Good morning all and thanks for the encouragement
It’s good to write stuff to clear my head and keep myself honest
I’m back on the treadmill so excuse any poor grammar or typos
Best nights sleep so far at about 7.5 hours .
Whilst I’m a short stack of 87k at 3/6/6 blinds I know the deal and I need to mentally prepare myself for a noon to midnight slog of day 2
Have Chino Rheem to my left with a huge stack, never played with before . Huge scammer I believe .
Ok so onto the hand I “gambled on” last night . I don’t regret it but it wasn’t necessary to have gone with it.
2.5/5/5. Early position raise to 12k from big stack didn’t look strong , chap next to him who was pushing hands before the bubble so obviously not afraid to bust and probably looking to gamble in my mind makes it 43k . I’m on button with AQJ4 double suited and repot it . Big stack out of the way it’s effectively 102k each for a 228.5k pot . I’m left on 125k after board bricks out vs AA73 rainbow , though did have a sweat on the turn for any diamond river to scoop it .
Playing 227k with average at 183k I felt like it was a good spot at the time , but with nothing invested maybe I should have passed on that one . That said , I’d rather play deep than try and ladder up the prize pool , pay jumps are ridiculously small because of the “pay 15% of the field” nonsense . And I still have another life or 2 with what was left at the time in my stack after I lost , whatever , I’ll be thinking about that one for a while .
That table was just nuts compared to others , it was a dream table for late in the tournament . Limping regularly going on from more than half the table and so much passive ness post flop . Half the table didn’t understand you could only raise to 9 from from the sb at 1.5/3/3 , I actually had to call the floor as it was my bb and the dealer was clueless too
Just couldn’t get any tools to even try and agress with despite being 2nd highest stack at the table.
The only true hand of note was my first hand at the table .
Table lady , Mary somebody , wearing wsop bracelet but serial limper limps 3k late and I make it 9k from the cut off with AJ59 double suited
( I knew serial limper as watched 2 hands as I arrived to just miss the bb so was sat out chatting and trying to gain any info asap )
She only had 80k roughly and led into me for 15k on a flop of 743 with 2 of my nut suit . Happy to take it down there with no pair I make it 60k to go and she folds .
Hand above took me to peak stack of 270k for the tournament.
Later playing 250k I limped after Mary limped and other friendly chap to my left limps .
Small blind goes all in 16k with 9975 1 suit despite it being less than 8 players from the bubble ( amazing how many people just played normally and didn’t give a shit about the bubble on this table ) just myself and other chap called and checked down a AK2Q9xxss board . My A2610 double suited no good vs the set .
In contrast to the above the table next to me hand serial stalllers , clock being called I think 4 hands in a row . Crazy they only do hand for hand 1 or 2 players from the money .
So there it is . Day 2 in just over 2 hours in horseshoe . If make breaks they can all be taken In my room.
I’d love to spin this stack up and go deep and know I’ll be very gutted when/if I bust . Had so much fun at that last table last night and didn’t go crazy on the beer , like1 every 2 hours to avoid needing pee breaks outside of proper breaks .
I actually made 750 in that hour playing cash before the start of the tournament too , nice to add to the minimum 3$k cash today ( 1.5$k profit guaranteed )
It’s probably another subway sandwich after gym before I just chill before the noon restart.
I have options of a 2pm $1,500 2-7 triple draw wsop or a $1,100 plo8 sat for the $10k one should I bust but can’t see me entering either tbh
I definitely won’t be going to Venetian for the 1100 plo bounty at 11am anyway .
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