Campfire Stories

Commerce Holiday Bonus Tournament Days 1, 2, and 3

Suck, suck, and suck. So here I am, laying in the bed of my hotel room... again... less than two hours after this tournament started. Today was the $200+25 event #3 NL Hold'em Shoot-out. I've never played one of these events, but I REALLY like it. Today's event started with 320 players on 32 tables. Rather than a regular tournament where tables are broken down one at a time, this one plays all 32 tables down to one player, and then those 32 players advance and finish off regular style with all 32 making the money. Anyways, within the first five hands I had AA twice and built my stack to 2475 from the starting 1000. Good news. Then I doubled a short stack with my nutter butter flush draw, and then I got shoved in on 4 handed with top pair and I was against a flush draw and he caught. Bummer. I really like the structure. Get us to the money quick while being able to employ short-handed skills in getting there and then play a tourney.

Yesterday was the $200+25 event #2 NLHE event. Once again I accumulated a ton of chips, went deep, was chip leader for a while, and then blew them all at one time before the flop with TT. We were playing seven handed with about 70 left and UTG made it 2400 with the blinds at 300-600/75. I had not played a hand in a while and decided to re-raised all-in with my stack a little over 12k. Unfortunately the only player with more chips than me called behind with KK and I did not improve. How come I can't ever hit a 2 outer? After I went busted I had the best post-going busto experience ever. John, Melissa and I went down to the Redondo Beach pier for a little drinking and partying. It was great to get back to the ocean and feel the sand between my toes once again.

Friday was the $300+30 $250k guarantee multiple re-buy NLHE event. Same ol story, I was up to 4600 within nine minutes of the start of the event and then promptly had AA and KK shoved up my ass on the river. Anyways, I floated for five hours of the event and finally went busted with three high no draw. Three high you ask? Well, long story short, I raised pf, checked the JT7 flop, bet 2/3 on the 6 turn, and when I got called I was pretty much done with the hand unless I caught perfect on the river. I was reasonably sure that he held either 99 or 88 and that I could get him to lay it down if an A, K, or Q came. It came Q and I shoved the rest of my stack (about 2400) into the 5500 chip pot. Now, it may have been a no good spot since he had a ton of chips and I was only able to bet 1/2 pot, but seriously, what can he put me on that he beats with that river? I'm anti-short stack and wanted to have some chips and was 95% on my read. He finally called and rolled over the 99. Nice call, I guess. It was a tough table too and I wasn't going to do anything short. On the table was Amir Vahedi, his girlfriend Kristi, Mike Pickett, and several other guys with a ton of chips. Oh well.

I've been playing a bunch of the 40 and 60 games with nothing exciting happening. My basic pattern has been get stuck a rack and a half and then come back to win a little. I actually booked a 3 hour session where I won $5 in the 60-120 game a couple of days ago. That made me laugh.

Anyways, peace and good luck!

Devo

posted by Devo @ 10:52 PM |