Luck not be a lady
Well my Wsop debut went to shit. I played pretty much my best I think, but I came up short. Long story short, $100-$200 blinds with $25 ante, I make it $700 preflop with QQ, get cold called by the player on my right. He has me a chipped by a couple hundred. He asks how much I have left, about $2000 more. The flop drops 8 high, and I push, he insta-calls, oops. Yup, Aces. But here a a few hands along the way...
My table isn't exactly the best. Some decent players by my standards, lots of heads up confrontations, although it kinda loosened up a little, meaning there were a few limped pots. Fortunately, a lot of them came when I was in the big blind. I had Dutch Boyd and Chau Jaing (I don't know the correct spelling), along with another asian pro I've seen on tv, cant remember his name. Anyway, the Asian pro limps two off the gun, and so does another player, $25-$50 blinds. I knock the table with A8o, I flop a monster, A86, and bet out $250. Asian pro goes all in for another $550, I call, he turns AT. Please dont conterfeit my shit. 76 turn-river, Yay, I busted a pro. The other important hand is I pick up 88. The player on my right has everyone chipped at the table. Pretty solid player, but can get loose-goose sometimes. I also was portrayed as a really tight player. Having only shown one hand, the A8 hand. The blinds are $25-$50, and the guy on my right makes it $350, I think, and go over the top for a total of $1250, leaving me with $1500 left. Instantly, he goes over the top putting me all in. The pot is about $2500, plus the $1500 he's putting me all in for. I go in my huddle and think... After about a minute, I decide to muck it, even though I'm getting almost 4 to 1. Tough, tough laydown. Later, he makes another raise to $600 in the $50-$100 level, and I push over the top of him with AKo. He mucks, so I offer him, "I'll tell you what I had this hand, if you tell me what you had the other hand," no hesitation, he said, "I had Queen-Queen." It didn't seem like he was lying, I was satisfied. In the $100-$200 level, no antes, I was just trying to survive til the antes came in, and stealing the blinds were huge, so I had to steal some now. In the process, I lose a coin flip with a guy, new to the table I had been transferred to recently. He goes all in for $725, I have pocket sixes. As I'm counting my chips to see how much I'd have left if I lost, I stumble my chips, and gave it a second thought. But reluctantly I call and he turns ATo over, spiking the ace on the river, shoulda went with the gut feeling. So I guess the last hand before I bust that was of any real interest. I have QJ suited in the big blind, and after the utg (the guy that ends up busting me with aces) and the button limp and the small blind folds, I go for the steal, and take the pot down after being stared down by both players for what seemed like an eternity.
I did make a nice steal raise with an 83o, but other than that I pretty much stayed solid. With over 2000 entrants, I didn't want to gamble too much. I guess I could've but it wouldnt be worth it as the stack I had was pretty much average, although short stacked compared to the blinds.
I think I played well overall, and wouldn't really change much of the way I played. I just ran into a better hand holding a good one myself. But damnit, spike that Queen ONE TIME!!!
Gotta go back to the cash games and redeem myself, and my buy-in.
My table isn't exactly the best. Some decent players by my standards, lots of heads up confrontations, although it kinda loosened up a little, meaning there were a few limped pots. Fortunately, a lot of them came when I was in the big blind. I had Dutch Boyd and Chau Jaing (I don't know the correct spelling), along with another asian pro I've seen on tv, cant remember his name. Anyway, the Asian pro limps two off the gun, and so does another player, $25-$50 blinds. I knock the table with A8o, I flop a monster, A86, and bet out $250. Asian pro goes all in for another $550, I call, he turns AT. Please dont conterfeit my shit. 76 turn-river, Yay, I busted a pro. The other important hand is I pick up 88. The player on my right has everyone chipped at the table. Pretty solid player, but can get loose-goose sometimes. I also was portrayed as a really tight player. Having only shown one hand, the A8 hand. The blinds are $25-$50, and the guy on my right makes it $350, I think, and go over the top for a total of $1250, leaving me with $1500 left. Instantly, he goes over the top putting me all in. The pot is about $2500, plus the $1500 he's putting me all in for. I go in my huddle and think... After about a minute, I decide to muck it, even though I'm getting almost 4 to 1. Tough, tough laydown. Later, he makes another raise to $600 in the $50-$100 level, and I push over the top of him with AKo. He mucks, so I offer him, "I'll tell you what I had this hand, if you tell me what you had the other hand," no hesitation, he said, "I had Queen-Queen." It didn't seem like he was lying, I was satisfied. In the $100-$200 level, no antes, I was just trying to survive til the antes came in, and stealing the blinds were huge, so I had to steal some now. In the process, I lose a coin flip with a guy, new to the table I had been transferred to recently. He goes all in for $725, I have pocket sixes. As I'm counting my chips to see how much I'd have left if I lost, I stumble my chips, and gave it a second thought. But reluctantly I call and he turns ATo over, spiking the ace on the river, shoulda went with the gut feeling. So I guess the last hand before I bust that was of any real interest. I have QJ suited in the big blind, and after the utg (the guy that ends up busting me with aces) and the button limp and the small blind folds, I go for the steal, and take the pot down after being stared down by both players for what seemed like an eternity.
I did make a nice steal raise with an 83o, but other than that I pretty much stayed solid. With over 2000 entrants, I didn't want to gamble too much. I guess I could've but it wouldnt be worth it as the stack I had was pretty much average, although short stacked compared to the blinds.
I think I played well overall, and wouldn't really change much of the way I played. I just ran into a better hand holding a good one myself. But damnit, spike that Queen ONE TIME!!!
Gotta go back to the cash games and redeem myself, and my buy-in.
posted by Quietlike | 11:59 PM
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