Commerce Casino LAPC, Events 5, 6 & 7
Three days, three more tax write-offs Here I am at five AM, deciding that I should be writing something. So here's the update...Event 5 -
LOL. I just crunched my numbers for live play this month. Down $1. That's hilarious.
Anyways, back to Event 5... $300+30 Stud. Well, long story short, I had rolled up Jacks and Queens in the first three levels. Won a huge pot with the jacks in the first level, and blew a huge pot to this woman who started with (45)5 when I had the (QQ)Q. I owned the table, but this woman could not miss - and she was terrible. The table finally broke after five and a half hours of play and she left with 16k, exactly what was on the table when we all sat down at the beginning of the tournament. I had something goofy like 3k, and couldn't do anything thereafter. So frustrating. That night I played 40-80 briefly, and then 40-80 BOTE for several hours, making a little over $900 in the cash games.
Event 6 - $500+40 NLHE.
This event brought in a huge field again with over 700 players. At my starting table were Max Pescatori and Dennis Waterman. Both super nice guys. My favorite Max moment was when we came back from break and he had a plastic to-go bowl of mashed potatoes. Period. Tub-o-taters.
I started off quick, picking up hands, raising, getting called, completely missing the flop, and muscling my way out of it. I had 3100 from 2k by the time I posted my first big blind. I was dealt 63o and we saw a flop seven ways. A63, no suit. I bet 200, called in two spots. Turn x, I bet 800, called by a cute girl in the seat to my left who was obviously very new to the game. She called leaving herself with 400 in chips. River A, she nearly jumped out of her seat, and I check-folded. Whittled that stack back down to 1100 going card, dead, then came roaring back (again winning no big pots - just playing small ball and taking advantage of every spot I saw), and went on first break with 5k. I was in the zone. My reads were perfect. I picked off a bluff on the river calling with bottom pair. I check-raise bluffed the turn with six high, no draw. I was hitting on all cylinders.
Coming back from break I quickly built my stack up to 6200 and was really feeling like it was my day. Wrong. Lost a race vs. a short stack, went card dead, re-built, and then this hand came up.
With 5k in my stack, I checked my option from the big blind in the 100-200 no ante level and saw a flop four ways with the 2 3 . It fell A T 5 . Great flop period, and gooder flop to semi-bluff at. There was no pre-flop raise, and thus it is highly unlikely that anybody has an ace, and if they do, so what - now it's a coin flip. SB checks, I bet 500, short stack goes all-in for 1050, button folds, and the SB after thinking for thirty seconds decides to go all-in for 3k total. I had a huge tell on the SB guy and knew he was weak, and didn't really care what the short stack had. Either way it was 2500 more to me for a shot at 5300, and I know that I have 12 solid outs, so I make the call. Short stack has A 6 , and the SB has K T ?!? Good lord people play retarDed. I laugh out loud (literally) when he rolled over his hand and say, "You went all-in with that?!?" He went on to explain to me that he knew that I didn't have an ace because I always check-raise my aces on the flop. "I've seen you do it twice." Funny. I didn't have an ace either of those times. He forgot about the two times I bet ace high flops and had an ace. All four of those hands didn't make it to showdown. Anyways, the 3 on the turn gives me five more outs, but 17 is way too many for me to hit, and the T rolls off on the river to give my buddy the entire pot. For you math geeks out there, I was 48.6% to win at the flop and 40.5% to win at the turn. Oh well.
So, back down to 2k, went to dinner after level 5 (which drives me nuts about these tournaments), came back, picked up the blinds and ante's once, and one orbit later shoved with 99, called by KK, GG me.
Oh well. I was pretty pumped anyways to get downstairs to the 60-120 game. Wrong. Blew 3400. Was up 400ish for the first two hours, and then proceeded to lose two racks without winning a single pot. My favorite was when I literally HAD NOT SEEN A FLOP in 45 minutes and it goes limp-limp-raise-I 3-bet button-and we see a flop five ways. Final board: 7 2 4 3 3 , my K K goes into the muck after the river action of check-check-I bet-fold-call and the guy shows me A Q . No, he wasn't trying to be nice. I had 3 bet flop, raised turn, and somehow he convinced myself that I had flopped a set. LOL.
Event 7 - $500+40 NLHE Shootout
Took third on my table. Nothing special here. They went all-in when I raised with Ax. They folded when I raised with QQ. Like ten times each way. Nothing I could do.
Good news from today is that my buddy Theo Tran took down event #6! Atta boy Theo! They made a chip stack chop at the end and he took $80k. Super impressive as he won this exact same event last year. Jeff Madsen, Jim Shipley, and myself sweated him in at the final table. Good times.
Postponed celebration until tomorrow, so I played some more 60-120. Great game. Literally the worst player in a game above 20-40 I have ever seen. I was a little card dead, but I only got rivered in one huge pot, and ended up winning $1430. Wanna hear a bad beat? The average pot is somewhere in the neighborhood of $1200. We see a flop six ways for one bet, I have 44, flop T94 two spades, I bet, and EVERYBODY FOLDED! What the mother father flying flatulent fuss is that all about? There was even a dude that saw the flop with five chips left.
On the way out I ran into my buddy Travis playing some $10 chip game. Turns out it's 40-80 BT, or Badugi and Triple Draw 2-7. OMG, my favorite mix ever. I sat and made $900 in 45 minutes playing four handed for most of the time.
Tomorrow is $540 NLHE, Friday is $1060 LHE, and then I'm back to Vegas for the Super Bowl
So I crunched my numbers from last month, and I netted a little over $13k in 159 hours of play, with over 3k coming in rakeback online. Not a bad month, sure better than stuck 25k, but short of my 17k/month goal. I'm sure some of that will be made up after I win one of these events coming up!
Peace and good luck,
Devo
posted by Devo @ 6:51 AM
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