Punting or Spazzing?

Bovada $4K NLHE

It’s the morning Bovada $11 tournament. As usual, I get in a few minutes late. It’s a classic example of bad judgement messing everything up after doing things right for a couple of hours.

Hand 3 [qs jd] UTG1 T10K 30/60

I’m in seat 1. I raise to 150, BB calls with [js jh]. The flop is [4s 4h ah] and I c-bet 200. BB calls and [ks] hits the turn. I throttle back, he checks, it’s [2c] on the river and we check to him winning the pot.

Hand 18 [kh ts] HJ T9.4K 50/100
UTG1 and UTG3 limp in. I raise to 350. SB calls with [7c 7d]. UTG1 calls with [qd jh]; UTG3 comes along with [ks 3s]. The flop is [5c 2s 5s], UTG3 bets 250 on his flush draw and gets called only by the sevens, which end up winning.

Hand 20 [3s 3c] UTG2 T9.1K 50/100
UTG raises with [jd ah], I call to set-mine, BB comes along with [jd ah]. The flop is [9c 5d jc], I fold to a bet from UTG, and they end up chopping the pot.

Hand 28 [9s ts] UTG3 T8.7K 75/150
UTG raises to 600, I call along with HJ. The flop is [ah 7d kh], entirely too high and red for my taste, so I fold to a 1.3K bet from UTG, who has [ks kc]. HJ [6h 7h] goes all-in on the turn with bottom pair and a flush draw and gets eliminated by the set of kings.

Hand 29 [ad kh] UTG2 T8.1K 75/150
UTG1 raises to 300 with [9s 9d] and I 3-bet to 1K. He calls, the flop is [5s js 4d]. He checks to me and I go all-in. He folds. Finally I win some chips.

Hand 31 [kd 4d] UTG T9.4K 75/150
I raise to 400 and get two callers. The flop is [6h 3c 4h] and I c-bet 550 on bottom pair. It’s actually good against [jc as] and [td ac]. Back over starting stack.

Hand 34 [7h 5h] D T10.2K 75/150
I follow UTG and UTG2 limping into the pot, and SB comes along. The flop is [jh 7d 3d], SB checks, BB ([jd 5d]) bets 300. UTG with [7s 7c] for a set calls, UTG2 ditches [5s ad], I call, and [qs 9d] is dropped by SB. The turn [9h] makes my flush draw look better, but when BB bets 825 on top pair and the other red flush, and UTG raises to 2K with his set, I chicken out. BB calls, the [8h] would have completed my flush, both players check the river and the set wins.

Hand 36 [6s 6h] HJ T9.7K 100/200
UTG2 min-raises [as ac], and gets calls from me and both blinds ([tc jd] and [ah 7h], respectively). The flop is [4c 2d 3c], which is tempting but everyone folds to a 1.2K c-bet.

Hand 37 [jd tc] UTG3 T9.3K 100/200
UTG2 limps in with [6d 8d] and I raise to 600. BB calls with [ah 3s] and UTG2 comes along. BB bets 950 on the [6c qc  4s] and I fold along with UTG2. Not sure why he folded his middle pair if he’s going to play those hands.

Hand 38 [jd qs] UTG2 T8.7K 100/200
I open to 500 and get called by HJ ([5d ad]), CO ([ah 3h]), and BB ([kc ts]). The flop is [6s ac 9s], I c-bet my air and CO and I are HU to see the [3c] turn. We both check, I bet 2K on the [8c] river, he calls, and his two pair wins.

Hand 59 [th qc] D T3.7K 150/300/30
I’ve had to lay low for a little while. Haven’t played a hand for more than twenty minutes. Been moved to seat 7 of a new table and I’m down to 12BB. Everyone else at the table has 40BB or more and seats 3 and 6 are more than 100BB deep. UTG1 limps [4c 4s]. UTG2 has [ah 5h] and makes it 900. CO 4-bets to 2.7K and I decide to throw in my fate with the Portland Nuts and shove. UTG1 and UTG2 fold. CO has [ac ad] and calls. The board runs out [jh 8d ks 2h 9h] and I make my straight for a double-up. It’s just a scratch for seat 6, but then he goes a little berserk and loses 11K on the next hand, raising and calling a 3-bet of 12BB with [ts 7s] pre-flop.

