![]() |
#1
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
I was out during the last 2 weeks of the series. I mopped up the 5/5 PLO games for north of $10k, was a small winner in 2/5 and 5/10 Hold Em. But alas I played 2 $1060 Sattys for the main and busted both, I played well in one, my reads were dead on, but I lost a big flip and got cooolered another hand to make me short and I shoved AQ and was called by 66 and 33, and couldn't muster a win on a JJT flop, the other I was card dead a long time and then eventually busted early TT vs QQ on a QTx all spade board in a reraised pot pre. For some reason I didn't play any single table satties which have been my bread and butter when it comes to sattying into big events. I still had my initial roll I came down with plus a few if I bought directly in, so that's what I did. It's really the same if you win a satty for $10k or you win cash games for $10k, it just feels different... but I can win a single table satty and just sell the lammers and pocket the $10k if I want, so meh.
Main didn't go the greatest. Table was soft outside of Kelly Kim (2008 final table) (to my right), a solid cash player I knew from back home (on my left) and some annoying British guy 2 to my left who wasn't very good but seemed like he watched too much TV and tried to get fancy and outplay people every hand. The rest of the table had blaring errors, i.e played way too ABC, called down way too much, were tight/bad etc. Last time I played the Main I put a orange ($5000) chip in the pot exactly ONCE on day 1. This time I put one in on the first level lol. Kelly opened the cutoff to 250, I called on the button with 5 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Annoying British guy two to my right has triple barreled twice with air and been looked up. Once against the biggest calling station at the table, who was check instacalling with TT on a J high board... how he thought it'd work is beyond me. Anyway I grind up to 42k and open the 100/200 blinds to 525 with QQ only to get 3 bet by the Brit to 1700. I call. Flop comes 432 and I c/c a 2300 flop bet, turn is a K and I c/c a 4500 turn bet, river is an 8 and Im faced with a 10k river bet. MY hand is a very easy fold on the river, and marginally easy on the turn against the majority of my table, but this guy has done this 2x already and appears to always try n be fancy. So I play bad and call and of course he flips AK. Well, despite butchering that, I couldn't have won the hand pre or on the flop had I played more aggressively. Down to 22k. Weee Grind up to around 35k when the blinds hit 150/300. some southern ABC guy opens up EP to 700 and I call from the CO with A ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite butchering hands, I manage to grind up to 49kish just before dinner break, when there is a 725 open from EP from a tight ABC bad player, 2 calls, so I call OTB w 8 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I get to dinner with just shy of 43k and come back to the same blinds with 25 antes. It folds around to Kelly in the CO, who had been playing fairly aggro pre, but seems to release to 3 bets often enough. Anyway Kelly opened to 675 and I 3 bet the button to 2050 with 8 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I dwindle down to 26k before opening to 700 UTG with J ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I bust. Unlike last main event I played where I think I played 9.5 out of 10 poker (was allin once the entire tournament with AA pre at the end of day 3 and of course get knocked out to AQo) I think I played pretty badly, in addition to having a few close spots not go my way. Im obv only speaking about the bigger hands, but I did manage to chip up a lot in different spots by grinding smaller pots and winning non interesting hands as well, so it wasnt all terrible play lol. One of the guys I went down with ended up finishing 200 something for $38k, plus was on 2 feature tables (day 4 and 5) so got additional $ for wearing patches. I stayed a few more days and played some cash with mixed results (games died down once the main started), went out a night etc. Ended up down $1500 for the trip after expenses/parties etc. I guess not bad considering I bought into the main directly and played 2 1k satties ontop of that Meh next year.... I think I may go down for the entire series. the cash action was fantastic. I'd play maybe a few Venetian Deep Stack Events and the main hopefully and besides that just grind cash. I ran well, but guys were bad. (Ex first major hand I play in PLO I have A ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() does anyone check these anymore btw? Lol, I just posted bc I saw Invig and Wes' posts just today when I stopped by
__________________
"Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents." |
#2
|
||||
|
||||
![]()
Great report Zy! Oh, and Happy Birthday too!!!
|
![]() |
|
|