For my second sponsored tournament for Black belt Poker I decided to enter the Mini ECOOP VI #3 No Limit Hold' em freeze out with $175'000 Guaranteed prize pool and $50+5 buy in
In my first sponsored event I didn't do great partly due to my over aggression, but was good fun and did go quite deep, but hope to better that this time round.
Starting at a reasonable 8pm on Sunday it promises to be an interesting game, especially as it starts with 1730 players, has 5000 starting stack and 20 minute blind levels.....and top 200 get paid!
Start steady, have a few goes at the pot but don't get too heavily involved, so at the end of the first level, I am around 5120 chips with 5209 average and 619th out of 1644 players remaining
L2 got a bit over aggro in the SB v's BB but luckily he folded to my turn bet after calling preflop and flop Also raised 99 and got called by two tight players, and faced a nervy wait after they both checked to me on 7 high flop but was happy enough when they both folded.
End L2 : 6030/5300 311/1616
Thought about making a move with K5s but decided not to.... Flop came K85, turn was 5 and river a 2... AQ beat AJ in this hand !! Oh well... never mind
Get AA and raise, get called by loose/aggro player to my left. Bet 3/4 pot on KT2 all diamonds flop (I have Ad) and get called, bet out on T turn and get re-raised, then check/call 2 river... of course he had ATo.... ho hum, should have thought on the turn he had hit something... but it's tricky to lay down AA
Left with 1605 and blinds about to go to 100/50 so when get dealt 44 on BB on the last hand before the break and see a late position raise and button call, decide to shove... hoping to get lucky on a coin flip. As it turned out, both callers folded so end up in not great shape, but at least with a fighting chance, albeit with the blinds now going up next hand
L3: 1985/5732 1470/1494
I'm really looking for a good spot to double up asap. Although have got 20 BB it's only 20 minutes before the blinds go up to 150/75 and need to get some chips to play with....
What do you know... first hand at the new level get 44 again... and UTG just raised. Lump all-in and get called but he has 88 and hits 984 flop ! That's the way it goes I guess
Finished 1471st place so a very poor show, but at least I can get a decent nights sleep as it's only just gone 9pm
3 comments:
Hi Mike, sounds like we had a similar run, I got to 899th. It is frustrating when you see so many bad players scoop up pot after pot ;-) as you say there is always next Sunday's mini ecoop main event, see you there.
UL Mike
I was wondering if as part of the backing process do you get your hand histories analysed?
Good luck in the next one.
Hello Anon,
No, you don't get your hands analysed as part of the backing process... however BBP forums have a "Hands" section where you can post individual hands (from any game) where your peers will comment. it is very active and lots of very good players will respond so is a useful tool for those hands where you feel you may not have played optimally
Thanks for the good wishes :-)
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