Vegas Trip - AVP Tourney at TI
by StrayBullet on 10/06/07
Day 3, 9/23:
Sunday was pretty light with the whip cream on the Irish coffee being the AVP Tourney at TI
I ended up finally getting some decent sleep before venturing out for various items I needed for the work week. Remind me to NEVER step foot again in ANY wal-mart EVER AGAIN....'nuff said
Next was lunch and back to Pop's I went for yet another philly steak...very nice people and another good opportunity for people watching. The weather is absolutely fantastic!
I just basically killed time before heading down to TI for the tourney. I got there around 6 or so, registered, then headed over to Canters Deli for a quick bite. What a buzz killer that was....nice enough service but SLOW AS HELL
I headed back to TI to meet some fellow AVPers and photos, not too sure I wanna see how they turned out, but what the hell, it was a good time. It seemed our table was having more fun than the other 2, as evidenced by getting a round of yager (?sp) bombs during level 1... 35 players ended up buying in for $70 ($2450) and payouts would be $712, $356, $224 and $143 ($1435). Thanks to LVM we eventually had pizza delivered and it was simply amazing to watch so many pies being DEVOURED so rapidly I got to meet several posters like Photoc, Rakewell, ILikeCheese, Joel1968, JohnDZ, Talon, Michelle, Doug, Frank, Terrence and others. As well as hanging out with familiar faces like Motorcyle John, Cindy, Scott, YappyDave, OD, LVM and my rum runner buddy, Mrs Lederer! I have a pretty good memory but if I'm leaving anyone out, I'm sorry. It's most likely because you thought I was being too off-the-wall. But like I said last nite, f'them :)
Like I mentioned previously, I wasn’t there to take the tournament as seriously as others, but we all had our reasons for attending. Nonetheless, I do recall some hands played
Early on I played a hand against Joel1968 from my bb, I’d called his raise with 98o. I’d paired my 9 on a safe, rainbow rags board. I check called all the way down, putting him on a big ace or paint, my first pot. We then had a hand, which was sequentially min-raised around the board, until it was discovered there was a 4 bet cap, and since no distinction was made between games, it was applied correctly here. The next had I played was pocket aces and was hoping for another round of mini-pops after my min-raise but was only greeted with 2 callers. I checked behind a semi-coordinated board looking to get in a check-raise which is exactly what happened, I showed, then scooped. I don’t recall the level but I think the next big hand I played was when I open-pushed my “compared to the blinds” short stack 54s. I got insta-called by OD with AKo. He’d chipped up very early on to over 20k, cards were slapping him silly, either connecting with the board or drawing out on the end. At any rate, we exchanged words from across the table, jokingly of course, but in the end, it was my paired 5 that scooped up the chips.
I think by now, we’d formed up the final table, but with only 4 players getting paid out of the 61% returned prize pool, cash was a long ways off. Even after doubling through earlier, the blinds were stack eaters and when I spied a lone king from mid-position, I decided to push. When I got overcalls by not one, but 2 other players, I knew I was in trouble and I could only hope my other card was a good one. It was, I held AKo and was up against QQ and some other hand I don’t recall. I spike a king, turned a queen and was sitting in decent position to make a money run. Players were dropping fast and before I knew it, we were down to the final 4. OD was making an AMAZING come back, eventually taking down 2nd place, what a work of art that was to watch! I was the short stack of the remaining 4 and had just donked off another 10k when I open raised from utg. OD pushed and I had to muck my rags. With 175k chips in play, I held roughly 26k or so and since blinds were at 2k/4k, I needed chips, and needed them BADLY!
I posted the bb and ILikeCheese (Mike) completed from the sb. I took a peak at my cards and in all honesty, it didn’t matter what I had, I pushed. I did this because any “normal” raise woulda been more than half my stack and good tourney strategy says to put ‘em all-in, if you’re going to raise. Now I coulda played the hand differently but I didn’t think Mike was trying to get tricky with a made hand, so adding the additional 20% to my stack was well worth it. Mike says something along the lines of, “I don’t know why but I’m going to call…” I certainly didn’t like it but I knew I wasn’t in bad shape, most likely 60-40 dog, meh. I’m still not sure if I like the call from Mike’s standpoint, but he felt the raise was too much and he was better than average considering we were 4 handed. If I recall correctly, he held K9o and I had something like T7s. I don’t know if he hit his card or not, but I do know I didn’t get any help, so it’s moot. I went out in 4th for a net profit of $73. No hard feelings of course, but I would’ve liked it much better if he could’ve found a fold. I said it last nite though, nice call and way to take it down I think Chris was calling the hand, and by the time the river had fell, he said I looked liked I wanted to stab someone. I guess I need to work on that
Thanks again to LVM for putting it all together, Doug for supplying us all with AVP.com in the first place, the ENTIRE TI staff and all those who could make it out….what a blast!
