Tues Tournament
So I hopped in the tournament this past Tuesday. Pretty great night for me, even though I finished 15th paying out a whopping $148. After the $100+30 buyin, I made $18. Sweet.
But the night was awesome. I felt like I played very well until the last 30 minutes or so, isn't that always how it goes? A few notes...
Third hand or so after we started I picked up A9s in late position. A couple limpers around to me of the T$100 blind. I raised to T$400. The blinds folded and I only got one caller second UTG. Flop comes AJ9 rainbow and I check the other guys stack, seeing I have him covered by a couple hundred is all. I go ahead and push in and he quickly calls turning over QJo. Sweet, he's drawing very thin. Turn blank, river J and I'm down to T$200. :-( Hanging on by a shoestring, I pushed in a couple times with big hands (that certainly came at the right time!) JJ, KK (x2) and AKs all held up on all-ins preflop to double me up a few times and get me back in the mix.
From there I was making good moves. Playing within the limits of my cards for the most part, but had one hand that I was particularly proud of. Raised the BB 4x UTG with 44. Got 2 callers. Flop comes AT4 rainbow. First to act, and with a bully in the hand, I thought for a minute (normally here, I'm pretty aggressive and would push in, which probably wouldn't have changed the outcome, but I still liked the variety of my thought here) and I checked. The bully asked how much I had left and it was about T$2k. He said "alright, I'll put you in" and bet out. Player behind him folded and I quickly called. The set held up to his AQo and I was dancin.
From here I built up an above average stack, and got to be about 3rd/4th in chips as we approached the bubble. Lots of banjo strings as we got closer to the money and I was taking advantage of it stealing blinds with 4xBB raises preflop pretty well. Down to 21 players (20 is money) I gave away T$10k in chips with a stupid move. There was a guy playing pretty loose at our table and had some steam going stealing blinds as well. He raised 4xBB 2nd UTG and I looked down at KQs. I figured him to be stealing so I put T$10k (about a 3x reraise) in the pot figuring him to be smart enough to fold as we were so close to the money. Unfortunately he either had a hand or grew some serious cajones and pushed in over the top of my re-raise! Ugh. He had me covered and I didn't want to put my money finish on the line and folded. Yuck!
That chopped me pretty good and I was down to T$5-6k. Once again, picked up a monster - KK UTG and got a caller on my push. Doubled up to 10-12k and got moved to the other table. Blinds were at 2k/4k and were almost to me when I got a suited K (K6 I think) UTG. Figured a push would get me the 6k in blinds but ran into AA on the button. I needed diamonds bad! Wouldn't you know it was time for a miracle flop and it came QQQ pretty much drawing me dead. Needing KK to come, it didn't and I was out 15th for my $18 payday.
I'll probably play one night a week at least from here until June when I'm playing the WSOP $2k buy-in event. I'll continue to post recaps if anyone cares to read them. ;-)
Cheers.
But the night was awesome. I felt like I played very well until the last 30 minutes or so, isn't that always how it goes? A few notes...
Third hand or so after we started I picked up A9s in late position. A couple limpers around to me of the T$100 blind. I raised to T$400. The blinds folded and I only got one caller second UTG. Flop comes AJ9 rainbow and I check the other guys stack, seeing I have him covered by a couple hundred is all. I go ahead and push in and he quickly calls turning over QJo. Sweet, he's drawing very thin. Turn blank, river J and I'm down to T$200. :-( Hanging on by a shoestring, I pushed in a couple times with big hands (that certainly came at the right time!) JJ, KK (x2) and AKs all held up on all-ins preflop to double me up a few times and get me back in the mix.
From there I was making good moves. Playing within the limits of my cards for the most part, but had one hand that I was particularly proud of. Raised the BB 4x UTG with 44. Got 2 callers. Flop comes AT4 rainbow. First to act, and with a bully in the hand, I thought for a minute (normally here, I'm pretty aggressive and would push in, which probably wouldn't have changed the outcome, but I still liked the variety of my thought here) and I checked. The bully asked how much I had left and it was about T$2k. He said "alright, I'll put you in" and bet out. Player behind him folded and I quickly called. The set held up to his AQo and I was dancin.
From here I built up an above average stack, and got to be about 3rd/4th in chips as we approached the bubble. Lots of banjo strings as we got closer to the money and I was taking advantage of it stealing blinds with 4xBB raises preflop pretty well. Down to 21 players (20 is money) I gave away T$10k in chips with a stupid move. There was a guy playing pretty loose at our table and had some steam going stealing blinds as well. He raised 4xBB 2nd UTG and I looked down at KQs. I figured him to be stealing so I put T$10k (about a 3x reraise) in the pot figuring him to be smart enough to fold as we were so close to the money. Unfortunately he either had a hand or grew some serious cajones and pushed in over the top of my re-raise! Ugh. He had me covered and I didn't want to put my money finish on the line and folded. Yuck!
That chopped me pretty good and I was down to T$5-6k. Once again, picked up a monster - KK UTG and got a caller on my push. Doubled up to 10-12k and got moved to the other table. Blinds were at 2k/4k and were almost to me when I got a suited K (K6 I think) UTG. Figured a push would get me the 6k in blinds but ran into AA on the button. I needed diamonds bad! Wouldn't you know it was time for a miracle flop and it came QQQ pretty much drawing me dead. Needing KK to come, it didn't and I was out 15th for my $18 payday.
I'll probably play one night a week at least from here until June when I'm playing the WSOP $2k buy-in event. I'll continue to post recaps if anyone cares to read them. ;-)
Cheers.
posted by Daniel Hoerr at 1:33 PM
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