I busted out late last night about 15 mins from the end of the day and was in such a bad mood last night I didnt bother doing the report. I was meant to be playing the Venetian 1k today but was feling to rough when I woke so went back to bed.
Got to the Rio at around 11.30 and the buzz was already amazing, went into the Full Tilt room again for some breakfast and was obviously a lot more busy this time than normal. Got to my table and didnt recognise anyone but I tend to sterotype people. The guy to my right seemed a seasoned tour compaigner, I had Tony G's best mate to my left who came 14th in the horse event apparently and had an Internet kid in seat 9 (I was in seat 3). The rest was a bit of mix but was quite happy with the table from first look. Steve Jelinek was on a table 3 to my left, John Conroy was on the table next to me and he had Phil Laak to his left, so had a quick chat with them before we started. Shane Warne was on the table behind Laak's so we had quite a crowd constantly around us, which made the atnosphere that bit better.
My plan for the day was to take things slow and literally make day two and then go from there. So after 3 rounds and then young kid in seat 9 nicking my blind every time when folded round I took a stance. He raised with J9 I flatted with 67 and the board came 899, I sure got there so there went 4k in chips trying to bluff on the river. I didnt really do much after this apart from the occasional open and continuation bet which seemed to work most of the time. Then came my first real problem hand of the day. I raised with
to 550 at 100/200 and got flatted to my left and by the only idiot at the table in the BB. By this time the guy to my left had around 90k after hitting set over set twice and people not being able to fold. Flop came down
, BB leads into me so I thought this was a perfect spot to build a big pot ashe had led out with weak aces and flush draws previously in the day. He led for 1250 so I pumped to 3325 to try to isloate this guy and play from there. Sadly the dude to my left flatted which I thought was very strange. I was expecting either a re re raise or a fold. The BB makes up and the 3 of us see the turn with over 12k in the middle. Turn is the
which I really couldnt see helping anyone and the BB leads for 5k, around 40% of the pot. This confused me a bit so I decided to peel in postion and then the guy to my left shoves the lot. BB calls after thinking leaving 5k behind and im forced to fold. BB flips 77 for the set and other guy flips
for the gutshot straight flush which got there.
So im now down to around 14k out of my 30k stack and feeling a tad pissed off. Thankfully the break came so I get myself together a bit. After the break seat 9 raised again and I flat on the button with JJ and we managed to get it in on a
board with him tabling AK, King pops on the turn to make me sweat but after the blank on the river im scopping almost back to ym starting stack.
I then went on a really cold session, nothing playable, people three betting pre constantly, especially out o the BB and without me seeing anything im peeling occasionally with SC and not getting anywhere. After 3 hours of this im down to around 9k and getting quite down, im keep trying to grind it out thinking something will come along and it did but boy did I play it badly. Seat 9 raises, a new, very tight Spanish lad flats in seat 1 and I flat on the button with JJ, three of us see the flop of
. Seat 9 checks and after continuation betting about 90% of the time, seat 1 fires out a 2/3 of the pot bet and I flat for some stupid reason expecting a re pump from the OR. Sadly OR folds and we see
come on the turn which is gonna kill all my action. I get checked to and so I fire a very weak 1/3 of the pot and around 40% of my stack in the middle which duly gets flatted, blak on the turn I shove after being checked to and he flips 33 and says I cant call. Why I didnt raise the flop I dont know!!
Anyway the hand puts me up to around 16k again and im feeling a bit better, I then pick up 3k more with two raises and coninutation bets that get through and then comes my exit hand. Im starting to feel good and find AA UTG. Ive had them twice before today, both UTG and got no action. I raise to 900 at 150/300/25 and pick up 4 callers. Praying for a safe board I get one im fairly happy with in
and fire out a bet of 2/3 out the pot (2375) and then get raised by UTG +2 to 5725. Everyone folds round to me and I ummmm and are a bit as he has been quite a tight player and decide this is my spot really to double up and get back in the tourney properly. I raise leaving myself 300 behind, so another 12k or so and think for eternity before calling with
and obviously hits on the turn. I couldnt fin myself to fold for the 300 remianing and im prety gutted as I felt that one hand would have been perfect to leave me on a high after quite a brutal day at the tables.
Afterwards I went for a wonder in the Rio and had a quick look in the shops and ended up bying some fantastic poker art work from a guy called Michal Goddard, you guys should google him and look at some of the stuff. Im not relly an arty person by this stuff is awesome. Prob gonna be a quiet week for me now with a few comps dotted here and there at the Venetian before the main event at Ceasers.
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