I can't watch the last 3 minutes of the Giants came...too painful so I'll blog. I played the late schedule yesterday but things didn't work out. Two deep runs in HORSE tourns. A min cash in Stars 11$ HORSE and bubble bust in FTP 75$ HORSE. I ran like death in the OHL on FTP's tourn and had boat run into quads and AQ2x get scooped and A277 get scooped by AJ5x. I had a deep run in this FTP 6Max 5$ Rebuy. I almost gave up before rebuy ended when I lost AK vs AQ, QQ vs A7 and JJ vs A9 AIPF. But I rebought each time and hands went my way after break. I thought the play was pretty poor in general in that tourn and I'll probably play it again tonite. I wish I could play this schedule but I would never see my girlfriend if I did. If we move back to west coast this summer I'll switch for sure. Anyway, with 40 left (of 947) I'm leader with 300K and next closet is 200K. I won a huge race AK vs QQ for 200K in chips. Then a couple of small mistakes. Here we go:
I complete in SB with 87o and BB (new to table) checks. Flop is A,9,2 ...check check...turn is A putting three diamonds out, check..check. River is 3d putting three diamonds out and I min bet with air (hoping to fold 9,10,J,Q hi hands). He raises 4x. Now I have no reads on him, but I don't believe he has an A because a preflop raise, flop bet, or turn bet never happened. I don't think he has flush, sometimes players bet with flush draw with position, but he may have checked it. Anyway, I tank a few seconds and shove since I have him way covered and think he has to have a big hand here to call me and I've ruled out A's or flushes in my mind. Anyway he tanks for a bit and calls with 54 for the rivered gutshot. Then he types "ty" which is lol. Anyway, I'm suprised he called it off for his tourn life there but I didn't consider a st8 in his raise range. Anyway, a minor mistake and I'm still in lead with 230K. A larger mistake comes here: UTG makes min raise (habitual min raiser) and I have 33. I think flatting is fine here because I have to fold to any 4 bet really so I might as well call in position for 2bbs as we are both deep stacked. Only problem is this gives BB good pot odds to call with ATC as he is 5.5 to 1 about. So BB calls and flop is 8,8,2 hh which is pretty good flop for this. Checks to UTG he makes 2 BB bet (10k into 40k) and I raise to 40k, BB shoves and UTG folds. I fold, I could have maybe raised to 25k instead of 40, so actually I'll say it was a minor mistake as well, wasn't played that bad. But now I'm down to 180k. Very next hand UTG raises minimum to 10k and I look at AKo and insta shove. I want it to look like a steam shove/tilt because I just lost a decent pot (remember it's 6 max as well). I have the guy covered and he thinks for a bit and calls with 1010. I lost that race and am down to 95K. I chip up to 135K and then at same blind level it folds to button who shoves his last 11 BB's. I look at 33 in SB. If I lose I'll be down to 75K and if I win I'll be up to about 200k and I think buttons range/11 BB short stack in tourn is wide enough that calling here is good (even though it's gonna be a race). Anyway I call and he tables Arag and hits the A. Doh. Anyway I bust 14th of 947 for a pretty small cash. I was 1 for 3 on my flips and they were all huge. Anyway. Playing that tourn again tonight if it's on because it was fun. I hope the Cardinals beat the Eagles next week! Gl at the tables....