Spent the week in Seattle making one trip up North to the Tulalip Casino. Arriving fashionably late for the 10 a.m. $25. re-entry tournament and no cash games in the immediate future I went ahead and registered as an alternate. They were about a half hour into the game, 3rd blind level. Not ideal situation but I was soon seated. Walking into the big blind I folded to a raise. Hand one down. Also folded small blind. My first opportunity came with a pair of queens in middle position. I had about 8 blinds so I went ahead and shoved to a shorter stack raise two seats to my right. He tables 5/5 and I am starting to feel the love.....until he flops a 5. Now very short, I play until my big blind. The UTG player shoves a small stack (but bigger than mine), and with $400 of my remaining 700 chips in action, I call with 8/4. The board runs out 9/10/J/Q, but the utg has shoved with K/10 and I am out with the baby straight.
Undeterred, I sign up for the 1/3 game which is starting momentarily. It is a pretty crazy game with very aggressive players. The most active is 2 to my right which puts him on the button when it is my big blind. I am not to see many unraised pots and throw away many otherwise playable hands when out of position. I score a nice pot with 6/9 suited on the button, flopping a 6 and rivering another one. The youngest kid at the table, very aggressive, bets the river and when I call says, "You're good". Yes I was very good. The hyper aggressive button guy has stacked at least 3 players and is bullying every pot, straddling every chance he gets. Finally I pick up 10/J suited in the big blind and call his $15 raise. With a 10 high flop I check and as expected he bets $25. I call. The turn brings a flush draw and I again check. He bets $25 and I check raise to $50. He calls. The river is a very scary card for me, an ace, but figure with 1/2 my $200 buy-in committed I should take an aggressive approach, so I shove about $80-90. He tanks and finally folds. Whew.
I played back at him again and won some more, also taking the young kid for a hand, calling his raise with AK and hitting a A/A/J board, but later folding pocket 10's on an ace high board....probably a mistake. Overall a good session for me, cashing out for $387 after 2 hours by playing tight and I think smart. It was a pretty tough game due to the aggression but found you could use that against them with a tighter range.
Undeterred, I sign up for the 1/3 game which is starting momentarily. It is a pretty crazy game with very aggressive players. The most active is 2 to my right which puts him on the button when it is my big blind. I am not to see many unraised pots and throw away many otherwise playable hands when out of position. I score a nice pot with 6/9 suited on the button, flopping a 6 and rivering another one. The youngest kid at the table, very aggressive, bets the river and when I call says, "You're good". Yes I was very good. The hyper aggressive button guy has stacked at least 3 players and is bullying every pot, straddling every chance he gets. Finally I pick up 10/J suited in the big blind and call his $15 raise. With a 10 high flop I check and as expected he bets $25. I call. The turn brings a flush draw and I again check. He bets $25 and I check raise to $50. He calls. The river is a very scary card for me, an ace, but figure with 1/2 my $200 buy-in committed I should take an aggressive approach, so I shove about $80-90. He tanks and finally folds. Whew.
I played back at him again and won some more, also taking the young kid for a hand, calling his raise with AK and hitting a A/A/J board, but later folding pocket 10's on an ace high board....probably a mistake. Overall a good session for me, cashing out for $387 after 2 hours by playing tight and I think smart. It was a pretty tough game due to the aggression but found you could use that against them with a tighter range.
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