Vegas Day 4 - Venetian $500
Another frustrating tournament. I just busted after 5 hours of play - I had literally NO starting hands - I think pocket tens was the best, but I had to fold that pre-flop after some heavy action, and I think I got AQ once. I hope I run better tomorrow - the tournament structure was excellent as expected - 15k in starting chips and a 45 minute clock.
Chip counts of our players still in:
Shazbo - 35k
Deven - 25k
Sir Mike - 27k
Professor Jalfont incredibly burned through his chip stack during the first level (he ran a set into a straight).
From the top:
LEVEL1
I am so hungover after last night, that I have to spend most of the first level concentrating on keeping my breakfast down. I play a large majority of the hands, as is wise in these deepstacked tournaments, due to the large implied odds if you hit a disguised monster. I win some, lose some and finish the level on 15k.
LEVEL2
A damaging hand occurs soon into the new level.
I raise a few limpers to 500 with and get 2 callers.
Flop
I continuation bet the flop for 1200 and both players call. I am about to give the hand up but the turn brings 10h giving me open ended straight draw. I bet almost the pot for 4k and both call.
The turn is a brick and every one checks. Despite my sizable bet on the turn, both players were calling on the spade flush draw, and of course one of them has the Ace so his Ace high wins the huge pot.
I win a few pots to get my stack back up to 10k.
LEVEL3
I raise preflop with AQ and AJ, but get check raised on a missed flop. Getting frustrated and I go into the break with only 7k in chips.
LEVEL4
Totally card dead, and I can’t even steal as there are always early position raisers, and I don’t think my numerous 72 offsuits will cut the mustard. Finish level on 6k in chips.
LEVEL5
Card dead once again, and I eventually snap and shove over the top of a loose raiser with KJ which I would never normally do. However, due to my table image he folds KQ. Phew! I also manage to steal a fair few blinds and antes and get back up to 11k.
LEVEL6
Exit hand - Early position raiser to 2k gets one caller. I have in the BB so decide to see a flop and try and get things going.
Flop 10d, 6d, 4s
I don’t really have a big enough stack to call the imminent continuation bet for my flush draw, so I shove first to act for 9k. First player folds, but the other guy thinks for ages and then calls with 10c9h.
I have two overcards and of course the flush draw, but he fades the outs and I am bust.
Another pot where I had a fifty fifty shot to get up to a reasonable chip stack, but it’s just not happening at the moment.
It’s the WSOP $5k tomorrow, so I guess that would be a good place to start running good. We shall see…
| VEGAS MINI P&L (USD) | |
|---|---|
| Big Ticket Events | (1,550) |
| Crapshoots | (215) |
| Cash Games | (500) |
| Total | (2,265) |
Jimbo happiness level = minus 1