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Honeybadg:
... certainly not a lot of run good today ...
The draw was fine - but mixed running into massive hands with missing every draw ... one bluff caught ... so then a hell of a battle back to 25k before the following momentum killing hand ...
Early raiser - I call with KTo flop KTx - he bets I call - turn is a blank - he bets I call ... the whole hand is screaming AK ... river A ... he value bets 3.5k into about 10k ... I tank it ... AQ/AJ are about the only hands I beat (and they are remote) but I pay him off ... he flips the obvious AK ... I still had about 30BB at this stage ...
Got back into shape ... then ... Raise with T9s frop 976 ... I bet out ... min raised ... turn is a 7 ... I check ... value sized bet from super tight player ... I am out of here ... he says he had 66 ... who knows?
Then the epic death by a 1000 cuts card dead for 2 hours ... before a brief recovery AT vs KQ ... weird call ... however a short lived recovery as I re-shoved A9 vs the super active type who flipped AK ... no help ...
A battle lost - the KT hand - 93% at the turn - spew.
Weird to play at Wembley - yesterday super hot in the tents - today absolutely freezing - I lasted long enough to miss the APAT event and £250 Turbo - great structure - would have been better in the conference centre - with the ability to walk on the pitch??
It will be interesting to see how many the side events get ... let"s see what is in my mind tomorrow! Poker - maybe in my armchair??
L
Honeybadg:
Decided not to venture back to Wembley today ...
Sunday Warm Up ... KQs makes the flush vs ATs ... spew ...
Focused quickly shifted to the $109 re-buy ... hand 2 TT vs AK for a double stack holds ... a surprise perhaps ...
A fairly merry progress to the money 99 paid from 879 ... then a series of marginal folds ... twice with 88 to shoves ...
Also a super weird hand ... with a raise, re-raise and all in in front of me holding JJ ... what to do ... I have called these and been crushed ... and called them and been in value added races and lost ... perhaps I was due one??
Exit hand the frustrating 6 handed ... AJ vs AQ ... had AK and AQ shoves through unchallenged ... standard exit for a frustrating 11th of 879 - for $3,060 ... $52k up top ... was needing a double to be competitive so the early folds slightly annoying in a way ... would have happily shoved them all ... but harder ... and less optimal to call them down.
Last three tables impressively aggro ... with the third all in raiser in my JJ fold hand seemingly tight ... but you "always" do the wrong thing with JJ!
I am definitely shoving the first two raises and taking my chances ...
Next up?
Honeybadg:
... next up ... I play some deepstack cash ...
Two hands to ponder ..
42o into 2264x vs 44 ... OMG ...
AT into AxKx9 vs K9 ...
The play inbetween was not amazing - I could have extracted some further value at times - but I might have just lost more to the hands above!
I think I will fall asleep until the WSOP Mega Sat on Sunday - 7pm ...
Honeybadg:
More horror cash yesterday with 666 vs 999, AA vs QQ aipf smashed, JJ vs QQ as overpairs, flopped two pairs vs turned straight ... coupled up with opponents always having the goods!
Played some good heads up ... but all profit killed by AK into KK followed by top pair into AA ...
Only tournment played had a KQ in to Kxx vs KJ for the chip lead by lost - they had the straight draw too but obviously calling when behind ... bet before me ... I min raise ... anyway I am still ahead of average but card head until AQ vs AK vs AK ... no help ...
Think I might skip the cards and watch (and bet on) the golf ...
Hunter Mahan - just a little over 7/1 - seems good enough ...
L
Honeybadg:
Rain rain everywhere ... Cilic must be a value bet at 4/1 to beat Murray ...
Cilic is the holder (albeit opponent defaulted the final last year) - conditions are wet - Murray not looking very up for it.
Close battle - coin flip at 4/1??
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