Just a quick blog today because not too much to say about my WSOP $2k NLHE tourney. Start bank of 6000, I quickly increased to ~8k after flopping two sets during the first 30 mins, but not getting as much value as I would have liked out of either of them due to board texture and low blinds at that level.

I then bled off playing speculative preflop hands like suited connectors / gappers in a number of small pots while never seeing a hand higher than 88/ATs. I received my best starting hand around 2.5 hours of play into the tourney:

My Stack ~4.5k, OTB ~6k, SB ~4k, Blinds 75/150, I hold JJ in the CO

I open for my standard 375. I had opened the previous hand for the same and got 3-bet to 1400 by the middle-aged German guy now OTB. I told him I had folded JJ, but in reality it was QJs. This time he pondered for a while, but just flat-called. The SB then insta-shoved. He was a younger obv online player and I know that JJ is beating his range for such a shove, so I shove and OTB folds AQs face-up. The kid is dissappointed at that as he also shows AQ and we're off to the races. It felt like online as we experienced the following roller-coaster:

Flop JT9
Turn K
River K

I doubled through to ~9.5k, but then the same thing happened to me as earlier as I just kept getting dealt junk, speculative preflop hands, and also had a few blind steals go wrong. By the time we got into Level 5 (100/200/25), I was once again down to 4.5k and had yet to see a hand higher than JJ/ATs.

I finally picked-up JJ again and ran it into another short-stack's KK. He held, just had me covered and it was another failure is my attempt to make a dinner break in a WSOP Side Event. Perhaps I should try entering a Limit event at 5pm...

No worries as we make another attempt at a WSOP $1500 NLHE donk-fest today...

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