Played again on Sunday in chartiy in a $40 semi-deep stack tourney. Pretty much a "bleh" kind of tournament, as far as action goes, but I did at least get my $40 back thanks to small chop when we got down from 30 to 8 people (effectively allowing 3 players to make more than buy-in). Whatever...did the best I could to finish 6th in this thing, but the donkeys couldn't be dodged this night, so I'll take my 3 hours of play for no profit or loss and chalk one up for experience.
Monday night at Dino's I had a good week, finally. Last 3 weeks, I've been watching my chip stack get into short-stack territory fairly early. At least I was getting money in with a dominating position, but couldn't dodge 3-outers on turn or river...but what can ya do? Can't fault the guys for calling 40% or more of their stack with marginal (at best) hand, since that's what we want to have happen...sometimes the poker gods do not work out.
I guess I elaborated on the first point for a reason...got off to a fast start by winning 800 or so on the first 2 hands after solid post-flop and turn bets, then by the end of the second level (50/100) I got my first bustout of the night. K-J in the big blind, and we see a 5-way pot to the flop. K-J-3 hits, but with 2 spades...and I will be happy to take a pot here, or possibly bust someone if the opportunity occurs. Jovan (SB) bets out 400, and I decide to come over the top with a bet to 1300 - with 2 draws out there, need to price people out here. Trish snap-calls the bet, and with her being a tight player, I immediately wonder if I've run into trips here. Jovan eventually pushes his last 800 in, and 2 of us go to turn. Admittedly a misread and misplay by me after turn and river for 1) checking turn, and 2) too small a value bet on river...Trish flips over AA, and KJ cracks it, but rues not getting a 2nd bustout for it. Stack is at 8500 at this point.
Next level I river a 4th heart on the board to knock Andy out, and we're over 10K 3 levels in...big stack poker, potential here.
Sadly for me, my attempts at bullying mean nothing, as I quickly double up 2 short-to-medium stacks in flips where I was ahead...no biggie, at the time. After that, steal a few blinds, play things a little tighter (being fairly card dead for an hour will do that, too), and cruise to the final table with about 7K in chips.
Watch a few shorties bust themselves out, and we get a final table that seemingly drags on forever. Eventually, John (infrequent player who was on my left entire night) goes on a knockout run to get us down to 3, then wins a flip versus Harry to get us to HU. Down about 7-1 at HU, I get one double-up to get to about 3-1. The next hand, shove K-J into his 7-8...7 on river gives the victory to John. Shortstack to winner, well done - and certainly some luck on his side.
13 pts for the season - looking for the magic 40 or so for the finale.
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