Binion's has a tournament every Saturday that is fantastic. $10,000 guaranteed prize pool. Literally the worst players you'll find anywhere. And a great structure. You start with 20k in chips, rounds are 30 minutes (maybe 20 minutes each for the first hour, I don't remember), it's a really awesome structure. Only problem is that antes start way too late, but overall it's pretty damn good.
Played it yesterday. And there was a freaking OVERLAY!!! So sick! With entries and re-entries, they got up to 69 entries. That doesn't cover the $10k guarantee even ignoring rake. So they added over $1000 to make the guarantee. That's amazing.
People at the tables I was playing at were awful. The vast majority of the field are 50-60 year old men that are just weak tight. Then there are the younger guys, but nobody is good. They just say words like "ranges" and talk about playing well but you can tell they are just evolving into the future 50-60 year old weak tight average Binion's player.
Few hands I played:
At the 50/100 level, I'm in the small blind. Just lost blind vs blind to this 55 year old guy I see up there all the time. He raises the button to 300. I reraise with AJ to 850. He calls. Flop 982 rainbow. We both check. Turn 8, I bet 700, he calls. River 4, check check. He has AQ and wins. Overall this hand was pretty bad. If I want to call the raise I think that's OK, but my reraise is terrible. First off, this guy is probably never raising light. And if he was, 850 isn't enough to get him to fold. So I probably should make it like 1300 or call. And folding would be 100% fine.
I'm treading water for hours and my table breaks. I have right around the starting 20k in chips. First hand at the new table (right behind the button) I have K9ss and min raise to 1200 (300/600 blinds). The big blind calls. Flop comes KhQsJs. Whoa, sick flop. He checks to me and I bet 2000. He check raises to 7000. Fuck it, I'm all in. He calls. MONSTER pot. He has JTo for a smaller pair and worse draw. He doesn't get there and I win a MASSIVE pot! Yes!
Little later, a guy in early position min raises to 1200. I have AhKh. I just call. I would normally raise but the blinds were getting pretty short. I figured I might get one of them to go crazy and I have a big hand, so I could trap the original raiser in the middle too. So I call, and sure enough the small blind (same guy from the K9s vs JT hand) goes all in for about 13k. The original raiser calls. I go all in and the original raiser calls (just a tiny bit more). The original raiser has Ad8d, and the small blind has Td9d. Sick spot! Of course, I go from first to worst when the 10 hits the flop and 8 hits the river. So I'm back down to about 24k. Not terrible shape but definitely heartbreaking. I would have been by far the biggest chip stack at my table.
I'm down to 18600 at the 500/1000/100 level. I min-raise the button with QcJc. Both blinds call. Flop is ten high with 1 of my suit. Checks to me and I check. Turn is an offsuit 9, so I'm open ended. Big blind bets out 2600, I call. River is a queen. He checks. I bet a white 5000 chip. He calls with Q9o. :P Same fucking guy as the T9s/AKs hand again. He basically had 2 outs to get any more money out of me, and he hit it. Sigh.
Down to 6900 chips so I'm in critical condition. Time to bust out the sick pro moves. Haha. I'm in the big blind (which is a HUGE percentage of my stack) and the button min raises. I have Tc4c. I think, this may be a good time for the old stop-n-go play. :) So I call. Flop comes J-3-3 with 1 club and I shove the remaining 4200 or so. He thinks for a long time and folds. Ship it!
A hand or two later, that same guy raises. I look down - KK! I push it in. He says "You know that works every time but once". Then another guy across the table says "Is that advice for him or you?" and he calls. He has KQ so I'm in AWESOME shape, and I double through. Comeback!!! Back up to 20k.
A few people (including a guy under the gun or UTG+1) limp. I'm on the button with AQ and shove. UTG guy calls - JJ. I don't hit. Damn it, can't catch a break today. Back down to 6000.
Blinds are up to 800/1600/200 and I have 6500. Everyone folds to me in the hijack, I shove T3o, everyone folds. Yes. Couple hands later, look down at AK. Shove 9600. Big blind looks down at AA. Flop has an ace on it, that's all she wrote.
I feel like I played pretty well. It just wasn't my day. I battled back and took some tough beats, was still in contention, but you can only live through so many of those. Either way it was an awesome tournament and I'll be back soon.
My wife ended up getting 16th (it paid 7 spots) so she did really well too. We both agreed that this tournament was SO soft, we have to try to make an effort to play it as much as we can. Easy money.
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