Like I said, I only won 8 pots today (4 in cash game and 4 in this tournament) so you know that this isn’t going to be a good result heading in. I played in very few pots in the first 2 levels. I raised with AJo from the hijack, only to get reraised from the button and fold. I limped with 44 and called a raise and folded when I missed the flop. I limped with 77 and folded to a 10x blind raise. That’s about it for the 1st 2 levels.
About half way through the 3rd level, I was down to about 5500 (original 7500 stack) and made it 525 from the cutoff with QJo and the blinds folded. The next hand I did the same thing with A7o and the blinds folded again (pots 5 and 6 on the day). The rest of 100-200, nothing happened and the first half of level 4 (100-200 25) nothing happened. There was an EP raiser to 600 and I found 99 in the SB. I regret not coming over the top here (probably the proper play) but just called and so did the BB. The flop came AK3 2 clubs and I check folded.
A couple hands later, I was in the cutoff with 1 limper in front of me. I found 2 black queens and made it 650 to go. The blinds folded and the limper called and the flop came A85. He checked and I c-bet 900 and he folded, giving me the pot. At the first break, I was at 6450 (of my 7500) so despite playing few pots, not a bad result at all.
Level 5 was 200-400 25 and I couldn’t find any spots here. The 2nd hand or so of level 6 (300-600 50) I was down to 4450 and if folded to me on the button. I found KJo and pushed all in. The big blind thought about and called and showed A9ss (I don’t know how he called with how incredibly tight I was playing but he did). The board ran out AQ8810 for a lucky river hit for me (I play so bad, fold for 2 hours and push all in with the worst of it—that was my last pot of the day BTW).
I think 2 hands later was my last hand. I found JJ and made it 1650 from MP. It folded to the SB and he made it 4200. He was a middle aged man who just moved to the table and had a TON of chips. My initial read was that he might just assume me a younger aggressive guy because he saw the KJ hand and he might be using his chip stack to bully me around. The BB then called all in for his stack which was about 4000 total. I really thought that with the action out there, he is doing this with any pair, or any 2 high cards. I think about it and think that even if he does have a hand bigger than mine (which I thought was incredibly unlikely) the SB would be priced in to call if I came over the top for my 5500 or so more and I would be a favorite to win vs his ATC (I came to this conclusion after thinking for a while). I pushed all in and the SB called (now all I have to do is win the side pot to make chips—10500 or so side pot, 13500 or so main pot). The BB turned up KK which is just too bad he wakes up with that hand there, and the SB, after much complaining, turns up AQ, which is also too bad he has to come up with that hand there. The flop comes A high and I don’t make a set and am eliminated.
This is the first way I have been eliminated recently that I am OK with. Another thing that perturbs about my tournament play is that, since the first tournament I played (6 tourneys), I have not been able to even double my stack at some point in the tournament. The most I have been at is like 1.6 or 1.7x my starting stack. This is odd because usually, I have no problem accruing chips at the start of the tournament. Usually my problem is winning races towards the end. Oh well, I am going to play in the noon tournament at the Venetian right now. Its only $150 and that extra $30 gets me an extra 2500 in starting chips and an extra 10 minutes/level so maybe I can use this to my advantage.
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