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WSOP update - Fail times 84
iakim322, June 20
More failure. Let's see what I can remember so I can look back on this log and kick myself in the face after the series. $1,500 PLO. I doubled up early with top two + nut FD against a naked made straight, gave some back with flopped trips top kicker against someone's flopped low boat, then lost a funny hand where I flopped the nuts with a re-draw with 4/4/3/5 in the bb on a flop of A/2/4 whereas a guy had 3/5/K/9 for the nuts with a re-draw to the flush. The flush got there and the pair up didn't. gg.
$2,000 event. Ran pretty hot to start to run up to a 12k stack early. Got card dead, got my opens shit on constantly by crazy aggressive players who kept getting moved to my left before busting only to get replaced by a clone, and had to 'get by' on about 9k chips. Bust-out hand comes abruptly when I open UTG+1 with kings (real hand for once), aggressive player to my left calls, bb tank/calls, and we take about a 2900 chip pot to the flop which comes K/Q/J all diamonds. All of us had near identical stacks. BB checks, I cbet 3/4 pot, player tank/all ins, bb tank/calls all in, and I say FML before quickly shipping it in. Aggressive guy has 7/10 of diamonds, bb has naked Ad and gets there while I don't. gg.
$2,500 6 max event. Initial table is yellowsub, shaundeeb, aejones, and some pokerstars guy who I didn't recognize. A pretty disgusting table draw really. But I survived the table...in fact I fortunately chipped up all the way to 13k from the starting 5 before we got moved relatively early. I get to my next table at level 3 which is where I sat at for the rest of the day, and it was exponentially better. Only one young kid who has a big chip stack whereas the others looked to be clueless nits (I turned out to be right). Chip up without showdown to about 20k, go on break, and the first hand after break, I double up through the kid for an overwhelming chip lead of the table (and at the time, one of the chip leaders of the tournament). Doubling up in a massive pot is easy when you have the nuts. He never showed what he had. I chip up some more to 54k when my first crucial race comes up. Kid has 11k left, opens to 1100 at 200/400, sb short stack jams for 1700, I'm in bb with 10's and iso to 5k, kid tank/ships, and I reluctantly call. Kid has A/K and I lose the race. I chip up once again mostly thanks to a middle aged Asian degenerate type guy who I think I could have played with a blindfold on. Standard hand would be...he limps (yes...limp at 6 handed)...I raise 80% of my starting range...he calls...I cbet any flop...he fumbles with all his chips to fake an all in...but then always folds...or I open...he defends sb or bb...cbet...fold. Rinse and repeat. Chip back up to 55k only to have the following hand come up. I open queens to 1100 at end of level before break, he calls out of sb with 11k to start the hand, flop comes J/8/6 with two diamonds, I bet, he jams, I snap thinking I have the nuts, and he turns over 8/6. Back to low 40's. Come back from break and turbo chip up, again in part to the Asian with newfound chips. I get all the way to 84k without much showdown (open c/bets, a couple aggresive c/r's, a couple passive flop calldowns + river vbets with a pair, a double draw made). This is where I'm supposed to say...yea...omfg I was playing such awesome tournament poker...best poker I've played in my life....I was raping everyone out of pots and just mindfucking people. Like some poker fags. But no not really. Yeah I think I had a good handle of my table, but everything really did fall into place when I wanted it to. Opponents calling/folding exactly when I wanted them to. It was a great run of cards/timing. I even made a clear mistake when I failed to get max value out of my only monster hand, a turned flush, against Raszi. It's also not like I was really 'running' the table. An aggressive ladbrokes player with a dangerous chip stack was opening so much to the point that I picked a couple spots to slow him down with extremely light 3bets pf. I even bluffed him on a 4 card broadway board on the river after 3betting pf with junk and cbetting the flop. He had me a little on edge though it was funny since Raszi ended up owning him with a triple barrel bluff and then getting him to go in with 9's against Raszi's kings (two out'd. poker ftw right?) Turns out though that my downfall would come with two newer players instead. Doug Kim got eliminated earlier after nursing a short stack and a weak player took his spot. Then to my left, the old guy got eliminated and The Prevaricator (?) filled his spot with a dangerous stack. I went into the final break of the day having topped 100k chips which was probably good for top 10 in chips. I was so sure I'd have a good chance to make a deep run into Day 2. Premature to say the least. I get back and chip up to 111k at 500/1k with the money having been burst at 100 players left. I then get into a race with 6's against A/9 against the weak player for a 35k chip pot. Flop KK5, turn J, river J. Down to 90s. Weak player who had been taking down every flop but had opted to show a couple hands chips up to 50k and my nightmare happens. He opens to 3300, I flat in the BB with AQ. Flop comes A/4/4 with two hearts. I check, he insta bets 5800ish. I c/r to 19k. He tanks for a little then shoves. I say fml and call. He has AK. I don't get there. I decide that 40k is still enough to do damage (positive thinking even though I had just been at 111 not long ago!) when I see pocket 6's in the BB at 600/1200 with 41k in chips. The Prevaricator opens, I call from the BB. Flop is 2/4/5 with two clubs. "Fuck...my life" pops off in my head even before I checked to him. Same story. He bets, I c/r, he shoves, I call having committed myself and he shows pocket 5's. I somehow don't get there with running clubs.
