Played last night at Caesar's, at their 10 PM tournament. $85 buyin, start with 7500 in chips, 20 minute levels. The tournament was decent. I think they got 40 entries or so. Here are some of the hands I played.Hand 1 : Blinds 100/200, I have about $7500 with Q-Q. Raise to 300 from middle position. Young guy who says he plays a lot of tournaments reraises me to 600. I call. Thought about reraising, but I figured he could easily have a big hand here and if he has a worse hand a reraise will just chase him away. Flop is J-8-x with 2 hearts. I check. He bets $800. He has about $4k left. I think for a bit about what to do. Eventually I just figure, if he has aces or kings, so be it. I don't think there's really any way I can fold this hand the way it went down. I could have gone all-in, but instead I reraised to $2500. He called. He only had like $1300 left so I figured he was basically all-in at this point. So I just put two 1k chips out in the dark. Turn was an offsuit 9. He tanks and eventually folds.
Hand 2 : I have K-7 in the big blind. Check. There are 3 people in the pot. Flop comes 7-7-3 with 2 hearts. Small blind checks, I check, other guy bets $300. Folds to me, I make it $800. He calls. Sweet. I figured I could call, but I might as well raise. Especially if he had a flush draw, because I want to get some money out of him if he wants to draw. Turn is a great card, an offsuit king. I bet $700, he folds. I guess I could have checked, but I figured that betting $700 was small enough to get him to call if he had a flush draw. Maybe checking could have made it look like I had a 3 or something, but overall I think betting was correct.
Hand 3 : Later in the tournament. Blinds are 400/800 with a 100 ante. I have about $12k and he has me covered. I'm in the big blind with K-10 of hearts. Folds around to this asian guy with a lot of chips. I've seen him do some stupid things earlier in the tournament, like putting way too much in with no pair A-K and hitting. I call 800 more. Flop comes Q-J-6 with 2 hears. I check, he bets $1500.
I knew I was calling at least, but I wanted to be more aggressive with my draw, especially since I've seen this guy play more hands than average and his bet looked fairly weak. I thought about going all-in, but I thought it might look stronger to raise less. I ended up raising to $4600. I think this was a big mistake, but let me just spit out the rest of the hand first. He thinks for a while and calls. Turn is a 4 of hearts, giving me the backdoor flush draw. I put my remaining $5100 in, he calls with A-J, river is a jack, I am out.
If I thought about what the stack sizes would be on the turn after he called, I would have realized that 4600 was a terrible amount to put in on the flop. If he calls the flop, there is zero chance of him folding on the turn. So when I go all-in on the turn I'm putting all of my money in with a draw and zero fold equity. Just totally gambling. It was terrible. If I didn't want to go all-in on the flop, it would have been much better to make it 6k or 7k or something. Realistically though just shoving on the flop would have been a much better play.
Then on the turn, once I do make that bad bet on the flop, I should have just check-called (hoping for the check back). I think once the heart comes, I'm not folding. However, I have nothing and with zero fold equity there's no reason to bet. So I should have just checked, hope he checks too, and if not, call any amount on the turn.
Then if I miss on the river, I guess I just need to give up (had it gone check-check on the turn).
Sigh. That was disappointing. I haven't had a clear-cut big mistake in a tournament so far (that I've been smart enough to realize, anyway). This one was just clearly bad and it cost me the tournament. Sure, I could have hit, and I definitely had a gigantic draw on the turn (any heart, ace, king, 9). But still, it was a mistake to play it the way I did.
Going to play another tournament tomorrow at Aria, hopefully that goes better.
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