Back from Latvia! Sick trip - nice to get out of it at the end and book my 2nd ever biggest winning day (first time not staked for a 5 figure score). Really happy
Photos from the trip to come. First here's a boring TR for you.
Side event TRFirst key pot to get us out the starting blocks is a lovely AA vs JJ on AJ668. Not much to be said there, business as usual I suppose...
Seemed to run really card dead on a very aggresive table for the next few hours. Dwindled away, tried a couple of moves in good spots trying to use my tight image to take advantage of over-aggressive openers and 3betters. A cold 4bet with A4o was met with a 5bet and a 3bet with JTo ip was met with a 4bet. Folded both and was down to 20bbs. Folded some more then shoved something and was called by something else and I won (sorry that's all I can remember!)
26bbs, cutoff, KQo - open. Active bb 3bets. Folding seems really weak, don't like calling - I'd usually shove here vs this type of player - but my instict and gut at the time told me he was calling me this time so I folded. #lollivepro
Next key hand was 3betting A3s out of about 25bbs sb vs btn. I made it big because I thought the guy was kinda peely, but expected him to fold a lot too. He did peel and the flop came something like 974 check check. Turn 3 I check call, river a Q, I check he bets, it's half my stack to call and I have 8bbs if I'm wrong. He gave off strong bluffing tells when he bet and even though my hand is super weak I thought he had nothing at all so I went with my read and called and he had J5 which made me happy
Lost 99<TT for 12bbs to lose all that I'd gained in that hand and was grinding again.
We ran super good not to bubble! K6o>A5o bvb for 10bbs. Then we 3b jammed 18bbs with A9cc, bb finds AK, raiser folds 99 face up! We river a chop with AK, despite him turning the nfd making the 1 nine left in the deck dead too! #goulden.
We returned to day two probably 14/17 with 14 paid. Got lots of shoves through as everyone was pretty scared. The bubble burst in no time and then I went on a heater and entered the final 3/9 probably. Was oop with to the CL and we ended up being HU.
8 handed, found dem Aces after a shove and a call which is always nice. That got us 1/7 then I went on a rampage for the next hour, opening every pot and occassionally finding the odd hand to call shoves with when they'd had enough
3handed I lost AJ<AK for 20bbs in what was obv a really cold spot, JQxxT, was kinda painful being one card away from HU with a huge CL, to instead being short 3 handed. I jammed 18bbs on the button with 33 and my nemesis dude called with AQ. By the river I needed to fade an A, K, Q, heart or board pair! I called in the offsuit 3 ball!
whoop!
Did 2 pretty sick bluffs on the big stack on my left - did the Issac Haxton river checkraise with 3high which got through without a sweat and then bet/3b the flop with K6 on 855r, expected a fold straight away but he called but folded on a J turn - was just putting maximum pressure on him and I thought he was super weak at all points during the hand. Think he must've had a 5 or maybe a gutshot or A high. I showed him both bluffs to try and tilt him / get him to pay me off if I found a hand. And also it made him and the other guy pretty reluctant to play pots with me - I got soooo many walks afterwards!
Luckily I found a hand soon after to get paid off with. He goes nuts pre with 44 and gets in 45bbs effective vs my KK. We hold and now I have a lot again. Knock out the other guy finally, AK>77 and I'm HU 6:1 chip lead.
He starts joking around about chopping it and he's like (in standard eastern european accent) "OK, no deal, we play, I double up, double up, double up and then send you back to England!"
Was pretty comedy, and he did just that - won K9>QJ then A6 vs 22, giving me comedy rubs each time, was hilarious. Then he 3bet shoved over 40bbs with K8dd when I had TT and I held and that was that
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