I've been pretty lazy about my blog and I know a lot of people are waiting to see my Korea/Auckland trip report. But before I get back to that, I have some good news to share with all of you first.
First: Cebu is obv a stunning place, at least the resort itself. I haven't been able to check out the beach and water activities but will def find a time to do so.
Second: I'm the chip leader with 158.5k in chips at the end of day1A!!!! booya! one time?
So right before the tournament started, I told myself that I'm going to be playing hyper aggro style, either I go very deep or go home early cuz I'm tired of surviving till day2 and bust out of the money.
table 1:
My first table was actually really good, full of old nits and live donks. So it wasn't very hard for me to lag it up a bit, but not until Steve Yea (FTP red pro, super aggro but spewy) arrived at my table. You can imagine that some fireworks are about to go off.
First confrontation:
2 ppl limp at 50/100, I made it 600 pre w/ JdJc, Steve called in the sb, two limper both called.
Flop ($2500) 5d 6d 9c
Steve checked, limper 1 donk bet 800, limper 2 folded and I made a strong raise to 2800. Steve tanked for a long time and c/r to 6kish...limper folded and back to me. I know Steve is aggro but he probably is not making a move when there's a bet and a raise. So I let the hand go.
few orbits later, after I got my stack up to roughtly 28k, a major firework occured between me and Yea.
Confrontation 2:
folded to me in co w/ A5ss and I made it 525 (100/200) to go, a mid age tag fish flats otb and Steve made a squeeze from sb to 1750. I decided to flat to manipulate him with my position. btn folded.
Flop: 2d 2 3d ($4200ish)
Steve cbet 2k and I tanked a bit and flatted.
Turn: 4d (8200ish)
Steve checked and I made a pretty large bet of 7kish, leaving Steve only 8k if he just calls.
He tanked and tanked and tanked and decided to shove all in and I snapped him. I turned my hand up and he threw his hand into the muck w/o even trying to see what the river card was.
River brought an useless 5d and Steve Yea hit the rail. (lol steve yea, stop pulling moves on someone who can own your soul)
After that hand, I was in complete control of my table, raising literally 30-40% of the hands and either everyone folded pre or just took it down after flop. There were few times where ppl just couldn't take it anymore and tried to play pots w/ me but failed due to the positional advantage and chip advantage I had.
at about level 5, I got moved to a new table.
New table:
I have to admit that I made a pretty unforgivable mistake by trying to run the new table over w/o even observing how the new table is playing. Here's the hand I blew off 20k in chips 3rd hand in.
Folds to me in co w/ 36o and I made it 1200 to go at 200/400/50. sb (looks like a local philippino) flats.
Flop KKs8s (3200)
sb donks out 1200 and I thought for a bit and decided to bluff raise him. I made it 3500 and he quickly flats. At this point, I put him on weak pair and fd.
Turn 5d
he quickly c/c my 6500 bet and had 10k left
river was a 4h
he instant check/called my river shove and showed me K9cc. yuck.
I was pretty upset at myself after the hand and was wondering why I couldn't hit the break sometimes.
Stack after the hand: 60k. (started at the table with about 80k)
few rounds later, at 300/600, a guy w/ pokerstar gear, who's been playing sorta tight open 5x utg, folds to me otb and looked down my first AKo of the day. I looked at his stack and found him only have 14k left. So I decided to just reshove on him. He didn't even tank before snap calling and turned over QQ. sweet, a race situation where I never win.
Flop AA8!!! oh wow, one time?! not so much the case when the Q dropped the turn and I failed to boat up on the river. Like, seriously, when can I ever win a flip in a major tournament?
Stack after that hand: about 40k left.
Then this major hand that determined my table leader status occurred.
Folds to the button who's been pretty tight and he opened 5x. Sb flats and I looked down AQhh. I was like...this guy's never folding to my 3bet and I'd be pretty damn crushed if he shoves over my 3bet. So I decided to just flat and play for my stack if i hit my A or Q.
Flop: As 2d 3h (pot: 1ok)
sb checks and I checked and btn potted it, leaving himself 20k. sb folds and I was like...well, if he has AK, so be it but i'm not folding my top pair Q kicker when the guy has put in 1/3 of his stack in. So I check/raised him all in and he called and showed me the last hand I wanted to see- AK.
I was thinking to myself, well, at least I could go home early and check out the beach tmr. However, my beach plan was crushed when the Q dropped on the turn and my hand held up!!!
Back to 70k in chips and after that hand, needless to say, I was in a complete charge again. Few people tried to play pots with me but all failed. Then I got involved with 2 pots back to back against the guy who donk bet his trips earlier in the post.
First hand: I opened AK on the button and he flats his bb again.
Flop KJ3 two hearts. he donks out and I decided to take the same line I took when I bluffed him earlier. I made a 3x raise and he flats. Turn was an offsuit 6 and he c/f to my all in bet.
Very next hand. Folds to me in co w/ AK again and I opened. He flatted in the sb again. flop AT3 and he c/c my 1/2 pot cbet. turn was a 8 and he instant c/c my shove (he didn't have much left and I knew he wouldn't fold his top pair). My AK held up against his A6ss. ship it fish!
After that big lucky suckout and knocked out that fish. My chip stack was at 120k and the whole table was just sitting there trying to wait for a hand to play with me when at the same time kept folding to my raise and cbet and brought my chip stack to 158k at the end of day1. ;)
Here's the link to the pokernews post: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2009-appt-cebu/main-event/day1a/
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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