I had been wanting to play the weekend Binion's tournament for a while. It's the best tournament in town for the money, hands down. 20,000 chips to start. 20 minute levels for the first hour, but then 30 minute levels after. They also start at 50/100 which I don't even think is a bad thing, because the levels progress pretty reasonably slow after that. There also is a 10k guaranteed prize pool. There ended up being 109 entries in this one.
50/100 - 20,000 starting stack
Ready to play and I am going to have fun today. I'm drinking a little bit (nothing crazy) and I made a deal with my wife that we would swap 20% of our action with each other. Let's do this!
I raise 86s in middle to 225, win preflop.
I raise AJ to 225, old ponytail guy makes it 875, I fold.
100/200
Call with 5-5 from lady's under the gun raise to 400, miss, fold.
Very loose headphone idiot raises to 525 on button. He had been raising a lot and had shown down some weak hands. I reraise to 1200 with A2s from the small blind. He calls. Flop is K-8-6 with 1 of my suit. I bet 1400. He gives up. Whew. :) This tournament is GREAT because you can take chances like that and if it doesn't work out, you are still in OK shape.
150/300
Loose headphone guy from the last hand raises to 750. I call with A6s. Flop the world, T-6-6. He checks. I bet 1000. Now he check-raises to 3000! I call. Not sure what the best play was there. I figured I had the best hand, but I thought a reraise would be too scary. Turn is a 7 and he checks. I bet 3000 and he gives up. Stack up to 24,600 and I'm getting off to a great start.
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Next, I get pocket sixes and raise to 600. 2 calls, both in the blinds. Flop is 5-5-3 with 2 diamonds. It checks to me, I bet 850, call (guy to the right of the cowboy hat in the picture). Turn is a queen. He checks. I bet 1300, he calls. I'm planning on checking behind a lot of rivers. River is another 5, giving me a full house. He checks.
At this point I really felt like he was weak and I honestly thought I had the best hand. I figured if he had a queen he would bet the river. I thought it was more likely he had a flush draw or maybe even a 3. He had lost a BIG pot earlier where he flopped the nut flush and another guy turned a boat, so he was short and only had a little over 6k left. I looked at his stack and tossed a couple white chips in (5k chips) to put him all in.
Now he goes into the tank. I'm trying not to give anything away, but I want a call at this point for sure. I'm just staring at the flop and waiting. This goes on for a LONG time. Finally he grabs his chips and shoves them in. I show the 6-6. He flips up... pocket tens. Bigger boat. FUCK!!!! Seriously thought I had the winner. I had a pretty good stack building up and that took a big bite out of it.
Time to get back to work. I raise A-Q in early position to 600. Miss the flop, check and fold.
200/400 - stack is 16325
30 minute rounds now. Took a pretty big hit to my stack but really, I still have over 40 big blinds so I'm not in any danger yet.
Lady in early position limps and the small blind limps. I'm in the big blind with pocket 8s and raise to 1600. They both call. Flop is A-6-3. Small blind checks and I bet 1500. The lady folds, but the small blind check raises to 5000. I fold.
This next hand is hilarious. I'm in the small blind with Q-Q. I want to raise a little more than usual. I've been taking a beating and maybe the big blind will think I'm on tilt and do something crazy. I raise to 1500. He is like "whoa" and is thinking about a call. Then I realize - I didn't raise to 1500. I thought I threw out a 1k chip and a 500 chip. Nope. I threw out a 1k and a 5k chip, raising to 6000! LOL!!! Just your standard 15 big blind raise. At least I have a good hand! The big blind is agonizing over it and clearly has a good hand, so maybe this will work out OK for me. He ends up folding face up - pocket tens. Good fold. Big mistake by me though. Honestly I was just a little drunk and that's probably why I messed that up. Stack at 13625.
I call 600 more with pocket 3s from the big blind. See the flop 4 ways, miss. Down to 12625.
Pretty much in a free-fall at this point. Making mistakes, not running too hot, it's not looking good. More tournament action in the next blog!
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