Sat 4 Jul 2009
$1m million summer spectacular live sng
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As part of the pokerstars WSOP ME package we got entry to their $1m summer spectacular. First stage was a 6 seat live sng at the Palms.
3rd-6th $100, 2nd $300, 1st $500+ entry to online freeroll with $800k in prizes. Top heavy is the correct description.
2k chips to start. 15 min blinds. 25/50, 50/100, 100/200, 200/400. Top heavy turbo crapshoot. Sounds like my domain.
Table looks old for internet players (ie mostly my age) so I make one cute 3-bet at 25/50 btn vs co and otherwise sit tight planning to resteal allin at 5/1 1/2 over opening ranges I assume will be incorrectly wide and 3bet calling ranges incorrectly tight.
The last hand at 25/50 I defend KJs vs a 40-ish local. Flop T9x with one club. I check-shove over his bet and he tank/folds. He mucked a little hard, obviously frustrated, and one card flipped. A ten. The asian kid in seat 2 sniggers and I try not to giggle.
A couple more shoves over lp opens and I fold A9s 5 handed on btn vs CL utg open at 20bb eff. He’d been fairly tight and I saw a K as he passed cards to dealer.
100/200 3 handed. I shove A7o from sb over CL btn raise to 575. He calls after a brief hesitation with K8o. He had almost 8k vs the local and me both around 2100. Flop T98xJ. Ship it.
Local doubles 99 vs 66 vs CL. He has 5k, I have 4k, previous CL 3k.
1st hand of 200/400. KJo on btn. Sweeeeeeeet. Ship. Local insta all-in. bb folds A5o face up. Local obv has aces. FML. Flop 234 and bb looks ready to kill himself.
Sigh. Still a free benjy for 45 minutes play is ok.