Went Saturday night over to Benny's (charity poker room) again, and got in their Saturday Rebuy/add-on tourney. Structure is as such - $10 gets you 3K in chips, $20 gets you 8K. Same values on the rebuys. At end of first hour (4 15-minute blinds), for $15 you can add-on for 15K in chips (up to 3 add-ons) - I don't think there were too many people who did more than one add-on, from what I could see.
40 of us started out, paid 5 due to chop agreement at final table. Just kind of plodded along the first hour, won a couple of small pots, stole a couple of blinds, and had about 10K at end of first hour. Bought my 15K in chips at add-on, and finally decided to 'go to work'. Took down the next 2 hands (500/1000) with blind steals, then knocked out a short-stack with a nice BB special when 10-7 flopped trip 10s, then see short-stack bluff off all her chips with A-2.
Shortly after this, I have a Hellmuthian blowup at some punk kid sitting across from me...all because the moron would not listen to either the dealer or me (or anyone else at the table) asking him to not speculate on hands while he is not in them. After asking him 3 times prior to this not to do that, idiot was again talking in the middle of a hand I was in...when hand was folded and I raking in chips, I pointed at the idiot and told him, "Will you shut the fukk up already?", and then got into a verbal spat with him that lasted over a minute. Moron Boy then has the nerve to call the tournament director and complain about my profantiy (lol) - until the entire table brings up his speculating and stalling...no penalties were forthcoming.
Lost about 40% of chips next couple of hands - gotta know when to laydown top pair, after all - then Moron Boy donates his chips to me after I flop a set of 7's and he bluffs off his chips with 3-3 and no draw. I didn't go nuts afterwards, but I also refused to do what I always do when I bust someone out - offer to shake hands and say "good game". A couple of older gentlemen asked me if it felt extra special to be the one who busted him, and I told that I couldn't lie, because it did feel pretty good to do that.
Down to 15, and player who was commanding chip-leader at time he was moved to our table gets taken out in a series of 3 consecutive hands:
1) His A-K (hitting pair on flop) vs Set of 8s - Loses about 60K here
2) My A-J beating his 2-2 on a 8-6-8-6-4 board when I called his post-river bet - loses about 35K here
3) My K-6 calling his all-in post-flop on a K-4-9-7-7 board - remaining 40K to me.
3 players are out at other table, and we move down to 10. I bust a short-stack early with A-high when it holds...then watch as we get to 7. Shortly after we get to 7, an amazing hand happens.
Got QQ UTG (blinds 5K/10K now), and raised to 30K (about 25% of stack at this point) - BB (Mike, who I had sat down to for the entire tourney prior to table re-draw) immediately shoves all-in - damn, what to do, what to do. So let's review some facts here before making a decision:
- BB has sat next to you for nearly entire tourney, and knows that you are playing (or at least, only showing) solid starting hands.
- BB has had KK 4 times prior, and has played them with big raises every time.
- BB has played smaller pairs and A-K/A-Q much more conservatively
- 7 players left, 4 paid (at this time) - and you have the 3rd highest stack in the room. If I'm a short-stack here (or a much bigger stack than his), I have to call...I don't feel like I *have* to call here.
That last piece of information isn't an overriding factor, but something to just consider when making decisions like this. I go into the tank for about a minute, ask Mike if he's got Kings again (but never mention aces), tell the dealer to put the clock on myself for 30 seconds, then soon after say that "I can't believe I'm doing this...but these are no good", and fold my Queens face up on the table. Mike says, "WOW! How the fukk do you lay that down?", and turns over Kings - big rumblings from the other players for that move.
What was kinda cool was afterwards, 5 of us were outside smoking (because that hand was last hand before break), and I explained exactly why I was folded that hand - not something I normally would have done...was nice to have conversation that wasn't centered about bad beats, donkey plays, etc, let's just say that.
Grind our way down to 5 players, and at this I ask if everyone wants to agree to give up 10 bucks so 5th at least makes their money back, and everyone quickly agrees - and not an a-hole in this bunch, which made it easy to do. And now we are all in the money.
We bust out a shortie not too long here, then I grind my way back up to over 200K in chips by stealing blinds (10K/20K now), and then over 270K when a crippled stack runs J-9 into my A-A and it holds....down to 3.
Mike calls my button K-Q PFR to 90K, and then quickly shoves all-in when K-Q-7 (2 spades hits)...and I call even quicker to see that his K-3 (?) were both spades. Hoping to pair my board and/or dodge a spade, I see a brick hit the river, but then an 8 of spades hits on the river for a flush, and I'm out in 3rd (outchipped by 30K) for $175 bucks...damn it all.
Mike ended up taking it down a couple of hands later for about $400, and I left with a "what could have been" - but still pretty happy with my play and the results for the night.
On to the Dino's final tonight - let's take this one down!
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