
i played two tourneys at foxwoods, a $2k megastack and a $560 the next day. neither event went swimmingly. i played poorly in the 2k, overplaying a flopped set vs a turned gutshot straight in my bust hand. i played great in the 560, but took a gruesome beat for most of my biscuits and busted shortly thereafter.
we went to shrine (the nightclub at mgm/foxwoods) that saturday night for some cocktails, and i woke up the next day at the bellisimo hotel a little hungover and a little sick. i decided to spend the day grinding online. i hadn't played a full sunday schedule in a while and this seemed like a good day to get back into an online groove as the FTOPS XI was in full-swing. i cashed in the 12pm $109, won seats into the 6pm ftops $322, and sunday mulligan, and played for several hours before busting from the 2pm ftops $246 KO. i made deep runs that evening in the FTOPS, the 7pm $40k guarantee and the mulligan before shitting the bed short of the money. i got done really dirrrty in the mulligan right on the bubble when i got it in preflop with qq vs aq for a top 10 stack. the flop came aax to leave me drawing nice and dead, but the turn was a queen to add a little extra insult to injury.
i managed to maintain a decent stack in the ftops 300 as i navigated my way through a 5000+ player field. my friend jonas wexler (xgamesetmatchx) was also staying at the bellisimo and was himself deep in the same event so we assembled in his hotel room as we tried to take the shit down. jonas busted with about 150 players left, while i won two huge pots as a sizeable dog (77 vs 88 for 40% of my chips, and aq vs ak aipf blind vs. blind for all my biscuits) to propel me into a top 10 stack with about 100 players left. i stagnated a little bit but was still alive with 42 players left. i was in the big blind with a 195k stack at 8k 16k blinds and the blinds moving to 10k-2k in less than 1 minute. everyone foled to the small blind who sat on about 260k. this player had been short for quite a while and had opened for 75% of his stack in every hand he had played in the last two levels. anway, in this hand he opened for 109k. i had kj offsuit in the big blind and decided that i was in decent shape against his range and put it in with no fold equity. he called and had k8cc and i was in the catbird's seat. well... i was in the catbird's seat until the 8 turned. i couldn't resuckle and ended up busting in 42nd place for about $3500. i played in that tourney
from 6pm to 3:30am . just long enough to take a nice hard one in the ass blind vs blind. good times. although 3500 was my biggest online score in months, i kinda had my eyes on the $275k for first place. speaking of 1st place, my friend steve gross (gboro780) took down that event. steve is already one of the most feared and respected players on the internet, but i believe this was his first win in a major. he's a very cool kid and i'm really happy for him.
mohegan sun had 4 or 5 preliminary events culminating in a $2500 deep-stacked main event. the tournament series was definitely not marketed or advertised properly and they got some pretty paltry turn-outs for the prelims. i played a $560 on tuesday that got 99 players. i was beasting it for the first several levels, and built my 10k starting stack up to 27 or 28k. however, the wheels came off during the 300-600 level and i made mistakes in consecutive hands to redistribute most of my hard earned biscuits. i busted unceremoniously a few hands later.
the next day was the mo. sun 1k but i woke up pretty rough around the edges again and was not thrilled about taking a $30 cab ride over to the sun to make the 10am start time if they got another tiny field. i called over there at 9:40 and there were only 6 players registered so i decided to sleep in and grind online again. i made several deep runs again on this night. i made the final table of the 4pm $75 tournament on FTP but went card dead and busted in 9th place. what was even more disappointing was the fact that i built a huge stack in both the 100 rebuy and 30 rebuy and took ferocious beats just short of the money in pots that would propel me to the top of the leaderboard.
in the 100 rebuy, i flatted a players open raise at 300-600 blinds with AA when i had a stack of 16k. a player who had me covered by less than 1k shoved behind me and after the opener folded i snapped and was shown qq. clean flop, q turn. that pot would have given me top 5 chips with 40 left.
the 30 rebuy hand was much more ridiculous. with about 50 players left, a player opened for a standard 3x raise in early position. i had ak and decided i wanted to play for stacks so i reraised half of my 23k stack. somehow, the tournament chipleader who had just moved to the table decided to flat-call from the big blind. clownshoes had a 50k+ stack, but is never supposed to be flatting in that spot unless he has aces. even then it is a bad play. so monkeyshines flats, the original raiser shoves and i now have to call 9k to win 70k+. i wasn't loving ak in this spot but i'm obv never folding. douchedick now goes into the tank even though his hand is irrelevant considering the price being laid. so he calls, and shows 1010 while the original raiser has qq. sweet. the flop is axx. sweet. the turn is 10. ajkfnakljngjmglkjklmj;lgjlaqgfg. 1010 was supposed to fold preflop and i would have stacked qq and been among the chipleaders.
after looking back over this blog entry i realize that it is basically all bad beat stories. the trip upto this point sounds far worse than it actually was. i had chopped out some decent wins at foxwoods in some short cash sessions, and even though i was taking some beats, i felt like i was playing my a-game in almost every tournament. i felt like good things might be right around the corner.*
*note: foreshadowing is pretty easy when you already know what's going to happen next.
2 comments:
great job ted, cant wait till the next post! -john
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