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Superbowl wrap up.

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Every year the game suprises you.

SUPERBOWL

Despite all the hype you may hear and some of the cheesy ways they try to build it up, there is no doubt that Ace’s poker tournament really is the sporting event of the year.

The game starts early.

It’s 10 am and most of the players are there already, in the house is Ace, Woody, Nice Guy Eddie,  Chef, Alejandro and in walks J6 and the Rapper.

Alejandro comments that the only way to get a semi-tight game in against the Rapper is to start it early enough in the day to ensure that the Rapper hasn’t already started in on the coctails. The Rapper quips back that it would be a good strategy if he had actually gone to sleep last night and wasn’t still on a roll from the night before.

Cards are drawn to decide seats and the players each take their briefcase of cash to the teller to get their chips.

Ace has set up the place perfectly again this year, he even has those little tables behind the seats so you can put your drinks on them.

Gentlemen, shuffle up and deal!

The game is on. Blinds are $25/$50 and the tourney pays the top three only.

The game starts out quite tight. There is a little splashing around here and there, but for the most part a raise will take down the blinds most times. The golf pro shows up a bit late, but still manages to beat the the Mouth to the game who finally shows up, late as usual and immediately starts complaining about the valet parking, security at the door, his appearance fee, his seat, the blind structure and of course tries to lean the buyin.

The game slowly starts to gain some momemtum though.

Players settle into their seats and start making moves, out of the box the Rapper continues his ways from the last home game and reraises weakness mercilessly.

Ace is the first out.

Slowly Nice Guy Eddie, Alejandro, and the Golf Pro fall by the wayside also and the cash game gets started in the high roller room.

Meanwhile the bubble is approaching and the players can start smelling mountains of cash that is the prize money, or is that Ace’s chicken wings?

Dinner break for some delicious wings and salad. Nice Guy Eddie tries to break Joey Chestnuts world record for chicken wings and falls just shy, most likely due to the two super size big mac meals he had on the way over.

After the dinner break the final five aggree to put the game on pause for a couple so they can hit the washroom, grab some nicotine and assorted other duties.

Woody writes a page for himself in history beside the infamous Poker Dave shower and backs up the toilet on the break.

After much mocking the player’s settle back in and get the game underway again.

The players have shuffled around a bit and again the Mouth finds himself out of position against the Rapper who is on the Button and raises the Mouth’s blind. Not a great place for the Mouth to be as his stack is a little below average.

Call.

Out comes a 6 high flop and the Mouth shoves the rest of his stack in the middle and gets called by the Rapper who shows top pair, top kicker and fades the other two cards to take down the Mouth and make it 4 handed.

The player fold it around for a bit, raise, fold, raise, fold, Chef seems to be catching cards now and is slowly making dents in the stack of J6 who ends up pushing from the small blind and getting a reluctant call from Woody who tables KQ and hits a K to take down the A6 of J6 and send him to the rail as the bubble boy.

The final 3 agree to chop the winning and get the cash game going in earnest as it seems that Nice Guy Eddie is already on tilt and things are getting juicy already.

piles-of-cash

Not much in terms of play in the opening hands except that Nice Guy Eddie continues to try and bluff his way through the Rapper and loses most of his stack getting his value bet/bluff called on the river.

Hand of the night is easily the 4 way all in between Golf Pro, Chef, Alejandro and the Mouth. AQ vs KK vs AQ vs 33.

Mouth says he is due to hit his set and sure enough does on the river, only the flopped nut flush from the Golf Pro has already sealed the hand for him.

I’d like to talk more about the game but had to go cover some other football game that was playing that night and to take off shortly after that.

Another great day at Ace’s tournament though, a big thanks to Ace and Mrs. Ace for their hospitality and hard work in putting together such a great day as always!

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It’s been awhile

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Like the song goes…it’s been awhile.

The boys have been playing still, maybe not as regular as before, but certainly a lot more regular than me.

It’s been even longer since I’ve done any writing though.

Why?

Not sure. Haven’t been inspired I guess. I’m sure not playing has a ton to do with it.

Been working a lot of nights and too many of them have been on game night, and well I’ve had to prioritize a bunch of trips instead of playing too, but I don’t regret those at all.

All that being said I’m back.

Happened to have the night off and after a 3 hour session of rolling Jiu Jitsu I was up for a fight of another kind.

