Cashed at the Drift
This past Sunday, I went to play the 11:30 tournament at the Drift On Inn. I've played the morning tournament once before, and thought it was ok. The buy-in is fairly low, and having a dealer is much nicer than a game with self-deal. Nice.
Anyhow, it was an interesting experience. I caught AJc early in the first blind level, and some old dude with a Euro accent of indeterminate origin, who is sitting to my immediate right, calls my standard 3x BB raise. I was in the small blind, and as always, I don't want any limpers, and everyone except (2 BB calls from before) folds except the old guy. The flop comes KJJ. I didn't put the old guy on KK, since he only called my standard raise, so I decide to slowplay it. I check from first position. The old guy moves all in, and I call him. He flips over K-rag (for a pair of Kings), and I show my AJ (trip Jacks!). He stands and starts bitching about the hand under his breath. The turn and river bring blanks, and I took it down. Old dude mutters "fuck you", and walks away. I responded with something like "Hey, that's not cool", but he was gone. The dealer counted his chips, and Fucko (my new name for old dude at this point) had me covered, so somebody turns in the direction he left to get his attention. He came back to his teeny tiny chipstack and donked them away in the next hand.
The rest of the tourney was good. I caught AA twice and QQ, and I didn't over play them. I busted some folks with those hands (raggy flops where they thought their top pair was good). That was good for my chips.
Also, I kept telling myself that I had a massive stack and could let the small stacks duel it out as there was little benefit to me being involved. I have Debbie to thank for that chunk of wisdom. It is a major leak in my game, and I was completely unaware of it until she pointed it out. That advice is a big part of why I was able to go so far.
I took 4th. I started screwing up when the whole table got to the money. I'm unsure what my problem at that point was. Blinds were huge, and nobody folded to my raises. I got chipped away waiting for cards, then finally made a desperation move from UTG with something like 78 suited (hey, they're live!) when my stack would be pretty much gone after playing the blinds. Maybe Debbie (or Trevor or anyone else whom she's discussed my play with) can see something there that I can't. I hope so.
4th paid ~2.8 times the buy-in, so it was a very good payday for 2.5 hours of work.
I also managed to take down a SnG the night before at Jamie's houseboat, so my weekend was nicely profitable. The stakes aren't high or anything, but I do like the competition. The $ is small, but everyone I've played with lately takes the game seriously. I LOVE that!
Anyhow, it was an interesting experience. I caught AJc early in the first blind level, and some old dude with a Euro accent of indeterminate origin, who is sitting to my immediate right, calls my standard 3x BB raise. I was in the small blind, and as always, I don't want any limpers, and everyone except (2 BB calls from before) folds except the old guy. The flop comes KJJ. I didn't put the old guy on KK, since he only called my standard raise, so I decide to slowplay it. I check from first position. The old guy moves all in, and I call him. He flips over K-rag (for a pair of Kings), and I show my AJ (trip Jacks!). He stands and starts bitching about the hand under his breath. The turn and river bring blanks, and I took it down. Old dude mutters "fuck you", and walks away. I responded with something like "Hey, that's not cool", but he was gone. The dealer counted his chips, and Fucko (my new name for old dude at this point) had me covered, so somebody turns in the direction he left to get his attention. He came back to his teeny tiny chipstack and donked them away in the next hand.
The rest of the tourney was good. I caught AA twice and QQ, and I didn't over play them. I busted some folks with those hands (raggy flops where they thought their top pair was good). That was good for my chips.
Also, I kept telling myself that I had a massive stack and could let the small stacks duel it out as there was little benefit to me being involved. I have Debbie to thank for that chunk of wisdom. It is a major leak in my game, and I was completely unaware of it until she pointed it out. That advice is a big part of why I was able to go so far.
I took 4th. I started screwing up when the whole table got to the money. I'm unsure what my problem at that point was. Blinds were huge, and nobody folded to my raises. I got chipped away waiting for cards, then finally made a desperation move from UTG with something like 78 suited (hey, they're live!) when my stack would be pretty much gone after playing the blinds. Maybe Debbie (or Trevor or anyone else whom she's discussed my play with) can see something there that I can't. I hope so.
4th paid ~2.8 times the buy-in, so it was a very good payday for 2.5 hours of work.
I also managed to take down a SnG the night before at Jamie's houseboat, so my weekend was nicely profitable. The stakes aren't high or anything, but I do like the competition. The $ is small, but everyone I've played with lately takes the game seriously. I LOVE that!
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