August 22-23
Start: $67.65A decent weekend. Started out strongly by winning nearly $5 at 2 PLO tables.
Big hand of the session which nearly won $3 on its own was:
I had AKTQ with 2 hearts in the SB... I just completed the BB and it was just me and him to the flop:
I bet .10 and got called.
I now had an absolute ton of outs to win the hand, any heart (9 more), and any Ace, King, Queen, or 9 (12 of those) would make the nut straight. I would probably lose on any blank.
I bet .15 and the BB raised it pot size, to .75. I called.
- River was the straight making King of diamonds.
I bet pot-size, which was 1.80 and was called. He mucked, but on later review showed his hand to be Q494 with 2 hearts. He was drawing to a worse flush and straight. He actually made his straight on the turn while I got mine on the river. Tough luck.
A sample hand I lost on would be one where I made trips on the flop, but lost to a hidden full house (player had a pocket pair of 6's on a board of 6JJ which I bet hard holding a Jack, but lost).
I then placed 5th in a top-3 get paid Triple Up Omaha tournament. But I did place 2nd in a $1 PLO SNG, which netted me 1.60 and got me over $71.
I then spent a very long time at 4 PLO tables (I vary between Hi/Lo and regular, 6-players and 9 quite a bit), gaining $1.72 and moving up to near $73.
After which I proceeded to bust out of a $1 Multi-Table tournament in 54th of 200+ where only 27 places paid.
And lost in 5th of a $1 NLHE SNG.
Then I took some beats at Omaha to push me back under the $70 mark by end of Saturday night.
Sunday, I pushed back over $75 briefly, thanks to this hand at a straight Omaha table.
I have $1.90 and am dealt A6TJ double suited in middle position. UTG raises, and we get 6(!) callers of 9 to the flop, so the pot is already at $1.02 when this comes:
That's my suited Ace. I am on a straight up flush draw with a backdoor straight draw to protect me if a 9 or King were to come.
UTG bets pot, $1.02. I move my remaining $1.45 in... 3 callers remain in the hand.
That's not me, but nothing I can do about it at this point. Action is checked around with already $6+ in the pot.
That makes my flush. UTG goes all-in, and gets one caller. They all show a flush, but worse ones, and I rake $6.48.
Sadly, I don't do great at much else, and head into 2 multi-table tournaments at $74.
C-Fan plays the $2 NLHE MTT with $500 guaranteed, and I start the one that is the same buy-in but for $1000 guaranteed about 90 minutes later.
I lost out in mine early when my AK lost vs. AQ as per usual.
In C-Fan's, she got QQ in middle position early, and raised to 70 (blinds are 10/20 at this point, with stack size of 3000). Got one caller out of position. Flop was 26T rainbow. Caller bet 130, C-Fan re-raised to 560. He called again. Turn was an Ace. He checked, and Andrea bet about half pot, 645. Caller goes all-in. C-Fan thinks for a moment, but decides to lay it down. Knocked her to about half her stack size... upon later review (after 1 day, you can review all hole cards from all players even if they don't show during the hand), he was playing 44. Basically bluffed us off half her money. At the time, I felt that if she was willing to bet 645 into the pot when a scare card came, she was willing to go all-in. Didn't work out.
C-Fan makes it through the break and early in the 2nd hour with blinds at 125/250, 25 ante she gets 66 UTG. She decides to flat call. Cutoff made it 800 to go, Dealer calls. C-Fan decides to go all in with her last 2800. They both call. Relief comes when the board brings a 6. She triples up off this to nearly 9k in chips.
A bit later, C-Fan completes the small blind with 88 facing 2 other players. Flop comes 84J... she tries the check raise, but no bets. Turn is another 4, giving her a full house. She goes for a min bet of 400 trying to get some callers. MP caller min-raises to 800. C-Fan raises back to 2000. MP goes all-in, C-Fan calls and sees A4o turned over. River is a meaningless Ace (gave MP a worse full house), and C-Fan is now threatening 20k chips.
Sadly, not much else happens. She folds a lot of rag cards and doesn't get anything to flop with her speculative hands or blinds. With only 7 players to the money, blinds at 500/1000 and her stack at 12k, she gets AJh. She calls and gets a raiser behind her who has a monster stack. She decides to go all-in against him. He insta-calls and turns over KK (literally the 3rd time in about 20 hands he has showed down KK). Board comes 95T8...T giving her a whiff and putting her out in 61st place out of just over 200 players. While she probably could've limped to the money (which was about $4 for the lowest tier), she decided to keep playing her game and it popped her bubble.
With the 2 MTT tourney whiffs, that brought my roll back down below $70.
Finish: $69.61
(+10.26 in ring games, -8.30 in tournaments)(with one near miss)