Played the Aria 7 PM tournament last night. Buyin - $125. I played pretty well I thought, but didn't have many hands at all. Ended up never really getting over my initial stack. Blinded down to $5200, blinds were $200/$400 with $25 ante. Guy raised to $900, Euro guy raising a lot of hands and playing pretty crazy (although maybe he had slowed down a bit now that the blinds got this high). I had A-10 suited and went all-in, got called (which I knew would happen), he had 8-8 and I did not hit. So that was my tournament.
What sucked was that there was a hand that I was about to triple up on, if the action went a little differently. Guy raises in early position to $600. Blinds were 100/200/25. Gets like 3 callers. I have 5-5 in the big blind and around 7k in chips. With a little over 2k in the pot, I was going to just go all-in hoping to pick up the money in the pot. The small blind took my idea first though and went all-in. Original raiser called with A-K. The small blind had pocket aces. Flop K-K-5 and the A-K guy wouldn't have caught up. The really blahhhhh part about it is that this guy doubles through with A-K vs A-A, and I see him in the tournament like 4 hours later, probably final table. 7% chance to win that hand, he wins, and he's in the money 4 hours later. Oh well. People were overall playing just awful in the tournament, but if you don't get anything to play, what can you do. Nobody was big on folding either. :-)
So I bust out and get on the list for 1/3. Sit down at 2/5 while I wait. And I get this pretty fun hand. Guy to my right has 2 stacks of green, sitting with about 1200 or so. I have $600. Guy to my right has been pretty aggressive, raising a lot and reraising big on one hand, and I've played maybe 2-3 orbits. So he looks at his cards. I look over and I can see his cards, just on this one hand. He has 9-6. Both black, maybe suited. He raises to 25. I look down at 2-2.
Perfect situation. I get to see peoples' cards all the time, but never get a good chance to act on it. This time, I totally do. In position against an aggressive player, and I know his cards. I want to isolate or just get him to fold, although I'd rather have him call. I make it $65.
Little wrench in the plan, the big blind cold-calls it. :P He is sitting with about $800. Doesn't look like a guy who is very good, kinda middle aged middle eastern-ish type of guy. Guy next to me asks if I have 4 bills, answer is yes, he calls.
Flop Q-J-5 rainbow. First guy checks, 9-6 guy checks. I figure I have to bet it. I already look super strong preflop. So I grab a bill and $30 in chips. As I'm getting my bet ready, I can see the blind is preparing to fold, so this is great. I bet $130, they both fold. What an awesome hand though, when do you ever see someone's cards and get to do something with it? A little dicey but a lot of fun.
Eventually got to 1/3. Played this hand there, I think I played it really well. Not a huge pot, but still. I have A-8 of spades and call $12. The guy that raised is pretty loose and I doubt he is very good. And then this other tourist guy with a sleeveless shirt calls. I'm in position. Flop comes 10-9-x with 2 of my suit. Raiser bets 12, I call. Turn is an offsuit queen. He bets 12 again.
At this point, I think he's weak. So I'm thinking raise. However, I also know he sucks and won't necessarily fold to a raise here. So I just call. River comes out an offsuit 4. Total miss. He bets 12 again. Now, I raise to 42. He folds. I thought it was a much better idea to wait to raise, just because he was probably not going to fold the turn. And then what, fire out $80 on the river if I miss? I am just trying to stay out of those spots if I can.
I ended up winning $92 at 2/5, and losing $4 at 1/3. So overall including the tournament I lost like $30 yesterday. No big deal. More poker today.
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