nigdawg 2012 big wsop package

[NigDawG]

played the plo today. i was running well at the start of the tournament, won a couple big pots to get to 23k @ 100/200. from a 4.5k starting stack that's a really good start.

i guess i was pretty fortunate since i got there with 9977 all in on 743r vs AQ65. also got there with A985hh vs QJT2 on QT7hh to bust john eames. but 10 mins later i lost a huge pot for what was probably a top 5 stack in the room. i overcalled KKQ4 single out the sb, flop Q63hh, and i c/r got it in vs the button for 45bb. he had T765hh for 1 pair, a gutshot and a dominated flush draw. i can't imagine his get it in is good in this spot for this many bb's (maybe even overplaying my own hand tbh) but yeh he rivered a 10 for the 19k pot.

very next hand i overcall the button w/KQJ6ss and call a cbet on ATx, before the bb c/r all in for 4.3k into a 4.5k pot. it folded back to me and i figured my hand and pot odds dictated a call. couldn't get there vs top 2 pair though.

these back to back hands tilted me up quite a bit and i didn't really get much going from there on. 150/300 w/7k stack in the bb, hijack opens for 700 and sb calls. i make it up with KQ76ds. flop 754r 2 backdoor flush draws. pot being 2.1k i c/jammed all in over his cbet. i would imagine i have some fold equity but i'm not sure my hand is good enough to shove here. i think i should of showed a bit more patience. certainly didn't feel good getting snapped by T986. i'm not even drawing to a chop because of his redraws, but we somehow turned the mega sweat with the . didn't get there on river tho.

plo is definitely not my strongest game but there were several extremely weak plo players on the 2 tables i experienced playing here. shame i lost the KKQhh hand because w/33k @100/200 i think i would of carried on enjoying it and played better as a result. avg stack for the payouts was like 36k so after stressing how important it is to get off to a good start in the 1500's i'm pretty tilted at getting one here and not converting something wdbfusfbhnjrvfwertgwretgergwrtbryybw

[SuuPRlim]

comp one of the softest Ive ever played.

KQ67 hand seems completely fine to me providing it was 3way yh?

[NigDawG]

finished 4th on my table in the shootout

level 1 i value cut myself with 66 on Q5472 after flop check through, and opened a few nice starting hands and flopped nothing in 4/5 way pots to chip down to 2.5k.

level 2 i was getting lots of flop stabs through in multiway pots to chip back up, then 3b 99 and c/called the guy all in on Q62r for 30bb, held vs T8o lol. went into the break w/5.8k.

level 3 we were down to 7 handed blinds 50/100. it was me, jeff madsen, a young guy and 4 cowboys. jeff was hitting the deck in the face and getting each cowboy to donate to him individually. he went from 5k to 25k (with 40.5k in play) and it was pretty tilting watching the others just give him their chips. i went ridiculously card dead this level, and basically just folded for an hour. i'm not exactly the tightest player but really struggled to find playable hands.

level 4 we were now 4 handed @ 100/200 no ante. i'd blinded down from 6k to 4.8k, the next blind level was 150/300/25 and jeff was running away with over half the chips so i had to get moving. young kid opened utg 4 handed and i shoved 55 otb into his AA, the 1 remaining fish snap told me he folded 75ss to make me feel better lol. i could have folded, but he only had 5k himself so i figured i'd have an awful lot of fold equity. in a shootout format i have to win all the chips on the table so making a loose-ish jam is going to be ok.

1500 6 max tomorrow....any chance of a day 2?

[NigDawG]

haven't been on the computer last few days so sorry (tikay) for lack of updates lol

the $1.5k 6max i doubled within the first level when i peeled a 3b w/ A5s in position and called 2 streets on AJ5AQ. villain check shoved the river vs a 1/4 pot bet and i received a full double up. the table was very weak, and being 6 max i decided to force the action a little more to punish the weaker players (who were generally overly loose passive). i got away with several light 3bets before finding AK on the button and running into the sb's KK for 10k pot @ 50/100. this left me with 4k. @ 75/150 the cutoff limped and the btn made it 625. i found AK again and happily shoved my 4k from the bb. he called 77 and i did not improve.

i then took a couple days off and came back fresh for the $3k 6 max today. this tournament was probably the one i was looking forward too the most out of the whole schedule. my starting table was pretty tough with 2 euro ept regs, darren elias and online stalwart "apestyles". luckily we were the first table to break. when moved to the other room i was fortunate enough to be sat with 5 huge fish lol. i had around 9.5k from 9k starting stack when i moved there, and chipped up to 11k midway through 50/100 level. just before the break, i 3b squeeze folded from the blinds vs a 100bb 4b shove. then one fish playing way to many hands (badly) 3bet my cutoff open from the sb playing 4k and i set him in with TT. certainly one of the worst hands i would happily get in here, but he had the aces and held.

