Thursday, August 1, 2013

Tournament fail

Sorry I haven't been writing blogs for a while. It's pretty tough with a broken hand. I found this new dictation app on the mac though, which is really going to help out. It actually works really well. So without further ado, here's a blog for ya.

Aria - Friday, July 26

We decided to play the 7 PM tournament at Aria. I bought in at 7 PM and had high hopes. We were alternates in the tournament, but a new table started and we were off and running.

I picked up pocket aces pretty early on. I raised it to a little bit over two big blinds and the big blind called me. The flop came Queen 45. The big blind let out for 300 which was a little more than the whole size of the pot. I raised to 800 and he called.  The turn was an eight which was a little bit scary because it made this straight.

(sorry, some of this is transcribed a little weird, but it's pretty difficult to go back and fix it, so I'm just going to leave it.  I'm making sure the action is correct at least.)

Now, the guy leads out for 700 again. I just call. The river is a nine which changes nothing. Now he checks and I'm pretty sure I have the best hand against something like ace queen. I got 2000, he calls, and flips over a set of fives.  In retrospect, I probably could have bet less on the river because I don't know if you would call 2000 with just a week one pair hand.

Next hand I play, I flop a set of jacks.  No action.  After that, pocket aces again but little action.

This next hand got pretty crazy. I raised small under the gun to 525 with pocket aces.  I believe the blinds at this point were 100 and 200. it comes around to this long-haired fortysomething dude and he reraises it to 1050. Now this older guy in the blind calls 525. The dealer lets him know that he can either call the rest or forfeit his 525.  He says "I'm not folding "and calls.

I am salivating all over the table at this point. One guy is trapped for a raise and a reraise. Now, I reraise again to 3700. The long-haired guy Insta calls. The blind folds.

At this point I have about 4500 left in my stack. The pot is way over that. Flop comes Queen Jack Blank. Not the best flop, but I'm not sure there's much you can really do. I decided to bet somewhat small. If I'm beat I'm beat, but betting small might allow a weaker hand to continue. I think I bet something like 2000 or 2500. He went all in for the rest which was not very much. I call, he has pocket queens, I lose. Huge pot.

My chips were very low at that point. Way less than 10 big blinds.  I shoved King Queen into queen 10. Double up. Very next hand, pocket eights. I shoved again, this time about 10 big blinds. Longhair guy calls again, ace king, I'm out.

Brutal exit. How do you get pocket aces three times before the first break and still lose. I probably made a mistake in the first hand with aces. Other than that, I thought everything was fine. I decided to buy back in. You can reenter these tournaments up through the first two hours. So I plopped down another hundred and $25, and sit back down at a new table.

I will discuss that buy-in in the next blog. Thanks for reading!  Or should I say thanks for reading Johnny, the one person that actually reads this blog. LOL.

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