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Day 2 Table Draws:
10 "Hero" "Hero's City, State, US" 15,500 Amazon / 407 / 2
11 Paul Volpe WEST CHESTER, PA, US 27,600 Amazon / 407 / 3
12 Woody Deck LAS VEGAS, NV, US 25,700 Amazon / 407 / 4
13 Brett Shaffer BELOIT, KS, US 97,900 Amazon / 407 / 5
14 Dmitri Motorov Saint Peterbury, , RU 24,400 Amazon / 407 / 6
15 Gregory Masterson CHICAGO, IL, US 35,900 Amazon / 407 / 7
16 Douglas O'neal BATTLE GROUND, WA, US 32,200 Amazon / 407 / 8
17 Maksim Fomin RU 42,200 Amazon / 407 / 9
Day 2 Table Reads:
Seat Reads
3 Paulgees81 - HS player, but not sure of PLO8 background
4 lots of PLO8 cashes
5 NLHE cashes, 1 5k PLO8 cash, may be aggressive
6 1500 PLO cash
7 PLO cashes
8 unknown
9 Russian - unknown
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Hero's stack upon restart at level 9:
15500 at 400/800 blinds.
Because of the monster stack, this tournament only played 8 levels instead of the standard 10 levels.
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Day 2 table draws were posted by the time hero woke up. Hero researched all the players at the table.
Research Algorithm:
1. Hero looked at each player's Hendon Mob (and other live MTT database records) to assess their previous cashes.
A. Do they have any stud/8 cashes?
B. Do they have any mixed game cashes?
C. Do they have any WSOP cashes?
D. How much MTT winnings do they have?
[If they have no mixed game cashes, they could be overly aggressive. If they have no WSOP cashes, they might be trying to squeak into the money and be nitty at the bubble.]
2. Do they have a twitter account?
3. Do they have any online screennames to gather info about their style of play or online MTT/cash game records?
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Within 2 hands of day 1 starting, the first table broke.
After consulting the floor, my table was next to break.
Button started on the 10 seat, so hero had to pay blinds.
After 5 hands, my table broke.
Hero didn't play any hands before table broke.
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Day 2 Table 2 Reads:
1 young male
2 Bart Hanson
3 younger male in tanktop and glasses
4 guy in Aria poker shirt (likely David Bach)
5 younger male with LA Dodgers cap
6 old guy
7 old guy
8 Kevin - young Asian player
9 hero
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Reads: Hero saw players 1-3 were active.
Hero had sat down for ~10 hands and hadn't played any hands at this time.
Blinds: 400/800
Preflop:
Hero dealt in HJ: Ah Ks Jh 2d
3 folds
Hero: raises to 1700
(folds to seat 3)
Seat 3 asked for hero's stack size (hero obliges) before folding.
Vil4: folds
Vil5 (~7k): calls
(2 players - 3800 in pot)
Flop: As 9s 5h
Vil5: checks
Hero: thinks for a little bit, then checks behind
(2 players - 3800 in pot)
Turn: As 9s 5c 4d
Vil5: thinks for a couple seconds, then bets 2000
Hero: thinks for a while, then folds
Analysis:
Preflop: Min raise seems fine. Sometimes an early limp works too (depending on style of table/dynamics). A friend mentioned that early position players are now open-limping most of their ranges in MTTs.
Flop: Given how both hero and villain are short stacked (villain actually has fewer chips than hero), this probably should have been a bet/fold instead of check/reevaluate turn. It's not trying to be results oriented, but there's more fold equity if villain doesn't have axxx.
Turn: Unfortunately, hero can't continue hoping to get half with only a backdoor low and not much/any hope for high...
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Analysis:
Hero dealt in BB: Ad Ks Td 9d
Preflop:
(1 fold)
Vil2 (UTG+2): limps
5 folds
Vil8 (SB): calls
Hero (BB): checks
(3 players - 2400 in pot)
Flop: 3c 2h Js
All players check
(3 players - 2400 in pot)
Turn: 3c 2h Js Qs
Vil8: checks
Hero: bets 1500
Vil2: calls
Vil8: folds
(2 players - 5400 in pot)
River: 3c 2h Js Qs 6h
Hero: thinks for a little bit, then checks
Vil2: bets ~5100
Hero: folds
Preflop: BB special. If hero was deeper, hero could call raise.
Flop: Easy check (hero has no equity)
Turn: Hero bluffs turn as semi-bluff. Unfortunately, seat 2 calls.
River: Hero could continue firing. But, villain has so few draws that missed (likely lows that completed), that hero's fold equity is slim/non-existent. Villain has a lot of combo hands. Hero could try to bet out a naked flush draw, but villain's UTG+2 range (since hero's impression was likely competent) was 2 way hands with a low.
Villain's bet is likely a 1 way hand "looking to buy a chop". Villain seemed to bet fairly large on turn/rivers to try to push people out in other hands.
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Hero dealt on button: AQQ3 (Q3 suited in spades)
Hero had ~6600
Villain had ~8000.
Preflop:
(folds to seat 8)
Vil8: raises to ~2200
Hero: raises all in
folds to Vil8
Vil8: "Ok, I'll gamble. I call."
Vil8: shows Ad Kx Td 9x
(2 players - 14700 in pot - 1 player all in)
Board: A6659 (rainbow on flop; 2 flush for neither player on turn; no flush on river)
Analysis:
Preflop: This is pretty standard across the board. Villain can't really fold in this spot...
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Hero out in 114. 54 pay.
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Summary:
1. The field seemed soft overall. Two players (including Grinder) dusted off chips pretty quickly.
2. It was sad to have wasted time researching the Day 2 draw...
3. There wasn't enough time while sitting at table to try to look up players and research their tendencies. There was wifi, but hero stuck with trying to be focused at table actions.
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