Ignition Black Spade Poker Open Main Event Satellite
The Black Spade Poker Open 6 is running on Ignition Casino, and I popped into one of the $33 satellites for the $450 $300K GTD Main Event next month. One seat was guaranteed, the game got 15 entries (with $30 of the entry going to the prize pool), so it just made the nut with no overlay and no extra money.
I was a few minutes late, I started off with 1500 chips at 30/60 but let’s just say that anything that happened in the first 35 hands didn’t matter.
Hand 36 8
HJ opens with 9
Hand 40 K
I’ve had three abysmal hands in a row, and here I’m all in for three-quarters of a big blind. Action folds to the button (Player 6 in this anonymous tournament), who raises to 600 with 4
Hand 41 T
CO (Player 6, again) opens to 600, I’m already in for a third of my chips and put the rest in. He shows T
Hand 48 9
We’re short-handed with only thee players out of the blinds. They fold and I shove. BB has nearly five times my chips and defends with 7
Hand 51 A
We’re five-handed. I shove and take the pot.
Hand 53 K
UTG raises to 500 with 9
Hand 55 T
I open with a shove and the button re-shoves for 3250. He has Q
Hand 60 7
Middle pairs. I sort of hate them, but we start the hand with only four players, so I raise to 900. SB has J
Hand 64 7
We’re on the second hand with just three players (having lost a short stack between this and the previous hand I entered). The button min-raises K
Hand 66 A
I shove and the blinds fold 6
Hand 69 K
I shove a crummy king, SB reshoves for another 1100 chips, and he has J
Hand 70 K
We’re still 3-handed. BTN shoves for 1066, SB folds, and I call for 766 on top of the big blind. This time the chips go the other way after a K
Hand 74 K
One of those annoying times when action folds to your big hand, you raise, and the short stack just has 3
Hand 78 A
I raise to 1200, SB folds, BB shoves 13K and I know I’m behind but cross my fingers. It works, as I’m right about being behind Q
Hand 79 Q
The short stack has only 1852 chips and puts 1600 into the pot preflop with 9
Hand 80 3
It’s the first hand of heads-up and Player 6 is the big blind. I have a 4.5:1 chip advantage. Just over 40 hands ago, I was all in for less than the big blind and I doubled up twice through the player I’m now facing. I have a good shot at the $450 ticket to the $300K guarantee. There is no second prize. I raise to 1200 and he folds 9
Hand 81 7
Player 6 raises to 1280, with just 2000 behind. He has K