Hand 63 [9s as] UTG1 T9K 200/400/40
I opened to 1K and UTG2 3-bet to 3.9K with [jd td]. I called and made an open-ended straight draw on the flop with [7c 8d 6c]. With more than 6K in the pot, I shoved my remaining 5K and he called. On the face of it, he only had 26% equity, though cards discarded by other players slightly improved his odds. [8c] on the turn and [6h] for the river and I doubled up with an ace kicker.

Hand 65 [9d ts] BB T18.9K 200/400/40
UTG raised to 1.7K with [qs jh] (a decent hand). HJ called holding [qh as] (a decent-er hand). I plopped out the extra chips to call. The flop was [9c 7d 3s] and I took a stab at it, shoving 17K back. UTG went all-in for less with just two over cards. I had four to a straight on the [8s] turn, which meant he couldn’t win by pairing his jack, HJ  had tossed one of the queens, so he was drawing slim and the [4h] river eliminated him.

Hand 70 [6c ac] UTG1 T34.2K 250/500/50
I opened to 1.25K and got called by BB with [7d 7c]. He jammed his remaining 8.5K on the [ks 6h 8c] flop. I had bottom pair and was on a roll. Hit the [as] on the turn, the river was [4c] and he was out.

Hand 72 [qs ah] BB T44.5K 250/500/50
UTG was all-in for just 1.3K with [9c ts]. CO called holding [ac 2h], then SB 3-bet to 5.6K with [5s 5c]. CO had 30K, SB a little less than 20K to start, so I squeezed with an all-in. CO folded and SB called. The board was [kd 8c qc 3d kc] and my queen saved the day. The table broke and I moved to seat three on the new table.

Hand 75 [qh as] UTG T66.8K 250/500/50
Different result with the same hand a couple minutes later. I raise to 1.25K, BB 3-bets to 7.5K with 8K behind, I shove, he calls he has [kh as], yadda, yadda, yadda, and I lose.

Hand 80 [6d ad] HJ T50.2K 250/500/50
Have I mentioned that at this point I’m fairly far ahead of anyone on my table? Seat 2 is empty. Seats 1, 5, and 7 have about 10K. Seat 6 is down to 5K. Seats 3, 8, and 9 are between 15K and 25K. I open to 1.25K, HJ calls with [6c 4c], CO comes along with [kd jh], and BB is in with [kh jd]. The flop is hardly conducive to anyone’s hand: [7h qd 9h]. We all check it down through the [2c] turn and [3d] river and ace high is the winner.

Hand 85 [td qh] D T53.4K 300/600/60
UTG limps with [4h ad] and just 6K. I raise to 1.8K. Everyone folds.

Hand 88 [9h jh] UTG2 T55.2K 300/600/60
My stack is more than twice as large as anyone else at the table. I open to 1.5K and SB calls with [7s 7h] off of the only stack with more than 20K. That brings BB along with [kd qh]. The flop is [5s ah as], both the blinds check it and I c-bet 2.2K. Only SB calls. We both check the [jc] turn and [5d] river and I get a little bigger.

Hand 105 [ac qc] UTG2 T57.7K 400/800/80
I raise to 2K and take it. Even though I’ve been fairly quiet for a while, nobody’s really chipped up. The closest stack is in seat 8 (SB) who has 27.5K after the hand.

Hand 108 [ac th] BB T59.2K 400/800/80
UTG1 min-raises, I call, he c-bets 1.6K on the [9h 9c 3c] flop, I call, we check [4d] on the turn and [qs] on the river, he shows [as tc] and we split the pot.  Nice hand, nice hand….

Hand 110 [tc js] D T59.2K 400/800/80
I raise to 2K and SB calls with [9d th]. Effective stack is 12.2K before the hand starts. He bets 3K on the [ah jd 8s] flop with his open-ended straight draw, essentially committing his stack. I shove, he calls his remaining 7K and the turn is [2d] with [jh] on the river. Win for me.