So my hopes get dashed on two mistakes + semi-coolers. First of all, the AQ hand. I strongly feel that mixing up between 3 betting pf and calling like I did is the way to go. I really dislike the notion that it's an 'automatic 3bet.' That's okay since the only one who's said that so far is the one who's poker skills I respect the least. Given that, apparently the line I should have taken after talking to a few people including eric and dan is...if I'm going to smooth pf, c/c flop then lead/evaluate on turn. I wouldn't have liked to check twice to him (didnt think about c/c and lead turn) so I didn't c/c flop which was my mistake. I initially thought that it was just a cooler since he had the single hand that I can be genuinely afraid of by the way he bet that flop. I think I got it into my head too much that its 6 max and that a weak player with A/8-A/J would have a good chance of stacking off there. I do still feel that the specific player could have stacked off with such a hand like AT or AJ, but what he most likely would have done is just call my raise then call off the turn. Raising there does put me into a somewhat retarded spot when villain does shove over like he did since A/Q is at the bottom of my genuine hand ranges. When stack sizes allow me to jam an opponent all in or have myself be all in (shorter stack sizes), it's feasible that I c/r with a flush draw with a good read. In fact, I did do it to someone earlier in the day on a nearly identical board. But it's terrible to do so with it in this spot with these stack sizes so the issue of having balanced my c/r range so he stacks off lighter isn't really logical either. As for the 6's hand, my housemate Jonny, Schwah, who was busy owning the 3k event at the same time said something interesting afterwards. Against a good player in that spot, he often prefers just flat out folding pf to even the simple open raise instead of generally set mining. I didn't even consider that. The flop is really really gay in that it's difficult to play without exposing myself once again. But the point is that I'm not going to outplay a good player with 6's oop nor am I going to get full value often enough if my set hits so at that stage with my chip stack, maybe fold pf would have been fine. As played, I'm still not sure what's best. Leading may be good except if he calls behind, it leaves me in a shitty spot where I'm going to get outplayed a lot of the time depending on the turn card. C/C'ing sort of leaves me in a similar spot. C'r'ing gets some folds out of random overs, perhaps some call offs with A/K, A/Q's with a club, and makes me look retarded when I'm behind like this.
So that sucked dick. My regret is that after having played a fairly adequate, generally solid-passive (besides pf) style with only sporadic mixed in 'play for stacks' aggression throughout the day, I picked the worst times to pop off. Afterwards, time seemed to slow down for awhile. It was a pretty gut wrenching feeling to be in a good position only to epic fail. I moved up my trip to SD for my bday by a couple days, flew out the next morning, and have had a refreshing time here since in the last few days. I'm flying back tomorrow morning hopefully to finish out the series with a strong effort. $1500 tomorrow then maybe the 1k rebuy on Wednesday. The $5k 6 max is on Thursday and while I did feel the 6 max tourney was good for me, I'm pretty sure that one will be an endless succession of minefield tables. Translation for EV nerds: not great expected value! Hopefully I won't continue to lose races (I don't see how this keeps happening when I'm the same fuckin house as Cosmo) and then suck at poker and then choke.
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