Wow, shame you couldn't have gone even farther. Congrats!

gg Robert, nice run!

Nice run Robert!

gg congrats

Directed to this thread from the NVG sweat thread. Congrats, man.

How much did he cash?

ETA: Read 85k, nice score. :beer:

GG nice run, didnt have a piece but was rooting for u!

Yeah. I am brutally honest in my play and where I make mistakes. First i was up most of the night beating the **** out of myself analyzing what i did here. I analyzed it back and forth with golfpro via texts because I felt like I owed it to him for his stake.

My table was wildly aggressive. 3 out of 4 hands had up to 4 bets per flop. Blinds were 5 k ante and 15 k-30k blinds. Utg raised to 60k (raises were always 2x exactly). I was utg+2. I flatted. The cutoff was a super shorty. About 225k. He seriously looked like he was going to ship it soon. I was hoping to induce a shove there and see what original raiser either flatted the shorty and then. Could rejam. Alas, the shorty thought for a minute and mucked. Bb came along for the ride.

Flop was 9-10-j. Original raiser made it 120k. I raised to 520k. BB folds. Original raiser jams for 1.1m more. Even the wsop mentions that I tanked. I was getting well over 2 to 1 on a call. If he had Qq or kk he would have played it the same way. I called. He turned over Jj. Turn was a q to give me more outs. But a 3 on the river ended it.

He is not laying jacks down pre flop. Unless I shipped it but I would never have done that. If I did 3 bet, maybe he would have just called. Then maybe I could have given the hand up since he would have check raised me on the flop. I don't now.

Interestingly, if he did have Qq or kk he would have won also.

From a pay perspective, I could have gone to bed at dinner break and made an extra 50k minimum. Lol

I will be back next year and I will do better. I had a real feel for it. The structure was amazing. There are also a lot of guys playing scared. They make it so easy to attack them.

On the stone cold bubble, blinds were 5k-10k. I had about 200 k. I had 10-10. I raised and am called by small blind. Our stacks were similar. Flop was 8-2-q. He bets out I just call. I did not put him on a queen. I don't now why but I didn't. He was also very nervous about the bubble. On the turn he bet small and I called. On the river he just looked at me. I said why risk cashing? He checked on the river. I checked also. He had AQ. Other than cashing, what the hell was he worried about there?

My point is picking on these stacks as money approaches and as each pay jump hits is what is needed.

Espn ran over for one hand and recorded each of our hold cards for a hand near a pay bump for. 37k to 42 k. I hope it makes tv because I pulled off an awesome bluff. This guy kept asking how many people were left because of the extra 5k. He raises and I call on the button with q-6 spades. Flop is all clubs. He looks back at his cards. Looks up at the clock (I guess to see how many we're left) and checks. I fire out 30 percent of pot bet. He agonizes and calls. Turn is the ace of spades. He quickly checks. I decide to rep a naked ace high flush draw that hits top pair. I fire out 40 percent of pot. He tanks and finally folds.

These were the spots I picked to chip up. I can do it again and will do it.

Glad to see a great story in the MP! Congrats dude!

Great run! Sad I waited until last minute to try buy in. Hopefully this reduces stigma against players that aren't live pros or "Internet kids."

Nice run, hope to see you at Parx sometime

Thanks for recounting that AA hand. I'm in agreement that I don't think you would've induced JJ to fold had you 6-bet it preflop. The only question is would you have been able to fold when he check-raised you after the flop. Don't beat yourself up -- you did a heck of a job. I've read literature that mentions attacking the "Nervous Nellies" as the money ladder looms large and juicy with the dwindling number of survivors. You are way ahead of most in your game as you have learned to apply that strategy. See ya next year.

don't beat yourself up over the AA hand. i think preflop is fine with the dynamic you described, and flop is whatever doubt I'd fold.

I told him the same Cohiba. He played an excellent game and ran like GOD!

If you followed a hand where JC Tran (8's vs A's) doubled up yesterday, it went the way darth was thinking of playing, with a 3B and reraise.

The other player who was holding A's had a chance to shut down after raising pre getting called and after getting reraised on the flop.

"**** Happens!", it sucks when it happens deep in an event where you are having a good run.

I would take the positive's and refocus and get ready for next year.

GolfPro

Oops. good job man!!

After I lost with AA but before I busted, Steven Gee who was sitting to my right at a secondary feature table (hell of a nice guy by the way), pulled it off successfully.

He is the one that took out the super shorty. As I remember, Gee raised it initially. The shorty actually just called (20% of his stack, LOL), it went over to the BB who then put in a thin 3 bet. Gee chose to just call the 3 bet cold. Went to the shorty who then shoved. The 3better, just flatted this four bet. When it came back to Gee, he then jammed and got the 3 better to Fold. Gee turned over aces and effectively added over 50% to his stack while only being up against the short stack.

His play is very underrated. He played people like a fiddle in that hand.

I should have adopted that nervous nellie strategy at the end. LOL. In my bb I had K-2 suited. Folds to the small blind who raises enough to put me all in. I thought K high would be ahead of most of his ranges considering he was deep stacked. I knew if I folded I would make the next pay jump. Another 18K. I was there to win it though. I called and was right. He had J-Q. I hit 2 pair but he had trip Jacks. Sure enough. I was in line with the guy that had the next pay jump. I missed my first six figure score.

Congrats

OK. Money shipped to my one investor of 2%. I pay QUICK! I was also contantly tweeting and texting to anyone who invested or was interested.

I had a private party via twitter invest 1.5%. He literally had the money delivered as we starting play. LOL. I am waiting for his 1099 and then will pay him at Parx.

Thanks for the rails. Thanks for helping pick me up when I was depressed over my play at the last table i was at.

I am 50/50 on whether to host a package next year. I put 10K away in a CD for next year just in case i run good the rest of the year in these crappy local tournaments and the cash game.

I am spreading the wealth and investing in others in the marketplace. Let's go little guys!!!

Thanks once again darth, I received the payment.

I hope your investments this year (staking) and the tournaments you play bring in enough cash, so that you don't have to dip into that CD.

It was fun sweating you on twitter and thru texts.

GolfPro