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Okay, so most everyone knows how I ended up in the event ....6th...ugh...I really feel I played my best, and got lucky a couple times but didnt get lucky in the most important part.
Anyway here is a full tourney summary:
I started off with a different strategy, play suuuper tight early on and try to build a stack to be able to boss around the ante levels...
I got off to a good start, at a good table in a surprisingly tough field (there was a 10k event at bellagio so I thought no big names would play the wsop event...but i was waaaay wrong). I pretty much chipped up without a showdown to 3k then this guy made 3 raises in a row at the 50/100 level he raised my bb my sb and then my button and that was about all I would take, so I called 300 with 68o from the button the flop came 558 he checked I bet 500 and he shoved for about 1700 more...I thought about it for a while, put him on over cards or 7's and I called, he flipped over AJo and turned a J...great, nothing had changed in that whole damn series for me. Make a great read/call and he gets rewarded. After that I was left with 800 or so in chips, I got AK and went in vs KK and rivered an A. ThenI chipped up to 3k and went in with QQ vs AA and flopped a Q. Suddenly I was up to about 5.5k and I dont even remember how but I owned my table and got up to 7 or 8k. I was soooo pissed when I was informed my table was breaking , I get moved to a different table and look straight at Mark Seif, Tom McEvoy, another dude from the PPT, and I think William Chen was already there (maybe he got there later, dont remember)...anyway they obv look at me like the internet donk with a stack to donate. I tried to let them know it wasnt going to be like that right away and played my first few pots pretty aggressively with semi rag hands. The antes kicked in at 100/200 and I chipped up to about 14kk during that level and the 150/300 25 level, I was playing quite a bit of hands but playing cautiously with Seif trying to do the same thing to my immediate left. I think I was doing great though, being unknown is really good too because I dont get credit for pulling an advanced play or bluff, which is great.
Everyone was being really nice, until all of a sudden Mark Seif lost it, he made a massive bluff into the PPT player and got him to lay down AK on a A38 10 board (or something like that)..Mark showed 1 card, the guy asked to see both, and mark tried to throw it in the muck, the guy kept fighting with the dealer to get the card out of the muck because it was still in sight. Finally the floor gets there and declares that the ruling is to show the card. they show a K and mark flips out, he just starts yelling for lik 5 minutes, and after everything was done with he didnt say a word and seemed like he was steaming....about 40 minutes went by and the following hand occurred the last minute before the dinner break:
Folds to me on the button with A10o, I have 14k behind and blinds are 150/300, Mark has 19k behind or so and I KNOW he's calling every raise I make. I limp, he insta raises to 1,200 or so, I know he just wants to take the blinds so I insta call. The flop is AhKs9s he quickly bets out like 2k I didnt think he had much but he really could have a ton of combinations, most of which I beat, and some of which I dont beat but there is no way I'm letting him put the pressure on me by raising to 6k or just calling, any card basically is a scare card vs Seif and I want every chip in the tourney, so if I'm beat I'm beat whatever. I also thought that a big quick overbet might get him to make a hero call with a hand like KQ or A5 because it looks so much like a draw. Well, I shoved in for about 11k more and by this time the clock runs out for the dinner break I turn around and give mark some reverse psychology "I've played 13 tourneys and I havent made a dinner break yet, please dont bust me now" He then says, "Actually, I think I am going to bust you, I dont think you have shit", he then starts talking to me trying to get a read and I just look straight down with my hands covering my face. About 5 minutes into his thinking its just me him, a ton of empty tables, and a crowd of people on the rail waiting to see what happens. He finally says "I know you're on the spades, I call" and to my surprise flips over Q9o turn is a J river is a Q and I thought I lost until everyone told me I had the straight. Honestly I think its a terrible call but he has 2 bracelets and I have 0. I think that the fact that there was a crowd had something to do with him calling as well, he probably didnt want the "internet kid" to show a bluff after he thought for 6 minutes. Anyway, I got cheered on and congratulated by a bunch of people and sat alone at the table for like another 10 minutes stacking my chips up. I know had about 28k in chips and a massive lead over the table.
After the break I busted seif with AK vs 77 and went up to about 30k (lost a small pot before that)..It was about 15 from the money and I was ready to start pushing. I raise it up to 1200 with KcJs from MP and the SB and bb call the flop came Jh 7c 3c and the small blind shoves in about 8k it folds to me and I call without even thinking about it...I KNEW he was on a draw or had a pair of 8's or 6's. He flips over Ac4c and rivers a club, he goes crazy cheering and I didnt say a word. Later on Tom McEvoy complimented me a lot on how I handle myself at the table which is always nice.
So now Im shorter like at 20k but I win a few pots and shoved all in about 6 out of 10 bubble hands. I ended the bubble with a big stack with 45 left (i think), then I just went on the same cold streak I have been going on deep in tourneys. Other than Queens I got twice in the first 3 levels, I didnt see a pair higher than 10's (10's only once) the whole tourney I saw AK twice and AQ twice, THATS IT. It was horrible, and I just survived on making moves to keep me at 20-30k the whole time.
With about 18 left I had 20k in chips with 600/1200 blinds the chip lead (100k) raises to 3600 from the CO after showing down K7c after raising an orbit ago, SB (50k) who was a gambler that played a ton of hands very poorly but aggressively enough to get away with it called. I look down at J9o and think for like 20 seconds before I push, CO instafolds and SB thinks for about 3 or 4 minutes before calling with KQo (uhhhh WTF?) flop is 678 turn 3 river J and I rake a 50k pot that puts me back in top 4 spots I think.
-note: the following is copy pasted from what I wrote on the Full Contact forums-
I went into 16 handed about 3rd or 4th in chips with about 50k, first was this over aggro European with 100k, and JC Tran/someone else were 2nd and 3rd in chips with about 60-70k.. I got moved to JC tran's right but I wasnt worried because he didnt have a big enough stack to really play a bunch of pots, and neither did I...Of course 1st hand he goes all in b vs b with 99 vs QK flop J10x turn Q river K ..the last guy I wanted with chips was him and now he was playing every pot with his big stack. I literally got 1 hand the last 2 levels, AK I raise from MP J.C. calls from the BB flop is A73 he checks I bet and he folds and shows QK, so if the flop comes K high I double through...
I couldnt make any moves and basically I got blinded off till the end of day 1. I came into day 2 and made a couple early moves and got back up to 50k or so..3 people busted super fast and we were at the Final Table. I was 3rd shortest stack after Randy Holland (I think) and Bill Chen. Basically I got NO hands and just waited it out, made a move or two when I could and tried to always keep my stack at at least 10 bb's, I figured that If I could get 5 handed with 20 bb's I would have enough of an edge over the table to take it down (I really think I am a better pre-flop player than anyone at that table, so with blinds that high and relatively short stacks I felt I could chip up.) The hand before the break, I had about 32-35k in chips and blinds were 1.5/3k with 400 ante, 6 handed it folds to the button who makes it 8k with about 80k behind I look down at Kh 10d and I decide to shove and hopefully resteal because I still had fold equity imo. He insta calls and to my delight turns over 88..I really didnt mind a race here, flop is 7h6xQh turn Ah...now, this gives me any heart, Jack, King or 10...of course I brick the river and go home with the words "jack, king, heart, or 10" running in my head all day.
Moral of the story, Poker is a bitch, I think if I win that race and the 70-75k pot I have a great shot of getting HU with J.C. and then anything can happen...I reeeeaaaaaally want that bracelet, even more now that I was so close to it. I'll get a few of them in the future, I promise. |
