 Vegas June 2011 (WSOP) |
| Day 3 - Mega Stack |
| Last Updated: 2011-06-27 13:30:09 |
| Long day today, I'm starting to type this up as I watch Phil Helmuth trying again for his first non-Hold'em bracelet in the final table of the $10K stud 8/b tournament.
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| Started the day having breakfast w/ Leon at the Rio buffet. Good but as I always say breakfast is breakfast.
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| First I'll talk about Leon's day, he had one big hand and built a nice chip stack, but later got crippled when he got all in w/ KK and ran into AA and QQ. The aces held up. He ended up 245 out of over 3000 players.
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| So my day started out in "here we go again" mode. Got pocket aces, got one pre-flop caller, nothing else. Two hands later pocket aces, someone raised into me, I reraise to isolate, everyone folds including original raiser. Round or two later aces again, again one preflop caller, nothing else. At this point I'm a little frustrated that I can't get paid w/ my big hands.
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| But finally, finally I get aces and someone gives me 3/4 of their stack and I take off from there. I only had one takeout, but over the next several hours I win enough pots to stay above average stack and probably only saw a few river cards the whole time.
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| Unfortunately my inability to win a big pot caught up w/ me by the dinner break, although my stack wasn't shrinking it also wasn't growing and blinds and antes caught up to me.
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| Then I made a rare mistake. A-J under the gun I just raised instead of shoving, I was pot committed. Got called, flop 2-J-5, all the chips go in, he had pocket deuces...and out of 682 I was about 80-85 with 63 paying.
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| ARGH. So close...
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| Obviously it was a cooler of a flop, but I should have just shoved preflop. Who knows, maybe he calls anyway and it doesn't matter.
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| So we met Leon and Leon's father-in-law at the Rio to play in the nightly deep stack and after buying in we found out that a huge final table in the $10k stud 8/b tournament. Helmuth, Benyamin, Forrest and Racener among the six left at the time. Joann went to watch that while the rest of us played poker.
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| I was up and down like a yo-yo, I had a lot of big hands but also lost some pots. I almost had the highlight of my day tho...
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| During one of the times I was up in chips I am in the cutoff w/ A-10 both hearts. Three limpers into me so I call, SB who seemed to be buying some pots calls and loose guy in the BB checks. Flop comes 2-Q-4 two hearts. Stealer bets, loose guy calls, I call w/ flush draw, over card and getting right price.
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| Turn a black jack adding a gutshot to my draws. Stealer checks, loose guy bets just 1/3 of the pot, I call with all my draws, stealer folds. River an off-suit 3.
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| Loose guy checks.
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| I decide to make a play I've never made. To this point I have only shown big hands and I've made value bets with big hands to extract what I could. I decide this is the time for a stone cold value bet bluff. I bet about 2/5 of the other guys stack, a bet that is just screaming I'm trying to suck this guy in.
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| The guy is convinced he is beat. But he thinks and thinks and I honestly think he just decided to see what I had and he made the call w/ pocket 5s. I never heard so many gasps at the table. Everyone else at the table was convinced I had him crushed...dammit.
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| I feel like I made the only bet I could make to win the pot, a shove would have looked fishy. Oh well.
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| After that I was short. Doubled up w/ kings, to get back in it, got crippled when I had 10s and got all in on a board of 7-8-9 and ran into kings and missed everything! Doubled and redoubled to again have decent stack only to get kings one more time, called by QQ, Q in the door and I was done.
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| So joann and I are still watching this final table, three handed for over 2 hrs now because Racener keeps sucking out. But now we have to see what happens...
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| Tomorrow will be PLO at Caesars at 4:00 after a morning at the pool. |
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