Hand 130 [th ks] UTG T67.7K 600/1.2K/120
A whole level goes by with no action from me. There is now a stack in seat 7 (I’m in 3) with 104K. I open to 2.8K, getting calls from UTG2 ([qh jd]) and CO ([qd tc]). Everyone checks the [ah ac as] flop. The turn is [jh], I check, UTG2 makes a bet of 2.4K and wins.

Hand 132 [tc qh] SB T63.5K  600/1.2K/120
There’s a 1BB stack in seat 1 (CO) and a 4BB stack on seat 4 in the BB. D in seat 2 has just doubled up to 61K.UTG3 fancy-play raises to 4.8K with [6d 7s]. CO goes all-in with [ad qd] . I call the raise, then BB shoves for 1.2K more with [2c td], hoping to get max alue if they hit. UTG3, the original raiser, started the hand with 30K and makes the call, as do I. We check the board down as it reveals [ts jd 8c 7d 3h]. I take the pot and side pot.

Hand 133 [9c as] D T76.7K 600/1.2K/120
I open to 2.8K, get called by BB with [7d ad], and we see the flop of [6d 5c ac]. He donk-bets 2.4K with 27K behind, I raise to 6K and he folds.

Hand 135 [ah kc] HJ T82.5K 800/1.6K/160
UTG limps in with [qh 8h]. I raise to 5K and he’s the only caller. The flop is [kd 8d jh]. He checks, I bet 8K with TPTK and he shoves for 21.2K. It costs me 13.1K to call and the board runs out a pair of threes: [3d 3s]. The 56K pot puts me over 100K and near the top of the leaderboard.

Hand 137 [th kd] UTG1 T112.1K 800/1.6K/160
I raise to 4K, SB shoves 21.4K with [kc qs] and I fold.

Hand 141 [3h ah] D T105.1K 800/1.6K/160
UTG1 limps with [ts qd]. I limp in since SB is in shoving/squeezing territory with 20K, and sure enough that’s what he does with [9d 9c]. He takes the pot.

Hand 144 [ks qh] UTG2 T103K 800/1.6K/160
I open to 5K, SB—one of what are now three 100K stacks at the table, with the addition of one in seat 2—calls, as does BB, with 27.3K.The flop is [js 7s 3s], SB checks, BB shoves for 22.2K, I call with my king-high spade draw, and SB folds. A pair of tens shows up by the river, giving BB a full house.

Hand 146 [jh as] UTG T75.4K 1K/2K/200
I open to 5K and the guy I just doubled up in D position shoves 68.3K. Leveling or inducing? Inducing, as it seems, since when I call he has [kc kd]. I do have some outs, but none of them show up on the [qd 7s 2s 9h 6d] board and I’m just about toast after being in great position ten hands earlier.

Hand 147 [kd 2h] BB T7K 1K/2K/200
With 3.5BB, I’m not sticking around long if I don’t do something. UTG3 limps with [5s ac]. D  and SB limp with [td 9c] and [3h 6s]. I check.  [ad 4h 5d] and UTG3 has two pair, so he bets 6K. SB calls with an open-ended straight draw, He calls. I, amazingly, have a gutshot. I call and aI’m all-in. [8c] on the turn, UTG bets 14K and SB goes away. But the [3c] river makes my wheel and I’m back in business, taking the bulk of the pot.

Hand 160 [2s as] HJ T17.1K 1.25K/2.5K/250
I shove and win.

Hand 171 [9s 8s] UTG1 T15.1K 1.5K/3K/300
Blinds coming round again. 5BB stack. Shove time and I take it.

Hand 179 [jc th] UTG2 T15.4K 1.5K/3K/300
Blinds coming round again. 5BB stack. Shove time and I take it.

Hand 188 [9h 9c] UTG2 T15K 2K/4K/400
UTG raised to 21.2K with [qd qs]. I went all-in to call, and just as it should most of the time, the better hand won. After being on top o the leader board briefly, I bust two places short of the money.

VPIP: 19%. PFR: 13%. Went to showdown with more than 50% of VPIP hands. Won 66% of showdowns.

Three hours and fifteen minutes. 188 hands. 56th of 459 entries. -100% ROI.

