WSOP Part 1b

Tuesday June 11

Came back to Venetian (well Palazzo really) for Day 2 of the PLO at 2 p.m.  There were 20 left with 18 cashing and I had an above average stack...prob 6/20.  Did my normal research on the table and discovered quite a few accomplished players.  One player in particular, however, had very few cashes.  This could mean he was very young and only recently eligible to play poker in casinos or he was a very recreational player who simply didn't have a ton of cashes.  That info would actually help me make a call for a lot of chips.  This player opens in EP (we are playing 7 handed though) and I call on the button with QJT8 single suited.  Flop comes T85.  He bets and I call.  I can raise here for sure but I have the button against what appears to be an inexperienced player.  Turn is pretty bad-7.  Goes check check.  River is J.  He then leads for almost 3/4 pot.  This represents 1/3 of my stack and if I am wrong I will be one of the shortest remaining stacks.  So I have top 2 which is essentially a bluff catcher on that board.  Then I think through what I had found out about him: he has very few cashes and he doesn't handle his chips very well.  Generally less experienced players bluff a lot more than they should and don't tell a particularly good story with their bluffs.  I would have expected anyone with a 9 in their hand to also have middle run down cards 7,8,T,J something like those cards.  If they held those types of cards they would be betting turn most of the time.  So I decide the only hands that beat me now are sets and I block 3 of them.  So after 2-3 minutes I call and he tables KQQJ and I scoop a good sized pot.  Thought through that hand well.

Anyway we get inside the money and I get coolered twice with 2nd straight and 2nd flush and am suddenly short with 15 left.  I hang in there for a while before badly missplaying KKxx hand that leaves me rather short.  Eventually I call OTB with AJTx and take a J7x flop.  I jam over a c-bet and see 77xx and its GG me in 11th for $2,500.

Played well just got a bit unlucky with 2 tables left and couldn't come back.

Wednesday June 12

This was the event I was most looking forward to: the WSOP $1,500 PLO.  Generally people play these PLO tournaments so poorly and I think my edge in them is pretty huge.  Well, I still believe that but 60 minutes later I was virtually out.  First hand that comes up is the following: there is a raise UTG at 25/25.  I 3b AcQdJdTc and UTG calls.  Flop comes 8c9c3h and we get it all in.  Odds are as follows:

Omaha Hi Simulation ?
820 trials (Exhaustive)

board: 8c9c3h

Hand	Equity	Wins	Ties
AcQdJdTc	70.12%	575	0
4c5c5h8s	29.88%	245	0

Seems like a good situation...lol.  But I lose obv and have to use my last 2 "rebuy" chips. So I now have 3k from original 4.5k and the next beauty comes up.  There is a raise up front to 75 (still 25/25), 1 call, I call in LP with JJT8 with spades and clubs, BB calls and we take the flop with a little over 300 in the pot.  Flop comes 79Q with 2 spades, 1 club.  Checks to me and I bet 200, UTG calls, original raiser calls.  Turn is a small club, checks to me I bet 600 into 900.  UTG c/r all in, original raiser sticks it in.  Amazingly neither of them has a spade of a club and I am looking good!

Omaha Hi Simulation ?
36 trials (Exhaustive)

board: 7s9sQc4c

Hand	Equity	Wins	Ties
JsJcTs8c	50.00%	17	2
Qh9hKh7d	41.67%	15	0
JhThKdAd	8.33%	2	2

Obviously I missed any 6, 8, T, J, K, club or spade and am down to 500.  Hang around for next 20 mins and finally bust when I stick it in with 6899 and board runs out all high cards.  Shortest $1,500 of my life!

Once I got short I started trying to figure out where to go if I busted.  Finally decided I would run back to Palazzo to play their $1,100 NLHE day 1b.  Got there about half way through the second level and quickly discovered this would be a very tough field.  My table had several name pros at it along with a few young internet players.  But I played my game and quickly had my stack up to 35k from 15k in 3 levels and kept it about there until dinner when I had ~38k.  Nothing super exciting happened after dinner and I slowly chipped up to 74k which I bagged and tagged for the night. 

Thursday June 13

We came back at 2 p.m. with 90 left, 45 making the money and 98k up top.  A lot of incentive to grind it up!  As with the 400 from the other day I would quickly lose a flip.  70-ish left and I have been really tight as there were 2 Euros and a Russian at my table just never giving up and trying to win every pot.  Finally I opened TT from middle position.  Blinds were 8/1600/200 and I opened to 3500.  BTN was a bad player and he just rips 32k in the middle.  This just seems like AK, AQ maybe 88-JJ.  I count down his stack and decide to call.  He has AJ...lol.  I mean I am playing super tight and he ships that garbage.  Basically the only hand he can hope I have is TT and fortunately for him...I have it.  Of course, I lose a flip to this jackass when he 4 flushes me..river Th just to rub it in. 

Anyway I grinded it out and won AKss>JJ all in on QsTsx flop.  Finally we were in the money and I was looking to double up.  Did win AA>AQ aipf but nothing else materialized.  Finally at 4/8,000/1ka I shipped QTdd  with 90k stack and Button woke up JJ and it GG Big Man for ~$3,100.

Played in an absurd 2/5/10 PLO8 game that night for quite some time and won ~500 after being stuck over 1k in about 2 hours.  I was the only player raising and finally got Ac2c8sTs and got ~$1,500 in on a 3cTc7h flop.  He never tabled his hand on an 8, K runout but tried to tell me I was behind on the flop....ummmm ok.

Flew home Friday the 14th for Father's Day weekend and to get some work done in the office this week.  I head back to Vegas on Monday 24th for another week of summer camp.  I am scheduled again to play a bunch of events...mostly at Venetian/Palazzo.  Going to stay at the Wynn this time as I got a really good rate and I couldn't give 2 shits about going back to the Rio.  My intended schedule:

6/24/13    Monday    Palazzo 4:00 PM   $1,100    Big-O 

6/25/13    Tuesday    Rio              11:00 AM        $580    NLHE
6/26/13    Wednesday    Palazzo        12:00 PM        $500    NLHE
6/27/13    Thursday    Palazzo        12:00 PM        $500    NLHE
6/28/13    Friday    Palazzo        12:00 PM        $1,100   NLHE
6/28/13    Friday    Palazzo        4:00 PM        $1,100    PLO8
6/29/13    Saturday    Palazzo        12:00 PM        $600    NLHE

We shall see though.  Nothing is set in stone and hopefully there will be a few Day 2's mixed in as well.  Might play the $3k PLO8 on Tuesday the 25th at WSOP too.