Day 1 recap
by Adanthar on 02/02/08
Enough being lazy...time to post hands!At this point, the details of Day 1 are sort of blurry. Most of the action early on was focused on John Hennigan to my left. What would usually happen is that he'd small ball, raise + cbet his way into pots from other people, I'd somehow wind up in the pot with him, flop a set and win half of what he got from them, ie, the minimum. I flopped at least 6 sets in the first 4 levels and didn't win more than 1 barrel from him on any of them (probably as infuriating for him as me, because none of the hands went to showdown and he must've been thinking I was crushing him somehow. Nope, just catching cards.) BTW, John plays incredibly fast (warning bells should go off whenever someone competent takes < 15 secs to make big decisions, IMO) and incredibly well in general; the fact that I couldn't get paid off is a big sign of that.
As I said, early on, I'd just do something, John to my left would do something, I'd flop a set and win money. Other than that, the table was very passive, and I started doing things like limping 88 UTG (and flopping a set when John raised me obv), overcalling a UTG raise with QQ PF on the button looking to play a medium pot (flop Q52, I don't win very much obv), etc. It was just a bizarre table, with a total lack of aggression by everybody except Rizen (not a huge factor - I have a ton of respect for his game, but he misplayed a couple of overpairs early, knew it, and seemed to shut down afterwards) and Hennigan to my left, plus me occasionally showing up with a big hand.
One of Rizen's misplayed overpair hands: 38598325 limpers to him in the SB, he makes it 850 at 50/100, BB - an aggro younger guy - flats, and everyone else folds. Flop 5
22
, Rizen bets 1350, BB calls. Turn 9, Rizen bets out something like 2200, BB quickly matches it and raises a 5K chip. With 30K starting stacks, Rizen should, IMO, be snap folding anything below aces here, because black AA is the worst hand in BB's range at this point. Instead, Rizen fairly quickly called, the river diamond went check check, and Rizen's red queens beat out 76. At the time, I thought that if he called the turn, he should really have led out 5K or so on the river, but given the chances of a bluff shove, I might've been wrong.So, a half hour later right before the break, I limp 88 UTG with something close to 30K, the BB from that hand [who's losing every pot he plays and is visibly frustrated] overlimps on the button, SB folds/Rhett Butler checks in the BB. Flop 642r (1 spade), blinds check, I bet 225 into 350, button quickly calls, Butler folds. Turn Q
, I check knowing the button will be betting 90% of his hands here, he bets something like 650, I call. The river: an interesting Ax. I check, button bets 900 into about 2100, I briefly think about it because he floats a lot with A high on the flop but decide I'm probably good more than enough % anyway and call. MHIG. I think I overheard him say he turned an FD or something.Now the table has some respect for me, so I basically...go right back to flopping sets on John and not really playing much else. Sample hands:
-I raise 88 on the button at 100/200, John snap 3bets me to 2100 from the SB, I call. Flop Q86 2 tone, he turbochecks, I think and bet, he turbocalls. Turn K, he turbochecks again, I think about it and bet a few K more, he folds before I put the bet out.
-I limp 77 UTG+1, he raises, folded back to me, I call. Flop has a 7 in it, I lead this time, he turbomucks.
Three or four more like that left me with a 40K stack while he amassed around 60K.
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Hands not involving John:
-At 150/300, loose/bad 50-ish CO with ~25K raises to 800, I 3 bet AKs in the SB with 40K to something like 2600, he calls. Flop A73, bet 3K/snapcall. Turn 7 (not actually a great card for me, so...), bet 4500 planning on folding to a raise, snapcall. River 6, bet 6K, call, he mucks AQ. tbh I think I was going to c/f a river queen (and maybe a jack, too.)
-At 200/400, Rhett Butler makes it 1100 in the CO. It's a testament to how tight he played that I found JJ on the button and decided to just call (also a testament to me knowing that both Hennigan and the bad BB were gonna be in the pot if I did, except they both folded. Oops.) Flop KJx, he snap checks, I check back because I was tired of betting and winning the minimum. Turn K, he checks, I bet 1600, he suddenly makes it 3700 (whoa), I think about it and decide to flat because he's probably not folding a king anywhere if he bets big on the river and I may as well see if the board pairs it first. River blank, he thinks and checks, snap folds to my bet and then tells me he played his hand bad (later told me he had tens.) oh well.
At this point I've got about 60-65K and kinda hover there for a while watching Hennigan win every pot I'm not in, then reliably either call or 3 bet all my LP raises. After he 3 bets my CO open (1600) from the button for the third or fourth time (to 5100), an hour before the end of the day, I have 33, decide that I'm either winning the pot now or flopping another set anyway, and four bet him to 16500. He actually thinks (I'm kinda proud of making him think tbh) but eventually mucks.
I took this as a good sign of playing well and went into Day 2 on a confident note.
Comments
lakeoffire says
Nice 33 hand! Good luck.02/02/08
Anonymous says
Thanks 4 the details. Very educational.02/03/08
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