i went into the break with 6.5k coming back to 75/150, so not disastrous. first hand back from the break i practically doubled up in a thin spot. i opened QTcc utg and found myself oop in a 4 way pot. T76dd flop, and i check called, check shoved the 4 turn vs a euro playing noticeably loose and fishy. my all in on the turn was for very little more and i expected him to call with some sort of pair/draw but to my surprise he ended up folding for 1.5k more into an 11k pot lol. the next 45 minutes saw me playing most my hands vs this guy in particular (since the 2 to my right were quite short, and the guy on my immediate left was very tight). he 3bet me twice and i folded both times. he peeled me a bunch of times and he opened almost always when folded to in the last 4 seats. he'd made some hands early vs the 2 guys on my right to get to 25k and he seemed to have little idea about stack sizes (casually peeled 3bets 20bb eff etc)

i yoyo'd between 12k and 7k. i picked up KK and opened the cutoff, our villain thought a while and looked like 3betting b4 calling in the sb. he then check called 2 streets on J83TA b4 check check on river and his A8o is good. i was pretty frustrated losing this hand and if the flop is Axx i don't lose so much. finally @ 100/200 playing just over 8k i opened ATss otb and he 3bet from the bb. i'm fairly sure vs this guy folding is out of the question. not really sure which is best out of the other options. i could peel and play a pot in position, although we are quite limited by only having 3xpot eff stacks. i decided that 4b/calling may not work out great given his apparent lack of appreciating stack sizes (he might just peel the 4b and set me in on flops or outflop me). i ended up shoving, and that may not be optimal but i think it's ok. he called with AQ and despite flopping 2 spades i did not get there.

we are now 2 weeks in and i don't feel like we have really had much of a run for our money. struggling to make antes in anything and it's getting a bit tilting now :-/

2.5k 4max in a couple days is next on the package

[NigDawG]

this really isn't going too well

i played pretty good and really enjoyed the 2.5k 4 max. i built from 7.5k starting to 26.5k @ the 2nd break with very little showdowns. then soon after the break i won a monster pot vs a former november 9'er with AQss vs 66 on K62Tss hitting a flush on the river. i went into the dinner break with 47.5k coming back to 200/400. this was a really good start and the best position i'd been in all summer. this comp also played ridiculously fast. i think ~750 people entered and after 6 levels 180 remained. with 80 paid it looked likely to make the money within the next couple hours.

morale was high at dinner with craig and jake having similar stacks, but we were all tilted at the taxi driver "mishearing" us and taking the freeway on our way back from the bellagio causing us a 15 minute detour to get back to the rio. being 4 max the blinds and antes come around very fast (especially if 1 player is sitting out making it 3 handed) and whilst i had a lot of chips it still cost me 2700 chips needlessly. i then lost the first 3bet pot i played and 3b folded to chip down to 36k.

tables were breaking very fast and the 2 seats to my left were replaced a couple times over. guy to my direct left joined the table with around 60k but within a 10 minute spell did not win a single hand, and he was showing signs of frustration. i won a couple pots to get back up to 42k @ 250/500. the floorman came over to our table with the chip racks, we were the next table to break. the guy on my left opened btn and was angry the bb 3bet him but folded. then just as the cards are dealt the floorman says we're breaking after this hand, and the guy opens again, this time utg (but it's 4 handed so =cutoff). folds to me in the bb and i'm already thinking this is a decent spot to be wide for value when i look down at AQo. i really strongly thought he would think a 3bet here is full of shit. thus i 3b/5b/called his shove. he had 3k more chips than me, and JJ, with the board running out 6789T for the 85k pot @250/500. despite the dealer trying to chop the pot i finished 116th.

it's what's known as a "nicky evans bubble" and after having a lot of fun and a lot of chips in this tournament i was completely gutted.


contrast to today's $1500 where i probably played the worst i have done so far. i lost a few small pots by not flopping anything then folded river in a 3bet pot w/AcJx on AKxxx w/3clubs because he potted it and looked ridic strong. the table was extremely weak (ben martin the only exception) and i figured to try and see flops in position vs these guys who were giving chips away. that was my reasoning for peeling Q5dd otb vs a huge whale but with 3350 chips @ 25/50 it's just too loose this shallow. when the flop came  fish 1 pot cbet, fish 2 called. fish 3 (me) shoved and did not get there vs fish 2's 98. i had fold equity and they both seemed loose enough to not just have really nutted ranges but still it was a bit spew i think. i mustn't try too hard to get something going in these because there is so much dead money available.

