 Vegas June/July 2022 (WSOP) |
| Day 6 - Fast exits at the WSOP |
| Last Updated: 2022-06-28 12:01:10 |
| Sunday was a good day. Monday, not so much...
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| Breakfast from Starbucks, I sat in the shadow of shrubs to finish up the BLOG, showered up and headed over to Bally's and the Day 2 room.
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| Unbagged our chips, agreed Matt would sit down first.
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| It was quite simple. We were 170th of 183, 46 from money but less than 15 big blinds. Looking for a hand to go all in with.
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| Matt's first all-in got through and he stole blinds. Second time he looked down at A-10 of spades, easy decision to push it all in, ran into A-J, done. I never even got to sit down, but what can you do. Matt did the right thing, didn't work out.
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| Lunch at Salt and Ivy in Aria and back over to buy into the WSOP Pot-Limit Omaha 8/b tournament.
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| Got in line just after 3, sat down around 4:30.
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| In my first half hour before the break I won one pot, I turned trip 2s after calling a preflop raise and everyone checking around on the flop. Maybe the only pot I won, period as I think about it.
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| Matt and I talked a little bit after our bustout and I had told him at the time the the one thing about playing 8/b at the WSOP was that for the most part players are competent and you don't get a whole lot of maniacs...
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| Naturally there's a guy at the table who's playing 90% of hands and betting 100% of flops if action is on him with no bets ahead of him (and he's calling most post-flop bets). I already know this is going to be a high variance afternoon.
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| I did give him some chips when I flopped two pair but had no low draw, had to give up when a possible low came in on the turn.
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| Unfortunately a guy like this you just can't put on a hand, and you can't just fold all the time...
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| So then I pick up A-2-2-8 with A-8 of spades and of course he's in the pot.
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| Flop came Q-3-5, I check, he bets 1K or 1200, I call. Here's where it gets whacky...
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| Turn is a 3. I check.
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| Dealer burns and puts out a 5 for a river card, pulls the remaining deck, the burn cards and the muck into one pile of cards. 5 not good at all for me, but you notice what I didn't say?
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| She didn't wait for the other guy to act! He didn't move at all.
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| FLOOR!!!!
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| Floor comes over and we're going to shuffle the pile of cards and deal a new river off the top of the deck. I get a second chance!
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| But he still gets to bet the turn first, another 2k, I call.
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| River is a 9, missing me completely anyway, done with hand.
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| Little while later I look down at A-3-K-10 with spades. This is a hand you always want to play...
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| Maniac raises out (because it's what he does) and the next guy to act was a guy who had just short-stacked himself because he got involved in a 3-way pot and got bet out of it after putting in a good chunk of his stack and was pissed he would have scooped it.
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| He does a "well fuck it" over the top raise. Generally I try and stay away from high variance spots but the bottom line is this is going to be a high variance table as long as we have Mr Maniac...
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| All the chips end up getting in from all three of us and both of them had exactly the kind of hands I expected them to have...
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| "Fuck it" had 2-4-J-K I think with one suit.
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| Maniac had A-5-something-something, I think it was 6-10 but not 100% sure, the other two aren't relevant aside from it not being a hand nobody should play for significant chips...
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| Flop 5-5-K. Turn a 5, done. He barely had me covered.
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| Brutal.
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| I was right about the situation, I don't like high variance lines but sometimes you just have to take them and it didn't work out for me.
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| Since I had nothing better to do I unexpectedly joined Joann to pick up Peter at the airport.
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| Ran out to my favorite Lee's out Sunset since we were 1/3 of the way there, came away empty, got Peter settled in his room, dinner at Tom's Urban and that was my day.
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| PLO8 again Tuesday but only for a couple hundred at Orleans.
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| Now that I know I won't be at a final table Wednesday will 100% be a day off. Peter's birthday, we're doing Smith and Wollensky and Blue Man Group. They're seeing the new cirque show "Mad Apple" while I'm playing poker tonight, Thursday I've scheduled packages for Peter and Joann to go shooting.
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| Neither has ever shot a gun before but Peter plays a lot of games that involve guns and as a post-birthday treat I thought it would be cool for him to actually fire a weapon and see what it's like. And if Joann is going to take him she ought to join in the fun as well :-)
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| Not sure if I'm doing PLO at the WSOP (a lower buyin deepstack) or limit O8 at Orleans Thursday but I'll decide that when the time comes. |
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