Saturday, May 14, 2011

WSOP satellite tourney results

This morning my favorite local casino, River Spirit, conducted its WSOP Main Event satellite freeroll. Approximately 90 players showed up to compete. It's been about, well, I guess about 16 months since I last played a live NLHE tournament. Back when I played tournaments on a daily basis, I did manage to cash most of the time, but felt like my game was pretty rusty going into this one today.

The first two levels were rough. Starting stack: 10,000 chips

Level 1: 25/50; Level 2: 50/100
Raise pre with JJ, 2 callers. Flop K45. C-bet flop. Check-fold turn.

4 players limp, I overlimp Qs3s on the button. Flop a flush draw. Called flop. Called turn getting 6-1 odds. Miss and fold river.

Raise pre with QQ, 1 caller. Flop KJ6cc. C-bet flop. Check-fold turn. Villain shows KJss.

Raise pre with AdKd, 2 callers. Flop 689cc. Check flop. Fold turn.

4 players limp, I overlimp with 5d6d. Flop Kd6h7d. Checks to me, I bet the flop smallish ~40% pot, 2 callers. Turn 7s. Check-check and I check. River 3c. I fold to a smallish river bet.

Raise pre with TT, 3 callers. Flop J75. Checks to me, I check, player behind me bets. Folds to me and I call. Turn 8. Check-check. River 7. Check-check. Villain bets small and I call. He shows KJo.

By now my chip stack has dipped to 5,000. Level 3: 100/200 thru Level 9: 800/1600/200
I limp in MP w/9hTh. 3 more limpers behind me and both blinds come along. Flop Jh8h7s. SB bets 1K, BB calls, I raise to 3K, everyone folds.

Raise pre in LP with Ad9d. Button calls, BB calls. Flop KT7dd. C-bet flop, button calls. Turn is the 5c. Check-check. River 5h. I check-fold.

I'm UTG+2 and look down at 77. I shove, hoping to pick up 900 chips uncontested. Button calls, everyone else folds. Button has 99. A 7 falls on the turn and I double up.

I successfully steal the blinds 3 more times this level, with KQs, JTs, and ATs.

I basically fold every hand for an hour. I've been moved to a new, more aggressive table, with zero limping allowed. Being dealt lots of 52o, 93o, 73s type hands.

Antes start. I blind down to around 10k, then steal and get back to the 12-13k range.

UTG+1, pick up AA and raise to 4k. Button, another short-stack who nevertheless has me covered, shoves. I call (obv). He has 88. AA holds and I jump to 29k in chips.

I raise a few more times and either get no callers or no flop resistance and chip up to around 35k.

I pick up TT UTG+2. Blinds at this point are 800/1600/200. I raise to 4000. Button reraises to 15000. Shove or fold time. Button has easily 50k chips in front of him. If I fold, I'll have 29k or so to play with, and looking at the clock, blinds go up to 1000/2000/200 in 5 minutes. I decide to risk it and shove. Snap-call from button with AA. Oops. No miracles come and I'm out.

Finished 24th.

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