After pondering the meaning of this blog finally decided to make it more poker oriented with only occasional includes about sports and fun (mostly just photos, to make things a lil more colorfull:)
So, after cashing in my third live $8R in the 7th place last Saturday, below goes the overview of what was good and what went wrong in the last Tuesday's $8R (my 4th live appearance) :
Rebuy period.
Tourney started with 5 tables, 45 players.
My starting table included several firstcomers, 2 loose older dudes, MariusLT, and one tight abc girl. Me and MariusLT kinda were most relaxed and dominated the table at least in the banter compartment. Feeling like a table captain which is always good :)
Rebought to 2000 before the play. Chipped up pretty quickly to 4000 by reraising and cont beting flops. Then for no reason started doing horrible big preflop calls with bad hands - K5s, QTs etc. Some of them did connect pretty well, but initial callers managed to suck out and I had to rebuy. Quickly after won few pots and then the big hand just after the rebuy period - KK vs 99 on A45-9-K board when I busted one player and became chipleader at the table.
Bad boys table
Soon we were down to 4 tables and I got moved to other table, right on the right of one extremely bad loose aggro player who happened to have tons of chips. I tried to double up through him by limpcalling his raises, but didnt hit flops and bleeded off 1/3rd of my stack. At least it was done with strategic plan in mind. Too bad the loose aggro player gave his chips away to other players, so all my strategy was in vain. Luckily, soon I got moved again to other table with several very good players and few very tight abc who folded a lot to my raises. And then I made two big mistakes - raised and called reraise from EP with AQs (checkfolded all rag flop), then reshoved one very good player's UTG raise with AQo... He called with JJ and on the flop AQJ I was dead. I thought I was out but then found out I had good player covered and left with ~1800 chips at 300/600 level. Next hand I picked up AA and doubled up, and when my BB came I found KQs and reshoved MP raise, and sucked out vs AK. So I had again ~5000 chips which was tiny stack but at least I survived.
Final table
Another key hand came with 10 players left (final table bubble) and I was in BB with 58o. We had UTG limper, LP shortstack limper, and the beatiful flop of 467 two clubs. UTG checked, shortstack pushed, and I made a mistake of pushing - if I called, utg would have called too and I would've pretty much trippled up. At a showdown UTG folded AKo (he told so, also told about the call if I hadn't pushed), LP had AK clubs. I managed to dodge third club and so we got to final table. Early at the final table I picked up 99 in BB, called MP raise, and doubled up on the A69 flop with former chipleader who called reraise allin with.... A8o. So horrible. At this point I had ~30k chips with 180k chips in play. The rest of the final table was pretty uneventful, shorties busted out one after another against one donkey with a sick luck, who just won everything - from 77 vs KK allin pre to KJ vs AK allin on 3KA flop :) At the blinds 2000/4000 we were left 4 players, myself sitting on ~40k stack and donkey player raised 20k from the button. I had ATo in the BB, so reshoved him allin, lost a race vs 66, and went out 4th. Maybe I could've waited a little longer - at this point you rather want to be a raiser than a caller, but overall all tourney was more or less ok.
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