Sit down at a 2/4 game to wait first. Second hand on my big blind have 97o, flop A97, win a good pot. Next hand get called for 1/2 NL. Already up about $30.
Few hands in, it's my button. I straddle, bunch of calls. I have KTo and make it $30. 2 calls. Flop Q52 rainbow. First guy checks, next guy bets $50. I looked at him and went with the WPT boot camp play to just raise. Made it $125. He goes all in for $250, lol. Fold.
Buy another $200. Now some old guy, ranting about being drunk, sits down to my direct left. Quite the character. Name is Chuck. He rolls into the poker room smoking. When the cocktail waitress says he can't, he put the cigarette out on a $100 bill.
Hand is dealt and everyone limps. I limp in late position with Q9o. Flop is sick, Q94. One guy bets 6. I think about raising but I see chips in Chuck's hand and just call. He raises $40 more. He has me covered. I have about $450 to start the hand.
I think I clearly have the best hand right now. Raising seems like it will just drive out worse. I call.
Turn is a four. Not a great card because an overpair beats me, but I thought there was a big chance he was bluffing. I check, he bets $100. This is getting serious. I figure I still have the best hand though so I call.
River is a king. Not a good card. Any king wins, and I didn't think of it at the time but obviously JT gets there. I just really felt like this guy was just trying to take the pot. I did NOT love that river though. I check. He bets 2 bills. I think for a while and he fluctuates between quiet and telling me "it's only money!". I call. He had A7, total bluff the whole way. Overall it was pretty crazy though. I should have just shoved the turn at least.
So I was down almost $150, and after a few other small hands I'm up about $250. I decide let's play the tournament! :) It's 1 hour in already and the structure is god awful, but so are the players.
Blinds were 100/200 and you get 4000 to start, lol. Plus they give you the option to post or wait to come in???? That can't be right. I actually posted because I was in late position and didn't want to wait too long, the blinds might go up soon.
Get AQ and raise to 700, 3 calls, bad board and I don't think there's a good reason to bet. In the blind I have 74o, flop a pair, min bet turn and get called, river two pair and bet full pot and get called. Back to 4600. Then raise A3 in late position to 600 and call a 600 bet on the ace high flop and fold the turn. Not a good idea. Been in the tournament 10 minutes and the blinds are going up. 3400 stack. It's all good, I knew I was gambling getting into this. :)
Blinds are 200/400 after the break. I open shove JJ. Guy in big blind TANKS forever and I think I obviously want a call. He calls with AK. OMG that is a SNAP call, wtf. I flop a set, turn a boat, let's go! Up to 7k.
Min raise AK to 800, get called, guy folds to 500 on a K62 2 spade flop.
6800, blinds are up to 300/600. 20 minute levels apparently. No monitors to say what the blinds are or time left.
Raise to 1200 with AK. Lady in the blind calls. Flop T82 with 2 spades, I have one spade. She checks. I go all in for about 4k. She thinks for a while and folds. Had me sweating it. Up to 7700.
Table breaks. Moved into the blind, but I was almost at the blind at the last table so it's a wash. Lady over here has a full face mask (like a painters mask) and latex gloves on. No clue what that is for.
Had 1 hundred dollar chip, race, turned it into 500. Yeah. And the blinds are up in my small blind. Good timing. I have 7500, blinds are 500/1000 now. No I didn't skip recording 400/800. This blind structure is awful.
Shove AK on the button, no calls. 8500.
Get a walk in the big blind... Sweet! Blinds pass and I have 8500.
Lady with the mask limps, I shove 33 for 8500, everyone folds. Up to 11k.
Table change and I move from just getting hit with the blinds directly into the blinds again.
Cutoff limps and I push 22 from the small blind. Everyone folds. Up to 10500.
Blinds double. 1000/2000. I have 11k.
Ship Q7s in the small blind. Big blind calls with A9o. River 7, bang! 18k.
Damn. Shove AKs for 15k on the button. Lady calls for 1/3 of her stack with J6s. 6, I'm out. Oh well.
Pretty good night at the Nug! Won $220, even after the money I paid for the tournament buy-in. And I made it pretty damn deep in the tournament too. Poker room was PACKED, every table was going. The tournament had to be at least 5 tables, maybe more. First place was over $2000 and it paid like 9 places. And this is in a $65 tournament with a $40 add-on (which I didn't get). I figure F it - you have to get lucky at some point anyway, I might as well not get the add-on and just get lucky one extra time early.
Looking forward to the next time I play! Probably will be on Friday.
Pretty good night at the Nug! Won $220, even after the money I paid for the tournament buy-in. And I made it pretty damn deep in the tournament too. Poker room was PACKED, every table was going. The tournament had to be at least 5 tables, maybe more. First place was over $2000 and it paid like 9 places. And this is in a $65 tournament with a $40 add-on (which I didn't get). I figure F it - you have to get lucky at some point anyway, I might as well not get the add-on and just get lucky one extra time early.
Looking forward to the next time I play! Probably will be on Friday.
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