Steve’s Terrible Table

We came back from day 2 with 12 players remaining. After I drilled the “sexy 2-outer” as Brandon was telling me the day before, I had 329K when we returned. It became clear right from the start that Ryan, who was 2nd in chips at the time, was planning on avoiding people and that Brandon our chip leader was going to be the table bully. One hand I might have wanted to play differently was in the SB with AhTc. Brandon raised from the button to 25K (blinds still at 1K/5K/10K). I reraised to 70K to try and get him to stop raising my SB every time, he shipped all in on me and I was forced to fold. I understand that the fold there is not spectacular but at this stage Brandon has been the table bully, but he’s also been showing down big hands when 3-bet pre, so it’s not likely the AT is ahead here.

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I’ll just pick this one up right where the last post left off. So after getting my new found chips the BB from the AA hand looked at me and said, “I thought you had a big hand. I had MP on the flop, woulda rivered two pair.” Now in most of the cases where someone has said this to me in a live event, I’ve just brushed it off. This guy however isn’t trying to lord anything over me, he actually is just making conversation. He and I had about the same chip stack with now around 45 players remaining in the event. That’s when the fun started.

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Well the title pretty much says it all. This year’s World Poker Finals at Foxwoods just started for me and already I have done what I set out to do and then some. I had one simple goal in mind, get the terrible taste out of my mouth from my choke job last year in the $300 Shootout. I decided to skip the Shootout this year and play in the $400NLHE event on 10/21/2009. Boy did I get what I wanted out of it this year.

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Hopefully this past week was a sign of good things to come. I managed to rebound from a lack luster week 2 and made a strong push in week three. This week was however finals week for me (WPI runs quarters so I get a break the week of the 19th) so the hours were down overall. I had to make the most of what I was given and I feel like I did that and then some.

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This week so far has been a very profitable one. While I still have yet to get any cash game action in, I have been on a mini heater when it comes to the MTT circuit. This past Monday night I managed to break through for $1,300 bucks between two final tables and I followed that up on Tuesday with a FT bubble of the $5K PLO (AAc7c3 < AhKhTh5 all in preflop). I've been picking up some steam hopefully at the right time as next week I find out if my run good transitions to live poker at the $400 NLHE event on the 21st at the WPF. October has been treating me well in the first half.

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