Canterbury Park Fall Poker Classic Event #6, $200+30 Stud Hi
Fun going bust and Omaha8 re-cap I had more fun going bust today than I have ever in a poker tournament before. The structure was faster than ever in the stud event with 2/3 of the field gone within 3 levels. When my first table broke I got moved to a very fun but very tough table containing my friends Blake Bohn, Mike Pickett, and Sam Pickett. There were also two other players that I recognized that were far from pushovers. Blake and Mike went bust pretty soon because the structure was accelerating quite rapidly. I took Mike out with a lucky 7th street card, and I was liking my chances more and more. Then, Mike's seat was replaced with the biggest donk ever, Kirby Rogers. Unfortunately for my stud tournament Kirby is everything but the biggest donk ever. He's one of the best players of an extremely talented pool of young professionals in Minnesota. Anyways, Sam's stack dwindled and I had a couple of chances to bust him but he "Zing!"-ed me twice on 7th street. Gosh I wanted to bust two Picketts in one day. Wasn't going to happen. My final hand came when Sam open raised to 600 and I put my last 525 in with (T9)T, and the player who brought it in called with a 3 showing. Sam had a 4 on the door and KK wired. Sam makes 3 pair, and the bring player makes Aces up with the A8 in the hole to bust both of us. Sam says, "Let the record show that I lasted longer than Bryan." I love it. We both left the table laughing having a good ol time.Sam and I had a hilarious moment when we were down to two tables yesterday in the Omaha8 event. A player busted in the 1 seat, I was in the two, and Sam was in the three. The crowd was getting pretty large by that point, and 30 seconds after the player was gone the most god-awful swamp butt stench assaulted my senses. "Oh my God who dropped ass!" I scremed. It was bad. We're half laughing, half gagging. Sam says, "That's a nice departing gift." I say that I'm about to tilt, and Sam says, "He put you on fart tilt." Hilarious. Sounds like a good parody site... FartTiltPoker.com. I should buy that domain name now.
So, other than that nothing exciting today. Made $115 in the 30 game before the tourney, lost $100 in a last longer bet.
So, 3rd in Omaha8, 259 entrants. The final two tables were said by Jan to be the youngest group she has ever seen at an Omaha8 event. God bless youthful aggression. That really was the key to the tournament as far as I am concerned. It was quite a tulmutous event for me. I ran my stack up big, then got pretty unlucky and dropped to 1600 at the end of the 2nd break. I came back UTG with the blinds at 400-800. I raised, scooped, and tripled up. Then, they pushed the button one spot too many and I was in the SB. Nice. I won that pot too. Within 20 minutes I was up to 22k. NICE. About twenty minutes after that, this hand came up. The really loose-aggressive 19 year-old internet professional open raised, and I re-raised the small blind with the A A Q 5 . The flop came K K 2 . I bet, he called. The turn came a 7 . I bet, and he raised. Now, I'm not folding this spot ever, but I was pretty sure that I was ahead. After some thought I 3-bet, and he just called. Good news. The river brought the 3 , I bet my last 1500 and he called and says, "I got there on the river." Got what on the river?!? Good lord... He rolls over A348. No clubs. Oh... My... God. I now get half of MY 35k pot. Nice call on the flop. Nice raise on the turn. Arrrrgh. From there I ran my stack down to 9k when we made the money and broke for dinner.
In the money I ran like God. Check out this sequence of hands. I steadily build my stack to 19k, and then with the blinds at 1k-2k I am in the small blind, and the button open raises. I have A K 2x3x. I 3 bet, flop the nut flush, bet, get called, turn an A, bet, and he folds. Next hand, I'm on the button. Don't remember the hand, he opens the cutoff, I 3 bet, he folds on the flop. Next hand, I open raise the cutoff, both blinds call, flop the nut-nut draw, turn the nut flush with no low out there, and river the nut low to get 3/4 of the pot. I love having a monster after several super aggressive non-showdown winners.
When we finally made the final 9 I had a little over 80k, and just could never really catch a break. I missed at least 4 20+ outers to scoops/chops in monster pots. I had to fight to keep the stack that I had. I took some tough ones and was left with literally one 5k chip left. I tripled that. Then I chopped one. Then I tripled again. Back up to 65k! Nice. Played a few more hands, and then this hand happened. Chip leader, who won the event in 04, open raised the button, and I 3 bet AA67 with nut spades all-in. The other short stack 4 bet in the BB with KK92, and the button 5 bet him all-in with 234T. Sick. I liked my chances. We both lost, and John won the event. I was quite frustrated with how everything went down at the final, and in the midst of my frustrations people saying "Congragulations!" just set me off even more. Not pissed by any means, but just frustrated. If you've ever been in that spot you understand. Then Sam said the best words that I could have heard, "You played well." That's what you want to say to your buddy in that situation. Thanks Sam.
I like the deal that we made 4 handed. Stacks were 165k in front of John who was solid, 155k to my right in front of a tight player, 132k in front of me, and 100+ish in front of Mark who I didn't think was playing that well. Limits were 8k-16k, so there wasn't much room for play. I proposed a 5k save and then re-distribute the prize pool 40/30/20/10, boosting 4th 2600, 3rd 2900, 2nd 600, and cutting first by 6100. I suppose taking 3rd I got the best of that one in hindsight! But I do think it was a wise deal considering chip stacks and fluctuation and John's skill level. What do you think?
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Brandon Cantu took the sickest beat today in the $10k Festa al Lago Bellagio main event. He was actually fourth in chips and less than 15 minutes in he was busted by Joe Pelton (won the Legends main event this year). Brandon raised early with the 77 and Joe called with the 9{moscardsuit:cs} 7{moscardsuit:cs} . Flop T7x, Brandon bets, Joe calls. Turn 9, Brandon bets more, Joe calls. All the money goes in on the 9 ball river. Sick sick sick sick sick. I feel bad for the guy.
Ok. That's all folks. Peace and good luck! $300+40 NL tomorrow.
Devo
posted by Devo @ 7:39 PM
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