Mirage $60 tournament
This is one of my favorites having cashed in it several times, and won twice. 10K deepstack with 20 minute blinds, so it is slow, but designed to be over in 3-4 hours, usually 30-40 players. They tend to register late, so we started with 2 tables but a third was added shortly. My buddy, Ron, was also playing, but on a different table. Was running o.k., but not hot, and over starting chip stack at first break. Chipped up very nicely flopping a set of 2's against a preflop bettor with another player. With an ace high flop got nice action from both players, but when the turn bet and call got raised all-in by me, they both folded, but managed to almost double up. My ace king got snapped on a king high flop by a set of 8's, but had the short stack well covered. Playing down to about 8, I got all-in against a very short stack who had A/10. I re-raised all-in to isolate him with my A/6 and my overcall was called by a player with a few less chips who had A/2. Naturally the 2 hit the river, and player 1 was gone and I was now the table short stack. Ron was also on the final table and tripled up with QQ from his desperately short stack. I was forced to shove light a couple of times, winning to stay alive. Ron doubled me up calling with KJ vs my A/10 and we got down to 5 players with only 4 cashing. There was no discussion of bubble pay. One guy had about 3/4 of all chips in play, Ron was 2nd, me 4th, and another player about 2k under my stack. This would prove to be critical when I found A2 on the button. This is a good shove play, despite the monster stack in the small blind as he can just fold and let the short stack defend, but fortunately for me he chose to call and then unexplicably, the short stack shoves! This was strange play, frankly, for both players, as the short can hope to have me knocked out so he can cash while the big stack could just let us fight it out for 4th place money. So, the big stack shows up with A9, the shorty with A/6 and we play high kicker wins, knocking both of us out. But hey, remember the lousy 2K I had over his stack? Good enough for the money, $203. Ron played a few more hands, and took 2nd for $350. Good showing for the Northwesterners.
Lesson: Always pay attention to the money bubble.
Venetian Omaha Conflict
Playing the Omaha 4/8 with half kill this situation came up. My friend Bob plays very slowly, peeling his cards back one at a time, taking lots of time to put chips in the pot. He calls bets to the river and a player turns over his hand with the winning high. Bob holds his cards up so I can see them. Another player has tabled a low hand which Bob has beat. After a bit, I say "Just table your cards, Bob". The low hand player begins bitching about "one player per hand", etc. He is a local with a father who is connected with the casino as several employees come by and say hi to your dad. I never said, "you have a low" or anything like that, just encouraging him to lay his cards face up so they could be read. I apologized, but reading recently how we all need to be patient with older players. It majorly slows the game down, and the complainer soon left.
Lesson: Keep your mouth shut if not involved in hand (and sometimes when involved)j
Vegas scorecard:
biggest losses in Omaha, which is usually my cash cow ($350).
One small winning session in 1/2NL ($35), one small losing session ($75). overall loss ($40).
Win at 3 card poker ($20)
small loss at video poker while drinking at bar ($10)
Tournament win net $143
Overall loss $240, Not bad for time at tables, have done worse in the Moose game.
Returning to the Tri-Cities, played the morning Moose and chopped 3 ways for $165 each. Net $130.
This is one of my favorites having cashed in it several times, and won twice. 10K deepstack with 20 minute blinds, so it is slow, but designed to be over in 3-4 hours, usually 30-40 players. They tend to register late, so we started with 2 tables but a third was added shortly. My buddy, Ron, was also playing, but on a different table. Was running o.k., but not hot, and over starting chip stack at first break. Chipped up very nicely flopping a set of 2's against a preflop bettor with another player. With an ace high flop got nice action from both players, but when the turn bet and call got raised all-in by me, they both folded, but managed to almost double up. My ace king got snapped on a king high flop by a set of 8's, but had the short stack well covered. Playing down to about 8, I got all-in against a very short stack who had A/10. I re-raised all-in to isolate him with my A/6 and my overcall was called by a player with a few less chips who had A/2. Naturally the 2 hit the river, and player 1 was gone and I was now the table short stack. Ron was also on the final table and tripled up with QQ from his desperately short stack. I was forced to shove light a couple of times, winning to stay alive. Ron doubled me up calling with KJ vs my A/10 and we got down to 5 players with only 4 cashing. There was no discussion of bubble pay. One guy had about 3/4 of all chips in play, Ron was 2nd, me 4th, and another player about 2k under my stack. This would prove to be critical when I found A2 on the button. This is a good shove play, despite the monster stack in the small blind as he can just fold and let the short stack defend, but fortunately for me he chose to call and then unexplicably, the short stack shoves! This was strange play, frankly, for both players, as the short can hope to have me knocked out so he can cash while the big stack could just let us fight it out for 4th place money. So, the big stack shows up with A9, the shorty with A/6 and we play high kicker wins, knocking both of us out. But hey, remember the lousy 2K I had over his stack? Good enough for the money, $203. Ron played a few more hands, and took 2nd for $350. Good showing for the Northwesterners.
Lesson: Always pay attention to the money bubble.
Venetian Omaha Conflict
Playing the Omaha 4/8 with half kill this situation came up. My friend Bob plays very slowly, peeling his cards back one at a time, taking lots of time to put chips in the pot. He calls bets to the river and a player turns over his hand with the winning high. Bob holds his cards up so I can see them. Another player has tabled a low hand which Bob has beat. After a bit, I say "Just table your cards, Bob". The low hand player begins bitching about "one player per hand", etc. He is a local with a father who is connected with the casino as several employees come by and say hi to your dad. I never said, "you have a low" or anything like that, just encouraging him to lay his cards face up so they could be read. I apologized, but reading recently how we all need to be patient with older players. It majorly slows the game down, and the complainer soon left.
Lesson: Keep your mouth shut if not involved in hand (and sometimes when involved)j
Vegas scorecard:
biggest losses in Omaha, which is usually my cash cow ($350).
One small winning session in 1/2NL ($35), one small losing session ($75). overall loss ($40).
Win at 3 card poker ($20)
small loss at video poker while drinking at bar ($10)
Tournament win net $143
Overall loss $240, Not bad for time at tables, have done worse in the Moose game.
Returning to the Tri-Cities, played the morning Moose and chopped 3 ways for $165 each. Net $130.
1 comment:
Glad that you and Ron both cashed. Sounds like a good tournament.
Your $130 at the Moose got back more than half your losses in Vegas - cool!
I might be playing on Saturday. I'm just sort of burned out right now. I may just take a month off too. Haven't decided yet.
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