Day TwoMain event, day 1. Copied from staking thread.
First hand of play. Seat 6 limps from middle position. Gets to showdown with
. Welcome to South America! Happy days. I mentally right click him and assign him the
green colour label. A while later I see seat 2 defend his bb, check call K83ccx, then c/raise Q turn (repping only KQ), then absolutely bomb a brick river. When he bets this big it's obvious he doesn't even have KQ. Literally only bluffs. AK calls and he mucks.
He's green now too. Seat 3 is the next up for labelling. He opens utg with
and checks
, seat 5 who has peeled from MP bets 425. Mr AQ raises to 2k. Hmmm. Seat 5 calls. Turn is the
, Mr AQ bets 2k. Seat 5 now raises to 6k. He surely has a flush. Surely? Anyway, Mr AQ decides he's getting a good price to see one more card, hoping that a club comes and his
will be good enough to take the pot down. The river is the
and Mr AQ has hit his "bingo" card. He checks.... Seat 5 frustratingly checks behind. He must have
or something. Oh no, he has
! Getting some sick value there on the turn, unlucky that man!
Double label! That wasn't the first time today my jaw was literally wide open after a hand.
So we're working nicely round the table now, not wanting to get involved ourselves, just waiting for a good hand to bet for value, which unfortunately is taking a while. No matter, nice long clock, deep stacks...
I miss what happened preflop and on the flop in this hand, but I see seat 2 shoving 6k allin on the turn into a pot of no more than 4k. The board reads
. Seat 9 (unassigned thus far) ssssnappps his neck off. Seat 2, does not look like that's what he wanted to happen. He just mucks his hand. The dealer kills it and seat 9 stands up and proudly shows his
and wins the pot by default with Jack high! The dealer decides that he's just going to kill the board and not bother about dealing the river, just ship the pot to seat 9. Nobody says anything. Seat two walks off. I just keep quiet, no way my spanish can be stretched to question this. So we've got a
nice green label on seat 9 too, although his call could be deemed heroic.
I've blinded down to 16k, tried to make a few draws and win some big pots but missed everything. I open TT to 500 at 100/200 from late position and the big blind, who we don't have any notes on so far 3bets me to 1300. This is a no brainer peel in position. He checks
. I'm sure he's never checking a better hand to me here, pretty sure he has at best AK here. so I bet 1500. He raises to 3500. This was part of the reason I bet - induceaments. I call. The turn pairs the
. He bets 3800. I have 11000 behind. I'm sure I'm still good. So I call, preparing to make a big call down allin on the river if it bricks. The river is the disaster
. He tanks and then sets me allin.
It's so so gross, I just can't call. I beat KQ and nothing else. I'm thinking to myself, why would he shove this river with AK, AQ? Surely it's obvious when I call the turn I have Jx, 9x or TT, QQ. He can't expect to ever get called by worse, and I'm obviously never folding better. I can't put my tournament life on him knowing that though and also, maybe he knows I have TT and is shoving hoping I hero him. Maybe he has Jx and I was wrong all along. Anyway, I decide I really can't call, so I fold leaving myself 7k at 100/200. He shows KQo, marvellous. I would've got a full double if it bricks on the river.
I peel an open btn vs bb with
and donk the fantastic
flop, turn the
(wiii this is what I've been waiting for). I bet and jam a brick river and get paid off, full double to 14k. Happy days, getting back in it? Nope, snap lose a decent pot with 99 vs AQ on KT87J, pay off a small river bet, which I can't not the way the hand plays.
Another jaw dropping hand takes place: 150/300. There's an open to 800 from ATo from early position. K7o decides to defend his big blind. The flop comes
, check check. Turn is the
. Check, Mr AT now bets 1700, almost the full pot. Mr K7 decides to chuck in 3000. "Has to be 3400 sir". OK. 3400 to play. Mr AT calls. River is the
. K7 man has got there and decides to bet 4100. Mr AT calls it off and is furious at the unlucky river! K7 looks a bit bemused. General astonishment from all round the table...no wait, just me, everyone else oblivious...
Fold to 200/400/75, we start this hand with 7k and open in late position with
, the bb peels. We cbet 1k on
, he calls. The turn is the
, so we have a gazillion outs, plus tons of fold equity (he never has a big hand the way he called the flop and we're have a pot sized bet back so expecting a fold almost everytime). I shove and he goes into the tank.
He asks me something in spanish. I didn't understand him so just stayed quiet. He's new to the table, the other players tell him I don't speak spanish.
"You have AK?" he asks
"No hablo Ingles" I replied
Got a lot of laughs. Think he thought I was trying to be clever with him so spite calls...with
. Wtfffff how do you have that?!
We brick and we're bust.
Really disappointed. Like, a lot a lot. Incredible field, big prize pool, felt really comfortable even with a short stack all day, was so in the zone as well, don't think I could do anything different in any of the few hands I did play. I'm a pretty big hero caller, but that TT call, I just couldn't make...sigh no other regrets at all, I don't exactly "regret" the fold, I think it's got to be bad to call there, and I know if I'd called and lost, I wouldv'e been ripped to shreds and no way I could've justified it. So it was the right, but wrong fold.
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