PNW_WSOP_15 Summer Series Report for June 18

WSOP Event #35 $3K HORSE Day 3

BC’s Dan Idema returns for Day 4 facing down two other players for his third bracelet. Sadly, no live streaming for this event today.

WSOP Event #36 $1.5K PLO Day 2

Nineteen players are left out of the 978 entrants. Nine PNW players made it to Day 2, three of them cashed, and four others are still in the game, with WA’s Shane Abbot in second place and OR’s indomitable Dmitrii Valouev in 5th.

In the Money Finish PositionRank End of Day 2Rank End of Day 1PlayerStateChips End of Day 1Chips End of Day 2
91023Kechao NiWA85,000324,000
102127Shane AbbottWA15,200646,000
11547Dmitrii ValouevOR59,400470,000
131639Allen ThorpeWA65,400190,000
6842Jonathan StandenOR63,400
9086Paul FawthropWA39,100
116134Thomas TaylorBC11,200
72Michael PaloWA43,800
88Cole JacksonWA36,600

WSOP Event #38 $3K NLHE Day 1

Three PNW players remain made it through Day 1: Noah Vaillancourt (BC), Hyoung Chae (WA), and Jonathan Clancy (OR). 297 players remain from the 989 entries.

WSOP Event #39 $1.5K Ten-Game Mix

Three players from Washington (Andrew Rennhack, Dustin Leary, Daniel Ratigan) and one from British Columbia (Greg Mueller) made it through the mixer to Day 2.

PHamous Poker Series #21 $565 NLHE Goliath $500K Guarantee

1,205 entries in the latest run of the Goliath made for $590K prize pool. Ka Ng of Washington took 4th place for nearly $41K (first place paid $118K). Jae Bahn of Beaverton, Oregon got $7.7K for 13th place. Scott Kateian (WA) took 23rd, Christopher Marr (WA) 52nd, Vikas Sondhi (WA) 84th,  and Portland local Christopher Cross got 124th.

PHamous Poker Series #23 $150 PLO8 $5K Guarantee

249 entries in this event bloated the prize pool to nearly $30K. Miltiathis Douvas of Vancouver, British Columbia and Christopher Knapp of Washougal, Washington cashed in 23rd and 24th places, respectively.  Addition: Ryan Durkee of WA cashed in 5th place in this event.

Today’s Las Vegas Series Events

Kenny (author of the spreadsheet of tournaments) Hallert, your jacket is waiting at the Venetian.

 

  • If you’re reading this as soon as I post it, you’ve got less than half-an-hour to make the first level of the WSOP $1K NLHE Seniors event, which probably means you’d better be in line already, since that thing gets huge. Maybe you should wait until the afternoon $10K Stud Hi-Lo Championship Tomorrow is the 90-minute $1.5K NLHE Extended Level; coming up Sunday is the NLHE Super Seniors (65 and older) and the $50K Poker Players Championship mix game (like anyone playing that is reading this).
  • The Venetian has the first of two start days for a $200K guarantee NLHE event with a $600 buy-in. This evening is the first of two starting flights for a $150K guarantee, $1.1K buy-in PLO8 tournament. Both have a second flight tomorrow, with Day 2 on Sunday. The $200K event is scheduled for a Day 3 on Monday.
  • Planet Hollywood has a $25K guarantee $200 buy-in NLHE a $330 NLHE event supporting a cerebral palsy charity in the afternoon. There are two $565 events scheduled for the weekend: a $200K guarantee NLHE Seniors game tomorrow and a $25K guarantee NLHE Heads-Up match Sunday. Both evenings have $130 $5K guarantee NLHE Turbos.
  • Aria is back to their regular schedule of $235 NLHE at 1pm and $150 NLHE at 7pm.
  • The Wynn Summer Classic has the second of three starts for their $250K guarantee for $600.
  • The Grand Poker Series takes another whack at a 2-day $100K guarantee for $350 at 11am. Tomorrow is a $250 Seniors event. Another $100K guarantee is on the ticket for Sunday.
  • Binion’s Poker Classic is running a $10K guarantee PLO8 game for $220. Tomorrow and Sunday are starting flights for their sub-Seniors event (45 and older), a $400 buy-in.