harlem (Anonymous) says

good luck the tables and stay away from fat guys

02/03/08

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Where are u playing?

02/03/08

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For whatever reason, Day 2 is easier to remember than Day 1...

My first table had several decent players, including WacoKidd with an identical stack to my right, but the main factor was the guy immediately to my left, a middle aged, very obese guy who had about 100K. On the very first hand, the action went, IIRC: old, nitty looking short stacked guy raises in EP for 1/4 of his stack, two callers including Waco in LP, the obese guy in the BB 3 bets pretty big, nitty old guy snap shoves. The first caller folds nines, Waco folds jacks, the old guy has tens and loses to the fat guy's...Q8 sooted. He then goes on to play every hand that can make a straight or flush while the rest of us are all salivating. Sample hand from the rest of the hour and a half I spent there: Waco raises on the button to 3200 at 600/1200, I flat call jacks because I want the guy in, the guy obviously overcalls. Flop Q92. I check, the guy instabets 10K, I get ready to c/c 3 streets when Waco snap raises to 35K, and I briefly debate shoving anyway but fold. The fat guy mucks pocket fours face up and Waco shows KJ. If I'd had QJo that hand, the chips were getting turboshoved.

Eventually, the table breaks with me still having about 70K and I get moved to a much tougher one. This one has a couple of bad calling stations on my left, but features an obviously good Internet player (who turned out to be Obsidian) one to my right, Joe Tehan ('07 Mandalay Bay winner) - a good, mostly TAG player who could smell weakness and 3 bet surprisingly often - directly to my right and some other people I can't remember now. There was also a guy across from me who'd been at my table for six hours the day before and probably thought that I was way more LAG than I am, which I figured I'd use somehow.

I forget how, but I bled off some chips and was down to just under 60K when I won a huge pot. With a well over 100K stack at 4/8, Obsidian raised on the button to 2200 (I didn't know who he was yet but figured his range was top 90%), Joe Tehan called from the SB with about 25K, I looked down at T9, decided squeezing Joe was too risky and called.

Flop 874. Joe checked, I checked obviously planning to CR, Obsidian bet 6K (I thought this meant some kind of a hand but still figured on him having a large range), Joe thought for a while and called - this would have been really bad but he genuinely agonized over it - and I took about ten seconds to make it 25K, just under half my stack (I thought I had 60K left at the time but evidently I had 55. Whatever.) Obsidian immediately snap shoved, Joe folded, and I made the 'hate life but whatever' call. I think we were both very surprised to see each other's hand when he turned over...96o (he'd misjudged my stack, too, and thought he had FE). The table and rail went nuts, of course, especially when we didn't improve and T high won the monster pot.

From there, I shortly won another big pot. The guy from my last table limped in MP at 600/1200 and I checked Q3o in the BB. Flop A33 ("gin"). I checked since MP wasn't calling a bet without an ace, he bet 2K, and I kinda thought about what to do on future streets. After a few seconds, I figured "hey, I'm from the Internet, he'll fall for this", double checked my cards for the flush, and called. Turn 9x; I checked again, he bet 7K since I had a flush draw, I double checked my cards one more time and called. River 2x, I immediately led out 12K, he instacalled and mucked his ace. That put me at 157K, about twice average at that point.

The downward spiral started after that, though, basically involving two hands. One was against Obsidian: I flatted his MP raise with KK on the button, got CR'd on the 772 flop, and called him down on an 88 board to see J7, lol (I think I should have folded the river, but it wasn't a huge deal). The other was basically a terrible 3 street calldown with TP against a tight FTP pro that I'd never played with before - after playing with him two more hours, I'd have never made it, but since I didn't know him, it cost me about 40K more than it should have. After that, I simply went carddead and busted several hours later shoving 33 into QQ. Meh.

Cutting this entry short in anticipation of Sunday.