Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Almost... not quite

Well I decided to play a $10 MTT while playing some sng's. I played two $60's after cashing in all three $36's (a win and 2 thirds). I bubbled one when q10s couldn't hold against q8 and lost a race with a10 vs. 55 to become very short. Won a race with 55 and was still very short and lost with k9 vs. 8 10. Again I felt that I played pretty well and made a correct fold preflop with QQ early in the sng to AA.

On to the MTT. I don't remember having a hand other than an AK vs. Aq early on all in. I somehow managed to accumulate enough chips to make it from 240 people down to around 60. I won huge pot with QQ when an utg raiser shoved his KQ into a board of J 10 7 and my queens held. I managed to stay chip leader until about 22 people left and ran pretty dry. About three steal attempts into a short stack on the button failed but called with great odds and missed all three 2-1 shots. My big mistake was down to 17 people and 500/1000 blinds most stacks were between 5-15 BB's... I had 32 BB's to start the hand and was in the BB and woke up with JJ. A player that I had only witnessed shoving 20+BB's with ak earlier shoved into me with 13K. I didn't think he'd play AA or KK this way and put him on a range of AK-A10, KQs and all other pairs down to 44. My equity against this range is about 67%.. If you add AA and KK my equity drops to 61%. I thought with my stack the play is to call and he woke up with KK. I didn't suck out and dropped to 19K. My stack stayed in this area until the blinds went up to about 1600. I only had KK in this time and got no action. My stack dropped to 10K at the 1000/2000 level and lost a race with a10 vs 55. I finished 11th and was happy with my play for the most part. Still not sure about the JJ call and I am open to opinions on the hand. On the day A10 was my arch nemesis.

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