16k level 5...blinds 100/200.

Spewed in one pot against an unsophisticated villain, but other than that playing well.

5 tourney type kid players at my table, so I've took some unconvential lines.

Will discuss later.

Card dead/spot dead for last 2 hours...

We are in level 8...200/400/50 blinds with 15k.

Have an aggro to my right that will eventually present some 3bet and 4 bet jam all in spots.

Not going to force anything tho....

That's it LG. One hand at a time. Keep up the good work!

Bull running wild....

250/500/50 ante...

We raise 1100 utg, image and range is strong.

Best player otb makes it 3k.

Judging by his previous 3bets this sizing is huge. I feel he wants a fold.

I decide to man up and go for my first light 4 bet ship.

He tanks for a min and calls with 9s.

We spike a Q on flop and are sitting with 30k.

Nice! What's avg chip count?

45k now...average is 28k.

Just made a sick river call when an asian aggro tried to bluff an obvious flush that came in.

80k now.

400/800/100

I raise Aq utg to 2k.

Asian calls in BB

Flop 9c 5c 3s

He checks..I bet 2200...

Turn Ac he bets 6k.

I call.

River 5d...He ships for 25k.

I tank and think if he has a club draw he check/raises me otf.

If he has A9 or set of 3s or 5x lucky him. He gets paid off.

He had 9/6 offsuit.

Nice

WSOP page is showing only 163 entries. Is that about right?

Go ahead and ship this thing for THE PEOPLE!

Yup 163...55 left.

Lost 2 10k coin flips all in...

One with 77 other with 1010

55k

Good to lose those flips that don't sting as much.

GL GL GL!

38 people left.

50k stack....which is average.

Top 18 get paid.

Going to continue to go w my gut in tough spots...idc about a min cash..I want FT.

Amen LG. Good luck!!

Bagging up around 58k and we are going to day two.....

28 left. Avg stack 68k.

Actually we bagged 64k.

Nice work!

Will post a full report later....

Definitely took a lot of chances/made some mistakes, but this time they were aggressive mistakes and I'm really happy that I manned up and tried to bluff in some spots.

Some worked, some didn't.

FT? Why not just win the thing? Get'em Bull!

WSOP CINCI $580 Buy In

Level 1: 25/50

Get to work early with opening 89s+, all broadways, pps and premiums as long as an unsophisticated/fit or fold villain has limped in or it's been folded to me.

My goal was definitely to be more active today and look for spots to bluff/be more creative with my lines/be more aggressive.

In fact, I'll admit....

All the videos I watched on Tournament Poker Edge had me fukking amped.

I was ready to get after it today.

First interesting spot is when I raise AK from utg2 to 300 and am called by a smart/sophisticated villain OTB.

Stack sizes are 12k and flop comes 3 3 7.

I feel as though if I cbet he will know this flop has missed my range and will flat/try to take it away on the turn or will check/raise right here and put me to a test.

So, I decide to check to him and he bets 325, I r/r to 725 and he folds pretty quickly.

I just felt that taking this line was better than a double or triple barrel and saves us chips in the long run.

Shortly after we move into...

Level 2: 50/75

It's folded around to a thinking/tourney player in the HJ and he raises to 225. I elect to flat out of the BB/play him heads up with Q9s.

Flop comes Q/x/x and this tourney player proceeds to double barrel 325, 625, but then gives up on the river and we scoop the pot.

We make our first mistake of the day when an active player to our right opens to 225 and we call OTB with 6h2h/the intentions to outplay him.

Pot is heads up and flop comes...

Ah As 7s

He checks, I want to rep an ace here, so I check and the turn comes a 2c.

He bets 250. I call 250.

River is an off 8. He checks. I bet 525. He calls with 3/3 and we lose the pot.

Definitely think I should have put a raise in on the turn. That's more powerful and the villain in the hand has to think about how big our river bet is going to be....meh...I fukked up. Oh well, onto the next hand!!!

Oh yeah, btw... I actually double barreled twice in this level and it worked!!

Level 3: 50/100

We have K/Q utg and we raise to 325, we get 2 competent villains who make the call and one fish. 1 competent villain is OTB, other is in the bb, fish is in the sb.

So, the pot goes 4 ways, 1300 in the middle.

Flop is Kh Jc 9c

It checks to me and I check to villain otb again with intentions to get a c/r on him. I figure the pot is pretty big/he is going to take a stab at it.

My plan fails, villain checks and a 3h falls OTT.

Fish in SB donks out 600. Competent villain in bb calls 600. I call 600.

OTB folds.

River is another brick and it checks through to me, I decide to check behind because as it is I've butchered the hand so bad/don't want to chance losing a big amount of chips here.

We end up winning the hand,though.

Level 4: 75/150

I had been giving up my OTB and CO a lot to the aggro on the right of me in the last level. So, I decided that I was going to start making sure I 3-bet in the right spots. After a 3bet with J9d and a 3bet with A9s, the aggro starts to lay off his aggressiveness towards our BB and SB. He also is folding more and giving us a chance to open light when folded around to us....

Level 5: 100/200

One limper when it gets to us, we are OTB and the BB has 4k left.

We raise to 425 with Q10s.

Both players call.

Flop comes 238, and both villains check. I bet 500.

