This tournament left me with a shorter leash than the Venetian tournaments. The levels were a little longer (45 minutes) but we only started with 6000 in tournament chips as opposed to the 12000 at the Venetian. There were almost 400 people in this even so it really made it worth it. However, I just couldn’t get anything going and didn’t last too long.
The first level, I raised a lot of pots and didn’t really have too much success. I teetered around 5000-5500 for the most part of the level. I was in the BB with several limpers with J8 and the flop came 888. I checked and bet the turn and couldn’t get any action. I won another smaller pot when I raised in LP with KQo and blinds called. The flop came KT5 and he checked and I bet out and he called. I checked behind on the 4 turn and bet out on the river when it came a Q and he folded. I lost some pots when when I raised with A5, K8, and QT and got one caller and didnt hit the flop and my c-bet was either called or raised and I shut it down. I lost another pot when I raised on the cutoff with 98ss and the SB was the only caller. The flop came JJ9 and he checked and I c-bet 250 and he called. The turn and river came AK and he showed KT for a rivered pair of kings that were good.
I was down to 4900 or so and we went to level 2, 50-100. It folded to me on the button and I made it 250 with K7hh. The BB called and the flop came 762 all spades. He lead out for 250 and I raised him to 800 and he folded. I raised one limper with K9o and he called. The flop came AQ5 and he check/folded to my c-bet and I was back to my starting 6k or so. However, this was as high as I would get as a rash of reraises caught up with me. It all started when I raised it in EP to 250 with AQo. A guy behind me called and a guy behind him reraised. I folded and the 2 got all in with AA vs KK. After this I raised it to 250 with ATo, AThh, Q9o, and A7o in all kinds of positions and folded when I got reraised each time that I raised. I don’t know if they always had hands (they seemed like not good enough players to raise me without hands) but maybe they were coming over the top of me with air. Who knows. . .I think that by folding every time it was the right move. I found ATo again and raised to 250 in MP and got 2 callers I checked down a board of KQ464 and one guy had 55 which crushed me. It folded to me in the SB and I raised to 250 with 65o and the BB called. The flop came T53 and I bet out 300 and he called. The turn came a J and we both checked. The river came another 3 and I checked and he bet out and I folded and he showed a 3. I just couldn’t BUY (literally) a pot and I was down to 3300 and we took our first break.
We came back to level 3 (100-200) and I decided my image was already LAGgy enough (plus I didn’t have the chips to lagtard it up) so I went into ultra tight mode, planning on folding through level 3 until we got the antes in level 4 to start push stealing. I folded for a couple orbits and found 99 in the hijack with a limper. I raised it to 525 and everyone folded. A little later, I found 22 in MP and made it 475 (I know that im playing tight but im not not opening with a pair here). A guy in LP called, the SB called, and the BB pushed all in for around 2500. I thought about calling but I folded mostly for fear of the guys behind me. One of the guys behind called and the pusher had AK and the caller had KQ. A call here would have technically been the right play as I would have been in a coin flip but I would have lost the race so hindsight is 20/20. We were almost to level 4 (2 mins away or so) when I was UTG +2 and found AQss. I pushed my final 2600 chips in the pot (as I don’t see how I can just raise and fold here) and it folded to the BB and he thought for about 30 seconds and said “god I hate calling here” and then called and showed AK (sick fkn slowroll dude). I didn’t catch and was eliminated not very far into the tournament.
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