Sunday, May 20, 2012

Poker: SCOOP event #40 NL Hold’em (Main Event)–low

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My final SCOOP game of the season is the big one… the Main Event !

With the direct buy-in at $109, I was always planning to only play if I could satellite in… however it was not in my planning to play a 6 seat hyper-turbo STT !   It was a bit of a impulsive decision, as happened to see it when I was generally looking, but anyway decided to give it a spin.  To my surprise and delight, 4 minutes later  I had secured my seat for only $37.50 Smile   Was a complete luck-box really, but that’s the nature of hyper turbo format, and why I don't normally play them!   I’m not complaining and will take any luck I can get

Onto the main event itself.  We play 40 levels Sunday night, then the survivors reconvene on Monday evening to contest for the big prizes.

We start with 15’000 chips and 15 minute levels, so hope to get through at least the three hour late registration.   If I get to the end of level 40, it will be around 5:30am… hmmmm, hoping I will get there of course, but may be tricky to do any work afterwards!!

At the start there are 13’000 entrants and 1710 places paid… something to aim for Smile

End of level
Blinds
Stack / Average Position / Remaining Notes
L1: 25/50 15785 / 15220 3400 / 15335  
L2: 30/60 17040 / 15393 2868 / 17082  
L3: 40/80 17385 / 15700 3872 / 17444 Had huge str8/flush draw on flop, but missed, else would’ve been huge
L4: 50/100 16362 / 16156 6512 / 17650  
L5: 60/120 (15) 19092 / 16811 4753 / 17454 Float flop then hit turn, to take decent pot
L6: 75/150 (20) 17947 / 17526 6427 / 17482  
L7: 100/200 (25) 23397 / 18590 4080 / 16890  
L8: 125/250 (30) 24147 / 19894 4285 / 16061  
L9: 150/300 (40) 30104 / 21632 3063 / 15113  
L10: 200/400 (50) 15094 / 23853 9407 / 13912 my KK  vs AA & QQ on T94 flop when all money went in
L11:  250/500 (60) 24636 / 27262 5672 / 12178 T-T hit top trips
L12: 300/600 (70) 24745 / 30916 5807 / 10741 Moved table.
L13 :350/700 (85) 24615 / 35724 5754 / 9303  
L14: 400/800 (100) 25515 / 41079 5274 / 8084  
L15: 500/1000 (125) 26127 / 47772 5098 / 6953  
L16: 600/1200(150) 39087 / 55570 3621/5979 String of nice hands.  Raise AK pre and take pot.  3 bet AQ pre and take reasonable pot. 3 bet 9-9 on SB & took uncontested
L17: 700/1400 (175) 35237 / 64338 3767/5160 3 bet AK SB  Hit A on flop and donk shoved pot size bet  (villain folded)  
Raise & get called by table chip lead.  Miss flop so c/f
L18: 800/1600 (200) 43011 / 74172 3063/4476 Raised AA from mid position….. everyone folded… ho hum    Exploited to get good pot without showdown Smile
L19: 1k/2k(250) 39561/ 85348 3030 / 3891 Moved table, twice !   Raised 33 from late and bet Axx board.. got it through, phew !
L20: 1250/2500(325) 64838/96882 2056/3429 15 BB now, so shove/fold mode Sad smile  Short stack shoves AJ, I call AQ.  Get moved again!
Dealt ATo, raise gets called.  A on flop so take with bet
L21: 1.5k/3k(375) 0   Bubble rapidly approaching, tightening up to try and make money.

Dealt QQ early and got re-raised.   Sat and thought, player count got down to 3153 whilst I let my timer tick down and I was nearly folding, but under pressure decided to 4 bet all-in.  Of course villain has A-A so insta-calls and hits Full House on flop…. dammit !!

Ended up 3’141 out of 22’128 entrants and got $154.89 for my trouble…. but thought I’d completely buggered it up…. I really should’ve folded !!

Really pleased and relieved I min cashed, as was really telling myself off for being so stupid to not fold and just be sure to get the min-cash for my nights work.    It worked out OK in the end as it happens, and was probably my first major mistake of the night, but even so I should’ve known better.

Financials

Played 1 satellite for the Low level at $37.50

Winnings $154.89

Total profit /loss for event = +$117.39

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