*** TJ's 2024 WSOP Trip! ...That Might Turn Into A Move?
“They all know me as a small-timer. But that’s about to change.”
It’s that time of year again!
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Now I’m gonna sit in a 1/3 game, to get back into hold’em mode, and practice folding.
They took the 1/3 cap up to 500, from 300. I like to see that 😀
Let’s settle in, get in the ZONE, and make it a GREAT day today.
-290 in about an hour of 1/3. Played too loose, and dumb, and kept betting when I didn’t make anything.
So I’m glad I got that OUT of my system for today.
I’m ready for the restart. Coming in with a below average stack, it could end abruptly, at any moment.
Let’s make it a GREAT day today!
Play well, make the right decisions and run deep!
I am completely at peace with all of the decisions I made today, and I didn’t make any glaring mistakes that would haunt me.
95th place, out of 1,224 entries, for $4,257.
I started out tight. In a hand I wasn’t involved, I saw a guy cbet, then 3bet over 70% of his stack over a checkraise, then somehow fold to the shove. Very next hand, he opens from HJ, and I have 44. I 3bet an amount to put him in, but could still fold if a stack wakes up behind me and 4bet shoves. Folds to the guy, he gets it in with QTs, and I win the flip.
Little later, I open 77, button playing about 200k 3bets. I get it in, he has AQo, then I lose that flip, to get around 160k.
I find KK UTG, I open 2.5x to 30k, and two big stacks call, from MP and BB. Flop comes A-T-6, checks to me. Guess that’s why they call them ace-magnets, so I check, MP checks back.
Turn is a J, now BB leads out 35k. I call with my pair and broadway draw, MP calls also. River’s a 9 that misses both flush draws, BB checks. I don’t think I have the best hand, and I don’t think I can make anyone fold, so I check, and MP turns up A3s. I muck to the ace, then BB turns up a set of tens. Very fortunate for me that flop came ace high instead of ten high.
Fold for two or three orbits, then I see AQo from MP1, with 96k at 10k/15k. Only one move here, BB calls with A6s. I’m in great 70/30 shape for a much needed double, but he makes a straight around the 6.
Got it in ahead. All my decisions were sound. I would have made exactly the same decisions again.
I can be at peace with that. It was a fun, successful tournament. And now my 2nd-highest ever recorded live cash!
Lots to be proud of.
Yes, good run. All you can do is get down to these spots and hope it's your turn to run deep.
On a related note, I have mixed feelings about researching the table draw. I think it's useful to know if there are any crushers at your table, but I also think it's easy to level ourselves when we are hyper-aware of wizards in our vicinity. My current approach is to glance at the table draw to see if there's anyone I know, but refrain from doing do a deep dive on their Hendon if I don't immediately recognize their name. I prefer to just go in with a blank slate and adjust based on what I'm seeing in the moment.
I'm not saying one approach is objectively right or wrong, but I do think there's an argument that awe and an abundance of respect are more dangerous than blissful ignorance when it comes to affecting our play.
I mean what do I know but wow BB missed a ton of value on that KK hand. Turn bet should have been a lot bigger. Pretty sure JJ cbets that flop a lot, and AA for sure.
ETA Maybe not. GTO wiz has UTG v CO checking flop and turn w ICM, c betting a lot more w chip ev.
WAYYYY late to this party, but good on you for making Day 2... and hi to all the others ITT that I've met in person recently.
nice run TJ...love your attitude.
go have fun with the rest of your stay, and thanks for inviting us to your rail.
What Red wrote. It's important to review notable hands to try to learn from mistakes. If, when doing so, you can feel comfortable that you've done well in limiting/eliminating mistakes, that's all you can do.
Congrats on the cash, run good in PLO.
The PLO session was meh. I probably stayed too long.
I got a full double pretty early, when I check/shoved top set. That +1500 or so would prove to be the high water mark, then I alternated treading water and going card dead for long stretches.
I played about 7 hours, gradually losing focus. I noted the time, and considered picking up at each of the 4, 5, and 6 hour marks. But I wasn’t appreciably up or down at the time, and I wanted to feel like I accomplished something this session.
Then the spot I had position on busted, and then I made a bad payoff in a medium sized pot with just two pair. That’s when I said I’m not playing well, so I’m done, and picked up, to book the session at -883. Not the result I was hoping for, but I felt like I should be done with poker for the weekend.
That closes the book on this Cherokee trip. Drove here with 77 bills, driving home tomorrow with 96.
In the kaleidoscope of outcomes that were all in play before I came, this is definitely one that’s above average. And above the median. Just 4 bills short of bringing home a 10k brick! Ah well. I DID do that last weekend.
In conclusion, I played maybe the toughest tournament field I’ve ever played, and came out ahead. They could only knock me out by sucking out on me in a 70/30. I made day 2, and recorded my 2nd largest career live cash!
Like I said, lots to be proud of.
Good Job TJ. Nice start before WSOP!
Nice trip & TR! Looking forward to the next one.
Sorry I missed the thread update TJ or I would’ve found you and said hello - I was at Table 24 on Sunday but despite coming in with 628k I busted in first orbit (lol) and drove home.
