Planet Hollywood $1150 today and we tried but struggled to win a pot for some time...
Slowly chipped down and kept trying to make sure pots stayed sensibly small. It worked as we missed draws and our tp hands didn't win by the river.
A few hands in at the start I open QcQh, get one call on the button by an older chatty fun guy. Flop is K105 all spades and I just check fold flop, I'd seen this guy play two hands so far and sizing's were huge.. I didn't want to be heroing half my stack by river.
Then a few small ones and we still can't win.
I had one big hand during the day, it's a slightly controversial one and I've spoken to Ryan, Fraser and Pads already.
At the time I thought my play was pretty standard but in retrospect I agree with them.
There's an open to 800 from our fishier older guy and a flat from a reg, unlikely he has a huge hand here vs this guy imo.
I decide to 3bt AJo to 2.5k in the CO, button folds then I'm looking at the BB when he peels and he is def liking his hand but to me looked like the face of "I have a pair... they're good/ these are two big pretty cards" type thing. He is new to the table and I can see him putting the 2.5k together for a call, somehow he accidentally picks up a 5k chip, and from his reaction to the dealers announcing a raise I still now believe this was à genuine mistake.
The raiser and reg fold, reg and I give each other a look saying "did you see that too??".
Because of this I decide to flat pre as I felt if he did acidentally do this then he isn't likely to give it up without a fight but I can't imagine him blowing completely.
I call pre and see a J68 board,
He cbet small and I decided that getting great price and not needing to raise as we now have a value hand. I call.
Turn brings another brick relative to the action and
River is a offsuit 8 and
We call down his small sizing's.. then get told "your probably winning..." and he tables. KK.
I was a little bit upset to say the least but bottom line he completely owned me.. Well payed sir.
We have 9k after the hand at 2/400 and grind and grind... eventually getting back to 23kish.
Was being really snug and careful, no positional only raises with J2o or 93ss as I didn't want to waste a single chip.
Then we find AK in the sb just a few minutes for the dinner break at4/800 and flat the MP open to underrep our hand and try to induce something from the bb if possible... bb squeezes to 7k over the 2k open, then MY re jams for just covering us and we re jam our 22k. Bb calls and we have AK vs AA MP and QQ of the BB. Shame!
Didn't make a draw... shame.
Sorry guys. Next one!
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