So I took a trip back to Reno for the Summer Pot of Gold tournament series. I arrived on the 21st and played 1b of event 1 which was a $240 $50k GTD tourney. Nothing much happened here, I got it in short to a LAG but raise and lost a flip.
The next day was the $340 $100k GTD .I started off winning a few small pots and had my stack around 12-14k of our o.g. 10k stack. Seat 5 was pretty active and I heard him talking about how he shipped a venetian deep stack last month or some shit. Anyways UTG limps and seat5 raises for 2nd or 3rd time in a spot like this. I had AJo on the but and decided to flat. Looking back on it I think maybe a 3bett/fold is prob smart. But i figured with position maybe 1 or 2 other weaker hands might come in and see a flop, which I'm fine with in position. everyone folds around to the weak ass utg limper who folds and we see a flop with around 7.5BBs. 999, sweeeet, seat 5 fires out a c-bet for around 4BBs. I decided to float and see a turn. 6c on the turn. He fires about 7BBs. I guess at this point I should have figured I was beat but I decided to give it a shot and I 3bet him to around 20BBs. He thought for a min and shoved. Obviously in hindsight I guess he isnt folding much to a 3bet on the turn, stupid play for me. I'll blame it on driving 4 hours that day ;) anyways i managed to get my stack to around 10k again at 100/200/25 The same dude that has been limp folding utg limped utg or utg+1 and it was folded to me. I decided to 3.5x it with KToand got bb to call and utg to call (12BB). flop comes T73 rainbow. BB insta shoves for a gazillion. seriously it was over 70BB shove. utg mucks and its on me. blahhh. The only hand that is going thru my mind obv is AT. He was pretty tight player so I dont see T7 being in his range quiet often. also any kind of sets are out because i dont feel he open shoves that much with 2 players in with a set. also just the hand before he made a donk call with KQ to the tighest lady at the table. she had QQ and he flopped a King and she turned a Q and he was steemed, acting like it was a bad beat or something????? anyways i took that in account and was hoping he had something around T9,JT,QT or 98. I took a good min to process the info and decided if he had me beat then good "tilt" shove buddy. He showed up with 98s and hit a 6 on the turn, gg me for 100+BB pot.
I then played the small $175 bounty even and lasted about 20 mins. Overplaying big pairs early in multi-way pots=death. anyways. QQ in middle pos. i raise and get the whole world calling me. 5 maybe. flop comes 652 rainbow. I make a c-bet and get called by the button only. Turn is a 3. I guess my thinking was shutoff but i just didnt put a 4 in his range(incorrectly). when you have 2 other limpers in front you can pretty much call on the button a very wide range that crushes this board. I checked and he fired out a healthy bet. (seems to be the reoccurring theme, fold to the big turn bets on scary boards? ) anyways at this point in the hand i guess we have to put him on air or a big hand. I guess I wasnt thinking and taking all variables into account. The way he was betting I really put him some kind of over pair. If i call the turn bet I put over half my stack in so I was 100% committed to calling his riv bet(which in hindsight maybe I should shove in these spots if im doing that?) the river comes 2 so we have 65232 board. i check he shoves i call he shows 45o gg me. I guess the button call and the strong turn and riv bet might be signs i was crushed, but how often does he play the same way with a smaller over pair when i check the turn? This hand really bugged me and it might have been played correctly but nonetheless be attentive to multiway pots obv and the wide range each limper behind the intial limper gets.
This is super long post so I'll shorten it up. I played the $12.5k GTD Omaha hi/lo yest and didnt have any luck. Today at 4pm is the $12.5k GTD HORSE event. Prob will be my last event unless I bink it. I'm pretty disappointed with the cash games here too, they have either 4/8 or 10/20 limit. 4/8 o8 and they advertise 6/12 HORSE but it hasnt ran once since I've been here. it would have been really nice to play some HORSE this whole week. So thats where my journey is at so far. I havent had any luck in tournaments yet but have only played a handful. The 1 session of 6/12 i played , i did pretty well so when i get back to mountain view tomorrow i'll be playing cash game like crazy getting ready for the few tournament series' that are taking place in the next few months around the bay area.
oh and if anybody reads this and has any input on the hands let me know?
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