Day 4

I’m listed as Andrew Brooks on Poker News, finished the day with 566,500. That’s down a fair bit from my peak of 750K but a hell of a lot better than the 65K I started with. I finished level 1 still at 65K, then won a flip for my life against Brandon Adams AK >JJ. After that I won two more big pots against Brandon when he bluffed into my top pair and another with top pair against another really aggressive guy on Brandon’s right. I 4-bet AA pre-flop against the same dude, maybe not the best way to play it, but got a decent pot regardless. Then I busted one guy QQ > TT, then busted Mike Mercedes (whom I later learned was MikeyMer- we dropped the ball on that one, research team) with shoving Q9 over his check-raise on a 984 flop to bust his A8. That was all during level 2.

After that I mostly just played good until the bubble, then dropped a brutal beat on some poor bastard named Mitch. We were hand for hand with 668 players left, I raised to 9K (at 1500/3000/400) UTG with 87s because this shorter stack was in the BB. He called, and we saw a Q87 flop. He lead out, I shoved, he called and flipped 77. I’m a sonofabitch and rivered an 8 to bubble him.

Last level I dropped nearly 200K, but I don’t think I did anything spewy. Just raised decent hands pre-flop and either missed flops or folded to 3-bets or called 3-bets in good spots but missed flop. No regrets, and still in good shape for today.

We don’t start until 1:00, but I’m going for breakfast now. Here’s my table draw, looks favorable at first glance, though I haven’t googled anyone yet. I’ll be doing some research of my own after breakfast, but anything you want to e-mail to me would be greatly appreciated.

245 Huyen Vo Houston Texas 224000 O22 1

174 Graddus Terwiss Cha Van 0 DNR 318000 O22 2

299 Randy Benton Rolla Missouri 176000 O22 3

89 Hai Bo Chu Melbourne Australia 453500 O22 4

18 James Mills Downey California 757000 O22 6 (2_2)

467 Aleksandar Rasic Troy New York 35000 O22 7

255 Cedric Kolstad Mesa Arizona 217000 O22 8

50 Andrew Brokos 566,500 9

Thank to everyone who’s been leaving comments as well. It’s great to know people are cheering for me, and I’m flattered to have fans I didn’t even know existed!

31 thoughts on “Day 4”

  1. yea that was crazy reading through those posts to get updates! pretty sweet. boston represent!

  2. Andrew, there’s no data on any of your opponents except for James Mills who is CitizenJames on 2+2 and seems pretty accomplished

  3. Add me to the Andrew ‘Brooks’ fanclub. Been reading for over a year now since you put up some trip reports on FCP. TID!

  6. gl buddy!

    from an excited brian holler via text message: “make sure he reps cville not beantown”

  7. My Table Assessment, based on extensive research:

    245 Huyen Vo Houston Texas 224000 O22 1

    (will have long pinky fingernail, and will massively overbet flushdraws)

    174 Graddus Terwiss Cha Van 0 DNR 318000 O22 2

    (will have bad attitude and will end 50% of his/her sentences with “ya?”)

    299 Randy Benton Rolla Missouri 176000 O22 3

    (will demonstrate the Yang-like power of Level 1 thinking)

    89 Hai Bo Chu Melbourne Australia 453500 O22 4

    (Calls Joe Hachem a “friend”, even though they only met once at a PokerStars event. Prone to calling off large portions of his/her stack just for the gamble)

    18 James Mills Downey California 757000 O22 6 (2_2)

    (Related to Robert Downey. Will demonstrate periods of poker brilliance interspersed with manic episodes of spewage)

    467 Aleksandar Rasic Troy New York 35000 O22 7

    (Will get his chips in good against you ;-))

    255 Cedric Kolstad Mesa Arizona 217000 O22 8

    (Will learn that open completing his SB is not a good idea)

    50 Andrew Brokos 566,500 9

    (Will be relentless)

    Have fun today, Shorty

  8. I’m sure we’ll see some good old fashioned aggression from Andrew. Finishing in 474th place is worth $27,020 and finishing 100th is worth $41,816. There’s all the incentive in the world to play fast.

  9. Jesus Shorty that’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while. I really hope your predictions prove true.

  11. Good luck today, Andrew!

    I became aware of you when you posted a trip report at FCP two years ago. Since then I have followed your posts and articles at 2+2 and this blog. Very well written (“achingly beautiful” indeed!), entertaining and instructional.

    I hope make you it really deep so we can continue to receive your very insightful reports.

    Bart
    (monix on FCP and 2+2)

  16. Read your blog pretty regularly, really enjoy your writing and poker analysis. Also have played against you a little in the 3/6 and 5/10 6max games on FT. Discovered your blog a year or two ago either at 2p2 or flopturnriver.

    Anyway, glglglglglglglglglglgl!

  24. This sounds good:

    Also recently eliminated was Raul Paez. He was all in preflop with pocket queens, and ran into the pocket kings of Andrew Brokos. Brokos’ cowboys held up after neither player improved on the {7-Hearts} {10-Spades} {A-Diamonds} {8-Diamonds} {6-Clubs} board.

  28. Up to 800k after taking out 2 ppl at once- note is on Poker News, but no link to indv. notes, so posted below, loses some stuff w/ plain text tho:

    Double Elimination on Blue #31

    William Soffin called a raise preflop from Mark Vos. Vos led the betting on every street of a board that came out {A-?} {J-?} {6-?} {7-?} {4-?}. On the river, Vos bet 150,000 and, without looking at his stack, Soffin called. Vos had flopped a set of jacks against Soffin’s {A-?} {6-?} top and bottom pair.

    When the dealer counted down Soffin’s call, it turned out that he was left with a single yellow (T1,000) chip. He was all in for the ante on the next hand. Andrew Brokos opened that pot with a raise to 28,000. He was reraised to 75,000 by Jose Baeza. After deliberating his options, Brokos reraised all in and Baeza called all in for less.

    Boffin: {4-Spades} {3-Clubs}
    Brokos: {A-Clubs} {K-Clubs}
    Baeza: {J-Hearts} {J-Spades}

    A crowd gathered around the table as the dealer burned and turned a flop of {A-Hearts} {Q-Clubs} {5-Diamonds}. Everyone at the table, rooting for Boffin’s ridiculously short stack, started chanting, “Deuce! Deuce! Deuce!” Meanwhile, Brokos took the lead in the side pot and the main pot with a pair of aces. The turn and river didn’t help anyone, coming {8-Diamonds} {4-Hearts}. Both pots were shipped to Brokos, and Boffin and Baeza were eliminated.

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