In any event, Sunday afternoon I drove to the B planning to play Day 1b on Monday of the $560 Deep Stack. Sunday night I played some cash and that was not really very good as I was card dead and generally couldn't find any good spots for "outplaying" opponents. SO I was down like 2 buy ins at 2/5 relatively quickly then grinded my ass off for hours to win back a buy-in and stumble up to bed down only one buy-in. Good example of how I ran was UTG raised to 20 and had one caller. I 3b to 85 with AA. Guy with 300 stack flat calls me prompting the original caller to come along as well. Sigh this will likely end poorly. Flop comes pretty ugly: 9TJ. This really smashes their likely ranges pretty hard; hands like 99-JJ; JT; KQ all crush this flop. So when it checks to me I check it back. Turn was a rag and checks through again. River was a 9 and UTG guy bets 125. I call to see J9. SO he called off 1/3 of his stack with J9 when I 3b and then luckboxes the flop and only gets 1 street of value. WP sir.
Anyway the tournament was deep stacked with 25k in chips and 40 min levels. Tab (B tournament director) even added some additional levels this time around including 250/500 and 2500/5000. Nice! As usual I will start out with my table make up:
Seat 1-Yours truly
Seat 2-Old guy who was literally color blind and kept putting the wrong chips in the pot. We had to call the floor at one point to determine if his "call" was, in fact, a raise as he had thrown the wrong chips in the pot
Seat 3-Guy I played cash with the night before who seemed solidish
Seat 4-Big strong Philly regular who seemed ok but a little hyper aggro
Seat 5- Another regular from NYC who just couldn't fold a pair...I would use that to my advantage later...I would get a lot of chips off of him
Seat 6-Hispanic guy who seemed tight aggressive
Seat 7-Borgata mid-stakes (5-10; 10-20) regular who plays tournaments like cash games which is to say he doesn't really understand stack size play/preservation..not a bad player by any means just a little spewy/trying to win every pot/etc
Seat 8-Young internety looking kid...very solid and aggressive
Seat 9-Old guy who was massively spewy and took absurd lines...very bad
In any event, this initial line-up was maybe a bit tougher than normal for these $500 buy in events but still some very soft spots.
First hand I played of any significance was with the NYC kid. I limped behind 2 others at 25/50 with 58dd in late pos. NYC kid made it 350 and 2 called in front of me. I called as well and 5 took a flop of Q59 with one diamond. NYC made it 750 and only I called. Turn was Td giving me a pair and FD. He only bets 750...so sure I'll peel one more with deep stacks. River was a black 8. He bets 1k...I make it 3600 and he calls and tables KK.
Few minutes later he would totally butcher a hand. UTG makes it 350 at 50/100 and gets 4 callers. I wake up with AA on the button and make it 3200 and NYC is only customer. He started the hand with 16kish. Flop came QT5 and he check calls my 5k bet leaving himself ~7500 behind. At this point I suspect he has AQ or JJ or maybe AK or TT (though I think we get it in if he has TT). Turn was a K which sucks cuz if he has AQ and thinks I have AK he can now find a fold. HE checks and I set him in until he finally tank folds showing AQ...damn why couldn't the turn be the case A. But his play here is elllll ohhhhhh ellllll bad. He calls a huge raise with AQ OOP then slams the flop, puts in over half his stack and then folds (although in this case he was right). Just not good play IMO.
So my stack was ~42k at this point when I got myself a bit later in a tough spot holding AK. I raised UTG to 550 at 100/200 and found 2 callers. Flop came K52 and I c-bet 850 I think finding 1 caller. Turn was a rag (maybe a 7) and I bet 1800 only to get raised by the hispanic dude to 5800. This is an easy fold that a lot of players can't get away from. Though I tanked for a bit I was never putting another nickel in the pot. He has to have a set here like every time. So I folded and he later told me he had KK so he had flopped the case K....ewwww.
I drifted down to 25kish playing super tight when I finally got someone to spew off to me. UTG was the "good" Philly regular and he limped in at 500/1000/100a. I woke up with KK and riased to 4200. He then shoves and I snap call expecting to see AK, QQ or the unfortunate AA...but no I get to see AT...wow. TO paraphrase Garth "If you are going to spew could you do it to my stack?"
In any event that got me to 52kish and from there I got to my high water mark of 130k with the following hand. A spewy big stack (SBS) was moved to the table with ~150k. I was sitting on the button with 65k at 1k/2k/300a. SBS opened to 7400 and I peeked at TT. Now the only thing I had to go off with him was that he had earlier raised much smaller and eventually showed KK. So with just this info my assumption is that he raises his more marginal hands bigger (pairs up to TT; AK; AQ; AJ, KQ, etc.) and his stronger hands that he wants action from smaller (pairs JJ+). So with this in mind I raise TT for value and raise rather big to 24k. When he flat calls I know know he doesn't have a bigger pair than me. When I put ~40% of my stack in he should know I'm not folding and there is no reason for him to get cute with a big pair. Anyway flop comes Q7J and he open jams all in. I have 40k left and this looks like an absolute bluff. I put him on AK or 99 at this point. If he has AQ, AJ, KQ or KJ he is going to check to me to get me to put more chips in first not shut me out of the pot. So I make the call and he tables 88. I fade the 2 8s left in the deck and get a workable stack for once.
A few tough hands dragged me down to abt 90k when play was stopped and we bagged and tagged our chips.
Yesterday we returned at 11 to play down to the money and eventual winner. I had about 35 BB to start but was really inactive for quite some time and drifted down to abt 20BB as the blinds moved up. I did make a pretty sick fold blind vs. blind. SB was a very friendly Asian guy from NYC who actually recognized my name from this blog. So we were talking a bit and he seemed to play pretty solid. In any event, I shoved on him a time or two with legit holdings. Then it folded to him in the SB and he raised 3x at 2k/4k/500. I woke up with ATs and this is normally a jam most of the time with 20ish BB in a BVB situation. But I just sensed he was strong and finally folded. He showed AQ so nice fold.
I chipped up with some shoving and some preflop raises to about 110k when my own spew came. The big stack in late position opened to 13k at 2.5k/5k/500a. SB then called and I peeled A4 of spades. Ughhhh. This is probably a fold given my stack size and being OOP but I talked myself into calling by saying I would only stack off with 2 pair, trip 4s, a flush draw or a miracle wheel flop. If SB folds I fold for sure but with his extra T$ in the pot I made the call. Sure enough flop comes 368 with 2 spades. Well we aren't folding now. I am just a slight dog vs. an overpair and with all the extra money in there it is time for me to take a flip. I check with intention of c/r all in. Big stack bets 40k, sb folds and I ship. Stack calls with QQ and I brick off to bust in 40th with 36 paying.
In hindsight, I hate my call pre. There just aren't that many flops I am really going to like and with my stack there will be much better spots. I mean I never play for a minimum cash. I play to go deep. In this case I got in a coin flip for ~225k chips. But that was almost as good of a flop as I could hope for and it still was only a coin flip so I think that a fold was more prudent pre-flop. Once the flop came the hand was totally standard by both of us.
So basically a shitty trip from every angle. Congrats to my boy Ian Paloma for his deep run.
Not sure I will go for the HOSE at Taj next week as the numbers have been pretty poor. Also other than deep runs in tournaments I realize that live poker is so phucking boring I can't stand it. But I will be back up in December for the WSOP Circuit events I am sure.
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