Sunday, June 22, 2014

230 PLO8 MTT at Golden Nugget

15000 starting chips at 25/50 blinds and 30 min. levels.

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Late Registration Table Reads:
1 ?
2 older guy with a Surface tablet and talked about the monster stack
3 hero
4 ?
5 D. C.
6 middle aged guy
7 middle aged guy with longer hair/ponytail
8 another person who busted quickly
9 guy busted/reentered somewhere else

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Blinds: 100/200
Hero dealt in UTG+2: Ah Jx 8x 5h

Preflop:
(folds to hero)
Hero: limps
Vil?: limps
Button: raises to 800
Hero: calls

(3 players - ~2700 in pot)
Flop: Jx 8d 2d

Hero: checks
Vil?: checks
Button: bets 2500
Hero: raises to 10500
Vil?: folds
Button: calls

Button: shows Ax Xx 6x 4x (no pair)
Hero and villain chop

Analysis:
Preflop: Limp/Call is fine. It's a little loose with A5xx and suited ace in EP, but the looser low limit live games can allow it w/o getting punished too often.
Flop: There's a chance Button folds A2xx to a check raise. Hero has great equity to c/r all in on this spot.

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Hero also limp/folded Kx Ks Ts 8c

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Hero's stack at level 4 break: 13750 @ 150/300

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Hero's not sure when this hand happened. Possibly at 150/300 blind level, but may have been at 200/400.
Blinds: 150/300
Hero dealt in HJ?: AQJT (ATs)?

Preflop:
(folds to hero in HJ)
Hero (HJ): raises 750
Vil? (SB): calls
Vil? (BB): calls

(3 players - 2250 in pot)
Flop: J43 rainbow (may have been two tone, but definitely no hero flush draw)
Vil?: checks
Vil?: checks
Hero: bets 1500
Vil?: calls
Vil?: calls

(3 players - 7750 in pot)
Turn: J433K (two tone, hero has no flush draw)
Vil?: checks
Vil?: checks
Hero: bets ~4000
Vil?: folds
Vil?: calls

(2 players - 15750 in pot)
River: J433K
Vil?: checks
Hero: bets all in (~8k)
Vil?: folds

Analysis:
Flop: Hero's betting to with a high 1 way only hand. However, most times this should be a check/fold unless high card comes on turn.
Turn: Hero decides to continue aggression since villains may have low draw/1p that could fold to turn barrel
River: Every draw misses and hero can bluff off fish. In reality, this is probably a check though since most hands that would fold are hands that hero beats (missed low/flush draws)

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Blinds: 200/400
Hero made marginal call after UTG raised with Kx 5s 3s 2s. Hero folded on flop.

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Blinds: 200/400
Hero's stack: ~12000
BB's stack: ~15000

[Notes from scrap piece of paper and not in original notes, so some details are not exact :( ]
Hero dealt in : Ax Kx 7x 3x rainbow? (Hero doesn't remember exact hand)

Preflop:
Hero: raises to 1000
Vil6 (BB): calls

(2 players - 2200 in pot)
Flop: Kx 2s Js
Vil6: checks
Hero: bets 1500
Vil6: calls

(2 players - 5200 in pot)
Turn: Kx 2s Js 5x
Vil6: checks
Hero: bets 2725
Vil6: calls

(2 players - 10650 in pot)
River: Kx 2s Js 5x 9h
Vil6: bets all in (~7000)
Hero: tanks/folds

Vil6 says after hand that he had 22xx and didn't want to see low card on the river.

Analysis:
Preflop: Standard raise
Flop: Hero's hand isn't very strong, but it likely doesn't help villain too much. This is probably a bet fold as villains would probably raise sets, top 2p, nfd, and/or wraps w/ flush draws
Turn: Hero can try to barrel off fish with wraps or bad flush draws by turn bluff.
River: Hero has 1 pair/no high. It smelled like a bluffy line though, but it's hard to hero call with 1 pair.

Hero's stack: ~3500

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Reentry period ends about 4 hands later with hero not being able to find a spot to get chips in.
After talking with friend, it seemed best to just get all chips in and muck hand w/o showdown.

Twitter:
Hero won first pot on blind steal. 4100
New table. 3200 300 600 blinds.

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Hero gets moved to new table (table 13):

2nd Table Reads:

1 ?
2 Gavin Smith
3 ?
4 T. M. (friends with L. F.)
5 old guy?
6 older (30s) guy, husband of N. from Big O MTT.
7 hero
8 Asian person? (younger male)
9 older male from GN Big O MTT who made some crazy folds with < 1 PSB for MTT life
With 3600 in pot and 1600 to call, villain folded 943 rainbow.
Villain had made horrible fold in big o MTT for small stack. Normally jammed pre with 4 BB but stop and go works against fish.

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Blinds: 400/800
Hero's stack: 4800
Other players had ~20k+

Hero dealt in CO: Qx 7h 3h 2x

Preflop:
(folds to hero)
Hero (CO): raises to 1700
(folds to SB)
Vil9 (SB): calls
Vil1 (BB): calls

(3 players - 5100 in pot)
Flop: Qx Tx 7x (rainbow)
Vil9: checks
Vil1: checks
Hero: bets all in (3100)
Vil9: calls

Board: Qx Tx 7x 3x Ax (rainbow)

Vil9: Shows QJ9x

Hero scoops:
Hero's stack: 10500

Analysis:
Preflop: This is a standard raising hand in LP. Hero has 3 low cards and is a decent favorite to stay alive in the MTT and pick up some chips.
Flop: 1 PSB + top/bottom pair = AI

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Twitter note:
Hero could have folded for min raise with kqjj pre in bb, but fold equity was definitely there.

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Table breaks and hero gets moved to table 2 (by front of room)
Last Table Reads:
1 ?
2 ?
3 ?
4 ?
5 older male?
6 ?
7 hero
8 T. M.
9 L. F.

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Blinds: 600/1200
Hero's stack: ~9000
This hand was about ~5 hands into table
Hero dealt in HJ: Ah Qh Js Ts

Preflop:
Vil5 (UTG+1)  raise to ~3000
Hero: calls

(2 players - 7800 in pot)
Flop: Qc Jx 3c
Vil5: bets 4000
Hero: raises all in
Vil5: calls

Villain: shows Ax Ac 5c 3x
Board: Qc Jx 3c 5x 7c

Analysis:
Preflop: Without reads, sometimes a live player may have a super narrow raising range in EP. Is it just AAxx (some live players follow this philosophy)?
Hero's hand doesn't have much hot/cold equity against a nit's opening range (ie: AAxx) and it could possibly be a fold with a high only hand. It's close though.
Flop: Hero has decent equity even against a flush draw to call. Naked AA may call in this spot.

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Hero out around 112th.

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