trip 9s vs Chau’s flush draw on turn for a 96k pot with no low possible.

sad panda.

I didn’t look at the table draw before I got to the event but yet again i managed to avoid any of the dead money left. I run hot at table draws in 10k events obv. On the plus side it’s going to be pretty much impossible to draw a bad table in the $10k ME.

The initial table got worse when Danny was replaced by Brad Booth and Hasan with degenyamine, both with a ton of chips. This table set up made it hard to play speculative hands and build a big stack but ensured that while short I would pretty much always be able to find a good equity spot to stay alive/triple up.

As i figured a medium stack was worth less than usual with this setup and a short stack more than usual, I tightened up and settled in for a torrid few hours of pain.

I overplayed raggy aces twice, once for 15k against jen letting her freeroll me (she hit, but with only 7500 in pot to start with I had little business being in the hand. And worst of all losing 18k to alex kravchenko making way to thin a value bet on a K828 turn and getting checkraised. The bet in position is far worse than the pay off (AA7x). I’ve said before tho that I make mistakes in 3 way O8 pots, I definitely need to study the game more and get a better technical/theoretical understanding of the game.

Apart from the mistakes with AA as a medium stack, I played pretty well overall, a solid short stack game going in light a couple of times when dead money made equity good.

Again on a positive note tho the mistakes didn’t cause me to tilt at all, which is pretty hot. One of the reasons I push myself hard on theory/analysis (when I’m definitely already ahead of most live pros in this regard) is that making mistakes due to lack of knowledge usually tilts me pretty badly. It just seems like a huge waste. What’s helped is when i make a mistake I count the chips I have left and convert them to an equity figure. While this is less effective in $1500s and $2ks, in the $10k tourney when i got crippled down to 10k a few times reminding myself it was $5k real money base equity and closer to $8k in adjusted equity kept me from throwing the chips away.

day off tomorrow to go bowling/drink/eat sushi/wow/rest – anything but poker. even pushing blind every other hand in the $1-2 game at binions is probably too much poker.

Sunday is the start of the $1500 mixed hold em.