Reentry through level 9 (300/600/75 blinds and antes)
Clock restarted in Level 14 with about ~3:14 left on level 14.
101 entries left after combining all 4 flights.
81 places paid.
"MTT Rank" Name Chip Count Seat
76 Matt Sztamburski 42,300 30 1
96 Andrew Brown 13,600 30 2
54 Joseph Velasquez 59,500 30 3
34 Derek Schroeder 83,200 30 4
77 Kenneth Po 40,700 30 5
4 Josh Turner 189,500 30 6
24 Troy Repp 97,200 30 7
7 Mark Fink 144,400 30 8
35 Greg Dailey 83,000 30 9
42 Garrett Riley 73,800 30 10
First Table Reads:
1 younger guy, had significant MTT resume
2 younger guy, ok amount of MTT experience
3 younger guy, inexperienced
4 younger guy, had significant MTT resume
5 hero
6 older guy, had significant MTT resume
7 older guy, had MTT resume
8 older guy, had significant MTT resume
9 younger guy
10 older guy, had MTT resume
Hero did some Hendon Mob research and realized that he had a very bad table draw. There were some very experienced live NLHE MTT players in the field. Hero did have position on 1-2 players who had little on their tournament resume.
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Hero mistakenly went to wrong first table. The dealer gave a strange look, asked me for registration paper, and then noticed I was at the wrong table.
The stack size was very similar to my current stack. Oops.
It turns out hero missed 2 or so hands.
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Level 14 - Blinds: 1000/2000/300
(5 players were eliminated by the time hero plays this hand.
Hero's stack: 40,300
Hero dealt on BB: Qh 6h
Preflop:
(folds to SB)
Vil4 (SB): raises to 5500
Hero (BB): hero thinks for a little bit, then folds.
Analysis:
Preflop: Hero could fold in this spot, but hero may have a decent amount of fold equity jamming all in. Hero decides to wait.
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Next Hand:
Hero's stack: 40,100
Hero dealt on CO: As Js
Preflop:
(folds to button)
Vil4 (SB): raises to 5500
Hero (BB): hero thinks for a little bit, then folds.
Vil6 (BB): folds
Vil4 (SB): thinks for a second, then slides out chips for a call.
Vil4: shows AQo
Board: Tc 8s 4h 9h 9d
(all players checked to river.)
(one villain bets river and shows straight (likely Vil1)
Analysis:
Preflop: Hero correctly believes that villain is opening a wide range. Hero also believes that villain will not call an all in without a strong hand (maybe 55+, AQo/ATs+).
Unfortunately, villain calls with top of his range.
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After the hand, hero asked some of the players if he had made the right play. Hero trusted their opinions because hero knew of their resumes.
Seat 6 - Yes, you didn't see the previous table dynamics, but he could be raising with 95o. That's the right play. It's a cooler you ran into AQ.
Hero mentioned that he thought villain was already aggressive based on trying to steal hero's BB in SB/BB battle in previous hand.
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Hero out in 95th, 81 places pay.
Hero felt that he ran above expected value (+EV) throughout day 1 of the tournament. Yes, there were some bad players and fish, but hero did feel that he was fortunate to approach the bubble given the lack of focus on NLHE MTTs. (There was some preparation prior to this MTT, but it's still not necessarily a hero strength.)
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After busting, Hero thought hard about playing the turbo (1 day) NLHE MTT. Hero would have had 25 big blinds (with antes, so M = ~10). Hero timed out, but was leaning towards not playing it anyway. Hero did not believe there was much edge even against soft field. Hero's experience with push/fold/resteal poker was not strong enough at this point.
It was different for hero in Rozvadov, Czech Republic because hero felt field was even softer, even though hero was coming in with shallower stack and only 15 minute levels.
Hero was told that he could enter both tournaments, but could not abandon hand (ie: leave if cards are dealt to hero until it's hero's turn to act).
It turns out that tournament had 118 runners and were heads up around 11:00PM.
Hero decided to just late register for the limit omaha 8 tournament.
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