 Vegas June/July 2022 (WSOP) |
| Day 13 - Aria |
| Last Updated: 2022-07-05 09:31:06 |
| Dunno what's more frustrating, being card dead for long stretches or actually getting cards but getting the minimum out of them...
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| Usual morning, you know the drill by now.
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| Sit down just a little after the tournament started. Guy to my right got himself short stacked and went all in three straight hands. Next hand he doesn't go all in, I look down at A-K off. I raise out to 800 at 200/300/300 blinds and get one caller, I think the big blind. Flop comes Ace high with all hearts, I have top pair, top kicker, nut flush draw. She folds to my continuation bet.
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| Next hand guy to my right folds again, I look down at A-K again. This time I make the same raise, see a flop 5-handed and completely whiff and with several acting after me I have to check/fold.
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| Hand after that guy to my right goes all in and I look down at 6-4 off.
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| About 20 minutes later I make it 1500 to go with pocket 9s and get two callers. Checks around on all three streets as the flop comes 8-J-K, board runs out 2 on the turn and 10 on the river, 9s actually good on that scary board!
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| But call a raise and a reraise to 1200 and then 3000 with A-K off, whiff on a paired flop, fold to a c-bet.
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| Under the gun plus 1 makes it 1100 to go, he gets two callers and I 3-bet to 4400 with 99. Everyone folds. Nice pickup there without having to see a flop.
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| Next hand I get pocket aces and make it 1300 to go, only the big blind calls and folds to my bet post-flop. Minimum with aces.
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| Lose a chunk defending against a very loose player when I defend my blind with a junky J-5, hit the 5-high flop but run into his pocket queens when he leads out on a river queen. He either had a monster or air and it wasn't air...
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| Finally tho I get something out of aces.
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| Middle position player makes it 1300 to go, I pop it up to 3200 with my rockets, it folds around to him and he calls.
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| He calls for another 3200 on a jack high flop but goes away when a 9 hits the turn and I lead out for 5500. I believe with that 9 two flush draws were out there so I was definitely making any draws pay to see a river.
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| 24,100 at the break, started out with 25k.
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| For the next hour and a half after the break I'm mostly card dead, but I do make the most of what little I had to work with.
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| Raise out on the button with 5-4 suited when it folds to me, small blind calls. Flop comes A-3-7, which is a great flop. I can represent the ace and if I'm called I have a double-gutshot stright draw. I bet and he folds.
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| Similar hand a little while after that, 10-9 of spades is a raise second to act, only the big blind calls for 2500. Flop 9-7-K with two spades, I lead out with middle pair and a flush draw and he folds.
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| But ... that was about all my fun. Same loose guy who I ran into queens against, playing like 80% of hands, raises out in my big blind. I'm down to 16 bigs and look down at A-8. This is a perfect spot for me to go over the top and steal his raise ... and he of course had A-K.
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| Grrrr. The two times I get involved in hands with this guy playing all kinds of hands is when he actually has it. Can't get a break...
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| Flop misses both of us, he turns a king and I'm done.
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| I heard there was a weekly HORSE tournament at the WSOP on Mondays, but it was cancelled due to overwhelming response for the Main Event that was on Day 1B along with a $1k buyin bounty tournament they're running with multiple flights.
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| So that was my day as far as poker. Joann was spending a day catching up on finance stuff on her laptop in the room so I just hung out in the room myself and typed this up then grabbed a couple slices for dinner.
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| I was planning to do Aria again on Tuesday but I'm talking myself into 8-Game Mix at 2pm at Orleans instead. |
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