June 9'th - another quick update
by Adanthar on 06/10/07
Today, unfortunately, was pretty much a wash. I busted out of the main $1500 event fairly early with AQ against AA on an ace high flop (yuck), then went to play satellites. To give you an idea of how those play, here is an actual hand from a $535 satellite:7 handed, someone limps UTG with 7 BB at 50/100. 1-2 other people call and the BB checks. The flop comes down A
7 6, the BB checks, and the limper shoves for 3x the pot. The limpers fold and the BB thinks, then calls the overbet for 30% or so of his stack.Limper: 9
6 BB: 5
4
Unfortunately, I'm good at running 70% into 30%'s, so despite that stellar standard of play, I went 0 for 2 in 535's and 0 for 1 in the 1K that I played afterwards. Oh well, (the day after) tomorrow is another day. In the meantime, tomorrow, about a dozen of us are playing the Sunday tournaments from this house - that ought to be fun.
Comments
Anonymous says
Sorry to hear you're not running well at this point, but keep plugging away. It sounds like you got all of your money in with a TPAK type hand. What made you decide to put your tournament life on the line with this hand early on. Just curious what your thought process was.06/10/07
Adanthar says
It was an odd hand...I had about 5K at 100/200 when I raised AQ from the cutoff. The BB made it 1200 (I've seen him do it with AKs). In retrospect, in a live game, I can probably fold here, but calling getting 3:1 is just too tempting. A bunch of chips went in when he bet the AJ7 flop, and the rest went in on the J turn when I was pretty pot committed. Hands like this, ~20-25 bets deep, are more or less just hitting reverse one outers.06/10/07
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