Gdam no bueno, phone app keeps failing to upload pictures it uploads to 95% then jams!?
...welp for a much more boring recap of my first foray back to live tournaments...I ended up focusing on satellites for the series playing one $125 for a $500(ish) event that I did not get a seat in and 3 $280 sattys to the $2k main event of which I won two, played with 1 and got paid chips $2k for the other.
Was excited about the main, my table was easy enough and I was able to be table aggressor as the 2 good players I had direct position on, quickly ran the 20k starting stack up to about 50k in first 5-6 levels (45 min levels) then alternate between 50-60k a bit. An EP raiser opened small like 2.5k at I think 600-1200and got 2 calls then I called from cutoff with pp22 and bb call. Pot about 15k bloated af and original open leads out 2500 again gets called by the other biggish stack to my right then to me on a flop of Q2T rainbow. I make it 12500 so I’ll have stp to Gii lot of turns if called. Only the other large stack calls and turn is K which should often be great for me for his range as he makes a lot of 2 pairs and also now has tp/draw combos with hands like KJ if he called with nut str draw otf; that said it’s not a turn I want to bet when he checks. River is blank like a 3 or 4 and he leads around half pot
I crying call and he has J9 os having made a questionable call on flop with the non nut open ended draw and no flush redraw and smacked the turn. Feeling pretty crippled I later opened a suited 1-gapper 5-7hh and a shortish stack min raised me, obligated call and I flop a pair with backdoor draws on a Q high flop (3-5-Q w/heart) so open jam into him knowing he’s calling off a lot as he has put on 40% stack but that he may still fold out his big broadway non queen combos he does call with 99 which holds. I jam my last few bbs otb with QT off and a lady who just sat in bb snaps with AA to send me out.
Had a lot of fun and made some money but the main event knock out remind me how good you have to play and run for so long in these and the disappointment when you don’t.
Been more of the usual lately but based on what I’ve seen of increased action in the poker rooms and a renewal in my genes motivation, I put on notice with job and will be returning entirely to live play in March.
Will be shooting for a Vegas trip sometime in Spring or over WSOP at the very latest and will have a fun report for that.
Might fire up some kind of hours or similar based poker challenge for myself to get back into full time play but haven’t figured out what yet, I’ll make a thread if I do and cross post in here.
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