Matt Vaughan
King of Moody Rants
Bronze Level
I'd been thinking a long time about getting back into the private game I was playing a number of months ago. Finally got back in touch with people and got ready to play.
I tried to play Friday, but game wasn't running. Same story on Saturday pretty much. Today I knew there would be though, and planned to play. During my absence, the club started running weekly Sunday tournaments. They are $265 entry, and they are bounty tourneys ($200 pool + $50 bounty + $15 fee).
I was thinking of entering it, and decided to basically make a last-second decision based on the lineup that were entering it. I knew that it usually got 12-15 runners, so I could look them up from cash hands to see if any of the somewhat not-terrible ones were entering.
Basically, long story short is that only one or two players were confirmed not terrible in the 10 that were in so I decided to hop in. Meanwhile I started some 1/2.
Pretty quickly lost a buyin at 1/2. Wasn't focused, didn't play very well. Got coolered in one spot where I flopped top and bottom on a monotone board in a limped pot and couldn't get away on the blank turn or river.
But ran deep in the tournament. It ended up having just 13 runners, and would pay only 2 spots. I got my first bounty pretty early in the tournament. I was denied my second bounty TWICE when I got in AA against AJ and he runnered a broadway straight. Then against the same guy I had AA again and he had A4s, flopped his bottom pair and turned trips. I couldn't spike my 1 outer.
But I was still in with a decent stack. I pretty much coasted to the final table, though I didn't have a huge stack at any point. It was 6max, and the very first hand, MP shorty jammed and I had A3ss in the bb. I was getting 1.75:1, only had to call 1/6 of my stack, and would get the $50 bounty if I won. I called.
The villain had 44 and I spiked an A on the flop. No sweats on the turn and I held on the river to the pot and the bounty, putting me in an even more comfortable chip position.
I kind of coasted again through the final table up until 3-handed. During 4-handed I kind of just got to chip up little by little from stealing blinds. But 3-handed was tougher. We were on the bubble, so no one was really spazzing. And while they weren't GOOD, they weren't as terribad as the rest of the field. Plus being loose and sticky to hands postflop plays better 3-handed than 6-handed.
We were 3-handed for a long time - at least 4 or 5 blind levels (40 or 50min). I held AIPF in a key spot where I 4b jammed AQ over the weaker player's 3b. He tank-called with A9 and I held. The better player was making better postflop decisions, but he was too tight. And he was on my right.
Eventually the tight player jammed A7o and got tank called by the weaker player holding Q8s. The jam was for something like 12bb. 8 on the flop spelled doom for the stronger player, and we were HU, with me at a 3:1 chip disadvantage.
Bubble burst! I was guaranteed a $910 + 3x$50 bounties at this point. Up top was a cool $1,690 + my 3x$50 bounties and another 2 -> one for busting my opponent and another for being the last man standing and keeping my own bounty. It was clear my opponent was weak, but his aggression kept me from exploiting him heavily at first. I did manage a few pretty awesome moments. A couple spots where I made exploitable (but I think correct) folds, and at one point I value bet the river with 3rd pair on a not-so-pretty board and got snap-called by worse.
The blinds went up though, and I wasn't gaining a ton of traction. I managed to get from a 3:1 disadvantage, to even, to a 2:1 advantage, but we swung back and forth to even again. In the end I 3b jammed 55 for villains 18bb effective stack. He tank-called with KJ (which seemed pretty terrible to me). The flop showed an A and a K, but also a 5, so I was virtually home-free, and the 9 OTT secured me the win.
I'm about to go to sleep now, but I couldn't help writing this down now while it was fresh.
In for $265.
$1,690 in cash and $250 in bounties =
Out for $1,940.
I tried to play Friday, but game wasn't running. Same story on Saturday pretty much. Today I knew there would be though, and planned to play. During my absence, the club started running weekly Sunday tournaments. They are $265 entry, and they are bounty tourneys ($200 pool + $50 bounty + $15 fee).
I was thinking of entering it, and decided to basically make a last-second decision based on the lineup that were entering it. I knew that it usually got 12-15 runners, so I could look them up from cash hands to see if any of the somewhat not-terrible ones were entering.
Basically, long story short is that only one or two players were confirmed not terrible in the 10 that were in so I decided to hop in. Meanwhile I started some 1/2.
Pretty quickly lost a buyin at 1/2. Wasn't focused, didn't play very well. Got coolered in one spot where I flopped top and bottom on a monotone board in a limped pot and couldn't get away on the blank turn or river.
But ran deep in the tournament. It ended up having just 13 runners, and would pay only 2 spots. I got my first bounty pretty early in the tournament. I was denied my second bounty TWICE when I got in AA against AJ and he runnered a broadway straight. Then against the same guy I had AA again and he had A4s, flopped his bottom pair and turned trips. I couldn't spike my 1 outer.
But I was still in with a decent stack. I pretty much coasted to the final table, though I didn't have a huge stack at any point. It was 6max, and the very first hand, MP shorty jammed and I had A3ss in the bb. I was getting 1.75:1, only had to call 1/6 of my stack, and would get the $50 bounty if I won. I called.
The villain had 44 and I spiked an A on the flop. No sweats on the turn and I held on the river to the pot and the bounty, putting me in an even more comfortable chip position.
I kind of coasted again through the final table up until 3-handed. During 4-handed I kind of just got to chip up little by little from stealing blinds. But 3-handed was tougher. We were on the bubble, so no one was really spazzing. And while they weren't GOOD, they weren't as terribad as the rest of the field. Plus being loose and sticky to hands postflop plays better 3-handed than 6-handed.
We were 3-handed for a long time - at least 4 or 5 blind levels (40 or 50min). I held AIPF in a key spot where I 4b jammed AQ over the weaker player's 3b. He tank-called with A9 and I held. The better player was making better postflop decisions, but he was too tight. And he was on my right.
Eventually the tight player jammed A7o and got tank called by the weaker player holding Q8s. The jam was for something like 12bb. 8 on the flop spelled doom for the stronger player, and we were HU, with me at a 3:1 chip disadvantage.
Bubble burst! I was guaranteed a $910 + 3x$50 bounties at this point. Up top was a cool $1,690 + my 3x$50 bounties and another 2 -> one for busting my opponent and another for being the last man standing and keeping my own bounty. It was clear my opponent was weak, but his aggression kept me from exploiting him heavily at first. I did manage a few pretty awesome moments. A couple spots where I made exploitable (but I think correct) folds, and at one point I value bet the river with 3rd pair on a not-so-pretty board and got snap-called by worse.
The blinds went up though, and I wasn't gaining a ton of traction. I managed to get from a 3:1 disadvantage, to even, to a 2:1 advantage, but we swung back and forth to even again. In the end I 3b jammed 55 for villains 18bb effective stack. He tank-called with KJ (which seemed pretty terrible to me). The flop showed an A and a K, but also a 5, so I was virtually home-free, and the 9 OTT secured me the win.
I'm about to go to sleep now, but I couldn't help writing this down now while it was fresh.
In for $265.
$1,690 in cash and $250 in bounties =
Out for $1,940.
