{"id":761,"date":"2014-09-27T11:59:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T18:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=761"},"modified":"2014-09-27T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T19:05:35","slug":"big-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"Big Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Encore Club $15K NLHE (T15,000)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Due to some non-poker obligations, I wasn’t able to make it down to Lincoln City this weekend to play the Chinook Winds Fall Coast Classic main event ($540 buy-in and a $100K guarantee). I thought about going down just Friday for the 6-Max NLHE, but with a buy-in of just $115, it didn’t seem worthwhile for five-plus hours in transit, considering that the 6-Max I bubbled last spring only had about 140 entries\u00a0(SM wrote me and said they got 145 entries yesterday). So I was pleased when I got the text from Encore announcing a $15K for Friday night; not only did I not have to drive so far, but just the guarantee was bigger than the 6-Max (though I do love short-handed play….)<\/p>\n

I didn’t get much early in the game, made a few calls and folds in the first 45 minutes and I was down 1,000 (blinds started at 100\/100 with 25-minute rounds).<\/p>\n

Hand 18<\/strong>\u00a08<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> UTG3 T14,000<\/em> 100\/200
\nCalled 200 multi-way pre-flop, then another 800 on 2<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop, but folded to a bet of 1,900 on a non-spade, non-7 turn.<\/p>\n

Hand 21<\/strong> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> BB\u00a0T13,000<\/em>\u00a0200\/400
\nAction folded around to CO, who bet 1,200. I 3-bet 4,000, he thought about it and called. The flop was jack-high and uncoordinated, he shoved all-in and I called and flipped over my set. He looked kind of sheepish with the A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, and I doubled up.<\/p>\n

Hand 26<\/strong> 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> UTG4\u00a0T26,900<\/em> 200\/400
\nI opened to 1,200, getting 3 calls. The flop was 7<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, it was checked to me and I bet 2,500 to take the pot.<\/p>\n

I had 30K going into the first break, the end of re-buys (the structure for this game allows live re-buys at any time, and has an add-on for another T10K). I’m on a no re-buy, no-add-on kick at the moment. It means I don’t have as many chips as I could have at this point in the tournament, but even though most of the players would do both the single allowable re-buy and the add-on, I’d still have 50BB coming back after the break, it maximizes my ROI, and it just means that if I do get short it happens at an earlier time in the tournament, which I’m okay with.<\/p>\n

Hand 30<\/strong> K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> UTG1\u00a0T30,200<\/em> 300\/600\/100
\nA costly hand I got into with a reg on my immediate left. I raised to 2,000 and he was the only caller. The flop was T<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>, and I bet 2,500 on my air. He called. 7<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn and I shot another barrel of 4,000. 7<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the river and I gave up, he bet 12,000 and I folded.<\/p>\n

Hand 35<\/strong> A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> CO\u00a0T20,300<\/em> 300\/600\/100
\nRaised to 2,000 and took the pot.<\/p>\n

Hand 37<\/strong> 8<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> UTG4\u00a0T22,600<\/em> 300\/600\/100
\nDidn’t play this one, but kicked myself when the T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop hit.<\/p>\n

Hand 38<\/strong> A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> UTG3\u00a0T22,500<\/em> 300\/600\/100
\nAJo\u00a0is a little lower than I like to play normally at 10-handed tables, and there was a lot of action ahead of me, then the guy on my left made a 4-bet, so I was feeling good about being out of the hand.<\/p>\n

Hand 43<\/strong> A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> BB\u00a0T22,100<\/em> 400\/800\/100
\nWhat was I just saying about AJo? Three times in less than ten hands has to be some sort of record. Anyway, I called a raise pre-flop, the board was Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and I bet. By the time action got back around to me, there were two all-in stacks about my size. I called it off on my over card and gut-shot draw, the guy on my left tabled K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> (the hand I’d had when he took 8,500 off of me) and a smaller stack down the table had Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, which ended up taking the main pot.<\/p>\n

\"20140926<\/a><\/p>\n

Two hours and five minutes, 43 hands. 132nd of 159 entries. -100% ROI.<\/em><\/p>\n

Otherwise, this week’s gone relatively well. In addition to winning my games at Players Club and Aces Full the other day<\/a>, I chopped a Final Table $1K. And though I missed the Chinook series, there’s a 6-max during the Tulalip Poker Pow Wow<\/a> on Monday, with a Seniors tournament on Tuesday, and what should be a big $540 two-entry-day main next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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