Pulled up to the dock and walked the gang plank onto the Captain’s ship, was suprised to see only Woody in attendance so far with the Captain already there in the familiar seat with chips all ready to go.

In walks the Rapper, Alejandro, Ace and to everyone surprise English Bob and JT.

English Bob comes in with a keg of vodka and proceeds to pour a nice breakfast cocktail for himself and JT, the Rapper passes as he is still finishing off a monster glass of vodka and rockstar still.

The game is hectic to say the least, it starts off fairly mild mannered and tight with standard raises and re raises, a little big of chasing here and there, but it seems the game is in fact being played on a very slippery slope and that slope is lubricated by vodka.

I’d like to say that I can recall all the great hands, but I was one of the people who was on the vodka train that night and can’t seem to remember much more than the Rapper getting the best of Alejandro a few times, first with AK vs. KQ on a K high flop, next with AJ on an AJXQJ flush slop, and another time much later in the night with the Rapper on tilt after Woody hits a three outer against him on an all in hand an the Rapper cracks Alejandro’s Aces when he flops an open ended straight draw and shoves over Alejandro’s raise and manages to hit his card.

All in all a really fun night with lots of laughs and stacks and stacks of chips moving around the table. Pretty sure that Ace was the big winner for the night and English Bob left a bit lighter than he arrived.

Good times. Good times.

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Red Bull gives you wings

Friday, October 16th, 2009
Bring on the sexy stews!

Bring on the sexy stews!

I bet you were expecting a picture of a can of Red Bull or something.

Suck it biatches!

I have lately become a fairly big fan of this delightful beverage, mostly due to working very late into the night, pulling double shifts and having to go 10+ hours without eating anything of substance. You can only drink so much coffee and well, the taste of it kinda grows on you after a while.

It certainly doesn’t hurt that it goes well with vodka, and as the delightful young lady who was buying me beverages the other night made me aware, can even mix with Champagne.

I know, I know,  mixing Champagne with Red Bull is probably a mortal sin, but it wasn’t vintage champagne, and well, she was buying them for me so it would be rude of me not to drink them.

What the hell are you talking about bro?

Nothing, other than I started the night with a couple Red Bulls and I think they are a good poker drink.

On with the show this is it!

The game is at the Captains despite the later start and earlier curfew we seem to be getting into.

The Rapper, J6, Captain, Woody, Alejando and Nice Guy Eddie get it started.

Ace is off on the European tour, Ontario is coming late and the Mouth still has problems sitting after the last couple prison rapes he has suffered at the table.

Props in play for suits.

Alejandro jams up the game early by bluffing the Captain out of a hand and showing the 72 to get things started. That pretty much put him on tilt for the rest of the night I think.

Hands and stacks go back and forth, up and down with the exception of J6 who can’t seem to ever have a hand hold up and gets sucked out on hand after hand after hand until finally he says “no mas” and hits the road.

That’s pretty much when Ontario arrives to take his place and then the game gets going.

“Props?” says the Rapper?

“Sure” replies Ontario

Ontario picks up the suit from J6 and adds Red/Black, over under paired flops and double and triple on combos.

This alone ships almost a full buyin at least back and forth between the Rapper and Ontario and gives two action junkies something to keep the game fresh.

It’s late in the game when the real prop comes in though.

The players throw on the Seven Deuce Bounty for the last half hour

Big stacks Woody and Nice Guy Eddie get into it with a big raise from Woody in position.

K74 comes the flop. Bet from Eddie and a call from Woody.

T on the turn. Nice Guy Eddie pushes all in and gets called from Woody.

Nice Guy Eddie turns over KQ for a massive lead and Woody says “you win you win I just have 72, I thought you were bluffing”

That would have been good had the 2 not hit on the river.

BOOM! HEADSHOT!

Nice Guy Eddie is felted, Woody is chipped up and everyone throws up a little in their mouth.

Nice hand.

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Pokertionary: Poker hand nicknames

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Well I guess I shouldn’t assume that everyone knows all the terms that are used here so I will try and update this as much as I can in the FAQs section and keep it somewhat easy to read.

I’ll use Hold’em starting hands as the go to on this, if you don’t know, you get dealt two cards to start with in Texas Hold’em also known as your “hole cards” and a lot of these hands have nicknames.

