A friend had started playing a 270 man 20$ PLO8 mtt which I proceeded to bust myself out of. In the process I ended up with 30k when average was 4k and 2nd in chips had 12k. Still I proceeded to crush the field and take down a well earned 970$. It was nice to play in an MTT where people where making so many more mistakes than I was used to in 100r and it raised the thought that perhaps I should be playing lower stake MTTs if I am going to Final table a much higher percentage of them Maybe I should at least play the 50$ 80k at 8pm when I do play full time.
Realizing that I had never won an US MTT made me really focus on FT and made the money irrelevant so I was essentially playing for pride.
It was too be a good day for me as I also won an MTT sat to the 2-7 NL event to practice (or learn) my play and made the money in 1000+ plus field in the 100r where I decided to take what i read to be a cointoss with AQ v 99. I was gutted when I didn't hit and failed to make the top ten stacks but I guess I took the +EV option with the dead money and an above average stack to give me a good shot for FT.
A 3 day break before Tuesdays 500-500-500$ and the 500$ 2-7 WCOOPS did hep me regain focus and get some rest from the laptop.....even tho it new sleek Macbook pro!
I spent a lot of Tuesday studying 2-7 and playing Matt HU on stars.
The 500$ 1R+1A meant you effectively started with 16k in chips and looked to be a 1pm finish and it was pretty uneventful for me for the first 3 hours, giving me enough time to bust out the single draw.
I felt in the 2-7 that 5k starting stacks were quite short. The game is pretty active and I can't imagine this one went on for long. There were some strong players at my table who chipped up very quickly. I felt I was pretty card dead like I had been all day in the game and in the end I got pretty coolered.
My first sickner is when I limp called from early pos with a 8632 draw in an attempt to disguise my hand. I drew a 7 which I was prepared to broke with for my remaining 2k. I decided to lead out for half of it and got snapped by a fucking 86! The guy seemed to be a very strong player and I couldn't understand why he had decided not to put me in. Maybe he assumed that because I limp-called and then lead I had either a BLUFF or an 86+
Anyway more BS was to come after my first 8 of the day as I got it allin predraw holding a 2347
I drew a 9 he made an 86532 and seeing as he was worse than me he it seems very possible that he was drawing to a 86 or worse an 2356 which given straight blockers as well as the one in my hand makes that kind of a bad beat. Mind you I only had to draw bad and he will win there alot anyway.
The fact is that I love this game and I was gutted to bust out plus there was a 50k overlay meaning 1 in 6 cashed and I still couldn't convert.
The 500 1R+1A had a similar structure to the 10k event. I picked up AA 5 times and still managed to finish 200 out the money, with a lovely 260k for 1st place.
Despite having both Aakarii and Lee Nelson at my table (both who got owned by my AA) I missed to spots to become double average as i was surprised with how weak my table had been all night and became more convinced by the importance of paying attention to these players.
The first was when I called a midpos raier with ATdd. Maybe a 3bet here would have been better but I felt like I could outplay these guys post flop to the point whereby if I hit I would stack them.
A flop of T 8 2 seemed like it could have trapped me as I reraised his C-Bet and then snapped his shove. I felt like he has been pushing his draws hard and sure enough he had 97ss.
unfortunately for me it came 7 then 9 and I was crippled down to 6bbs. We had discovered that Villain was a low stake losing sng donk but had recently cashed in a WCOOPS event for 42k so that shits on my record.
I did manage to double up 3 times, thanks to Aakarii giving my AA a spin with his 33.
It was AA for the 5th time which was to be my downfall which I guess is mathematically probable.
I played it cute, calling UTG+1s raise (with few reads on Villain) knowing that one of the table donks had just been crippled down to 5k and would be most probably shoving anything and hopefully induce an isolation shove from the UTG+1.
It worked perfectly, I snapped, he had KQos and made 3 Queens. Bed time
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