Dtd high roller This was probably the 4th/5th biggest buy in event I've ever played and definitely a shot. Not many people are rolled for 6k$ events.
I sit down and it's an incredible table. Toby Lewis, pab, Keith and lots of complete sickos. I was like er lol. Within 3 hands I was moved and had a very good table 2 fish to ,y direct right meaning I could chip up. Devilish was across the table and it was extremely fun.
Hand 1Pretty cruel hand. Fish opens cut off, Sam grafton calls btn, I call sb with kh th keith Johnson calls the bb.
Flop is
Fish cbets 1100, Sam calls. I make it 3300, fish folds, Sam calls.
Turn is
I check call turn nd river hoping we would value cut himself it's a3 or worse flushes but he had called 43 otf and made a full house on the nut worst river card
Hand 2Devilish makes it 800 utg, I 3bet in position to 2200 with aks he peels.
A65r I bet 3200 he cr to 7400 I call it's 19k behind
Turn is 9x and he bets 10k and I tank fold
Hand 3Irish guy just lost aipf with ak v qj. He opens cut off at 1200 at 600bb and I 3bet the btn for value to 2800 with kd jd
Keith Johnson makes it 5400 and I peel. I feel like I'm dominating some of his range and my hand will play well
Flop 965dxx
He cbets 3400. I decide to call as by the river my range should improve on lots of run outs and one of the boards my range doesn't improve on is a king which ofc I can call down.
Turn is q
He checks and I have a pot sized shove left.
I decide to,check the turn as I could have some draws but jam the river as there's very little hands I would jam as a bluff with as almost all of my hands will have some showdown value and thus never be bluffing in this spot. He tanks and then eventually folds a pair.
Hand 4I open to 1600 with kk and Ben Dobson jams around 22k and I call
He has aj and the flop runs out axxxx and we lose a really critical pot tht would have out us on over 65k t 800bb
Hand 5Zimyan opens cut off for 1600, grafton 3bets button for 4200 and I pile 33 for 22.5k from the big blind.
Sam decides to call with at and the board runs out k76..6..7
Pretty nasty run out and really sad to lose the two big pots that were so important. It's so hard,to keep taking shots at high stakes live tournaments but I feel like I played very well. I remember when I picked up kings and I was like wow I haven't had a hand better than
(cf a flop) all day. Felt like I did well in the small pots and look forward,to continuing later in the week starting with the Main event tomorrow. Poker has gone so well so far this year and I can't allow this trip to stalt the momentum n so I'm just looking forward to,playing good poker tomorrow
Hand 1 - the flop was 3h3c2h, I folded ah5h on the flop only to see the
roll off on the turn. Pretty tilted by that one!
Hand 2 - Can kind of see why you folded. You are prob used to playing against players who when they raise either either have the nuts or a bluff and he couldn't really be bluffing in this spot. However, live players like to do merges (although i was surprised to see him turn up with AQ). Think i might call/shove turn though due to his sizing on the turn was quite big - think if he had a set he would bet smaller.
Hand 3 - A bit annoyed that i folded here although i did double up next hand so guess it all worked out for the best.
Can kind of see why you peeled pre but tbh think its pretty bad. If you 3 bet the fish and i'm out of position i'm not looking to cold 4 bet 20% of my stack with anything that i'm not willing to get in v you, you def don't dominate any of my range here. I don't expect you to fold that often and i do expect you to rip it in pre a fair amount of time.
If i've got j10ss here i'm just folding - there's enough spots on the table that i'm not going to take a high variance line. Anyway i had 1010, when i bet the flop and you called thought you either had aa/kk, some sort of suited connected hand that had a part of the flop or something like j10s with a back door draw. I'm checking to call the turn as i expect you to shove a lot of your floats and the Q improves some of your floats e.e k10/kj/j10 all have some equity now. When the river bricks i'm check deciding.
On the river i expect you to check back all middling pair strength hand as there no real need to turn your hand into a bluff as i just have air/ace high a lot here. So when you shove my thought process was you have AA/99/78/Q9/AQ/KQ/QJ for value and in terms of bluffs you have 108/J10/k10/KJ,/A10/A8. There's no real value hands that i beat that you shove here so i'm thinking is he really spewy enough to peel a 4 bet with with some broadway hand, float a 956 flop with no draws then jam the river. Added to this is that you know i've read a lot of your hand histories so you can't expect me to give you too much credit i decided to fold.
Finally there were a couple of players on the table who i thought weren't great so decided to do the old man thing and "wait for a better spot".
So i guess well played but can't help feeling you got lucky by catching me in a nitty mood whilst i was at the bottom of my range.
Other hands you ran pretty cold, unlucky.
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