This was an amazingly deep tournament, and I’m really disappointed not to have gone further in it. It was a $100 rebuy where $100 buys 2500 chips, and with blinds starting at 5/10, were sometimes 500BB+ deep when we started. Of course many players didn’t rebuy, but a few did. The rebuy period wasn’t terribly interesting for me, but I did win a huge coin flip with QQ against Balla-B13’s AK on the last hand before the end of break, I started the first post-rebuy level with 20,430 chips and blinds of 20/40. And there were several other 15K+ stacks at the table as well!
I was winning a lot of medium-sized pots with little resistance just because people are bad at playing deep-stacked. I ended up losing a ton of chips on a thin semi-bluff. It was an unlucky result for me, but I think given how big of an edge I had, it was bad for me to gamble with stacks this large:
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Seat 0: Bill the Cat ($12830)
Seat 1: lust4rust ($15380)
Seat 2: eatschips ($8945)
Seat 3: Balla-B13 ($21110)
Seat 4: pandamancan ($11295)
Seat 5: foolishgolf ($22615)
Seat 6: JakusKhan ($42785) – 
Seat 7: brett ho ($19930) – 
Seat 8: pokerarg ($24240) – 
Seat 9: urbandb888 ($29950)
PRE-FLOP:
brett ho posts small blind $150
pokerarg posts BIG blind $300
Dealt To: urbandb888
RAISE urbandb888 ($750)
FOLD Bill the Cat
CALL lust4rust ($750)
CALL eatschips ($750)
FOLD Balla-B13
FOLD pandamancan
FOLD foolishgolf
RAISE JakusKhan ($4200)
FOLD brett ho
FOLD pokerarg
RAISE urbandb888 ($10950)
RAISE lust4rust ($15380)
FOLD eatschips
CALL JakusKhan ($15380)
CALL urbandb888 ($15380)
FLOP:
Pot: $62490
CHECK urbandb888
CHECK JakusKhan
TURN:
Pot: $62490
CHECK urbandb888
RAISE JakusKhan ($27405)
FOLD urbandb888
UNCALLED JakusKhan ($27405)
RIVER:
Pot: $62490
SHOWDOWN:
lust4rust:
JakusKhan:
lust4rust collected $47340 from main pot with full house, fives full of kings
SUMMARY:
Total pot: $47340 No rake is taken for this hand.
Final Board:
Seat 1: Ks Kc 5d 5s 5c: full house, fives full of kings. – Net Gain/Loss: ($31210)
Seat 6: Kd Ad 5d 5s 5c: three fives. – Net Gain/Loss: ($-19580)
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The re-raiser had been fairly aggressive, and with so many callers of my raise, I didn’t think he needed KK+ to make this reraise. I also thought given that I’d come in UTG, I could maybe knock him off something as good as QQ. Thus, I tried to make my raise size as shady as possible so as to suggest AA, but I think I should have gone a little bigger. Anyway, I don’t know if it would have worked, but the first caller slowplaying KK was not something I’d counted on. It sucked to huck so many chips here, and I never recovered.