Long ass 6 days of poker. I was able to finish 150th out of 8,809 in the WSOP (World Series of Poker) Millionaire maker. Pretty wild, 5 of 12 of us in the coaching group finished in the top 150 the other 4 were pro (coaches). Pretty wild result and testament to the studying. I am utterly exhausted. It’s been 12-14 hour days and there’s no chance I could play any more tournaments right now. I busted the 1k and marathon pretty quickly and entered a 1k in the Venetian which had a fantastic structure and though there was re-entry I think I made a few mistakes that was telling me I was fatigued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hand 1: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m CO, I open 56hh to 1600<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BB raises 4,100 so I call given size<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flop AA7h<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He bets 1\/4th pot. I call <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turn 8h<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He checks. I think to myself that he’s most likely missed and unlikely to have an ace given the sizings of his flop bet and he insta checks turn so I pot it (stupid) to fold out everything else in case I miss the million outs on the river. He jams…Ugh oh. Now I am forced to call w\/ those million outs… I miss (no 9 or 4 or heart). I also thought I had much higher equity in the pot but I didn’t and I should have checked back and folded a missed river. Too high variance in a weaker tournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I should have checked behind and c\/f on a miss. I forced myself into an all-in pot with a pot sized bet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hand 2: AA MP<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I raise and BB calls<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flop is 873 rainbow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Check, I bet pot, he min click raises back to me. I jam for the remaining 25bb. My initial gut was that I was beat and I could make an exploitative fold but then thought that was nuts on a 783 board with AA. I’d mandatory call the min-raise and probably a small bet on the turn and fold rivers if he triple barrels. I wouldn’t normally jam here and it was a rec player so a min raise back is probably pretty strong. I call one all day long here against anyone else but def not jamming. Instead, I think that I can get max value out of all pockets lower than mine and any pair of 8s and jam. I am obv wrong and I end up with 30% equity against 78 two pair and missed. Way to borderline a spot to get it in. I doubt rec player min-clicks back like that with anything worse. Maybe a small pair but I block A8. He has all sets and two pairs. Meh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not a whole lot going on with the trades. The run-up makes things boring (though tonight it seems like we’ve had a bit of a market fall). Might make for some STT opportunities tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am stuck right at about 24% and I don’t have a whole lot of opportunity for big increases until I can get on more trades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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