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WSOP Trip Report part 6, Double Indumnity, Events 12 and 13
by Bond18 on 06/20/07
At the start of event 12, the 1500 6 max tournament, I ended up getting seated with iweargoggles and a close friend, Omaha specialist Van Marcus. About 2 rounds in the following hand comes up:
I raise KJo when folded to me in the SB to 150, BB (a guy who is almost certainly a recreational player) calls for 100 more.
Flop: Kd Jh 9h
I lead out 225, he raises to 650, I mull things over a brief moment then move in for about 2600 total. Now he tanks hardcore, counts out his chips, and finally calls, flipping over K9. The KJ holds and I’m over 5500 straight away.
A couple rounds later a button with about 4500 who seems moderately aggro raises to 150, SB folds, and I reraise TsTc in the BB to 500. Button calls.
Flop: 9 7 4 two hearts
I lead out 650, he calls.
Turn: 2c
I bet 1200, he calls.
River: 2d
I mull this one over. If I’m betting, I’m putting him in. If I’m checking I’m obviously calling. This guy doesn’t seem like a typical live fish, would he raise me with a flush draw+overs on flop/turn? Idk, live players are pretty weak. Will he call if I put him in on the river with 88/66? Again I’m not really sure, live players fold to much. I decide to check hoping he either feels safe and bets with a mid pair and thinks I was shooting overs (otherwise, why would he call 2 streets if he didn’t think I might be AJ+ish) or bluffs a missed flush draw, but goggles thought betting is better. He’s likely right, deep stack play OOP is a weakness of mine. I check river, he checks back and my TT beats his 88. Blegh, def missed value.
At this point I now have in the low 7000 area. Both goggles and van bust pretty early, within about 90 minutes of play, and my table is now full of what appears to be mostly standard live players. Some 30ish looking guy with a thick southern accent is moved to the table, and I realize that the moment a person with a southern accent speaks I immediately think their a fish without any evidence to support it. Whatever, their education systems are worse, I’m just playing the percentages right?
For the next hourish, every hand I would play would go as follows: Get dealt a medium strength hand like QJ, JT, 87dd, 67ss, A8hh. I raise 3X, 1 or 2 players call. Then I totally whiff the flop, but get an awesome board to C bet, like A/K then X X rainbow, so I bet, then make a huge raise, I fold and they show their flopped TPTK or super nuts or whatever. For some reason, my table was REALLY in a showing mood, I guess because they ALWAYS had it and liked to banter back and forth how they never bluffed.
In one hand I raised JhTd on the hijack, CO calls, BB calls.
Flop: Qh 8h 3h
Action checks around.
Turn: Jd
BB checks, I bet out 75% pot, CO folds, BB thinks about it a moment, then folds. BB starts talking to guy on his left in a voice loud enough for me to hear (though I don’t think intentionally) about how he can’t call with his big draw there cause that guy down there doesn’t give his chips away. Next round I decided to see how firmly he believed that.
With about 5500 stacks each, the button (BB from previous hand) raises to 300, SB calls, and I call with KJo.
Flop: A 6 3
I check, he bets 400, I make it 1200 hoping he thinks I never spew, and he insta jams. I fold and he shows me AK. Of course.
We go on break and after paying blinds and losing more chips in this raise, c bet, get mega raised, fold, get shown huge hand, style of play I had developed, I am moved to a new table with about 2900 left. Sheets is on my table, though he has no idea who I am and I really don’t look like your standard internet player. After paying a round of blinds, I pick up 66 and open jam 13 BB’s and everyone folds.
A few hands later I pick up 88 in the BB. It folds to sheets on the button who with a roughly 4500-5000ish stack makes it 550. SB folds and I jam for 2900. Sheets tanks forever, puts his hands all over his head, sighs, then calls with AT.
Flop: K Q 4
Turn: 5
River A
Thus ends event 12 for me. I spend the afternoon meeting up with various friends, and drop $200 at craps that night. Man I’m so high stakes balla when it comes to house edge.
Event 13 at the WSOP is the $5000 PL Holdem world championship. At my starting table I am seated with Josh Arieh on my right, and Dewey Tomko on my left, with nobody else at the table I recognize. This is a pretty sweet set up, the LAG on my right, the nit on my left, and the rest nobodies. We start with 10k chips at 25/50 blinds.
The first 2 hours are of basically nothing interesting. I try to see cheap flops with suited stuff or pairs in position. At one point arieh in MP2 raises to just 125 and I look down at AK. The blinds are very loose so I decided to reraise this time, and make it 350. Folds back to Josh, who calls.
Flop: 8 6 4 rainbow
Check, 450, he calls
Turn: 4
check check
River: 3
he bets quite strong, I let him have it.
Through the first 2 hours Josh manages to spew off about 8.5k of his stack playing aggro and making 2nd best calls, and Dewey manages to increase his to like 4k playing SUPER nitty. A lot of the rest of the table appears quite bad.
In one hilarious hand, Dewey limps utg, utg+1 limps, and it folds to a bad player in MP1. He folds, another guy calls, SB completes, BB checks. Flop QQ5, dewey bets and takes it down. MP1 starts questioning anyone who’ll listen “Hmm, I had Q7 there, really woulda hit it good. Hey would you have dropped Q7 there with 2 limpers? How bout you? Man I woulda hit it so good.”
Another amusing hand with the same player came after the break and we were at 75/150. In the hijack I raise 57hh to 450 with about 8k in my stack. A decent player on the button calls, SB folds, BB calls. I have pretty tight image.
Flop: A Q 7 rainbow
I thought BB made a checking motion, then fired 750. Apparently, BB had not in fact checked, my bad, so my bet was drawn back in. Now BB goes into the tank, and donks FULL POT into me, so I fold and button folds. BB turns over AQhh and starts cursing himself, saying he thought for sure I would raise him.
After this I fold for like 3 rounds straight with just awful awful hands. I finally pick up a hand in MP2, 77, and UTG+1 who is a fairly bad stationish player makes it 450. It folds to me with about 6500 in my stack and I call. All others fold.
Flop: Kh 7h 2c
He leads 700, I raise to 2100, he deliberates, then folds. I think raising this flop is very std, as he never gets away from a decent K, will shut down with JJ/TT/QQ if I flat call him anyway, and if he has a good K and turn is a heart he might not stack off.
A round later I’m around 7500ish in MP1 with AcJc. It folds to me and I make it 450. Mr. “Can I play Q7?” calls in LP, and BB calls.
Flop: A J 9 two diamonds
BB checks, I fire 750, Mr. Q7 makes it 3000, BB folds. I think things over a moment and move in. Mr. Q7 quickly calls with AK. Awesome
Turn: 6
River: K
Aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesome! I am so good at this game. I make the walk of shame and go to find Stevepa and tell him what’s happened. I am beginning to question whether he believes me and secretly wonders if I’m hardcore spewing. I guess I have Josh Arieh and Dewey Tomko as witnesses. So its 4pm now, I’m going to meet up with WarDekar for some food and get some [censored] done. Tomorrow is 1500 NL holdem, which promises to have 8 gazillion entrants. Better luck tomorrow perhaps? Please? Are you there poker gods?
