I played yesterday’s $200 rebuy with disappointing results. It was a sweet structure, with blinds starting at 10/20 and 3000 chips available for $200. Unfortunately, towards the end of the rebuy period, I took a bad beat that left me with like 3800, so I had barely more than one stack but couldn’t quite rebuy. The add-on was for 5000 chips, so on the plus side I was in for just $600, but I also had a quite below average stack (though still plenty deep, with almost 200 BB’s entering the second hour of the tournament).
I had a weak table but never got anything going. Here was my bustout hand:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (9 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com
MP1 (t2444)
MP2 (t18381)
MP3 (t31132)
Hero (t9000)
Button (t20715)
SB (t13258)
BB (t11780)
UTG (t20271)
UTG+1 (t8918)
Preflop: Hero is CO with Ks, Qh.
UTG calls t150, 1 fold, MP1 calls t150, 2 folds, Hero raises to t750, 2 folds, BB calls t600, UTG calls t600, MP1 folds.
Flop: (t2475) 6c, Kc, Kd (3 players)
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets t1250, BB folds, UTG calls t1250.
Turn: (t4975) 5s (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets t2500, UTG calls t2500.
River: (t9975) 9h (2 players)
UTG bets t5250, Hero calls t4500 (All-In).
Final Pot: t19725
He had 8c 7c for a flopped flush draw that turned into a running straight. Yes, I’m aware I played this like a complete tool, but the guy was a giant calling station, and I figured I’d just string him along. I wasn’t happy with his river shove, because if he was going to bluff with a flush draw, he probably would have done it when he still had outs. But, I did have trips getting almost 3:1 when there was an obvious busted draw on the board. Oh well.
I’m going to New York this weekend so not playing any of the cool WCOOPs this weekend. I think there’s a Stud/8 on Monday, so that’s probably when you’ll hear from me next.