$1k tomorrow, i will play better

[tikay]

Thanks Chris, keep your chin up, you'll come good.

[NigDawG]

asuhggdbdftbbduivhasuvher just busted the $1k with 500 odd left and 297 paid out of the 2.7k entrants ffsssssss

played great all day, received a couple donations along the way but felt like i was winning every hand i played. definitely one of the softest tournaments i've ever played. i had 15k @ dinner and proceeded to collect almost all the ante chips on my table in the next hour. had 28k going into 200/400/50 and the biggest pot i won in the meantime was raise calling a 4k stack pre to win ATo>KTs. everything else was just raise and take or cbet and take.

then i overcall AQo on the button vs 2 old fish. i'd been playing with them all day, the opener was a little tighter but still showed he wasn't paying attention. the peeler was completely clueless. flop comes a heaven AQ4dd and with 3.8k in the pot the 1st guy snap cbet 3.3k with 12k behind. the 2nd guy peeled inside 15 seconds and now the pot was big. i don't think the opener will fold AK or a good flush draw, i think when he cbets so big he will be heavily weighted towards these hands, and the 2nd guy probs won't fold Ax or any flush draw. i shoved, and the 1st guy just had the AA to have me drawing dead with top two in a ~38k pot.

it left me with 12k. an orbit later, fish 2 from the above hand opens mp and i peeled ATcc from the cutoff. the btn tank peeled. he'd 3bet a couple times the previous level and opened what seemed like most the times i folded. he spewed off in a random bluff vs the opener though which i thought was awful to leave him with 10k. woulda thought he either shoves or 3bets hands better than mine pre and like 77+, but can see him calling 77-TT and AJ sometimes. think his range is mostly small pairs, suited connectors and broadway hands. both blinds come along, making it 5 way. A85hhc flop the fish bet 3.5k into 5k. he starts the hand with the ~same stack as me and whilst i'm not in love with the spot this guy was splashy enough to call/call vs. so i called, the btn then snap shoved all in behind, and it folded back to me. it's now 6k to call into a 21k pot but i am completely crippled when i call and lose. sometimes he will have some random A8/A5 peels but it's most likely he has 55/88 or a flush draw. i have backdoor clubs vs a set and i'm going to have an ok edge vs his flush draws. but basically the pot was just too big to warrant folding i think. he can have a maximum of 6 set combo's and at least 6 flush draw combo's. not completely out the question to think he sometimes flats his sets either imo. alas he had 55 and held.

that hand is brutal imo with so much having to happen for me to lose all my chips, like he has to set mine off 25bb (pretty meh imo), then flop a set on A5xss (easy fold for my hand on a rainbow board), and get fishcake to cbet air in a 5 way pot (to make the pot so big).

another chance gone by qebdvnuiqewrhvjknqwrfghewrgiuvbhqejrkwngv

[smashedagain]

I think I noticed that you were staying in the palms place. What was the reasoning behind that and could you post some pics if possible.

[NigDawG]

I think I noticed that you were staying in the palms place. What was the reasoning behind that and could you post some pics if possible.

location, 5 mins from the rio. and for the price the quality is quite good. i had some friends recommend it to me last year and i mentioned it to people this year. think they then asked maineventtravel to see what deal they could get us on apartments. quite a few of us staying here this year

[smashedagain]

I think I noticed that you were staying in the palms place. What was the reasoning behind that and could you post some pics if possible.

location, 5 mins from the rio. and for the price the quality is quite good. i had some friends recommend it to me last year and i mentioned it to people this year. think they then asked maineventtravel to see what deal they could get us on apartments. quite a few of us staying here this year

I stayed in a double apartment with my family which was excellent. Can't believe I never took any photos. Good luck for the rest of the series

[celtic]

Love the honesty & analysis Chris. Good luck for the rest of the series.

[NigDawG]

busted 6th on my $3k shootout table just now. feeling pretty dejected at the mo.

think i played good. my table of 10 initially looked quite strong with nobody over the age of 35 but it turned out i had position on the best 2 players, 1 guy was a huge fish and the other 6 were either really tight or just bad. i would say i was the favourite to win the table because i held position over czar19 (a really good online reg). switch our seats and he would be the fav.

i kept it tight early (10 handed pre ante shootout) and just made some cbets and vbets to get to 11k from 9k starting when last hand before the break i won a decent pot off the splashy french fish. he seemed tilted france lost and raised every hand for the last 20 mins (literally) so i peeled T9o otb vs him and called flop and river on 932hhQK to give me 13k heading into the break.

