So, I went to play my first major live event in Copenhagen, Denmark
last week. I played in day 1a my first table had Dario Minieri and
Claus Nielson which both have had great success in the live poker world.
Within
the first hour I had AA,KK and QQ all losing hands but KK was the only
one I showed down and crippled me. At the first break I had 2800 chips
from the 10k starting stack which had been down to 1250 . At the end of
the first hour i had KK in sb with 4 limpers so I raised to 600 at
25/50 and get 2 callers... flop comes Qh9h2d the first caller is a
scandi donkface he didnt even know that you need to leave your chips on
the table at break lol and the 2nd caller is Claus Nielson who appears
to be real solid. I lead out 1250, donk calls, and Nielson folds so its
now heads up. turn comes 7d to make double flush draw and this players
range is fairly big im thinking Q10 plus and any pocket pair because he
had already limp called in a similar spot twice this being his third
time. I bet 4k on turn he thinks forever and shoves for 6k so its only
2k for me to call obv i call with KK and the he flips set of 9s. that
hand seemed pretty standard just annoying that it happend so early.
After
that hand i was down to about 1800 and just grinded playing my stack
and picking small spots to pick up chips and stay alive. Finally I get
a PERFECT squeeze spot on the button...Hijack raised 3x cutoff calls
and im sitting in button with AQ and 37% of my stack in the middle so I
shoved, but not instantly because I wanted to entice a call from the
2nd caller. So, I paused for about 30 seconds to make it look like im
calculating to see if its a good squeeze spot (obviously I already had
this figured out before I was dealt cards) then shove. The intial
raiser folds and cutoff calls with A4s. Flop comes A45 I dont improve
gg me. It just wasnt my tourney and I had AA,KK,QQ,99,88,AQ all losing
pots, so im extremely happy with the way I played and preserved my
stack in this deep stack environment.
The next major live
tournament I plan to play is the Irish Poker Open march 17-24th, but I
might play shooting star at bay101 in northern california next week if
I pull some backing together. But, for the next week or so im most
likely just going to grind out some online poker and get back in the
habbit of playing full time and working on my businesses full time.
Outside
of poker over the last month and a half or so I have been in the
process of moving from Maryland to Los Angeles. I am renting a 3 br
house in hollywood hills and absolutely love it out here so far. I
havent had much time to get settled, but the weather is great and the
people are awesome, so I cant really complain. Commerce and hustler are
juicy as hell, so it should make for some real good times.