Unsophisticated villain in bb calls quickly. Other guy folds.

Turn is a Q. I decide I want to check here in hopes that he'll shove all rivers.

River is a 6 and the villain ships like I want him to, but he's got 4/5.

Probably shouldn't have called here. Idk, maybe being results oriented?

Villain had showed no signs of ability to bluff, but I thought he would be shoving any piece of that flop that he caught, villain was definitely type to "PUT ME ON AK."

Anyway, oh well, onto the next hand.

We're sitting with 16k in chips.

Level 6: 100/200/25 ante

Level 7: 150/300/25 ante

Level 8: 200/400/50 ante

We go card dead in the above 3 levels and I almost feel as though I need to force something to happen/make something happen.

However, there's just no good spots being presented and I am folding hand after hand.

I manage to get in a few position raises/c-bets and 1 successful 3-bet, but other than that there isn't much action.

We manage to head into the next level with 15k in chips.

Level 9: 250/500/50 ante

Obviously, since we've been card dead for around 2 hours, we have developed a tight image.

We decide to raise 1100 utg with QJs.

Best player at the table/the young competent tourney kid otb makes it 3k.

Judging by his previous 3bets this sizing is huge.

I feel he wants a fold.

I decide to stop being a pussy and man up for my first light 4 bet ship here.

He tanks for a min and calls with pocket 9s.

We spike a Q on flop and are now sitting with 30k.

This was huge for my confidence. I was able to correctly put him on a medium strength hand/pair and I really think he should have found a fold given my tight image, UTG raising range, and the fact that was my first 4-bet all day. I think he made a mistake calling there as this was the first time I ever tried a play like this. Under normal circumstances I am 4-bet shipping AK and QQ+ there.

Like I said, though...today I was fukking amped. Ship it.

Level 10: 300/600/75

Action is all pretty standard in this level. We attempt three 3bets...2 of which work... the other we fold to a 4-bet ship.

I'm 3betting any villains I feel have a light opening range as long as I have an ace blocker. So, I'm most likely 3-betting the best hand...but in the past I would have been folding in these spots/playing too nitty.

So, this is a step forward for me.

Level 11: 400/800/100

We're around 50k when we get into this hand...

I raise AQ utg to 2k.

Asian aggro calls in BB.

Flop 9c 5c 3s

He checks..I bet 2200...he calls.

Turn Ac he bets out 6k.

I call.

River 5d...He ships for 25k.

I tank and think if he had a club draw he check/raises me otf.

If he has A9, set of 3s, or 5x lucky him. He gets paid off.

He had 9/6 offsuit.

As you seen from the hand history in my past two tournaments, I would normally fold in a spot like this.

But, I read it for what it was...a desperate attempt to steal the pot after he let an ace fall on the turn...he must have been burning up inside when that A hit and for some reason thought he could bluff me out of the pot.

Level 12: 500/1000/100

This level is not good to us....

We lose two 10k coin flips all in.

One with 77, the other with 1010.

We were in the BB on one of them when an MP guy goes all in.

We were in the SB with the other one of them when a guy OTB goes all in.

So, this gets us down to around 55k.

Level 13: 600/1200/100

This is where we make the biggest mistake of tournament.

Super nitty guy who was holding onto his 15k SS for AS LONG as he could. Just letting it wither and wither away finally decides to ship from MP when we are in the BB with A/8 suited.

I call him and he has QQ. MEH.

Horrible to give away 25% of our chip stack there with A/8s...idk what got into me.

So, we're down to 40k and we get A/Q otb and a 22k stack has shipped all in from mp.

We call here and villain has K/Q, we hold.

We're back up to 65k and starting to feel better.

Level 14: 700/1400/200

We are in HJ with Kc10c and raise to 3k.

WSOP ring winner calls OTB.

He has 30k chips left.

BB calls and SB calls. Both of them have 80k+.

Flop is 5h5d2d

BB and Sb checks. I check with intention to raise OTB because he is a ring winner/competent and this is the same line I would take with ANY premium pair.

12k in pot, he bets 4.8k.

SB and BB fold.

I min raise to 9.6k.

He tanks for a minute then ships all in and we have to fold our king high.

Great read by him. Idk how bad of a play it is by me. I swear on everything I love I take the same line with 88+, AQ, AK.

He showed A/J offsuit.

After that hand we're back to around 50k.

Then over the course of the next couple hours it's all position raising, 3-betting, or 4betting all in with AK.

Ended up bagging around 64k and as of yet I haven't got AA, KK, QQ, or JJ in this tournament.

So, hopefully I get some monsters to play tomorrow.

Please feel free to critique any of my lines and let me know if calling with the 77 and 1010 is wrong in those spots????

26 players left, 18 get paid.

Our 64k stack is around tourney average.

Time for sleep now.

+1

table draw:

http://www.wsop.com/pdfs/reports/129...s-by-Table.pdf

Just took a look at that.

Also found out one of the kids I felted last night was a WSOP Ring winner in the last NLHE event.

Top 3 spots 22K,14K and 10K....not bad.

Also a few shorties there that are going to need to make a move quick....might not take long to get to the money.

Good luck LG.

IMO, you're on your A game brother. Stay in the zone, good things will happen.

Crush it!