coming back to 100/200, the french guy busted pretty quickly in a big pot and the play tightened up quite a bit. i don't recall any hands of note before we took a jump to 150/300/25. with antes i was now going to loosen up and aggro it up. unfortunately i got crippled in a huge "dirty flip" losing 99<QJ all in pre for 1/4 the chips in play 8 handed leaving me with 6k. i folded trash for 2 orbits and went into the 2nd break with 4.5k

coming back to 200/400/50 i was pretty tilted with my bowl stack but played patient in looking for good spots to shove. i stayed afloat on ~6k for a while before getting AA>TT to boost me back up to 12k. amazingly we were still 8 handed (most the other tables were 2,3,4 handed, some had finished) so i actually had an above avg stack. czar19 busted the only other good player on our table and i felt good about the situation. however the blinds were soon to jump to 300/600/50 and i think it's really important to be aggressive at this stage to ensure he doesn't run away and scoop up 3/4 the chips or something (ala jeff madsen in the 1.5k shootout).

utg opened to 950 off of 10k and the guy with QJ vs my 99 earlier peeled the cutoff playing about 20k. both had been really tight for a while but since winning the flip vs me that guy had been very active (peeled and floated T73dd w/A9o vs a 20bb fish not long ago that went to showdown) he'd 3bet the btn once, 4b folded to czar19 once and peeled a 3b vs him too. i figure his peel is fairly weak and would of thought he'd 3b/c decently wide vs the utg, who incidentally was a young guy playing reasonably aggro. he'd shown opening A3s utg couple orbits ago, got all his chips by shoving 18bb utg w/QQ and tripling up. don't recall him winning any hands since. before it got to me i thought this was a decent squeeze spot for my 12.9k stack. picking up like 7bb is huge here imo and i have an awful lot of fold equity. i found KJcc, a good hand to shove with (double blockers, equity when called) and so happily shoved the sb tbh. the first guy gave it a bit of a tank but then folded. the second guy then took a full 5 minutes in the tank. it became clear he had a better hand than i first gave him credit for and figured he had like 77-99 or AT-AJ. the longer he was tanking i kinda knew he was going to call with these hands and so was hoping he didn't have the one hand that dominated me (AJ). anything else i'm flipping vs for nearly 1/3 the chips in play so in a winner take all format isn't that bad. he eventually painfully put all the money in... with AQo. i'm really surprised he a) didn't 3bet call this vs the opener in a 6 handed shootout and b) took so long to call me. if he really doesn't want to put it in with AQ that much pre, my shove is going to get him to fold HEAPS. besides, my equity isn't much worse than a flip even now. that equity increased to make me a small favourite when the flop fell   !

it's sooooo easy to get there this hand and have 28k w/89k in play, and a huge chance of closing out the table from there. 2 bricks send me on my way though and it's a $1500 tomorrow

[NigDawG]

umm busted very early today.

i've been told by one friend that my bustout was bad but lildave was more sympathetic with "what else can u do". utg seemed like a huge fish with chips (casually cold called a cold 4 bet and c/folded Jxx and just looked like a tourist) playing 10k opens to 75 and 4 call round to me in the bb, i call with   .

flop   sb checks i lead 250, utg is the only caller.   turn i bet 525 he makes it 1050, i call. river   i shove for 2950 he takes 2 mins to call  


in my experience the turn minraise is either nutted or trying to get to showdown so he can get me to check river and then he can check back. on such a drawy board i'd kinda expect him to raise more with his nut hands since he has an awful lot to protect against and i've shown strength leading in a 6 way pot and double barrelling the turn. i was therefore pretty confident he was using the min raise on the turn to prevent himself from facing a big river bet. i thought this before i called the turn and decided i would shove clubs/6's/7's/J's for straight up value vs this guy. he was a tourist with chips i wasn't expecting him to fold my cards too often. a common theme here in vegas is that no1 likes to fold when they can click call (no matter how obvious it is they are beat) but i'd also expect him to frequently check back river with all his 9x and overpairs.

1 hand, $1500, lol. $3k friday. i won't give up just yet...

[NigDawG]

pretty deflated right now just grinded for 10 hours in the $3k full ring and busted last hand before the last break TT<QQ i 4b ripped 13.7k @ 250/500 vs a young asian who could be 3b/folding or 3b/calling worse for sure vs me, and i did not improve.

peaked @ 22k (from 9k starting) with 150/300/25 blinds before losing 77<88 and AK<QQ vs 15bb each and never recovered. i had some really tough tables today but i do ok until i get all in pre...can't seem to win those ones

[mouth]

Tell us the story about you getting escorted from the rail by a big black security guard, and your mates choosing that moment to chant your online name plz?!