Corrections continue on Zone.<\/p>\n
Sixteen\u00a0sessions. Five hours. 880 hands. -255BB<\/em><\/p>\n Bovada 0.1\/0.25 & 1\/2 Omaha Hi-Lo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Limit O8 used to be my game. Perhaps Big O has corrupted me.<\/p>\n Two sessions. Forty-two minutes. 50 hands. -50 big bets.<\/em><\/p>\n Bovada $5K NLHE Thousandaire Maker<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I was doing pretty well in this event. There were seven $1K prizes in the pool (and over $700 for 8th place), we were down to about 40 players, and I was well over average. I had a fairly aggressive player on my left, who’d called an all-in for 15% of his stack\u00a0from SB with 9<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>, hitting a flush on the river to crack T<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Just a few hands later, I have 9<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> and raise 3x to 250. Aggressive guy pushes it to 2.1K. I shove 8.3K and he calls with 5K behind. He has a slightly better hand this time: J<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. The flop is 4<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>, I’ve managed to make a set! The river is Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>, giving him the straight.<\/p>\n Ninety minutes. 82 hands. 41st of 103 entries.<\/em><\/p>\n I couldn’t play the big Saturday games at Lincoln City, Encore (a $25K special guarantee), or The Game ($20K guaranteed to first place), so I tried to console myself with the\u00a0Friday night game at Encore, which had a smaller guarantee because of the next day’s tournament. I was bad. In the second level, a couple of players had limped in and I raised from 200 to 700 with 2<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>. The player on the button raised to 2.1K and one of the limpers called the re-raise. I was closing action, and I made the call. On a T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop, the limp-caller over-shoves for nearly a full starting stack. I go all-in on the call, figuring I can re-buy if needed, then the re-raiser shoves. He has A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. The first shover has Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Neither has a diamond. The turn is Q<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>, giving the shover a set. The river is A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> giving the original raiser a set. But my hand wins the day with the flush. By the time we got to 22 players (14 places paid) I had 10% of the chips in play, and picked up more than that as we got closer to the money. It’s a dangerous period in this tournament, though, as even the larger stacks have a limited number of big blinds, and I laid down 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> when a loss to an all-in would have cost me half to two-thirds\u00a0of my stack. Instead, the player I laid down the nines to shoved again on the next hand, giving his chips\u00a0to the player on my left who had\u2014you guessed it\u2014nines. And it was that player who took my dwindling (but still above-average) stack out when I shoved A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> from the SB over two limps, and he called with K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> in the BB. That knocked me out in 12th place and\u00a0pretty much dashed any chance of making the Thursday satellite, since my schedule kept me from playing the big weekend tournaments.<\/p>\n![\"IMG_2662\"](\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2662-e1456904793770.jpg\")
<\/a>Encore Club $11K NLHE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n