Today was the first round for the Moose freeroll tournament. I got a sleepy start when I got locked in the night before in a deepstack tournament which ultimately ran for 6 1/2 hours. I ended up in third out of 253 players, but oh dear I paid today. My game was not up to "A" level and I kept running into stronger hands and draws coming in. I played intermittently aggressive which is not a good idea. At times I would bet into check pots and take them, other times I would passively check it down in position and give it up. Early on I tried a play against the player to my immediate left. I had nothing, but called his raise out of position to go for the steal. The board had a possible straight when I check raised his $500 bet to 1500. He then reraised to 3500 and I folded.
Later, I lost a fairly big pot to super dave who called my bet on a Q/10/10 flop (I did have a queen, no kicker). I then bet the turn which he also called, and gave it up on the river, checking and folding to his bet. Definitely hard to bet out of position with a semibluff.
Latif snapped me twice with flush draws when I flopped an ace with a decent kicker. He is not a tournament player and does not understand card odds vs. pot odds. I never gave him the correct odds to draw.
My final hand was A9 offsuit all in with Dave limping and me with 5 BB's.. Latif also called and the flop came KK9 which I thought could be a great flop for me, but Dave had overcalled the bet with KQ offsuit, despite Latif's call. I didn't see Latif's hand, but assume I was ahead of it.
Bob's bad beat was terrible. He called me to let me know that he was the first player eliminated from his flight with KK vs AK with an AK flop and a rivered ace. Doesn't get much worse than that.
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I'm sorry you didn't have better luck in the freeroll. I was also amazed to see Latif as one of the finalists. Wow. I guess they ended up with a 4-way split with three players (2 ladies) from the Tri-Cities and one from the other casino. Sorry I missed you.
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