Decided to come back for the main event after spending a bit less than a week back in Seattle. My roommates talked me into it by telling me how much EV I’d be missing out on if I didn’t play. After day1 I have 84k and I have to say I agree with them. There is just so much deep nl play it’s an amazing tournament. The only bad thing I might say about it is just playing one day of it and I’m hooked just like a drug addict. I’ll probably play this tournament every year for the rest of my life and I’ve added a nice little $10k to my yearly expenses. I’d rather not go into specific hands or strategy while I’m still in, but I will say I definitely ran good and am looking forward to day 2.
As far as the other prelim events go I ended up playing three more which I didn’t update or blog about, the $3k HORSE, the $1.5k shootout and another $1.5k 10max. The HORSE I couldn’t get anything going in and was down to 3k in chips when I caught a couple nice stud8 hands and was up to 11k or so at my peak, but then I lost a huge limit hold’em pot that was 4 bets preflop with my AK vs my opponents AJ and he ended up getting all in on the turn on an ace high board but rivered a flush on me. After that I was knocked out by none other than Chad Brown who opened the cutoff with A468 nut clubs in omaha 8 or better, sb flatted and I flatted the bb with AAJT with jack high clubs. Flop was KT8 one club, sb checks, I bet, Chad called, turn was 2c, I bet again, river was 3c and I bet 1000 of my last 1200 with my jack high flush only to be raised by his nut nut hand and I was out.
The shootout was really soul crushing as maybe the 3rd hand in I oversetted someone and thought it was going to be my day to run good. After that I took some brutal beats though, KK with spade draw vs AQ all in on turn on a Q high board early, I did suckout and river a straight vs someone’s top pair nut flushdraw for a medium sized pot, but the brutal pot I played was when it was 3 handed. I had 25k on the button, sb had 9k, bb had 11k. I open to 1000 at 200/400 with AK, sb flats, bb squeezes to 2600 I shove and he tanks forever before finally calling off his remaining stack with A2o. Flop is a deuce gg me. I win that and I’m headsup with a 4 to 1 chiplead. After that I doubled, then doubled the shortstack, it lasted a long time. I believe we were the last table to be playing 3 handed in the whole room. 70% of the tables were finished and we were still 3 handed. Bustout hand came when I reshipped QJo from sb vs buttons TT. Flop Q99 turn T and I’m out.
The last $1.5k ten handed I played I just got coolered a bunch and was out after 2.5 hours. Got QQ vs KK in the first level and lost 2000 of my 4500 chips. Bled down to 1500, doubled up with AK vs AQ. Then opened AQ, bb flatted me. Flop was A77 it goes check check, I bet the 3 turn and get checkraised and it doesn’t seem like he’s bluffing but he can def be value betting worse so I call then call the river and get shown AK. Bustout hand was me shoving my last 900 or whatever with ATs and getting called by AJo in the blinds.
June results overall were good for me as I won a bunch playing online and ended up netting about $20k or so despite going 1/12 in the prelim events and donating $15k to them in the process. Living and talking with my roommates has improved my skill in the limit games immensely the past month. Here’s a funny o8 hand I played today where I got totally owned by my opponent who successfully checkraises both the turn and river on me. I pretty much hate the way I played every street but oh well. I was going to post a cool k high call down I made in a super turbo today, but HEM can’t find it so you’re stuck looking at the bad and ugly with no good. Wish me luck in the main event tomorrow!
