Day 2 $1500 No Limit
So we started this table with a very good table, I had 3 weaker regs who would let me take their chips very slowly on the bubble period, then KuuL who plays very, very good but very solid. He wouldn't just start 3betting me very wide because I'm opening wide, then a aggro Spanish guy that wanted to play big pots. My strategy with these guys who look/feel very vamp is to 3bet them with ATC the first hand and snap fold when they 4bet so they know I'm messing. I'll never 3bet them again until I can 3bet induce. He opened the button, I 3bet 73o from the SB and he 4bet and I snap folded and tried to flash the deuce "accidentally". My strategy vs the rest of the table was that I wasn't going to have a 3bet range at all, but I was going to call very wide pre flop and put in maximum pressure post flop. I basically have two different strategies depending on the table, I either flat everything, allowing me to play a wider range of hands and really try to run over the table or I play very tight and just very aggressive pre flop. The third strategy is the conventional strategy that is just "play each hand as it goes"
A super, super, super vamo Brazilian moved to our table and went bananas, first hand he 5b/c A7hh and flopped an ace vs some Canadian reg and he really tried to bulldoze. I was 2 to his right with a lot more chips, but I didn't 3bet him at all, I just peeled wider, we played a lot of pots and lots of very interesting ones but here are two I remember.
He raises button (7/7 button steals) I flat AKo in the big blind. Flop AJ9ss I c/call. Turn AJ9Qssdd check, check. River AJ9QT and I give a kind of sign like fuck this is such a bad river and check, he bets 15 into 17ish and I start squirming my eyes a little bit trying to pretend like I may do something silly. I eventually made it 41500 and he tanked and called. God knows what he had
:D
Anyway 3 orbits later he raises cut off (9/12 ish) and I flat KJo in the sb. Flop is 732ddx I have
. I c/call biggish cbet. Turn is 7324 and he checks back and river is 72345 and I tank and bet 60k into around 20k. I know he thinks, I think he is a huge station and he is very barely so almost all 6x hands will continue betting the turn. I'm pretty sure he expected me to expect him not to fold Ax on the river and he tanked ages and folded.
I played very solid and went from 70k to 400k really without playing any pot bigger than 100k. I played one pot where I value bet a set for 24000 on the river but I was really just playing completely small ball pre flop then 2x potting turns and 3x potting rivers in good spots. I showed down both AA and QQ in the big blind where I just flat, so I was floating flops wider with back doors and people just weren't barreling because they knew I had a lot of good hands, then on the river I would 1-3x pot and they would just be really confused and ended up folding.
I moved tables and went from 300-480-350-400-320 I had a guy on my left who was a huge whale and whenever I opened he would just min 3bet me, so I'd make it 9000 at 4k bb and he would make it 17000 and that meant that I could either 1) Start opening really tight, 2) Start 4bet bluffing him, 3) Limping or 4) Play a lot of bloated pots OOP. I knew he was really bad and we both had 400k when the average was 130k so I just wanted to play pots with him and hopefully stack him. We played a hand where he defended bb vs btn open and my sb peel. Flop was AQ2r and he c/shipped 17k cbet for 280k with A8o…… Our table broke and I went to a new table with nobody I recognised at all.
First hand I sit down this really big gangster looking black guy who was wearing team mayweather gear was limp/raising/calling 4bet/ c/r folding flop on q32. Very next hand he 3bet shoved, orbit later after raise folding super angrily slamming his cards down he jammed the bb 4 way on 874r.
I had raise/folded twice and then in the big blind I decided to 3bet a guy with 97o who had just folded AQ pre flop to a single raise in a really weird pre flop pot where it went limp/iso and was very uncomfortable. He 4bet shipped 50bbs on me with QQ and I folded, peeling would always be the higher ev line but he literally was nut guy to 3bet with any two cards here and insta profit. The very next hand he opens cut off a smaller sizing and I 3bet again and he folded. The whole table was really battling, there was a lot of ego and everybody seemed pretty angry. Next hand after I 3bet two hands in a row its 10 seconds left on the clock and the angry gangster guy raises utg to 18k. I call button, everybody else folds.
Flop TT8ccd. He cbets 18k and I call. I think when he bets 18k its very often over cards rather than an overpaid, this is such a drawy board and he very often will bet bigger to get more value/protect more.
Turn is TT82ccsc and he checks. He has 230k and I have 250k. I have 66 no club. There are so many bad rivers for my exact hand that I felt protection was the best way, however this guy didn't give a fuck and was absurd so bet/folding felt like it would be really bad. I tried to weigh my options up and came up with the following
1- Checking, seeing a river, potentially getting bluffed, potentially getting drawn out on
2- Betting 55k into 80k and then folding to his jam
3- Betting 22k and folding to a raise and calling a jam
I think when he has a flush/Tx/full house he will never jam so when he jams his range will look like JJ no club, AKcx, AQcx, AJcx, KQcx? QJo? QJcx kind of hands and then maybe hands like 98s, 87s but with those we can also include j9s, 97s, I basically didn't expect him to jam that often and would just call a lot of hands and fold a lot of hands and I could potentially get value. I don't think he would raise/fold half of his stack so I was pretty ok with just betting 22k and calling when he jams. Especially because of his pre flop bet sizing. All of the guys were stood around our table watching now as the break had started so I felt that would maybe induce him to do something stupid more but I wasn't sure.
He ended up jamming and he had KK :/ It looks really bad in hindsight and believe me I have been really weighing it up all night. I know for a fact that for the first 6 hours of the day I played really well and especially adjusted to lots of small live things that I definitely wouldn't have done 1 year ago. So even if this turns out to be a really bad play I am very optimistic. If anybody has any comments about what they think please post and I'll reply to every one of them, I may sound defensive when I reply but it will just be because it was my thought process at the time. It's really hard to really run the math on it, to summarise I felt like I had a good reason to do it and went with my gut/heart. I had folded in 7 or 8 similar spots in this tournament and just gave it up but in this one I just felt like it was the time to call. Maybe thats because I went from 450k to 250k and I wanted those precious chips back? I really don't know.
Just for the math, theres
18k+18k+18k+18k+6k+3k+6k+23k+23k+200k (333k) and its 200k to call
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