AA-Aces, Bullets, American Airlines, Pocket Rockets

KK-Cowboys, King Kong

QQ- Ladies, Siegfried & Roy, Hilton Sisters

JJ-Fish Hooks, Hooks, Jays

TT-Bo Derek

99-Gretzky, The Great One

88- Snowmen, Eric Lindros

77-Sunset Strip, Hockey Sticks, Walking sticks

66-Mario Lemieux, Route 66, Lesser Evil, Almost Evil

55-Presto, Speed Limit, Sammy Haggar

44-Magnum

33-Crabs

22-Ducks, The Double Deuce, The Dalton

AK-Big Slick, Anna Kourikova

AQ-Big Chick

AJ-Ajax

Q3-Gay Waiter (Queen with a trey)

J6-The Foran

J5- Jackson Five

69- Big Lick

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Home Game: Chips move to the left

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

There is a theory in poker that barring some unusual hands, chips move to the left, which is why you want to take a seat to the left of the big stack at the casino.

Theory meets reality on Thursday night.

The game is kind of impromptu, the boys all played on Wednesday night anyways but we got another game together on Thursday and we sat around in the cold November rain with nothing else to do. Its a small game, Woody, J6, Rapper and the Mouth all make it and it starts off fast. J6 sits in position 1, the Rapper in 2, Woody in 3 and the Mouth in 4.

No raise and it is just the two blinds in the hand, the flop is a rag tag of nothingness, T86, small bet from J6 and a call from the Rapper. Turn is a 2 and goes check, check. River is a 3, cue fireworks. J6 leads at the pot with a smallish bet and gets popped by the Rapper, J6 re pops the bet and the Rapper moves it in the middle after about a minute or so. J6 goes in the tank.

“do you have 7-9?”

“did you play 7-9?”

“i can’t believe you played 7-9?

“i think i might be good here”

“do you have 7-9?”

“i hope you don’t have 7-9?

“i call”

The Rapper turns over 45 for the rivered straight and J6 turns over pocket threes for a set on the river. Any other card than the 3 on the river and it probably goes check, check and J6 takes down the pot. Tough break and the Rapper doubles up.

Hands go back and forth for a while with some traction. J6 starts to get a little aggressive and leads at pots with big bets, sometimes winning and sometimes losing. J6 starts to get a little lower in chips and pushes, Rapper lays the hand down not sure if he is playing AK or a pair, dominated by AK he lays down his AQ. J6 runs into it again later and gets all his chips in the middle, the Rapper calls him this time and J6 turns over pocket Tens, an Ace comes out on the flop and J6 can’t catch up. Another buy in for J6 and the Rapper is now playing with a nice stack.

A nice raise from J6 on the button gets called from the Rapper in small blind and Woody in big, the Rapper checks in the dark and the flop is AA4. Woody leads at the pot and J6 raises 4x, the Rapper pushes and J6 goes into the tank again.

“do you have an ace?”

“i don’t think you have an ace?”

“why did you push?”

“call”

The Rapper turns over AT and takes down the pot, J6 never shows his hand but we are assuming he had a medium pair.

A quick walk around the house for a while and J6 reloads.

Woody quietly builds his stack taking down pots with Quads, straight flushes, and pocket Aces twice. Later he gets hooked up with the Rapper on a huge hand. Raise from the Rapper on the button gets calls and a family pot. Flop comes down AQ9 all Hearts. Checked around to the Rapper who fires at then gets 6X check raised by Woody. The Rapper thinks for a while and pushes over the top, Woody thinks for a bit and calls with 48 of Hearts for the flopped Flush, the Rapper turns over A9 for two pair and needs help, which he doesn’t get, a huge pot moves to the left to Woody on a bad push by the Rapper who could have gotten away from that pretty unscathed, two pair is not a good hand.

The rest of the night is back and forth until Woody tries to bluff a big pot on the Mouth with a large river raise. The Mouth makes the call with a middle two pair and picks off Woody’s bluff. Chips move to the left where they stay for the rest of the night and the Mouth goes home before the chips can make the full rotation back to J6.

Mouth is up, Woody is flush and the Rapper wins the showdown to make a couple on the end, J6 continues his slide, opening day at the restaurant can’t come fast enough for J6.

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Don’t go broke in an unraised pot

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Never go broke in an unraised pot-Doyle Brunson

Don’t go broke preflop with a Queen in your hand.

