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Out in 91st

I had a rough time after the dinner break.  I believed that I had a good tight image and that would serve me well now that we were at teh critical blind stealing period.  Unfortunately, it may have backfired as I made three pre-flop raises and got chased out of the pot all three times.  Once I got to the see the flop with KQs, but the flop came out monotone and Ace high and the other player pushed.  The other two times (AQ and AJs) another player either pushed or made a big re-raise and I had to let it go.  With the blinds at 600/1,200 and 100 chip antes, it didn’t take very many of these to eat up my chip stack.

I got short and doubled up with AT where I pushed to isolate a crazy player who had been raising with anything and everything.  He had me dominated in this case and I sucked out on him to get back up to average.  Just a couple of hands later, the SB pushed about about 1/2 my stack and I called with A9s.  He had KT, but flopped a ten.  At the start of the next level, I was in the SB with 11,000 chips when the button raised 4,000.  He just barely had me covered and a call of the raise would have committed me, so I pushed with 77.   Jean-Robert Bellande pushed behind me in the BB.  The button hemmed and hawed and eventually called with AJ.  Bellande had Ax.  I was dodging two Aces and three Jacks, so it was about as good as I could have hoped for.  Unfortunately, an Ace fell and I was out.

I think Joannie Liu was at my table, based on something she said in chat with Bellande about finishing 4th recently and at least two other players at the table knew each other from playing these events, but I didn’t recoginze them.  Bellande was fairly amusing.  There was an old guy at the table whose play was quite unusual.  He would min raise almost anything and virtually any time you bet the flop or turn he would raise you the exact amount you bet.  He ran an angle-shoot on me where he checked out of turn and then raised my bet.  There was some confusion about whether or not that should be allowed.  The floor was called and let him do it.  I probably shouldn’t have bet, because then I had to fold a gutshot draw.  He also sucked out a few big pots on Bellande, who was quite vocal about his unhappiness with that result.  He ought to go deep into the money, because he has about 90,000 chips at the moment.

I feel like I played pretty well, although it may take me too much time to get reads on other players.  When I was at my first table, I felt like I had a really good feel for what everyone had, but when I got moved and moved again, it took me some time to figure out what was going on.  I also probably got bullied off of pots in situations I probably should have been more willing to go broke on.

Maybe in a day or two I’ll feel better about finishing 91/365, but right now I’m annoyed.  I heard from Wade who has arrived in town and I’m going to probably hook up with him for some cash game action tonight.  That seems to be what I do best, anyhow.

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He’s back! (by SuitedPair)

Got a text message on my cell – he’s back up to 33k!

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Up and down (by SuitedPair)

Nside is on dinner break (at least they all get buffet comps and line passes). He has 26,000, average is 24,000 with about 147 left. Things are starting to heat up as the short stacks are feeling lots of pressure now. He had chipped up to around 36k in a blind v blind confrontation with Jean Belland, a pro seated just to his left. But then he lost some chips when his AA was cracked by Kx. The turn paired the K high flop, Nside checked behind and then called a small bet on the river (even though he knew the guy was on Kx) since he was getting huge pot ods at that point. He thinks he played the hand all right, it is just disheartening when AA is cracked. He didn’t get lunch, so he is going to get some food now and regroup. He’s still a bit above average. Maybe he can get some of his chips back from the Kx guy.

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He’s hanging in there (By SuitedPair)

Nside is at 26,000. Average is 24,000 with 147 players left. He was moved to a new table and that one will also break up soon. He is not too happy about that, since he liked his first table quite well. They will break around 7pm for dinner, so hopefully he can hang on and regroup after he gets some dinner.

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Chipping up after the break (by SuitedPair)

Nside is up to about 27k

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Level 4 update (by SuitedPair)

They have completed level 4 and Nside called me on his break. He lost a few chips just before the break when he had to fold JJ on an Ace high flop. He has 19,900 chips. Average is 15,000 with roughly 250 players left. When they come back the blinds will be 200/400 with 25 antes. There are quite a lot of tight players that are now in low M situations and they should start dropping out now. The very large stack player to Nsideâ??s right is aggressive and a decent player. Nside is going to take his time and hopefully get a situation where he can chip up through this guy. Otherwise he likes his table. Some of the players have obvious weaknesses and/or tells. He is feeling pretty good thus far.

Nside thinks he may have misplayed his big 2-pair hand. The blinds were 100/200, he was in the big blind with K7s. A crazy player who has been raising anything, raised to 600 first in and two players cold called. Nside called. Flop is T75. Nside checks, the crazy guy bets, one player calls, Nside calls. Turn is a 2. Pot is pretty large now and Nside makes a 2k bet to try to take it down. The crazy guy folds, but the other player calls. Uh oh. Luckily the river is a K and Nside bets 3k, gets called and takes it down. The player muttered something about getting rivered again.

Nside also reports that the chair massage is the best $15 bucks he has ever spent.

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Continuing to chip up

Just won a big hand from the BB with 2 pair

Up to 22000

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Level 3 Status

I’m at 12,500 at the end of level 3. AA no action on flop biggest hand.

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Update after level two (by SuitedPair)

OK, Nside called me at his break after level two. He is sitting with about 1400 in chips. The average stack is 1100, so he is doing fine. He likes his table. Most of the players are pretty solid tight non-pros with one crazy reckelss player and a couple of TV-watching wannabees. That is Nside’s favorite mix for ring games, so lets hope he finds it as profitable in a tourney setting.

He didn’t have many notable hands in the first two levels. He picked up a few chips in a blind v. blind battle and later floped a full house with 99, but didn’t get too much action with it. His biggest hand was JJ, which he folded preflop when the tightest player at the table came over the top of an early raiser. Four players saw the flop, T87. The re-raiser bet the pot and the player who called the re-raise cold pushed in. The tight player called, showed AA and went home when the other guy’s TT held up.

After the break, Nside e-mailed to tell me that an agressive player with a large stack was moved to his table and seated directly to his right. I’ll keep you posted as I get details.

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End level one up 200

End level one up 200 very good table