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ssbn743
Visionary
Silver Level
I’m in a live $160 buy in tournament with 20K starting stacks and 30 minute levels.
I was cruising right along for hours and had a big hand occur with right before the dinner break (level 12).
I started the hand with ~$200K and blinds were $2K-$4K with a $100 ante.
This is a June tournament at my local casino and with the wsop all the regs are in Vegas, so my casino altered the buy-in and structure; which didn’t sit too well with me especially since there was no notification at all - they just did it to accommodate the casual player who didn’t want to buy-in for $200+ and doesn’t even know what structure means. Anyway, so this tourney is filled with extremely weak and novice play and has had many of the intermediate levels eliminated.
One player in particular really stood out in my mind and was two seats to my right. We started out on our first table together where I watched him snap call an early all-in with Q 10 off and win. In the time since he had built a nice stack and had about $225K. 12 levels later I found him at my new table two seats to my right.
Every one folds to this player and he open limps the hijack for $4K. From the button I find and raise to $16,500.
The BB (a rock tight woman) moves all-in for $35K and the hijack seat flat calls.
I move all-in since the BB’s all-in re-opened the betting round and am instantly called by the hijack.
The BB had while the hijack had
A king and two diamonds hit the flop but the flush or ace did not get there. I lost to the AK, but doubled through jacktard in the hijack. After it was all counted out, I ended up with about $350K.
A few hands later the player that was in the hijack seat from the hand above busted and left an empty seat. We were down to three tables (24-27 players).
Not very long after the above hand took place, the following hand takes place. The levels had gone up to $2500/$5000/$500
From UTG a weak passive player (that actually blinded out at the final table) limps for $5K with a $50K stack. The player immediately to my right limps in as well with about a $250K stack, and with the tournament chip lead I elected to limp as well on a weak and passive table, where I’m nearly certain the pot won’t be raised, with
Everyone else folds.
The player to my right is a decent and regular player; an older man, probably close to 70 years of age that goes by the name of George. He is very aggressive and that has made him fairly successful. However at times I feel he doesn’t know how to take his foot off the gas. Additionally, he can be very predictable and transparent at times, especially pre-flop as he will not raise pocket pairs but will limp call anything you can bet. When he does raise pre, he has a hand guaranteed.
Pot: $26K
The flop is
The UTG player leads out for $5K and George moves all-in for ~$250K.
What do you do?
I’ll post the results later.
I was cruising right along for hours and had a big hand occur with right before the dinner break (level 12).
I started the hand with ~$200K and blinds were $2K-$4K with a $100 ante.
This is a June tournament at my local casino and with the wsop all the regs are in Vegas, so my casino altered the buy-in and structure; which didn’t sit too well with me especially since there was no notification at all - they just did it to accommodate the casual player who didn’t want to buy-in for $200+ and doesn’t even know what structure means. Anyway, so this tourney is filled with extremely weak and novice play and has had many of the intermediate levels eliminated.
One player in particular really stood out in my mind and was two seats to my right. We started out on our first table together where I watched him snap call an early all-in with Q 10 off and win. In the time since he had built a nice stack and had about $225K. 12 levels later I found him at my new table two seats to my right.
Every one folds to this player and he open limps the hijack for $4K. From the button I find and raise to $16,500.
The BB (a rock tight woman) moves all-in for $35K and the hijack seat flat calls.
I move all-in since the BB’s all-in re-opened the betting round and am instantly called by the hijack.
The BB had while the hijack had
A king and two diamonds hit the flop but the flush or ace did not get there. I lost to the AK, but doubled through jacktard in the hijack. After it was all counted out, I ended up with about $350K.
A few hands later the player that was in the hijack seat from the hand above busted and left an empty seat. We were down to three tables (24-27 players).
Not very long after the above hand took place, the following hand takes place. The levels had gone up to $2500/$5000/$500
From UTG a weak passive player (that actually blinded out at the final table) limps for $5K with a $50K stack. The player immediately to my right limps in as well with about a $250K stack, and with the tournament chip lead I elected to limp as well on a weak and passive table, where I’m nearly certain the pot won’t be raised, with
Everyone else folds.
The player to my right is a decent and regular player; an older man, probably close to 70 years of age that goes by the name of George. He is very aggressive and that has made him fairly successful. However at times I feel he doesn’t know how to take his foot off the gas. Additionally, he can be very predictable and transparent at times, especially pre-flop as he will not raise pocket pairs but will limp call anything you can bet. When he does raise pre, he has a hand guaranteed.
Pot: $26K
The flop is
The UTG player leads out for $5K and George moves all-in for ~$250K.
What do you do?
I’ll post the results later.
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