so decided to not be a bum today and play some liveament instead of grinding online as today was day 1a of the 333eur tripleA series in the casino here. pretty solid structure (25 min levels 50k chips 50/100 blinds to start) so felt like should be a fun one to play and get some practice in for vienna next month.
got a really soft first table with a TON of limping going on and ppl generally having no idea whats up. got up to 70k chips pretty quickly and then got into the following spot:
Hero (70k) J
J
misclicks to t1200 in UTG as blinds just moved up to 250/500
villain1 (115k) 3bets to t3000 directly on my left (has doubled set over set and clearly a rec online player. spazzes around phrases like potodds and YouTeeGee all the time. pretty TAGy overall tho
folds around to villain2 (60k) in HJ who coldcalls with trembling hands. read on this dude is tight passive rec that watches a bunch of EPTlive
I elect to overcall as way too deep to do anything else
flop (t9750) J
T
5
i check, V1 checks V2 bets t6600 (i think my check is fine looking to checkraise vs two decently strong ranges here and on a flop where i can rep quite a lot of draws so ppl will not fold much.) i decide to call hoping the 3bettor would find a raise knowing i can build the pot via checkraise ott vs V2. V1 calls
turn (t29550) J
T
5
4
here i messed up. given the action up until this point i think i should lead this turn. it is pretty likely that V1 is on sth like AK a lot here which i dont want to give free cards to and V2 will have QQ a lot here or some coldcalled drawing hand of which there are plenty on this texture. i dont wanna give the draws in both villains ranges the chance to get a free river and there s a good chance that V1 might be stubborn with his gutshot. SHOULD he be on KK+ that played the flop passively theres no chance he d fold to my lead. so ya all in all pretty clear lead spot imo.
Hero checks, V1 checks, V2 bets 15k leaving himself t36k behind.
given that V1 more often than not will be folding i decided to go for max value vs V2 who has defined his hand as a betcall quite clearly.
hero raises to t44k ish, V1 folds claiming to have folded KK, V2 jams for 48k total hero snaps
V2 shows T
T
river (t125550) J
T
5
4
T
so ya that one was fun
tried to make a comeback but lost to a fish donking undercards and backing himself into bottom trips vs my top pair.
at this point i had the option to either take a second bullet or say fk it and play sat and sunday online. obv decided to fire a second bullet cuz wat the hell but couldnt get much going until the last level of the day had me sitting with 82k which was 20bb and 5 hands left to play. my thought was that if i kept that stack it would be not worth at all missing a full sunday online schedule so i tried to gambool it up and get a double or bust out. had a vpip of 100% over those last hand, 3bjamming 88 over a mr and a flatcall (guy on the btn tanked for 5 minutes and didnt call even when i promised him it be a flip vs his ATo and then came the last hand:
Hero 97k is on the BTN with 3
2
Hero opens to t8000
SB folds
BB calls (whatever kinda turkish guy, not spazzy not passive, just std rly but has noticed me playing looser and has seen me rasiefold a few times)
flop T
4
3
checks, Hero bets t8000, villain raises to t25000.
decided what the hell, last hand of the day i might have some FE, and usually should have some outs if i m behind so i crammed in my 97k villain obv snaps T
4
turn 3
river 3
weeeeeeee
so ya funny day of poker, didnt play great but ran almost exactly at chipEV which was fun
i m in this thing for 666eur and first place will likely be somewhere around 12-17keur. day 2 starts at 3pm on sunday and shouldbe a fun one. returning with 44bb.
the saddest part of this is that villain in hand 2 was left with less than 5000 chips which will be 1bb. that meant he couldnt try and bust the next hand and thus will not be allowed to reenter tomorrow for day 1b. the looks he shot me were so scary i walked most of the way home looking over my shoulder all the time
me offering to buy him a beer didnt at all better the situation. poor guy
yadayadayada #lollivepoker #demQuads