Thursday, May 13, 2010

How bad can I run in the 8-game?

The $320 8-game is one of my favorite tournaments of the year cause I loving playing mixed games and SCOOP and WCOOP is the only time you can play a decent 8-game tournament. In this one I somehow managed to go out of both the $320 and the $33 in an hour. I spent the morning playing $88 and $44 8-game satellite turbos for fun and lost 100% of them. Then the tournament started and I had this crazy guy on my left in the $320, he was like the worst. He played every pot, 3 betting and 4 betting with no reasoning behind any of his moves. I lost 2 big pots to him in a row in Omaha 8 when I got AAxx and opened, he 3 bet me, I called it came like 55J and I check called him, turn K and I check called him again, knowing he would continue betting with absolute air and the river was a 5 and I put in a check raise, knowing he was calling with any pair but he had a 5. the very next hand I got AAxx again and flopped top set for the nuts in a 3 way pot and we began building with this crazy guy. There was another low card and I didn't have a low draw but it was worth it with this guy. We capped it on the flop and turn and on the river the low hit and a 3rd club hit (the 2nd club came on the turn) and the crazy guy had a like 5c 6c drawing to a horrible horrible low and nothing else and making a flush to beat me. Then Stud 8 came and I made 2c 3c 4c 5c on the first 4 cards and capped it off on both 4th and 5th street against the guy but never improved the entire hand. He won with aces which I was like a 3-1 favorite against. A few hands later I got 4h 5c 8c 6c Kc 4c which me and that guy had been betting aggressively the whole way. Now I have the K high flush, only clubs showing, and the low draw and he STILL caps it with me with only trips. He rivers a boat and I don't make a low so I lost that pot. Then no-limit holdem came and the hijack opened for 150, cutoff called, I 3 bet to 669 in the sb with AK, the cutoff called, the flop was like 4 8 9 and I had to shove my 1900 into like 1500 pot and he snap called with 33 and beat me. That was like the sickest tournament ever. The $33 went about the same way.

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