After the live coverage in Berlin until 3am on Monday morning and a 5 hour trip back by train, I used Monday to catch up on some well needed sleep before getting back into the work routine ... perfect timing for the month end drama. I also decided to play the Stud Hi Lo game of the WBCOOP as my first tournament and I just ran bad, could never get anything going against a very fishy table and two bluffs backfired - think I was out 20 spots from getting any SCOOP tickets.
Yesterday it was similar at the beginning but fortunately one okay player busted and a new big fish arrived that just spewed Chips left and right to get me above average stack. Once we got close to the bubble, I had two big stacks at my table and switched to "push or fold" knowing I get more credit in silly spots. In the money I was out of the door once when I 4bet shoved AsQs into Kings and hit on the Turn before someone graciously felt the need to iso shove behind me with Kh Th and my Ace rag held up on the last 4 tables to get back on track once again.
Twice the last 10 minutes before a break I lost 50% of my stack with moves against bigstacks and was 11/11 after the 3rd break, two players from South America were chatty and thought I don't understand Spanish and that they think I am a bluffer. Well yes, I showed them some bluffs on purpose and proceeded to knock out both when finally finding a spot ;) On the last two tables I wanted to play for stacks and the only other really solid player on my table from Latvia decided to chase with 89os and turned his straight against my top pair after I 3bet him preflop for the 2nd time in an hour.
Final result:
Guess I can't complain much, but once get that far you obviously also want the Final Table as well. Checked the lobby in the morning and edzitsu used my Chips wisely and scooped the $162, well done. I'll take the $33 ticket and the entry to the Final ... this time I will actually be there to play it as well.
Back to the daily work grind we go ...
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Yesterday it was similar at the beginning but fortunately one okay player busted and a new big fish arrived that just spewed Chips left and right to get me above average stack. Once we got close to the bubble, I had two big stacks at my table and switched to "push or fold" knowing I get more credit in silly spots. In the money I was out of the door once when I 4bet shoved AsQs into Kings and hit on the Turn before someone graciously felt the need to iso shove behind me with Kh Th and my Ace rag held up on the last 4 tables to get back on track once again.
Twice the last 10 minutes before a break I lost 50% of my stack with moves against bigstacks and was 11/11 after the 3rd break, two players from South America were chatty and thought I don't understand Spanish and that they think I am a bluffer. Well yes, I showed them some bluffs on purpose and proceeded to knock out both when finally finding a spot ;) On the last two tables I wanted to play for stacks and the only other really solid player on my table from Latvia decided to chase with 89os and turned his straight against my top pair after I 3bet him preflop for the 2nd time in an hour.
Final result:
Guess I can't complain much, but once get that far you obviously also want the Final Table as well. Checked the lobby in the morning and edzitsu used my Chips wisely and scooped the $162, well done. I'll take the $33 ticket and the entry to the Final ... this time I will actually be there to play it as well.
Back to the daily work grind we go ...
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