Friday, July 3, 2009

I suck at live poker

So as of today I am 0/3 in tournaments. Yesterday I lost the Binion's tournament after getting down to the final 3 tables. I never really had a giant chip stack and ended up losing a flip late for a big pot to bust around 23rd. The most notable aspect of that particular tournament was the 2007 main event champion Jerry Yang was playing in it. I wasn't at his table and he busted before I did, but it was still cool to play in the same tournament as a former WSOP main event champ. Today I lost the $560 venetian tournament before the first break. The hand was kind of a tough one, but I think I played it right. Here's how it played out, let me know what you think:

Blinds at 100/200 I have ~10k in chips.
UTG raises to 500 its folded around to my small blind and I see 1010. I make the call, big blind also calls.
Flop is Q Q 4. I check, BB checks, UTG makes it 750. I flat call and the BB folds.
Turn is another Q giving me Q's full of 10's. I check, UTG bets 800, I raise to 3000. He thinks for a while and calls.
River is a K. At this point I have a little over 5k left and the pot is around 10k. I decide to shove, he calls and shows KJ for a full house.

I like what I did preflop and on the flop. The turn gets a little sketchy. Maybe I should have led out turn and check/called river or perhaps even folded. As played, I thought that I had to jam because there was twice as much in the pot as I had in my stack.

After playing the tournament, me and chipmystack played some roulette. I bet $400 on black the first spin and the number came up zero for the 2nd time this trip. So on the day I lost about $1100. On the trip, I'm down about 2k. Hopefully I hit a cash in one of the remaining tournaments. I probably won't play tomorrow, seeing as it is the 4th of July. Sunday is a possibility, but not very likely. Monday might be the last day that I can play.

On the bright side, the trip has been really awesome. Its great to get away from the online scene from time to time.

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