Spencer Lawrence

After getting crippled on the pre-bubble I was expecting to bubble hard.  SLOPPYKLOD had a good pre-bubble and made it clear with a stud float that I wasn’t getting chips without showing down a hand.   I was all-in on the bubble (at the same time as someone on another table) with A24J against 2367 in O8 – unfortunately the board was A554.  My favourite dealer, Sau, gave me an ace river tho for a welcome split and we were in the money.  The consensus was that I would have probably been 41st had I missed tho I didn’t bother checking with the floor.

Strange tournament in that I never got any traction going for long enough to think about the bracelet.  Well, there was a 3 minute period when I snapped off Sorel’s 3 bet with A7o and held for a 55k stack, but fluffing a double suited medium-wrap and double-suited aces back-to-back in the PLO round slowed down those thoughts.

I think I’m happy with the cash all things considered.  It also takes a little financial pressure off going into the O8 and LHE tourneys so I can really go for the bracelets.

Very fun tourney tho – I get bored playing one game for too long and that never happens here.  I can definitely see myself playing mroe deuce in the future, I’m even considering dropping the $1500 NL event to play the $2500 deuce

27th was worth $5695 before tip and the 5% I traded.

O8 starts in 90 minutes

All but the last 30 minutes of the day at one table.  It would normally be more frustrating not gaining any traction, but 8 game is just too much fun.

The guy from the J7 vs AJ hand is a canadian called Mark who I think ive played a little at medium O8 online.  He was not a happy camper over that hand, I’m comfortable with it tho.  He opened Q9 in LHE and I 3 bet JhJx.  Flop Q62 with 2 hearts.  Check check.  Turn offfsuit K.  River off 8.  I put in thin value bets both times and he just check calls.  Marginal but I have just enough back to squeeze it out I think.

The fun continued in the O8 round.  He’d still open raising 60% of pots folded to him (which was part of why I couldnt stop laughing at his disgusted reaction to my J7s overcall).  sklanksy just fails to make it back to his seat in time and we have a dead BB.  Mark opens HJ and I look down at Q7hh54.  I 3 bet from co.  He calls after the others fold.  Flop Ah Th 8h.  He bets. I call ( I should probably raise)  Turn 2x and river 3x.  He check calls both streets and is set off again when I declare nut low and Q hi flush.

Looking forward to play resuming tomorrow, I’m a little behind the 21k average but still very much in it.  If I can run good early the bubble play is gonna be a lot of fun.  The only slightly annoying thing is feeling a little constricted during the NL and PLO levels just because busting there would feel so dumb considering the edge in the other games.

Sasha finished on 19k, I was in time to see him lose a big final deuce pot of the day rough 87 vs smooth 87.

(I’m changing settings so that twitter posts show up in a daily digest blog entry to avoid clutter.  The last 5 tweeted updates will be viewable on right hand side)

10 minutes before end of day, was down to 5300 at 8/16, opened AKs utg and Amir Vahedi 3bet from co with 44.  I 4 bet, bet 753 flop and put in the last 1300 on 6 turn drawing dead.

Amir only had about 10k himself to start the hand, but he and Marcel Luske seem to have perfected the 3bet ep raises with 33-55 and win the hand approach.  Awesome.

Nothing really wrong with play, just lost the marginal hands as I pushed for a bubble stack and ran AK into ultra-agg players KK.

Next event is the 8-game on Sunday so I should probably learn to play triple draw before then.

“Had 22k down 2 15k now. Dropped 5k calling down k hi was prob fine tho”

13k. Spence said avg around 8k.

An interesting hand: Blind levels 150/300
MP open-limps. Spence raises in late position. brock in BB calls, limper calls. Flop is AA2. MP checks, Spence bets, brock folds, MP raises, Spence calls.
Turn is a 10. MP bets, Spence raises, MP thinks and mucks. Spence shows his 9-8.

Nice recovery from being down to 4k after the first break, and Spence is now sitting on 8k.

Next update at dinner in 2 hours.

And can someone please talk Spence into using twitter for tournament updates? So far, I’ve made no headway.

June 19th $2k LHE

June 21st $2500 Mixed (8-Game)

June 23rd $2500 O8

June 26th $1500 LHE Shootout

June 29th $1500 NL

July 4th $10k NL Man Event