Ok, so exams are finally over. Results are in a week, so I’ll enjoy this beautiful moment as much as possible. (LOL) Anyway, had my last one yesterday morning at 9pm, took it and then immediately drove to the Netherlands to play a live bird in Utrecht. Pretty sweet tournament, almost all the regs from the Dutch (live) community are there, so I always have a good time there. On to the tournament then.
Despite having a very good starting table, I immediately dropped down from 25k start to 15k, just losing every damn pot. First break in I was already imagining myself at the bar, but things started to turn around then. Managed to win a few pots to get me back up to 30k, and then I pulled a pretty sick bluff which got through. MP (ok’ish player, somewhat spewy, but a thinking player) opens to 1200 at bb500, I defend KQss in the bb. Flop comes down A87ssx I check/call a 1600 bet which I think is super standard and we shouldn’t be doing anything else really. Turn is an ofsuit 4, I check, he rather quickly bets 4.6k. At this point it’s a pretty interesting spot, I think x/c is pretty meh since he will be checking back a lot of spade rivers, and we can’t really win the pot if we do miss. Think x/f is pretty decent, but I went for the x/r. So I made it 11.6k leaving myself with about 17k behind. I have all the 65s, all the two pairs & 77/88 so think that’s a viable line to take and balance it with a few flushdraws/straightdraws (with pairs or whatever). Anyway he doesn’t think too long about it, and calls. River is a ofsuited Jack, and I think about it for more than a minute, but I was like ‘this spot is almost never being bluffed, 9T got there as well, I’m just going for broke and he pbb snaps me with sets+ and some 2 pairs or whatever. So I jam, and villain folds like in less than half a minute and I feel like I am the GOAT obv. I told villain some bull**** story about having T9, and he allegedly had 78s. I don’t know, it seems a good call combination, but on the other hand, not much people are bat**** crazy to bluff jam that spot I guess. So that worked out well, chipped up to 80k, and then got reseated to a bigstack stable. First hand I’m involved is again a pretty interesting one.
I open black Tens with +- 80k UTG to 3600 (bb1600), and MP (very agro, lagg’ish but yet pretty decent live reg) makes it 9k. I call, think folding is too weak against this player. Flop comes 854r (with one club) (iirc) I x/c 10k bet, turn is 4c goes check/check. River is the 7c, I check and he puts me all in (55k into 40k pot or something like that) I think about it for more than 2-3 minutes, but eventually let it go. At first I thought this doesn’t make much sense, and I’m capped etc but then I thought he could play KK+ that way too, and that would really suck if he does that. So I made the tough fold, and he later claimed to have had aces, which is definitely possible but I don’t know if that was true. So after that hand, I waited for a good spot to get it in. Got pretty short, got one rejam trough, than doubled kk > kq to get an avg stack again. Last level of the night, I hit 130k, and then another interesting hand happened. I open MP A9cc to 6.3k or whatever, sb (the villain from hand 2) flats, bb (pretty bad lag reg) comes along as well. Flop is a62hhc (iirc) they both check, I decide to check back. Not totally in love with that check back, but definitely don’t hate it either. Turn is the 5c, sb leads 12k into approximately 20. I call. River is the 6h, and he bets 30.4k. I hit the tank for a pretty long time, and eventually folded. I think a lot of people will just snapcall because they checked behind etc but I think folding is ok. He definitely can play all his aces that way (and he pbb doesn’t play like much less than A8, so most of his aces do have me crushed). The 6 is a ok’ish card for me too, I will have some sixes, so he should be pretty careful with bluffing this spot, and flush got there too. So yeah, I don’t know, felt pretty gross but decided to fold. Villain again allegedly claimed to have had AJ. And also, what kind of bluffs should villain have. He probably will just give up with a lot of his broadways because they don’t pick up any equity, so that removes a lot of his possible bluffs imho then. I don’t know, tough hand. I eventually finished day1 with 85k.
Today was day 2, had 21bb’s and we were pretty close to itm, so I have a pretty good grasp of that game. Decided to nit it up, and take a few good reshove spots when they came up. I almost tripled pretty close to ITM (btn opens, sb reshoves, I look down at 2 beautiful black kings and hold against TT & AK) so that was nice. Got itm with around 40bb, and then got reseated. Was pbb the toughest table left, so I was going to wait for good spots and not force anything, and basically the first hand I got involved in, was my busthand as well. It was a pretty annoying spot, but don’t think I could have gotten away from it. So I open MP KJo (haven’t been involved in any action in two orbits at this table) en the guy next to me (german, pretty decent) flats. Flop is J42ccc I bet 14k into 35k he calls. Turn is an ofsuited 8, I check, he checks behind. Turn is an ofsuited king (I bet 39k into 65k) and he puts me all in for 65-70k more), and I puke called it of rather fast. Like, if we think about it. We block Jacks & Kings if he ever would valuejam those on the river, I’m not sure). He’s solid enough to not have 22 & 44, he could have eights, but then again would he be valuejamming those on the river? So yeah, his valuecombo’s are mostly flopped flush, and the Jc is on the table, so that removes quite a lot of flush combo’s, like AJcc QJcc KJcc and JTcc are all reasonable flatting hands for him I guess. So that leaves him with ace high flushes, but then again he was pretty solid, so I expect him to not have much worse than ATcc and 3b/c AKcc and sometimes AQcc, so those are really like 2 combo’s ATcc AQcc. Then he definitely could have KQcc, and he will sometimes have QTcc & KTcc (definitely won’t flat those 100% pre, but could sometimes). And then he sometimes has some suited connector flushes like T9cc 98cc but all in all, those are like 5-8 combo’s of flushes, and I didn’t really expect him to valuejam much sets (beside we block those) and I got a pretty sick price as well. I had to call 65k for a pot worth 300k+ so he should really be not bluffing not much at all for us to make it a good call. If he has 5-8 valuecombo’s, he should really only have like literally 1 or 2 bluff combo’s which I think is definitely possible for him to have. So yeah, I’m still pretty happy with the call I made and definitely with the way I played these two past days. Felt really in the zone, and had a very good thinking process in almost every hand. So yeah, I shrugcalled, and he did have the flopped AQcc wich was unfortunate but just a very unlucky river for me, and I don’t could have gotten away from it really. So I took like 40th or w/e with 50k up top, but that’s ok still pretty happy.
I hope you guys enjoyed this report, I always like reading these reports from other players so I don’t know. Gonna watch the world champs cyclocross (wtf is cyclocross??) tomorrow and gonna hit the grind hard after that. GL all tomorrow. <3