Sup peeps, gonna try and do an update á la pads here so bear with me
Malta IPT Main Event
went out for a short bit the night before with japiejesus and sifiasco but made sure to be home in time to get enough rest for the first day of a 2week long live poker grind. slept well and made a good 'menemen' turskish scrambled egg breakfast with freshly squeezed blood orange juice and green tea then we (sifiasco, Deepz and I) went off to register for day 1a. sadly we all forgot that sifiasco is from the Uk and the Uk sux (jk but uk players can only reg via cash and we all are broke live pros so all exceeded card limits lawl) so sifiasco didnt get to paly today but absolutely randomly deepz and i were sat next to each other haha. some fun banter ensued with another reg from ps.fr being a rly cool dude and a massive spazz. i felt rly comfortable playing that 1k in contrast to last year where i was sweating a lot of spots even small pots. anywho lets get to some hands:
first hand of interest was after frenchie had been opening a lot of hands and 3betting a bunch with me being fairly nitty. stacks are super deep around 250bb effective and frenchie opens again somewhere in MP and i look down at J
8
and 3bet to 900 over his 300 open. i could flat but stacks being so deep i like a 3bet just the same. frenchie tanks looks a while at me and 4bets to 2500. deep stacks, sexy hand, position, spazzy villain, i call.
flop J
7
2
he bets smalish like 2100 i call
turn 9
he bets somewhere around 5k and i think a) my hand actually is a better calling hand than QQ b) he would have to jam allin on the river if he were to bet again which makes it pretty hard for him to actually triple as a bluff imo and c) i just have a rly good hand so i call
river 5
he tanks forever and then checks. i obv check behind and he shows 2
3
next hand of interest was a while. i once 3bet KJo vs deepz and double barreled Q93r xo and got a fold from what he said was ATs. then it was a long time with me just having no spots to speak of so i hovered around 38k-45k for the next 6 hours until our table was broken. the new table was fairly reggy/nitty/weaktight but at this point the blinds had gone up to #T500 so i wasnt going to go crazy. folded a few LP opens to blind 3bets and then a hand came up which is meh
UTG opens and gets 2 calls and i call geting ridic odds in the bb having 6
5
flop K
5
4
i check utg cbets fairly small 2 folds and i call
turn T
i check looking to checkfold and UTG checks behind
river 3
i check and villain bets around 3.8k into around 6k.
i mean some people valuebet as thin as J
here but i just kinda felt like he would a) double barred flushes b) double barrel Asx unles its exactly AsT c) not open many offsuit broadway spades like QJo and if so barrel those too so his value range seemed really narrow while its conceivable he bluffs a bunch of turn give up hands. so i call and am super duper wrong vs A
4
this puts me down to 24k at bb800
which makes for a really good 3bfold stack at the table i was at and a good spot came up when a semi active player opened in MP and i look down at K
T
i make it 4100 over his 1700 open form the CO and get a fold
then the next orbit i m in the BB and he opens the button i have around 22k and make it 4100 again with black aces and apparently the guy had enough and yolojams K
5
and we hold to go back up to 48k
next orbit i open to 2k at bb1k with J
8
and a reggy looking player makes it 4700 in the CO or btn. folds around to us and we call.
flop T
9
2
we check he bets around 4k we call
turn Q
now this i m not entirely sure about. i felt like i had a lot of QJ KQ type hands that wouldnt want to lead the turn so i thought checking to have nutted hands in my turn range would be good plus if he has KK theres a good chance he doesnt care that this is a rly good card for my range and bets them anyway but i see a lot of reasons for leading too. i have 24k left at this point and he bets 7ish thousand after i check. i jam he snaps QQ and we hold to go up to around 94k. after this not all that much interesting stuff happened and i ended the day on 82k going into 600/1200/200 after losing a betcheckbet pot with AT vs AQ on A24cc Ko 7o.
deepz made it through as well holding around 47k. average stack will be 55k so we re in really good shape going into day 2 on friday. vamos!
bonus pic:
deepz, me, guy with death breath
gn ppl