Bad news in the $3k I'm afraid.
Cliffs: Great starting table, grind 9k starting stack up to about 18k by level 5. Moved tables to tough/aggro table, get in 18k at 150/300/25 with AK vs KK and don't get there.
TR:
My starting table was excellent, two players who seemed good and the rest were pretty weak, and one or two really poor players. One guy kept showing up on the river with 43o having limp/called or raise utg+1 etc, then bluffing in the worse spots ever! Was comedy, 3 or 4 times he showed up with 43o on the river! So it was a dream table pretty much.
I got off to a good start by making quads in the first hand I played, getting streets on the flop and turn on JT339, a young guy who seemed pretty decent folded on the river, was praying he had KQ and I was gonna get a double up in the first orbit!
A few other small pots got me to 12k from the 9k starting then I played this hand. Two serial limp/callers limped in from the hijack and cutoff and I had
in the small blind, at 100/200 no ante. I think completing is supiorior to raising here so I did so, and our 43o friend made it 700, which both limpers and I called. The flop was
, and I checked, Mr 43 bet 1600 and the first limper shoved for 2900. I'm 99% ahead of the allin man, who always has a flush draw here or maybe a worse pair. Mr 43 can have me beat, but obviously it's more likely that he doesn't, plus he can't reraise if I flat call and will probably play honest down the streets because of the dry side pot. I say probably, he was quite irratic so it wasn't easy to predict what he was going to do. So I called as did Mr 43 and I checked the
turn, he checked behind (phew), the river was a
which I pretty much knew lost me the pot, and we both checked, and mucked when the allin guy showed his
!
So that pot would've put me on 18k, but I was instead back to starting stack which was quite frustrating.
I ploughed on though and went on a nice surge once the antes kicked in, had two lots of 4 consective winning hands on the bounce, getting me to 13k.
Unfortunately my table broke and I got moved to a table which looked and was really tough. Lots of 3 and 4betting going on, lots of big stacks and young aggresive players who seemed to know what they were doing.
I played one hand where I 3b
, and cbet
, the turn was a
and the river I can't remember, but it went check/check and I was good.
A few hands later, a young guy with lots of chips opened to 600 utg and 150/300/25 and another young guy in the hijack 3bet to 1500. I was on the button with AKo and in a bit of a dilemma. I had 18k (avg was 13k) so 60bbs, and the utg guy had me covered, the 3better had about 12k. I can cold4/call happily vs the 3better, but if utg 5b clicks it back, it's a horrible spot and I think I have to fold.
So I 4bet with in the intention of calling the 3bettor should he move allin, and probably folding to the opener if he clicked it back, unless I got some sort of read to do otherwise. I made it 2900 and then the utg guy thought for a while and announced he was allin (for 18k effective). The 3b tanks for a while and folds, and I decided to call.
To fold there, I have to put him on QQ, KK or AA ONLY and I just can't ever see him shove Aces here, and I thought unlikely Kings either - he'd just click it back to induce or get me to shove AK/QQ maybe JJ. So it didn't look like Aces or Kings so with that I just can't ever fold. It looks so much like JJ/QQ or most likely AK also, and with the overlay in the pot I don't think I can fold, so I called, and to my surprise he had KK and held up and that was that.
I think my call is fine given how aggresive the table was, my image having just shown down the K5 and the fact that the table was tough so it's not like I'd be getting any easy spots to get chips in the near future. The old guard will flame me for getting my chips in with Ace high and claiming it was a cooler but I think it was fine, and K&K and Mitch agreed.
Was a bit gutting because it's the biggest comp I'm playing here, it got about 1400 runners, 740k ftw, would've been nice!
Anyway, happy with how I played, onwards and upwards...
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