DAY THREE
Seat draw was rigged so all the young good players were on one table and all the oldies/Mitch were on the other. Perrins on my left yet again. Went from 500k to 360k with a few small pots. Then Perrins raises stg I'm in the bb with I think 23bbs and finally squeezed out a decent wired pair. Perrins was opening extremely wide (Q6o utg 6handed I saw at showdown once) so I decided to click it back.
I thought it'd be more likely he'd level himself into thinking I was full of it and bluff shove than call it off if I shoved. It happened to work out perfect - he shoved I snapped and my QQ held vs his T9o.
700k. Next pot with Perrins (we're 40bigs deep now) he minraises stg again I peel the bb with
and decided to donk on
for about 45% pot. He called. Turned the lovely
, figured he was floating here a bunch so barrelled my FD. He called and the
on the was beeeaauuuutiful and he paid off a half pot bet. Imo, backdooring flushes is just as sexy as flopping sets, if not more. In this case, it was one of the sexiest parsleys I'd ever seen.
I had 1.5million and in very good shape. I think 10 were left at this point. On the final table bubble had two speed bumps. First was losing TT<K5 vs a shorty then I 3b Dan Lamings open with
he called.
. I check he checked. Turn was a
. I bet 100k (bout half pot) he called. River came
, I bet 200k and he didn't take too long before moving all in for about 1 million total. FML!!!!!!!!!!!
Thought his value range here consisted of AJ AQ JT and couldn't really seea bluff range at all. All of his hands have showdown value (don't think he'd be floating with 56suited on the turn or anything) and I don't think he'd be sick enough to turn a king or QT or 77 into a bluff on the final table bubble, given my range was pretty strong, we were both big stacks and there was 3 <10 bb stacks left. I folded and felt pretty happy it was the right fold...still don't know of course, I'd love to find out though....
We got to the 8 handed final table, I had 1million average was 800k I think and there was a seat redraw. Perrins on my direct left with 2milly. FML. Dan Laming on my direct right with 2milly. FML. This was going to be tough.
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