LAPC $1 Million Guarantee- Day 1B

Posted on February 4, 2010 
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The LAPC had a very successful Day 1 start for their $1 million guarantee event with almost 1,300 players. At the end of Day 1A, there were 117 players that got paid, and 18 players advanced to Day 2. This was turning out to be an interesting tournament being that a player could play all four start days and make the money every day.

The beginning of Day 1B was fairly successful for me. I went from 3,000 in starting chips to 8,000 in just the first level. The first hand I played, I had called a raise after limping in middle position with 10 9 off suit. I check called the initial raiser all the way down with just a pair of tens with over’s, a flush, and a straight possibility on the board. After putting in 2/3 of his stack in, the initial raiser announced he had king high. Coupled with good cards and great reads I continued to take down some decent size pots. My play throughout the day was consistent and determined. However, I managed to make two mistakes that really put a dent in my upward momentum.

One mistake was early in the tournament. I noticed that there was a gentleman to my right who was very tight. If he called on the flop, it generally meant that he had a good hand and he would see it until the river. I raised preflop with two suited face cards and he called my raised after everyone else folded. I flopped a flush draw and a gut shot, and since there was an ace on the flop I fired a bet after he checked to me. I was hoping to use the ace as a scare card and take it down there, but he made the call. The turn saw similar action, and I pretty much put him all in on the river. He called showing a pair of aces with a nine kicker.

Although this might have been a good play against another player, I should have known that he was the one person on the table who wouldn’t be able to lay down top pair marginal kicker. I definitely should have slowed down after he called me on the flop knowing what kind of player he was. The point is: It can’t be a good play if you don’t take the type of player into account.

In the middle stages of the tournament, I ran into another sticky situation. I had just been moved to a new table and raised in middle position with Ah Kh. The big blind called. The flop came K 6 3 rainbow. The big blind checked, I bet, he min-raised me. Since I had just sat down at the table, I didn’t have much information on this guy. I called the raise. The turn brought a 9 to which the big blind immediately over pushed all in. It seemed like he was representing a set here. I had him covered, but if I made the call and was wrong it would cripple me. I decided to lay my hand down in hopes of finding a better spot against him. Sure enough, he showed me A Q for no pair.

As it turned out, I never got another shot to take his chips. It was also the best situation I had to gain a big chip stack, and I had let it slip through my fingers.
The tournament fizzled out from there. My cards went dry, and I wasn’t able to steal any pots. I ended up pushing all in over the top of a raise with QQ and got called by KQ off. He hit a gut shot straight on the turn to knock me out 40 places from the money.

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