The wisdom is abound on this.

 With the exception to High Stakes Poker aka. “the best damn poker show period”, most of the poker games you see on TV is tournament poker, and most of that is only late in the tournament if not just the final table.

Since many of the rookies playing poker learned it by watching TV, it is no surprise that they tend to take that game play and strategy with them from the TV to the poker table. 

I’ve already talked about people overplaying AK, but the other thing that needs to be discussed is the “cash game overbet push” or CGOBP.

There are all kinds of odds to calculate when you are playing poker, pot odds, implied odds, odds of hitting your draw, odds that your opponent has a better hand than you, but many tournament players forget to check the odds they are betting when they push in a cash game, especially in deep stack poker.

When you are in a tournament the blinds increase, so the longer you play, the more expensive the game gets. And since you can’t buy chips and you have to pay at least a blind and a half every 9 or so hands assuming a full table, you need to win some of those back just to stay even. Tournament poker is “sink or swim”, you can only tread water for so long.

BUT

In cash game poker you can rebuy. If you get blinded away with 62 all night long, you can either gamble with it, try and steal the odd pot, or just rebuy and wait out the cards. Patience is a part of poker. A big part.

I’ll give an example of the cash game overbet push

$1/$2 cash game with reasonably deep stacks, lets say $600 each

Player 1 raises UTG with QQ to $10, a fairly standard raise for this game, but from first position, most players give respect to this being a first or second level hand. It’s folded around to the Cutoff who makes it $24 to go, the Button, Small and Big blind both fold. Player one moves all his chips into the middle, AKs is a great hand right?

Sure it is, but lets examine the odds here.

The raise was to $24, there was $13 in the pot before the raise, total in the pot was $37 before the all in push.

So Player 1 just bet $590 to win $37, true if he gets a call and wins he is betting $590 to win $603, but that is a secondary point.

The point is that he has bet $590 to win $37

$590/$37= almost 16:1

Are there any poker hands where you have a 16:1 advantage preflop?

The answer is no

Even AA vs AK which is about as good as it gets in a preflop match up is only 9:1

The best hand preflop AA vs. the worst had preflop 72 with the suits covered is still only 9:1

AA vs KK which is a huge match up is only 4:1, same as QQ, JJ, TT you get the picture.

What does this mean?

It means if you bet like this, even if you do it with AA only, and you can’t win every time you are supposed to, and you can’t get the other player to lay down and extra 8+ times, you are going to go broke in the long run.

Happy betting.

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Bankroll Update: Tourney success

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Been a very busy beaver lately, not so much with poker but more so with life and work and such.

Summer time is here so I have been getting the yard work done after the snow finally melted and that takes a lot of time.

Have another job so now I’m working about 12-16 hours a day at least. Oh well, times are tough and you have to do what you can do. I think I need to be glad I have something to keep my mind busy and it’s nice to be busy with something new, keeps life interesting.

My bankroll was getting up there for a while and I’m not sure if I got lax and stopped playing well or the bad beats just took their toll but I slipped back down to the point where I would have had to start re-thinking my buyin level on a number of tournaments.

I decided to just shore up my game and go with a higher price 1 table SNG and those seem to be my strongest game. Top 3 player’s get paid in this one, 1st and 2nd tie for a 4 buying payout and 3rd gets their buyin back basically. I ended up winning and that was a boost of confidence.

Then I took down 6th in a 90 person multi table event to add a few more dollars to the account, came in on the short stack again though which I need to work on not doing so I stand a better chance of winning but a cash is a cash and my all in to get knocked out got rivered by the chip leader so no big deal.

I entered another one of the same events than this time took down 2nd place for a pretty decent payout, the knock out bonuses alone I got in this tournament were double my entry fee and I would have loved to take down first but quite honestly played bad when it got to three way as I had a slight chip lead and the other was a really low stack and instead of working on taking him out I played to passively and then got chipped down on one questionable laydown. Oh well something to work on and my biggest tournament cash to date so a step in the right direction. I came to the final table 3rd in chips in this tournament which was a real change of pace for myself and made a few plays that I don’t normally do. Also had hands like AA and KK hold up much more often than they usually do which did make the later stages a lot easier than normal.

Bankroll is almost 100 times the starting point after the freeroll win and looking to keep it moving upwards.

