Bellagio: Event #2 ... Wat?

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JonnyCosMo United States. Apr 08 2008 04:04. Posts 7292

Today was the $2500+120 event, and once again I got a pretty sweet starting table with no one I really recognized. Unfortunate for the first hour I picked up no hands and my table seemed to be playing fairly loose both preflop and post flop. Some guy punted his entire stack 5 minutes into the tournament with 2nd pair + gut shot. Another guy re-re-re-raised the turn on a 8-8-3-5 board and insta-folded when he got shoved on. Yikes. An hour into the tournament I got moved over to RaiNKhaN's table and got the seat directly to his left. Ship the position! Mr.Smokey01 was also seated at the table. I got to the first break with 3300 in chips, mostly from folding and one bad bluff into a small pot.

Came back from the break and grabbed a few chips by knocking out RaiNKhaN (he played a big pot earlier and got crippled to 500 in chips), then proceeded to pick up a few more pots. Mr.Smokey01 busted out about 15 minutes later and was replaced by Bushman. Another kid who made the final table from the event I won at the Wynn was also moved to my table. For most of the 100/200 level I continued to struggled to pick up chips and finally got stuck at 2400 in chips and raised a cut-off limp to 800 with ATo only to get limp-shoved on. I called off my last 1600 and he had KK... sick life. But I warned him I run infinitly good in these spots and sure enough the flop came A-T-4. Ship it. Turn and river bricked out and I doubled to about 5,000. Did a few ninja-like rejams and chipped up to 8,000 before my final hand: Blinds were at 100/200 w 25 ante and it gets folded to the table chip leader who had well over 25,000+ in chips. He had been playing pretty loose, and he popped it up to 600. I flat called on the button with KQo, and everyone else folded. Flop came: Kc-8h-3h, and he c-bet 1,000. I made a very fast call trying to give off some weakness (now I sound like Phil Hellmuth and his bs about false-tells blah blah blah but whatever). Turn came Qh, he fired 2600 and I shoved all-in. He snap called and showed K5hh. River bricked and I went out in 75th or something around 4:00pm. Hmmm... odd? I tend to last forever in these tournaments. 4 hours was the fastest I've busted so far lol... I'm cursed

So I went back up to my room and found Rekrul playing 5/10 heads-up on 4 tables, so I watched him for a bit. He's pretty fucking amazing. Total relentless aggression, with some sick telepathic reads. At the end of his first session he was up $22,000 after 3 hours. Wat? I took a nap for a couple hours then woke up and watched him play a little 6-max before heading down to the poker room to grind myself.

I played a 6 hour 5/10 session tonight from 8:30pm to 2:30am, and for the most part I thought I played my A game. Got a little sloppy towards the end of my session, but ended +$2200. The only hand worth mentioning was my double-up vs some super fish 10 minutes after sitting down. The hand goes down like this: I'm on the button with 54o, there are 6 limpers infront of me so I limp, and both the blinds come in as well. Flop comes A-2-3 rainbow. DING! It gets checked around to the guy to my right and he bets $70 into a $90 pot. I raise to $180, everyone folds, the guy makes the call. Turn comes 8, he checks. I bet $400. He shoves for my last $550 so obv I snap call and tell the dealer "Dont pair the board". River comes an Ace and I puke a little inside and am ready to muck my cards... but the guy tables AT!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! WAT? AT no good sir. Nothing else really happened, just chipped up in a bunch of small pots, lost a few 60/40's and a got a set cracked by a flush draw. The table was fairly soft, (not as soft as the tournament tables obv) and there were a lot of really nice people sitting.

Tomorrow is the $3000 event, so I need to get my rest. Wish me luck!

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Everyone needs to see that you are king of the castle - PoorUser

Last edit: 08/04/2008 05:07

cariadon Estonia. Apr 08 2008 05:04. Posts 4019

Good luck sir !
What stakes was the 6 hour session? live right?
does anyone stake you for these tournies?
Why haven't you posted any pics yet? argh...

best of luck tomorrow !

JonnyCosMo United States. Apr 08 2008 05:09. Posts 7292

played 5/10, yes live at the bellagio poker room

peachy_keen stakes me, [vital]Myth, and FrinkX for these events.

I lost my camera...

Everyone needs to see that you are king of the castle - PoorUser

JonnyCosMo United States. Apr 08 2008 05:10. Posts 7292

I'll prolly go out and buy a new camera wednesday when I take the day off thou

Everyone needs to see that you are king of the castle - PoorUser

ck20 . Apr 08 2008 06:52. Posts 1130

gl

hope u'll finally take em down

blunt_smokr United States. Apr 08 2008 10:28. Posts 1314

GL Jonny!