Commerce Holiday Bonus Tournament Days 4 and 5... So Sweet.
A beautiful day in mudville... I have so much fun stuff to write about! So, we'll just start chronologically, but I want to tell you about how I went busted in the limit tournament in 1:03 and then went bowling with two hot actresses and one hot country music star, played 100-200, slept, woke up, made a final table of a tournament, and then played some more 100-200.If I had written this blog yesterday I would have complained about how fruatrated-running I have been lately. Is that a word? I'm not so sure, but it's 9:26am and I haven't been to sleep yet so you will have to excuse me. Now that you have excused me resume laughing. Thank you. But basically up until today I have been basically spinning my tires, but it hasn't been the I'm happy to be even spinning my tires. I've had so many sets and top pairs and top two pairs shoved up my ass on the river in the 60-120 game and 100-200 game that it's not even funny. I suppose that I should be thrilled to be even (which I am), but with so many huge hands it's really hard to not be up.
Going into the $200+25 event #4 LHE event I was pretty sure that I was going to do well. Anybody that has ever played a LHE tournament with me knows that I raise a lot of hands and see a lot of flops. A guy told me once, "I hear 'random number's up out of you more than anybody I have ever played with. Sixes up. Eights up. Threes up.'" But for this event, I was even more motivated to get a ton of chips or go busto. They only gave us 1k to start with the blinds at 25-25, so there was not much room for running bad. My reasoning for wanting to go busted quick is that my roomie here Melissa was going out with Tiffany Michelle and several other people. Too much fun, and I've been wanting to meet Tiffany for a while. "And friends" in this case meant her actress roommate, her country star friend Jenna (who was supposed to open the CMA's but got ousted last minute by Kelly Clarkson), and Jeff Madsen (winner of two bracelets this summer). Also joining us was my friend Johnny Monnette who is a ton of fun. We went to this sweet ass bowling alley that felt like more of a club than the typical bowling alley atmosphere. I sucked, we bowled, and all had a good time.
The night ended early and we headed back to the Commerce. I sat in the 100-200 game for about 3 hours, winning a whopping $540, which I promptly blew in the 40-80 game with John. Go to bed, play online NL (which I am finally getting! 4 winning sessions in a row!), sleep, wake-up, play in $300+30 NL event.
So I played today. I promptly blew half my stack in the first level, built it back up to 2800 and got it all in on a J22 flop with J8o. I was against QJ, caught an 8 on the river, and cruised from there. I ended up in the same seat that I went busted with TT in during event #3 which is funny, and then this hand came up. I had ~9k in chips and the blinds were 100-200/25. I had A K early and raised my standard, 575. A tight old guy in the 2 seat with a few more chips than me re-raised to 1800. The button called the raise cold and it was folded back to me. The button had ~6k left. Based simply on the play the button had no better than QQ, and based on my read of the situation the re-raiser also had no better than QQ (It also helped that I had one each of the A and K making AA or KK that much more unlikely). Basically the re-raiser didn't like being called by the button. He really wanted to isolate me, esp. since I had been so active. But until that point I had not made any big plays, so I thought this would be a perfect time for a squeeze play. I shoved. I knew that if I was called it was going to be a race, there was a decent chance that both players would fold, and that by getting them all-in pre-flop I was doubling my chances of winning with the AK (tough to call somebody's all-in bet post flop without a pair). The re-raiser thought forever and finally folded, and the button thought forever and finally called off his last 6k, rolling over TT. There was an ace on the window and I was the new chip leader.
From there on out I had zero big hands. I won one race to bust a guy when we were down to two tables, but I pretty much had to manufacture chips the hard way, and things worked out where I was able to do what I wanted to do. Good news.
The outlook for tonight is pretty good. I'm 2nd in chips with 69k. There's 513k in play, 9 players left. The chip leader is a buddy of mine, also a Vegas pro, who has a billion (billion=~125k) chips. Damnit. Why can't some donk have all the chips? Three players have ~55k, but I've played a ton of hands with them and have a pretty good read on them. One's at ~35k, and three are at ~15k. Blinds will be 1k-2k/300, 40 minute levels. I don't want to go to deep into what I'm thinking because I will be playing with John (chip leader) tomorrow and he knows about this blog. Hi John! First place is over $36k, and it's about time I took one of these things down, don't you think? I'm sick of these seconds and thirds!
So, if you're in the LA area, Commerce Casino, tonight at 9pm. I would love the sweat! I greatly enjoy a loud, obnoxious, and drunken cheering section.
After play broke last night at 4am, time to get rest, right? Nope. I saw a juicy 1-2 game. All my buddies were in the main game. I sat and beat it for $2k in 2 hours. Good times.
Lastly, shout out to Kirby's mom. Hi Kirby's mom!
Peace and good luck!
Devo
posted by Devo @ 11:04 AM
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