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Poker Food: What to eat when you are playing cards

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Seeing as how a poker game can often go for hours and hours on end, tournaments especially of the WSOP and WPT variety are often played down to a certain amount of players before there is a break, it would seem logical to want to reload on some energy during the game.

The Home Game started off really strong, everyone would bring something to eat and we would set up a buffet of sorts on a side table from which the players could get up between hands or after they were knocked out of a tourney and get a plate or two to keep them going.

Somehow this slowly chipped away likes Alejandro’s stack after 10:00 until we were down to a bag or two of microwave popcorn or the Costco size bag of chips that Ontario seems to have and endless supply of.

Now we still throw together the odd shindig, of note was the Super Bowl game at Chateau Ace, the Steak night at Club J6, the Spring rolls made by English Bob, or the Pizza nights at Poker Dave’s. The Captain always the gracious host is often supplementing the game with a nice bottle of Single Malt and some nuts that are go well with the beers.

What is the perfect poker food?

Supposedly the Sandwich and Sushi were both invented so that gamblers would not have to stop their game in order to grab some nosh.

Sandwich

It was named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English aristocrat, although he was neither the inventor nor sustainerof the food. It is said that Lord Sandwich was fond of this form of food because it allowed him to continue playing cards, particularly cribbage, while eating without getting his cards greasy from eating meat with his bare hands.

Makes sense, the variety of ingredients you could use are almost limitless and they are fairly easy to make, although my favourite the Clubhouse is not exactly the most game friendly sandwich around.

Personally I’m a big fan of Sushi you can easily eat almost any type with one hand during the game with little effect on your play. Not nearly as easy to make as a sandwich, but fortunately there are lots of great places for takeout in my area.

Those would seem to be the real two front runners of the game, though you see Poker Pros eating all kinds of food at the table, I guess because they have a waiters to bring them anything they need and those cool little tables to put their food on too. As long as you aren’t getting the chips and or the cards all greasy I guess anything is good. Just don’t be like that bitch Tiffany Michelle and eat french fries with your fingers after getting your hands on chips that have probably been touched by 8,000 people and being too much of a know it all to realize you should use a fork after someone mentions it.

Jamie Gold was often seen eating fresh blueberries at the Main Event and I think Daniel Negreanu’s mom makes him his food, is he a vegan? I can’t remember.

The brain apparently functions better if it has the proper amount of protein so keep that in mind with meal planning, I personally find caffeine to heighten my senses, but too much will make some people fidgety which would be problematic for a long game.

Anyways, all the food talk is making me hungry, I’m going home for dinner

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Poker and Cigars.

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Like apple pie and ice cream, steak and potatoes, Bordeaux and stinky cheese, Cigars and Poker go hand in hand.

In fact, I’m not sure one would exist without the other. Oh sure, there is always golf, but is there any other activity in the world that has you sitting around for hours and hours on end without getting bored? In the careful hands of a well seasoned poker player the cigar may even enhance ones play. A careful puff here or there, a thoughtful roll or the cigar between the lips, a chomp, a flick of the ash, these could all help a player who knew their opponent was looking for information.

Being from the True North Strong and Free, rather than the Home of the Brave, I get to enjoy the good stuff. Oh sure there are people that will tell you that you can get just as good a cigar from Nicaragua or Jamaica or some other place, but do you know who those people are? Americans. People that know and are not denied one of life’s great pleasures by the most unnecessary grudges the civilized world has seen know that the Cuban cigar is as good as it gets. It’s the the one all are measured against, and the one that they will forever be compared with. Like Wine from France, Whiskey from Scotland and Blondes from Sweden, some places just have the right growing conditions to make perfection seem easy.

I can’t really say I have a favourite because each cigar has it’s own personality of sorts, while I find the Romeo y Julieta Cedros Deluxe No. 1 to be a great all around cigar, one that is easily on par with the Coronas Especiales as my favourite day to day smoke, if my lungs could handle them all the time, and I had the income to afford them, then nothing would touch my lips other than Romeo y Julieta Churchill, and Cohiba Lanceros and Esplendidos. Sad to say that in this day of healthy living and quasi political correctness there is naught a single place that I can enjoy one of these bad boys indoors anymore. Seeing as I live in a ski resort, the winters are rough and long, the only cigars I seem to enjoy for everything but our two weeks of summer seem to be around the fire pit rather than sitting over a nice game of cards with a scotch taking all my friends money.