Sunday was pretty light with the whip cream on the Irish coffee being the AVP Tourney at TI
I ended up finally getting some decent sleep before venturing out for various items I needed for the work week. Remind me to NEVER step foot again in ANY wal-mart EVER AGAIN....'nuff said
Next was lunch and back to Pop's I went for yet another philly steak...very nice people and another good opportunity for people watching. The weather is absolutely fantastic!
I just basically killed time before heading down to TI for the tourney. I got there around 6 or so, registered, then headed over to Canters Deli for a quick bite. What a buzz killer that was....nice enough service but SLOW AS HELL
I headed back to TI to meet some fellow AVPers and photos, not too sure I wanna see how they turned out, but what the hell, it was a good time. It seemed our table was having more fun than the other 2, as evidenced by getting a round of yager (?sp) bombs during level 1... 35 players ended up buying in for $70 ($2450) and payouts would be $712, $356, $224 and $143 ($1435). Thanks to LVM we eventually had pizza delivered and it was simply amazing to watch so many pies being DEVOURED so rapidly I got to meet several posters like Photoc, Rakewell, ILikeCheese, Joel1968, JohnDZ, Talon, Michelle, Doug, Frank, Terrence and others. As well as hanging out with familiar faces like Motorcyle John, Cindy, Scott, YappyDave, OD, LVM and my rum runner buddy, Mrs Lederer! I have a pretty good memory but if I'm leaving anyone out, I'm sorry. It's most likely because you thought I was being too off-the-wall. But like I said last nite, f'them :)
Like I mentioned previously, I wasn’t there to take the tournament as seriously as others, but we all had our reasons for attending. Nonetheless, I do recall some hands played
Early on I played a hand against Joel1968 from my bb, I’d called his raise with 98o. I’d paired my 9 on a safe, rainbow rags board. I check called all the way down, putting him on a big ace or paint, my first pot. We then had a hand, which was sequentially min-raised around the board, until it was discovered there was a 4 bet cap, and since no distinction was made between games, it was applied correctly here. The next had I played was pocket aces and was hoping for another round of mini-pops after my min-raise but was only greeted with 2 callers. I checked behind a semi-coordinated board looking to get in a check-raise which is exactly what happened, I showed, then scooped. I don’t recall the level but I think the next big hand I played was when I open-pushed my “compared to the blinds” short stack 54s. I got insta-called by OD with AKo. He’d chipped up very early on to over 20k, cards were slapping him silly, either connecting with the board or drawing out on the end. At any rate, we exchanged words from across the table, jokingly of course, but in the end, it was my paired 5 that scooped up the chips.
I think by now, we’d formed up the final table, but with only 4 players getting paid out of the 61% returned prize pool, cash was a long ways off. Even after doubling through earlier, the blinds were stack eaters and when I spied a lone king from mid-position, I decided to push. When I got overcalls by not one, but 2 other players, I knew I was in trouble and I could only hope my other card was a good one. It was, I held AKo and was up against QQ and some other hand I don’t recall. I spike a king, turned a queen and was sitting in decent position to make a money run. Players were dropping fast and before I knew it, we were down to the final 4. OD was making an AMAZING come back, eventually taking down 2nd place, what a work of art that was to watch! I was the short stack of the remaining 4 and had just donked off another 10k when I open raised from utg. OD pushed and I had to muck my rags. With 175k chips in play, I held roughly 26k or so and since blinds were at 2k/4k, I needed chips, and needed them BADLY!
I posted the bb and ILikeCheese (Mike) completed from the sb. I took a peak at my cards and in all honesty, it didn’t matter what I had, I pushed. I did this because any “normal” raise woulda been more than half my stack and good tourney strategy says to put ‘em all-in, if you’re going to raise. Now I coulda played the hand differently but I didn’t think Mike was trying to get tricky with a made hand, so adding the additional 20% to my stack was well worth it. Mike says something along the lines of, “I don’t know why but I’m going to call…” I certainly didn’t like it but I knew I wasn’t in bad shape, most likely 60-40 dog, meh. I’m still not sure if I like the call from Mike’s standpoint, but he felt the raise was too much and he was better than average considering we were 4 handed. If I recall correctly, he held K9o and I had something like T7s. I don’t know if he hit his card or not, but I do know I didn’t get any help, so it’s moot. I went out in 4th for a net profit of $73. No hard feelings of course, but I would’ve liked it much better if he could’ve found a fold. I said it last nite though, nice call and way to take it down I think Chris was calling the hand, and by the time the river had fell, he said I looked liked I wanted to stab someone. I guess I need to work on that
Thanks again to LVM for putting it all together, Doug for supplying us all with AVP.com in the first place, the ENTIRE TI staff and all those who could make it out….what a blast!
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