Taking another shot at the WSOP and the main event

Sounds fun. Good luck!

A tale of two day ones

start with 60 and 30 minutes levels. I was down to 45k the first 3 levels and then had the sequence of AK 3 bet and fold. QQ raise and 3bet and I 4 bet took it downs and then very next hand 4 bet AA in highjack and get called by button. The flop comes 999. I cbet for 30 percent. The button calls. The turn is the ten. I think i made a mistake. I figured he has a high pair and it will look pretty bluffy to put him all in. So i did and he tank folds and shows JJ. probably the better play is to induce with the check. After that I lost half my stack with AK vs 8s on a K84 board. I did manage to get back to starting stack. But with blinds up i made a stand with KJ on a Kd7c10c board and he had 107 and could catch up. Fun day with nice dealers tho.

my brother ran up his stack to 500K. Cruising until 40 away from the money. Then his Q4 got all in against KQ on a Q43 board. The poker gods threw a couple of 6s out and he was counterfeited. I did pay him 20 bucks for the last longer.

Next up is the 600 deepstack!

Good luck. Following.

how exciting - super cool trip. hope it goes well

Have fun!

SUNRUN IN THE SUN - Day 1 of 600 deepstack

Start with 30k and 40 min levels. In the first 15 minutes i lose 17K in chips against super aggro lady to left of me with AK and 5 bet flop and 9 high board. Stayed patient with still 120BB with blinds at 100/100. Got some traction in level 3 with cooler AA vs KK allin. Thought that was easy and decided to do it again in level 3. WTF!. managed to double again with QQ vs AK. Every premium hit for me for the next 6 hrs. I had multiple sets that held and was even hitting sets on the turn. By dinner break i had 234K and the average was 100 maybe. After dinner break, move to new table and get it all in with AA again against 10s and Jacks. ( I really wanted 1 person to fold really, against 2 players don't feel comfortable). Coolered Them both and had aroun 500K. Probably ran it up to 540. Had some setbacks when my 10s forgot to hit a set and paid off a bit river with board JJ933. I should have folded but sometimes you know the right play in your head, but your hand is not listening to it.

Got to make some chip art

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Had an interesting hand at the end of the day and would like an opinion. Min-raised with 89s in the hijack and shorty shoves on button with 29k. the BB snap calls with around 270K and flips his hand over and shows AhJd. Now its back on me. What is the best play here? I called and thought shoving would be ok but i dont know if he decides to go with it. Its a meta game baby!. I lost to the diamond flush on the turn because an 8 was on flop montone diamons and he called after i bet.

Locked up min-cash.
On to day 2 with about 340K and 5/10K bb!

oh and my brother crashed and burned with one rebuy. Aces cracked to end tourney early.

Last longers now a wash? Nice bag!

you don't mention exact blinds etc on the 89 hand & I get the attraction if you've seen his AJ but given it's 3 way, I would probably fold.

Great tournament so far! Running good is nice. Running good is fun.

I'm folding the 89 hand despite being quite live against the AJ. No real need to take the worst of it in a big gamble for a relatively small amount of dead money, but being greedy can pay off sometimes too.

Nice bag and interesting the opinions on the 89s hand when villain exposed his hand. I would have done the same as you and called.

I actually misread the situation and thought the AJ player jammed. If he just called then yea, you need to call with 89 for just a little more.

Jamming would be a fun play there too, but given the weird dynamics, I think AJ finds the call a lot of the time, and then we're in a bad spot.

Call and try to hit seems best, as the price is great.

Trying to run deep in the night -Day 2 of the 600 deepstack

Started a a good table. 2nd in chips with slightly bigger stack on my right at around 400K. the posers are gone. (except me). I start the first level horrible trying to bluff off 6s on k high board and similar situation against big blind. Blinds are at 5K 10K and im down to 200K. Only play there for about an 30 min and get moved to new table. I am now a shorty and having stacks to my left and right. Finally double when short stack shoves and i wake up with Kings.

About 30 minutes later find some aces that no one wanted and raise in middle position to 25K. (blinds are 6/12 K). the big blind is aggressive and more than covers. He reraises to 60K. Come to mama! I think a pro or reg thinks a 4 bet would be small to keep in worse hands. And i also believe with no statistical proof that a pro looks at me and think this guys plays scared so larger raises are protecting weaker ranges. I don't know if anyone else thinks this but i think this can be exploitable. (let me know in comments ur thoughts). I reraise to 195. He tanks for a few minutes. I am willing the call in my brain. I was totally wrong!
He jams with QQ and I stack him. At 865 high!

I have a birdseye view of kabriel. He is running between 2 tournies this time in the same room. He is currently playing online final table today also.

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I get moved to new table and was chip leader of old table. My sun run is going to end soon though. I don't think i had many interesting hands but was card dead for the next 3 or so hours. I did play AQ on button. SB had QQ and ran me out. I also hand 3rd pair against BB with TT on scary board. Whittling down. Blinds are now 15/30 and I have about 11 bigs. Finally get AQo and jam in middle possible Big Stack SB laughs and snaps with JJ. Classic flip i lose.

143 out of 5000. Cash for about 800.

On to Day 1 of the 800 Summer Celebration

P.S. - Brother update. My brother got the pleasure of playing the weekly 250 Seniors event. I think it had around 777 runners. He managed to bubble out at 117 place. Waah Waah.