Which segues into my next train of thought, what is the perfect drink to go with a cigar and a poker game?

 Scotch is my preferred drink to go with a cigar, a nice single malt, usually a highland, Speyside to be specific, but I like to be flexible and sitting around drinking scotch all night doesn’t usually do much for my card playing. A nice Guinness or two is always nice, and I can last a lot longer drinking Guinness than I can scotch. If we start early in the day, the drink of choice has to be an espresso, if you don’t drink a good coffee with your cigar this is a must try, I got onto it from watching all the cigar tasters and they all drink coffee when smoking, it enhances the flavour of the cigar to say the least.

Back in the day we could sit in the cigar room and play all night drinking Guinness with a side of single malt till the wee hours of the morning.

The good old days. *sigh*

Anyways, if anyone needs to pick up some sticks, this goes for you ‘mericans too, just drop my buddy Rob a line here, http://www.cigarsofcuba.com/ here is sure to get them to you, no problems shipping them down to the US of A even. Quality stuff. No, I don’t get anything for the plug.

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Grinding gears

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Sometimes you just can’t seem to find the gear and get it into reverse instead of first.

No matter how hard you try and wiggle it in there, the clutch pushed right to the floor it just isn’t working.

I’ve really been mixing up the game lately.

Tried the 300 chip super knockout tournament. You want to work on you final table skills and what it takes to push a hand? Well this is the place to do it. You start with just 300 chips and blinds are already at 15/30. It’s almost guaranteed that there is going to be someone going all in pretty much the first 20 hands or so. Anyways I get knocked out early in a couple of these, AA vs 77, KK vs AK, QQ vs 88 but I can’t really blame people in this one because you are so short to start you really have to just close your eyes and hit the all in button. There is very little time to ever see a flop and just picking your spot is very important.

Playing in a couple different shootouts tournaments, both the 36 and 81 person version. These tournaments start with a 6 tables of 6 players or 9 tables of nine and play down to one winner on each table, last man standing so to speak. The tables then reload and play down again to a final winner. My first shot at one of these I came in second on the first table not quite understanding the format and that it was going to restart after. The second time I got to 2nd on the final table. I played a couple of these today and got knocked out very early in all of them with a continuation of bad beats AA vs 77, KK vs AT, AA vs 55, KK vs JJ and KK vs AA vs QQ, okay that one wasn’t bad beat so much as a cooler.

I finally manged to work my way through the first table with some patient play and good hands holding up, playing much of a trapping style than going out and getting the chips. It seems to work well and once we get to heads up I have a slight chip advantage and then really run over my opponent. He didn’t seem to play very well heads up and I took pot after pot from him with a button raise and a c-bet on almost any flop. I guess my tight image worked for me. Finally got him to bluff off all his chips into me when I flopped trips and he was on a pair draw.

The final table was crazy aggressive right off the hop and I tried to just stay out of the way for the most part. I had to make a pretty big lay down which was about half of my stack on a hand I was 90% was a bluff, but as long as you are alive you can win so I made it and went to work getting them back. Wasn’t too long when 77 goes all in ahead of me and I smooth call with AA, get a big stack to  go over the top and re raise me with 78 and I take down a big pot, knock one guy out and get chipped up. I let the other guys fight it out as they seem have a pretty aggressive strategy and get heads up with a 2-1 chip disadvantage. It isn’t too long though before I work that back to even when he bluffs into me all in with Q8 and I call him with KK andget a slight chip advantage. He had a habit of using the all in button a lot which worked when he had the big stack, but I was hoping he would continue the trend with the smaller stack and sure enough he did. Very often he would go all in whenever I limped on the button so when I got AQ I decided to try to work some magic. I limped in and sure enough he shipped it in the middle and I snapped called. He turns over A3 and can’t hit his three and I take it down. FINALLY! Now A3 is a pretty good hand heads up but his all bet represented about 40 times the big blind. A bit overkill in a limped pot. I think it is Doyle that said “don’t go broke in an unraised pot.”

Very big win for me and between the two of them the bankroll zips back up. I’m only a couple more victories from being able to take shots at the next level and now have 3 extra tournaments I have won entries into with my satellite victories. Tomorrow will be a rest day though as I have a huge day with work so I will have to get back on the horse on Wednesday.

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