No Joy

Well i have to say ive played that well but my exit hand takes the piss a bit. Was to go 4/14 with 3 x $14000 prizes up for grabs.

There was only 24 entrants and with 1 sitting out there was an almost double prize pool of $42000 so excellent value.

Some very interesting hands in it though. Think i will post them here to clear my head. Im actually not that pissed off because i played well so thats all you can do sometimes. Bit gutted maybe though :(

1)

Seat 1: deany (3035 in chips)
Seat 2: Zepto (3535 in chips)
Seat 3: THE-NUT5 sits out
Seat 4: Animal (2805 in chips)
Seat 5: molle1 (2420 in chips)
Seat 6: Millar007 (995 in chips)
Seat 7: tlaya21 (2400 in chips)
Seat 8: bybow (2475 in chips)
Animal: posts small blind 15
molle1: posts big blind 30
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Animal [Ah Ad]
Millar007: folds
tlaya21: folds
bybow: folds
deany: folds
Zepto: raises to 120
THE-NUT5: folds
THE-NUT5 sits back
Animal: calls 105
molle1: folds
----- FLOP ----- [Jc Jh As]
Animal: bets 90
Zepto: raises to 330
Animal: calls 240
----- TURN ----- [Jc Jh As][Th]
Animal: checks
Zepto: bets 570
Animal: raises to 1140
Zepto: folds
Returned uncalled bets 570 to Animal
Animal: doesn't show hand
Animal collects 2070 from Main pot

Zepto was a serial button raiser and didnt seem to care that the blinds were only tiny so his range of hands could almost be anything. For this reason i flat call hoping to trap on the flop. With such a big flop i feel the only way to build a pot is to lead weak as he is a very agressive player and probably wont resist trying to pounce on a weak bet. This works but my only mistake in the end is my raise on the turn , should have flat called and hoped he bet the river. Saying that if he held KQ or maybe even if he had the jack i may have got all his chips so im not too disappointed.

Basically i think if i check call or check raise the flop he will stop betting and i would have got a much smaller pot for sure so overall im very happy with the pot size.

2)

Note i also flopped a straight in the small blind the hand before this with 10,7 without any action but bear this in mind when you see how i got away. After 2 flopped straights in a row u can think u r invincible and let your guard down if u r not careful.

Seat 1: deany (3400 in chips)
Seat 2: Zepto (2965 in chips)
Seat 3: THE-NUT5 (2245 in chips)
Seat 4: Animal (3555 in chips)
Seat 5: molle1 (2375 in chips)
Seat 6: Millar007 (340 in chips)
Seat 7: tlaya21 (2647.50 in chips)
Seat 8: bybow (2472.50 in chips)
molle1: posts small blind 15
Millar007: posts big blind 30

----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Animal [9h Qc]
tlaya21: folds
bybow: folds
deany: raises to 60
Zepto: calls 60
THE-NUT5: folds
Animal: calls 60
molle1: folds
Millar007: calls 30
----- FLOP ----- [8d Jh Tc]
Millar007: checks
deany: bets 60
Zepto: calls 60
Animal: raises to 270
Millar007: folds
deany: folds
Zepto: calls 210
----- TURN ----- [8d Jh Tc][Ad]
Zepto: checks
Animal: checks
----- RIVER ----- [8d Jh Tc Ad][7c]
Zepto: bets 600
Animal: calls 600
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Zepto: shows [Qd Ks] (A Straight, Ace high)
Animal: mucks hand [9h Qc]
Zepto collects 2055 from Main pot

Played this hand near perfect except i couldnt bring myself to fold the river bet of 600. I put him on KQ as soon as the turn came which was why i didnt continue my flop bet. I typed in KQ before i called as well. Hopefully in vegas if this happens i will be able to use tells or body language to be able to fold in these type of situations.

Anyway a lot of tournaments i go bust there but as it was im still in but back to starting stack. Similar to my slow up of betting my trip 8s in an earlier post a few days back im very happy to have got away cheaply.

Ok brief description of other hands rather than the hand history as they lead to my exit in the end and all involve me and u guessed it Zepto !!!

Him on button 9200 stack raises the 100 to 300. Im in small blinds with A6std and go 1400 allin and he folds.

Him small blind 8600 stack raises the 150 to 450. Im in the big blind with 94off and go 2225 allin and he folds.

So there was plenty of history and below is our final clash where i got the better of him but he got lucky, thats poker !!!

Table "WSOP Main Event 2946062 - 1" Seat 4 is the button.
Seat 1: deany (5850 in chips)
Seat 2: Zepto (8197.50 in chips)
Seat 4: Animal (2600 in chips)
Seat 6: Giuseppe (8730 in chips)
Seat 7: _Junior_ (4325 in chips)
Seat 8: bybow (3317.50 in chips)
Seat 10: lewielaro sits out
Giuseppe: posts small blind 75
_Junior_: posts big blind 150
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Animal [Ac Qs]
bybow: folds
lewielaro: folds
lewielaro sits back
deany: folds
Zepto: raises to 450
Animal: raises to 2600 and is all-in
Giuseppe: folds
_Junior_: folds
Zepto: calls 2150
----- FLOP ----- [8h Kc 7h]
----- TURN ----- [8h Kc 7h][2s]
----- RIVER ----- [8h Kc 7h 2s][4c]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Animal: shows [Ac Qs] (High Card Ace)
Zepto: shows [Qh Kh] (A Pair of Kings, Queen high)
Zepto collects 5425 from Main pot

This being the exit hand it appears i had reversed the advantage of being a serial raiser. As i had restole before a few times with crap and he defintely thought his KQstd was probably good , hense the call immediately. Pot size of this value at these blinds makes me cringe a bit as i feel i would have been at least 50/50 to make the top 3 by being very agressive with that stack but never mind.
70/30 i was to win that hand but really u dont want the call as i want to build the stack avoiding preflop allins unless i am well covering the allin with my stack.

Summing up i would have took a 70% chance of getting a stack at those blinds before we started so in the end ive played well but just been unlucky in my opinion. Also got some good restealing practise in which i seem to enjoy a lot at the moment. Could well be my exit hand in vegas on a resteal the way i use them lately lol.