An Animal Abroad

[animalpoker]

Somehow I’m up to 74k here today at the end of level 7.
I’ve now had aces 4 times and won a 24k pot with one of those.
Key pot though just now
500/1k/1k
Raise utg with 22 to 2200
3 callers and and flop is a nice 10c and just one caller behind me for 3300.
Turn is and he calls my 6000 bet
River is a safe and he calls 12800 , top 2 he said minutes later which it kind of had to be .  Guy next to him folded Q10 preflop too .  

[Karabiner]

Really enjoying this.

Run well

[animalpoker]

Aces again for the 5th time now .  Pokergods trying to make me play more Holdem ?
I think we are moving to Paris , let’s call it the walk of shame .  Never done it .
Ah they moved us while I was mid sentence
Ok back to the aces
Early position 6000 at 1/2.5/2.5
Just bb calls
He check calls 8000, 18,000 but folds on the river bet of all in for 40k ish on a board of 5x 2x 9x

Just lost 15k vs a shortie 99 vs aq.
Peaked at 108k but down to 83k now
Blinds 1.5/3/3 shortly

[animalpoker]

111k at next break .  Did I mention I’ve now had aces 6 times in 6 hours .
Strange game .
Back now to 2/4/4 blinds

[animalpoker]

40 mins to go until a 75 min dinner break if I survive
Squeezed a cut off raiser with aj for 1/3 of my stack on the button and he claims he folded jacks , not so sure tbh , might have been fishing for info .
The get ……………… guess what , yes aces again for 7th time .  Squeezed from bb but late position raiser folded .
Peak stack of 160k but blinds of 4/8/8 shortly .  

5290 entrants just for day 1C
No idea how many entered and survived 1A and 1B
There’s a 1D tomorrow too
1035 left in this flight currently

[animalpoker]

164k at dinner
Average around 250k
874 left
Pays 794 and will hit the money today
Peaked at 190k after shoving aq utg+1 vs utg raised - he folded ajstd face up .
Can’t even remember the last time I played a nlh  bracelet event at the wsop , could have been 15 years ago but probably somewhere around that so would love to cash but not afraid to gamble .
Pizza
Power Nap
Shower
And play resumes an hour from now

[animalpoker]

Edit - just returned
Only 811 left !
Eeeek 17 off money with 16 x bb .  

20 mins later edit ….. went fast and we are in the money for $200 profit I believe .
Time to chip up

[animalpoker]

Floated between 130 to 200k just stealing blinds that 2 hrs ..
Unfortunately now on life support as folded slightly lower than i would have liked and about to come back to 10/20/20 with only 114k.
Also no longer dry, but only 2 beers … so far
About 500 players left
Still not been all in covered called or anywhere near , that will obviously soon change .

[animalpoker]

Couldn’t find a spot but eventually got it in with a8off and survived vs k10off.
265k now at 10/25/25 ( 1/2 of average stack )
414 left and 50 mins if survive

Edit 10s next hand utg
Lost half stack to KQoff utg+1 who had 130k.

Next hand interesting decision
Bb 45off suit .
Guy I just doubled up has 295k and makes it 55k to go
All in from mid position 400k odd
I tank for 1-2mins doing some math and just dream of being up just against overcards and even better if utg folds.
I shove it in and utg folds .  I’m up against AK
Board runs out J936x for a good sweat but no joy
367th , payout queue too long so not sure what I got yet exactly , maybe 1500 ish.

If the 10s wins I’m just under 500k
And if the 45off beats ak I think I was on 310k
Just gutted to not be at the table now
About to sit big O and hopefully have hour or 2 and some beer .

[tikay]

Terrific stuff Rob, I enjoyed reading that, & congrats on the cash

[RED-DOG]

Excellent!

[DungBeetle]

Great stuff animal.  Used to love your blog!

[animalpoker]

Thanks all
I enjoyed that but I’ve woke up still very gutted not to have the bounty part of it
For those that don’t know , if you make day 2 in it for every person you eliminate you get an envelope .
That envelope has between 1,000 and 1,000,000 $ written inside it

If the 10s held up I was on 485k I think with average at 567k , so in with a huge chance of going super deep and collecting bounties .
I’m so chuffed I had the balls to put the last 85k in with 45off too, if I fold there I’m in the 10k small blind next hand so I stand by that move 100% as need chips if make day 2 to try get as many bounties as can .

I’ll confirm payout later when I cash in my ticket
As for today I feel very very tired but there is no way I’m not going to play Venetian 800 big O at 12:10pm
I believe it’s a bounty at 200 per person

Was nice to go deep and cash back to back tournaments but it’s exhausting too, was another 13hour day including breaks .
I thought at one point I’d stay dry again but playing the short stack I couldn’t  resist a few beers
Afterwards I got on big O for 100 minutes and had a few more beers, table began really good , seat 1 literally was awful and I chipped up nicely off him .  Game changed though so was easy decision at 1:30am to pack up and record a $450 profit there - puts me roughly level for cash games this trip.  

Right it’s 9am and I guess it’s gym or pool time as I don’t feel like I can get back to sleep .  Ideally aim to leave about 10:30am to buy in then probably go grand luxe cafe for an early lunch ( menu starts at 11am ) .  Had breakfast there the other day but I prefer soup and a sandwich today I think .

[animalpoker]

Lack of big O updates today folks
It’s hard work to write full histories for it and I want to watch the action
1st break up to 35k from 25k
Did drop to 20k getting quartered when I tried to push a guy off his set and a6 on a flushed 234 board
Free rolled any heart or 6 or paired board with one card to come later for 21k each into a 4k pot on the turn .
Free roll was for 3/4 having guaranteed half but it bricked
Table fairly honest and im having fun , hit nice nutty hand before break to get to 35k

[animalpoker]

2nd break
Peaked at over 50k but no bounties
Had a 3 way allin preflop where I covered both but no joy
38k currently . Blinds 1k/1.5k/1.5k