "I only called because that guy called." to which point my head almost assploded caz the retard didn't realize he just called off 1/3 of his fucking stack preflop with 98!?! But obv I keep my mouth shut. God live pros are so dumb sometimes 
I come back from break and play an interesting hand vs the competent aggro guy to my right, where we both flopped top pair in a blind vs blind situation but he had me out kicked, (my QJ vs his KQ on a Q-8-3 board) and took me to value town when the board ran out really weird. That put me down to 7k, I proceeded to chip back up to 10k before losing yet another pot to the exact same guy when he raised my blind with 98, I defended with Q8. The flop came Q-T-5 and he checked, and I decided to check behind. Turn came a J, he fired 1/2 pot I called. River came a 4 he fired 3/4 pot and I snap called only to see him have the winner again. It was really frustrating. That knocks me back down to 6k. I dropped all the way down to 3100 before doubling up with A3 vs KQ. I get back up to 7k at 200/400 level, then I flop top pair in yet another blind vs blind situation and check-shove right into two pair, so GG my tournament.
Tomorrow is the $2k NLHE, so I'm going to practice my guitar then sleep early for it. This entire series is getting pretty frustrating. Tomorrow = Serious Business.
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