{"id":297,"date":"2011-10-05T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T23:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-10-14T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T16:43:40","slug":"the-waiting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"The Waiting Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Players Club Road to Pendleton $1,500 Guarantee (7,000 chips)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both my regular Monday night games were off this week, so I took the hint from the SMS messages I kept getting and headed over to PPC for an 11am game. I’d started my tally of live games with a couple of wins in early May<\/a> at PPC, but their summer schedule wasn’t in sync with my habits and I hadn’t been in for a bit. Somehow, I managed to hit the final table with a big chip lead, and while I was probably 2:1 over the guy who made it to heads-up with me I suggested an even chop since the amount of money was only $200 total. After a re-buy, add-on, and tip, that left me more than enough to enter the evening’s guarantee tournament. On top of the prize money, PPC was adding a $200 buy-in to the Wildhorse Fall Poker Round-Up for the first-place winner and a $100<\/p>\n

I picked up a 1,000 early-registration bonus chip then played absolutely no hands through level 1. On my first turn as BB in level 2, I was dealt 4<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. A raise was made to 475 pre-flop with several callers and a 4<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> hit on the flop. I checked and by the time action got around to me again there were two all-ins, I called, and both of them were on draws. Q<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> won the hand with a flush on the turn. I re-bought.<\/p>\n

Small blind with my new stack and I had K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, a considerably better pair. I bet it on the flop heads-up and took a small pot.<\/p>\n

Played A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and cautiously walked to the river against another hand who showed just K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>-high when we got there. At the end of the second level, I was holding 9,450 chips. Above the starting stack but not the sum total of chips I’d received during the tournament by a piece.<\/p>\n

Controversy ensued when I called an all-in with J<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> and knocked out a player with A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I gave my opinion on the relative strengths of JTs<\/strong><\/a>, but there was a some snorting and hooting.<\/p>\n

My luck with flushes proved itself again when I dropped 4,000 chips on K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> with two more clubs on the flop and I didn’t get there. My stack was up to 10,925 at the 55-minute mark.<\/p>\n

The last hand before the second break, I had J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and the flop was K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. All I needed was a Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> but I got better. Thankfully, I stuck to the hand, because both the turn and river were 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I called a big raise and the guy asked me if I’d had the T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I said: “No, but I have the 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>.” That didn’t set well. The win and a 5,000 chip add-on gave me 22.600 with 47 of the 49 original players left.<\/p>\n

Raised with A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> to 625 but whiffed the 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop. I bet another 1,600 but two callers followed me down and with a 3<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn I check-folded to a bet. Then I blew more than 3,000 chips trying to play the T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> “Brunson” hand. I made top pair on the flop 7<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> but J<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn killed the action for me.<\/p>\n

Another 5<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> from CO took the blinds and the single caller ahead of me. I was at 18,100 with twenty minutes left in the second hour.<\/p>\n

I nearly made the wheel with A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on a board of Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, but the 3<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> of J\u2014one of the dealers at PPC\u2014made his pair. My own spades shortly thereafter (4<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>) had to fold to a re-raise of 1,600 from 400. I pushed 5,000 after a raise to 1,000 with blinds at 200\/400; I did not record the hand I did not play. Even that got me only to 16,100 at the two-hour mark.<\/p>\n

Took the blinds again with a 2,300 raise and A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>, then I just about doubled by knocking out a player. I held K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> and made bottom pair on the flop. He shoved post-flop with A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I took a little time to call and he never made a pair. It was kind of fun, because he’d been one of the whiniest about my J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> call.<\/p>\n

Didn’t even get to count my chips before a hand came up with J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I shoved all-in from late position, the guy on my left called immediately and flipped over K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. What else was he going to do? That cost me 5,475, and even with the knockout, I’d only made it to 17,775 by 2:15 into the tournament.<\/p>\n

There were 34 players left when the second break started.<\/p>\n

Missed a Broadway draw for 4,500 and 5,000 on a miserable misguided attempt to do something with 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Half-an-hour later another 11,000 had been whittled off.<\/p>\n

I went out in style with J<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> I pushed pre-flop and got called by Q<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Three hours. -100% ROI. Placed 30th of 49.<\/em><\/p>\n

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