Vegas - Nit-rolled

Just got nit-rolled so badly. It was so ridiculous it was amusing rather than annoying. I resisted the urge to go to sleep early and entered the 7pm Planet Hollywood tournament. $80 buy in gets you 4.5k in chips, and a decent clock for an hour and a half before it goes nuts. There were only 20 runners though, so top four paid I think and I busted 6th.

The start was plain sailing as I took my stack up to 8k with little risk and made the final table, a little below average.

Blinds were at this stage 300-600 and, although I was card dead, I was able to pick some nice spots to shove and get my stack upto around the 10k with 7 players remaining.

My stack stayed static up to the end of the 500-1000 levels, and with blinds about to jump to 1000-2000 leaving me 5 big blinds I was looking for a double up.

The amusing hand was as follows:

UTG has somehow allowed himself to get blinded down to 1.8k without playing a hand (i.e. less than 2 big blinds) and shoves. I figure he is pretty desperate as he will be in the big blind next, and when I find Q♠J♠ I figure a shove here might be a good spot to accumulate 5k in chips with little risk as long as nobody else calls. In they go.

Small blind is the second chip leader sitting on about 18k and he now looks perplexed. He puts his hands on his face and shakes his head. Hmmm - a medium Ace perhaps? 88?

He counts out the bet and puts it separate to the main stack. He returns chips to main stack and shakes his head again. He counts out the bet again, before nodding to himself in self-affirmation.

He takes a deep breath and pushes the 10k over the line. He shrugs and flips over…pocket Kings! WTF?

UTG guy has K8, and the arrival of the case King on the flop brings much clapping and fist pumping from the nit-roller.

Lol - good game me.

Zero from four for tournaments today, despite three deepish
runs…hmmmmm. Shazbo arrives tomorrow which is great news as it is starting to feel lonely over here. An added bonus is I won’t have to sit in a steak house like noddy-no-mates again like for dinner today :)