Vegas June 2018 (WSOP) |
Day 9 - WSOP 8/b Mix |
Last Updated: 2018-06-17 10:59:27 |
I left one quick story out of my Day 8 entry that I wanted to cover real quick...
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It was after I had picked off the bluff but was back down around starting stack. An early position raiser who was on the tight side made it 700 to go probably at 200/100/200 blinds. I called with A-Q off. Folded around to one of the blinds and he made it 2200 to go.
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He was on the loose side and with position I fully intended to call the extra 1500. Tight guy doesn't look too happy and reluctantly decides to call...but accidentally grabs two 5000 chips instead of two 1000 chips. That's a raise...
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I have to fold, I can't call off half my stack with AQ. All the chips go in and tight guy only has 77, reraiser had JJ. Had I played I catch a queen, if he doesn't make that mistake I take a decent pot ... very frustrating!
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Bobby's Burger Palace for lunch for me, Joann and Dyan had big dinner plans so Joann skipped lunch and we all headed over to Rio.
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Omaha 8 or better mix. Pot-Limit, Limit and Big O (Pot-Limit and 5 cards to start instead of 4). We play 7 handed and rotate games every 7 hands.
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Didn't start out too great. For the first hour I didn't have a lot to work with, only picked up a couple of small pots but ended the round just under starting stack.
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Second hour was worse. I don't think I saw more than 6 aces in the first hour and 55 minutes including that first round. And only two of those were A-2 hands.
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However...in the last 5 minutes of round 2 heading into break...
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Playing Pot-Limit I pick up A258 with spades and diamonds and hit the nut low for half of a good sized pot. Next hand A28T with spades and clubs, flop 58T, I bet and get called. Turn a 9, not my favorite card(!) but I check-call a bet, river a 3 so I lead out for almost full pot and he calls...and I scoop. He said he had AAAx, didn't believe I had an ace and thought he had low and maybe AA was good for high.
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Nope!
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Patience rewarded, I'm at 11,100 heading into break!
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Stuck in neutral for hour 3, but I do avoid a disaster! I think it was P-L and not B-O when I play another A-2 hand with suited A in hearts. Flop came 4-6-T with two hearts, so a nut-nut draw against a stack shorter than mine. I bet pot, he calls off more than half his remaining stack, then all the chips go in on a 4 turn. Too much in pot, I can't fold. He rolls over A46T. He's already made a full house, I can't win high...but a 7 on the river saves me for a chop.
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10,800 end of third hour.
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Early in level 4 I pick up A26Q double-suited, flop 36Q so I have top two and a nut low draw. T on the turn, A on the river...top two pair somehow good for a scoop and I'm at 12,500.
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But as has been the case pretty much every tournament I've played in on this trip things quickly went south on me.
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Twice in three hands I flop nut flush draw with good or nut low draws and miss everything both times. In one case I ended up with two pair and a counterfeited low, lost to better two pair made low, the other case nothing came in. Back down to 8700 at the time, 8575 at the break.
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I think Patrick told me he was around 9100 at this time.
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Missed every flop on every hand I played next hour, somehow only down to 6100 at the end of level 5.
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Miss with a big starting hand, win a small pot, but whiff, whiff again and I'm under 5K. Only 4275 at the next break, end of level 6. FWIW already my deepest run at a bracelet event on the trip but that's small consolation at this point. Patrick was still above starting stack.
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After the break here's the sequence that busted me...all playing limit. Oh and one thing I hadn't mentioned to this point was that blinds were double for limit games, so we're playing 100/200 for the pot limit but 200/400 for limit.
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A247 double suited. Forget if I raised or called a raise, flop comes KQ9 with neither of my suits. Fold.
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A27J with hearts in big blind. Folds to small blind, he calls, I raise, he calls. Flop 38K, he folds as I reach for chips, I pick up 800.
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A268 with a suited ace. Raise out, 2-3 callers. Don't remember exactly the flop but it's two high cards and one low card. Someone leads out, as big as the pot is I call off 400 to see if anything can develop for me on the turn. Nope, another broadway card, done with the hand. 1200 out of my stack, down to 2775.
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Garbage hand in the small blind, fold, another 200 gone.
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On the button A247 two suits. I just call a raise preflop for a 3-way pot, at this point I've already put 1/3 of my stack in, I'm committed if I pick up anything at all...
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Flop 2-Q-J but one of each of my suit, so if nothing else half the turn cards are giving me a flush draw, I'm getting my chips in...
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Turn is an ace. I have two pair and a crappy low draw, I get in what's left of my stack. River is a 7 giving me a better two-pair.
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They both had all-high hands but better than mine, however my low was good if any 3, 5, 6 or 8 come on the river instead of the 7 and I would have gladly taken a 50% increase in my stack! And neither other player had even one of those cards so they were very live!
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But...a set of queens at the other end of the table scoops, I was drawing dead for high, and I'm done for the night.
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Patrick made what I believe is his first day 2!!!
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He bagged up 10,275. He's 180th out of 225, they are paying 116. He's got a long way to go, but he's alive with 10 big blinds in limit, 20 in pot limit.
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Plenty of chips!
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So we know what he'll be doing Sunday, looks like I'm going to spend my Father's Day playing in the senior event at Aria. |
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Nicholas "nick" Werle: | 2018-06-18 18:48:46 | after reading all posts you all played well
and got it in good. . darn |
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