FULL VERSION: Stu Rutter, WSOP Staking Package, including the Main Event, at 1.0

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$10,000 Main Event

Ooh. We don't want to be moving table. This just happened (we're not in pot)

- Seat 4 cold calls 3bet
- Seat 4 bets river on A23K9. Shows KT. Declares "King high." Wins. Looks confused.

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Ah, slightly worse news. Scandie kid sits down. I think it's that Liberta who went deep in the big PLO. He'll know the difference between a pair of Kings and King high.

58.5k

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$10,000 Main event

Up to 65k.

My big blind. Button raises to 600, dead small blind. I have . Actually decided to 3bet to 1.6k. Button is a caller, and I think is going to be honest.

.  Beautiful.

Bet 2.5k into 3.6k. (No interest in balance in any of these sizes)
He calls



Bet 4.5k into 9k.

A reasonably quick call. Potential 7 with backdoor flush draw likely



Hmm, we did not want to see a King.

I decide to bet small. 4k into 18k. It's interesting just how much potential there is for him to turn something into a Bluff, but it feels so unlikely

He actually folds fairly quick. Guess it was the 7 with the backdoor flush draw

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Guy on my right is telling us all how be hunts deer all over his property. It beats talk of GTO and solvers

66k

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$10,000 Main event

Guy on my right is telling us all how be hunts deer all over his property. It beats talk of GTO and solvers

66k

He is probably on a Stag do....take advantage 

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64k

Will be fairly quiet. There's alot of interesting showdowns, which are worth taking in

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59k. Slightly anticlimactic first level. All fine, tons of time obviously.

Table maybe not as golden as first thought. 6 spots I think are your classic Main event qualifiers - nitty, transparent, but nothing too crazy.

One guy is Spanish and Seems good.

The guy who declared "King high" with a pair of Kings is actually German, and seems like the interesting one.

Chinese lady joined after an hour, and has played a total of Zero hands

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$10,000 Main event

Very pleasant table. Everyone talking the whole time, even, surprisingly, when they're in fairly big pots

63k

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$10,000 Main Event

Down to 55k

Raise UTG2 to 700 at BB300. Mid position calls. Big blind squeezes to 2.1k.

He'll have a big hand. Starting to think he's the potential value (either him or the German). Definitely a peel. MP folds



This would be a sweet one to hit. He bets 2k.

Doesn't feel I need to raise. AK and AQ may well give up the turn, and i can very possibly nick it. He'll be QQ+ alot now I think

Call



A shame. He bets 5k. Fold

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$10,000 Main Event

Zero fireworks yet actually. Nobody is below 50k, or above 70k

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45k. Losing every small pot. All good

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Back to exactly starring stack.

Raise cutoff to 700. Button calls, German calls

.

I bet 1.3k into 2.6k. Both call

At a complete guess, feels like button has hearts, and German has a pair and a gutshot.



Close. I decide to bet. 3k into 6.5k. Both call



We both check. Button thinks. I'm folding if he bets. He, and four other spots, have Been incredibly steady.

He eventually says " I missed, but I'm too chicken to bluff at it.

Interesting that he thought about it. Feels like he was probably never going toll bluff that time. But, maybe he will next time

60.2k

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$10,000 Main Event

56k first break.

It's just incredibly nitty. Which is fine. Interesting to see whether that changed at any point

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54k

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65k. Won two hands in a row.

First one is the interesting one.

Raise MP.  Direct left calls, Spanish BB calls

. I bet 1.5k into 3.3k.

Direct left guy is one of the very pleasant, very nitty ones. He raises to 4k.

To be honest, with two pair possibilities unlikely anwyay, this really feels like a set

Call, obviously

Get there

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With the set likely, big must be right. i bet 7k into 11.3k. Maybe I can go a little smaller, given I know his outs are reduced by one. Just really didn't expect him to fold the a set, at least on the turn.

He did indeed fold a set of nines. Or, at least says he did. But, given all the circumstances, no reason to doubt him.

Sigh. Potential regret on the turn sizing, but I guess he's always folding the river non-improved.