An Animal Abroad

[typhoon13]

Nice result

Appreciate the write ups

[alanc]

Great result. Well done and an excellent write up. Cheers. Wetting my appetite for Vegas.

[animalpoker]

Ok let’s attempt to do some sort of summary of yesterday , especially the end part .
So these landmark satellites are a new thing this year
All you need to do is get your chip stack up to 10 x your starting stack and you are instantly removed from the tournament and win a seat or chips

After my disastrous case ace river to bust my first bullet I knew I was having a lot of fun and still had a good edge so went straight to rebuy back in for another 1100$
My new table looks as nice as the first
I hardly recognised anyone in the room, may be half a dozen from the 280 odd ? they got in the end
After chatting a lot (mainly due to the White Russians) I realised plenty hadn’t even played the 1500 big O as they had only just hit town
This was a turbo type structure though with 30 min levels and often standard wsop levels skipped.

My initial gamble held up with bottom set 3 way to boost my stack and but I kept doubling up the short stacks so couldn’t push on to within touching distance of the magic 150k stack . I floated between 70 and 95k for a long time as the blinds caught up .

Key pot playing about 88k was this one

Button makes it 7000 on my bb .i debate folding ac 2x but elect to flop it against this solid but not too out of line player .
He’s playing exactly 60k .

Flop is J109xcc and I check call what looked like a weak continuation bet of 10k
I could raise here but I felt I had way too much equity to do that
Turn is a horrid putting a 2nd flush draw there - there weren’t many horrid cards in the deck
I check and he bets pot of 37k with only 6k behind
Time for my longest tank of the trip - must have been about 3 mins possibly
If I call I’m obv pushing the full 43k in and if it’s a good call I’m on I think 146k
If it’s a bad call I could still spike a club to still win it
My read is that he’s now strong and wants to take it down
I eventually fold leaving myself on 66k
We break soon after and he told me he had naked ace queen and that turn was only way he could improve , I believed him too as seemed decent enough chap


Part 2 to come later . Need break from phone .

[animalpoker]

Ok part 2 ( sponsored by corona on an empty stomach )
So after I dropped to 66k and with blinds moving up I was in dangerous territory even though strangely I was one of the bigger stacks at the table
As mentioned though that table broke, only 1 orbit at my new table before that broke too
I’d cut myself off from drinking a little while before the initial table move as I knew it could be a late one and I needed to monitor stack sizes a lot
We were now in the last 24
I can’t recall that seats at that point , maybe half
It was proper confusing as they obv took a player out of play every time they reached a landmark - but they often had way more than the 150k requirement
I heard a story that 2 stacks of 140k+ went all in preflop against each other and one of them scooped !

When there was 14 left I could easily see the other table and it was clear the average stack was only around 80k
At that point there was still 10 seats and 1 residual cash of 8700 ish

I rode a rollercoaster at this point with huge blinds , it was all a bit strange to figure out the optimum strategy
With 11 left and at about 3am in the morning  ( I sat initially at 7pm ) this was the situation

6 left at my table with stacks of
Myself (sb)  -40k
Bb - 35k
Utg - 25k
Utg+1 45k
Button 60k

Blinds of 10/15 with a 15 ante

Other table has one short stack of 20k and the rest have 60-130k

There is now 8 seats left and the almost seat residual cash
So need 3 more to bust but an incredibly strange situation with massive blinds
We have gone hand for hand too

So I can’t recall exact holdings here but short stack busts on other table
Utg moves in on our table and i know bb is committed and I’m not sure I can fold any 5 cards
Anyways I had something like A6489 .  Utg had AA2xx and bb had some kq1073 type hand
Board runs out 9910 with my club draw too ( I didn’t even see I had trip ) , turn and brick river .
So with bust on other table I guarantee the residual cash
Half an hour later , short stack busts and it’s a 10k seat or 10k in chips option

[tikay]

Sheesh, skin of the teeth stuff. Not sure I could cope with all the permutations at the end, especially while nursing a short stack. Very wise decision to lay off the Corona's towards the end too.


Well done.

