This day was fucking ridiculous. I couldn't believe it. It started out with 20,000 chips and 50-100 blinds and blinds went up every 2 hrs with 20 minute breaks except after the 3rd level there was 90 minutes for dinner...
First level... I am 200 BB (Big Blinds) deep and i know how to play that game and actually found myself with an edge. I go up to 26, 000 chip count and leading the table... Nothing spectacular... 2hrs of patience game trying to make the best of my cards , getting reads on opponents... Immediately 2 on my left was a superagressive norwegian player so i had to play extra cautiously because of him...
Break 20 min... I am proud and feel invincible that this is not that hard and now i feel comfortable... Back in the game Blinds 100-200 now we are mostly around 100BB deep. Still a good game. Now there is so much more chance i can get a hand to go all in with. So here it is ... i am in big blind... and get 5 limpers... I check with Q8s (s=suited)... flop comes 674 rainbow... I make an initial bet of half the pot i get one caller... turn is the 5 ... all suites are different so there is no fear from flush maximum a set that can make a full house by the river... So i bet a bit more than half the pot ... guy behind me raises ... could be a bluff a set or even a 3 to 7 straight... definitely 8 is an option too. so i reraise and he goes all in ... i call and feel sick and i want to throw up when i see he has 89... i am down to 3700 and go for the break... and in some way i actually do fucking believe that my tourney is over... must had happen on the very beginning...
Level 3 ... don't know what i was doing ... tryed to play my game ... was patient and just played my hands as i was supposed to... I doubled up with 33 against AK... my 3s held up so i had around 8500 by the end of this level...
We have dinner with Kojak and i get sick so sick in fact that the first half hour of level 4 i was just trying to get myself over the heavy food... a slice of pepperoni pizza and fruits... i drink and energy drink and that starts to get me back on my feet... I play and slowly collect myself up to 12000 chips by end of level. Still i am the short stack at the table...
Level 5 ... last level and we are moving to next day, i play ok, i get a few good hands and win a coin flip situation with AKs against TT where i flop and A and that holds up... I am about 28000 at this point... later against same guy i make an incredible read and call his big bet with medium pair... and from that point i was boosting my roll to 48125 and finish the day with an average or somewhat above average stack...
There were around 1300 players at the tourney on day 1 and 650 of us made it through day 2... there is last day of day one which is sunday that is already full... so that means about 2500 players... but there is tommorow and after tommorow... i think the total participants will run up to around 6000 players... definitely fewer than last year... where has all the money gone ???!!!!!
I am effin exhausted right now and dont expect me to wake up earlier than 12 tommorow... This is the toughest tournament i have ever been to... Just at my tables there were 5 poker pros playing ... making it real tough to survive... I am glad i went through though... however money is still very far out of reach there... the experience is a BLAST !!!
More coming soon...
First level... I am 200 BB (Big Blinds) deep and i know how to play that game and actually found myself with an edge. I go up to 26, 000 chip count and leading the table... Nothing spectacular... 2hrs of patience game trying to make the best of my cards , getting reads on opponents... Immediately 2 on my left was a superagressive norwegian player so i had to play extra cautiously because of him...
Break 20 min... I am proud and feel invincible that this is not that hard and now i feel comfortable... Back in the game Blinds 100-200 now we are mostly around 100BB deep. Still a good game. Now there is so much more chance i can get a hand to go all in with. So here it is ... i am in big blind... and get 5 limpers... I check with Q8s (s=suited)... flop comes 674 rainbow... I make an initial bet of half the pot i get one caller... turn is the 5 ... all suites are different so there is no fear from flush maximum a set that can make a full house by the river... So i bet a bit more than half the pot ... guy behind me raises ... could be a bluff a set or even a 3 to 7 straight... definitely 8 is an option too. so i reraise and he goes all in ... i call and feel sick and i want to throw up when i see he has 89... i am down to 3700 and go for the break... and in some way i actually do fucking believe that my tourney is over... must had happen on the very beginning...
Level 3 ... don't know what i was doing ... tryed to play my game ... was patient and just played my hands as i was supposed to... I doubled up with 33 against AK... my 3s held up so i had around 8500 by the end of this level...
We have dinner with Kojak and i get sick so sick in fact that the first half hour of level 4 i was just trying to get myself over the heavy food... a slice of pepperoni pizza and fruits... i drink and energy drink and that starts to get me back on my feet... I play and slowly collect myself up to 12000 chips by end of level. Still i am the short stack at the table...
Level 5 ... last level and we are moving to next day, i play ok, i get a few good hands and win a coin flip situation with AKs against TT where i flop and A and that holds up... I am about 28000 at this point... later against same guy i make an incredible read and call his big bet with medium pair... and from that point i was boosting my roll to 48125 and finish the day with an average or somewhat above average stack...
There were around 1300 players at the tourney on day 1 and 650 of us made it through day 2... there is last day of day one which is sunday that is already full... so that means about 2500 players... but there is tommorow and after tommorow... i think the total participants will run up to around 6000 players... definitely fewer than last year... where has all the money gone ???!!!!!
I am effin exhausted right now and dont expect me to wake up earlier than 12 tommorow... This is the toughest tournament i have ever been to... Just at my tables there were 5 poker pros playing ... making it real tough to survive... I am glad i went through though... however money is still very far out of reach there... the experience is a BLAST !!!
More coming soon...
2 comments:
Awesome man, keep it up! By the way, this Kojak guy has a pretty much AWESOME name :) .
Make some big dough Roland so you can come back and see us again next year!
DH
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