I had fun, I was in the top five in chips at the first break and at the second break; I made the final table but went card dead for extended period of time. Stacks got short compared to the blinds once we reached the 2K/4K/500 level so I made about my fourth pure steal of the tournament and ran my 10bb stack into Hoy's AK in the blinds. I go home now in 5th place.
Hand #1 - Why You Shouldn't Min-Raise two black aces preflop
Hand #2 - A Key Double Early
Hand #3 - Getting into trouble after taking one off
Danger! I didn't suspect I was up against A3, so the turn and river were particularly nasty.
Hand #4 - Cracking QQ
The river action was a close decision. I really wanted to raise for value but decided to play it safe.
Hand #5 - Getting Donked
Hand #6 - Cracking another premium hand
Hand #7 - A Squeeze
I had decided to felt if facing a 4bet. Luckily for me, I was up against AQ and held.
Hand #8 - Gutting it out with KK on a scary board
Hand #9 - AA holds up
As soon as I saw the flop I planned the hand: I was going to check-call a flop bet and shove any blank turn. It worked out well, but there are many different ways to play this hand.
Hand #10 - A Hammer Drop
Hand #11 - The Steal Gone Wrong
Thanks for reading this far. I had another dozen hands of some interest, but decided to omit those. By being very selective preflop, only seeing 11% of flops, I was dependent on my big hands to chip up and fortunately for me I still got action on them and held up for the most part. The other way I was able to chip up, as you saw above, was calling with some speculative hands in good spots where I wasn't risking a huge percentage of my stack preflop. I was able to nail some flops and punish players who couldn't get away from big pocket pairs.
2 comments:
Nice job! I look forward to your update.
Heck of a final table. I was disappointed that I didn't finish at least a few places higher once I built my stack up. We're off to a great start. Congrats on your finish.
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