[animalpoker]

Friday morning treadmill report
Venetian 1600 bounty (400 a piece ) starts in 3 hours
Really looking forward to this one and it’s actually my biggest buyin of the trip by 100$
Being a bounty I think it’s unlikely I’d re enter , but if I bust first 2 or 3 levels it’s definitely an option
Yesterday was more like a day off and much needed
I still played about 5 hours cash in the afternoon
First table was poor so managed a move to a better one
Bad players got replaced by good ones gradually and they too became awful by 7pm and it was very easy to cash out at that point
There are a lot of good tables but it’s definitely easy to get a bad one now all the big O players are in town
Lost a fairly standard big pot on first table

My straddle of 10 .  Just 2 blinds call and I make it 20 more to the flop with As Kx 3x 3x
Flop is A93 and bb check raises my 60 to 180  ( 2 diamonds on flop )
I have 350 behind and consider shove there but just flat
Turn is 10s to give me the flush draw as well
He check calls all in but the river 4 gives his 245J7xxxdd the wheel

Lost a chunk in another standard hand on other table too , ended up -850 I think

Walked the strip a bit and ended up eating at in and out burger for my first time
I don’t understand the hype on this one at all , just seemed like a standard cross between Mac ds and Burger King type burger and the fries were awful , won’t be rushing back .  

Ended up tucked up in bed by 11am .  Playing tournaments each of the next 3 days I wanted to try to reset for today .   Could have slept better but not the worst .  Hoping for a middle or 8 seat today as usual to help my eyes .  

May well report in running if gets interesting , depends how much chat is at table .

Edit …. Euros start today at noon vegas time too
Would like to have a view of the Germany Scotland game but I guess it would distract me so don’t mind either way

[animalpoker]

Sheesh, skin of the teeth stuff. Not sure I could cope with all the permutations at the end, especially while nursing a short stack. Very wise decision to lay off the Corona's towards the end too.


Well done.

I forgot to mention I’ve never genuinely felt so bad to bust 2 players on a bubble in my life .  There was lots of chat at our table , the whole situation was just plain weird and WSOP don’t facilitate deals .   With 11 left my 40k stack was probably worth 6-7000$ in equity but after that break that 1st hand scoop / chop / quartered / three quarters / lose was always going to probably be decisive - took a photo , that’s why I recall the stacks on ours .

[animalpoker]

500 bounty chip not 400
35k starting stack
Tables a bit tight but I’m comfy
End of level 1 and at just under 43k
200/300/300 now

125 entered so far so probably get over 200 I reckon

[animalpoker]

53k with 10 mins left of level 2
Ha
Lost a few k to I think a 4 outer, but the minimum
I raised after a limp to 1k
With a25jk 2 suits but not the as
Bb and limper call
Flop Q24xdd all check
Turn putting spade draw there
Check to me I bet 2200 into 3500 , just bb calls
River 4x he checks
I see no thin value here so check back
He shows A4599 with no flush draws , argggggh .  

Got a beautiful view on the footy from seat 4 here after requesting the tournament clock screen to be swapped
It’s all Germany so far every time I look up !

[animalpoker]

Start of level 4 .  3:5:5
Not much to report , hardly any tools dealt to me .
Dribbled down to 43k.

[animalpoker]

Finally get some action midway 4th level
6 handed I min raise to 1k
Just bb calls
I have AJ1038 - 1 suit and naked ace d
Flop is 842 with 2 diamonds
He only has 12-13k behind and calls my 1500 flop bet
Turn 10d
He check raises all in with A36J8 no diamonds
River 3x chop chop .

[animalpoker]

43k
175 entrants
Coming back to 300/600/600 after break .
Edit just lost 3k . 
Break in 2 minutes.

[animalpoker]

Gamble gamble
Moved to new table
Dropped to 20k before a 5 way all in pre flop
I had only one chap covered
AK348 double suited
No problem it runs out J10Q57 with my nut spades suit for an 86k pot and bounty
…….

Chopped twice with a 10k ish short stack now , shame as I’m hungry for more $500 bounties

Past where I’d have rebought so as you would expect after a 5 way all in I feel like I’m freerolling and can’t complain about anything the rest of the day

Nearly at end of level 7
Next level is 500/1k/1k
218 entrants , 163 left
Average 47k
Late reg allowed until end of level 12

Current stack of 93k

[animalpoker]

Peak of 108k after flopping aces full vs a big stack
Nearly end of level 7
Table tougher but only 6 handed for quite a while

…. As I’m writing this they filled the seats , guy to my left has 130k .
Could get interesting
600/1200/1200 next

[animalpoker]

103k
At 2nd break
1 bounty
Average 65k
268 entrants , 145 remaining
Coming back to 1/1.5/1.5k blinds

NBA bet placed on “the over” Dallas vs Boston - total 211 points or more I believe to win , I’m
clueless when it comes to USA sports betting , but sounded fun as couple at table talking about it
Starts in 2 hours
Won’t disclose amount but enough to make it worth walking back if I bust before the end of that match.