1.2 Million Going Into Day 6

The starting table was about what I was expecting. There were a couple of good players, one of whom quickly lost a flip to me with AK to my JJ to get busted, and then a few quite weak players. Even more to my good fortune, a few of the weak players took sizable pots off of a few of the good players, which helped to keep the latter out of my way. In addition to the coin flip, I won two big pots that skyrocketed me over a million chips in the first half hour:

I call an early position raise with 22, and the SB calls also. Flop 7s 4c 2s. We all check- against better players I might bet here but right now I really felt like it was overwhelmingly likely these guys had nothing. Turn 3s. SB checks, other guy bets 26K, I make it 90K, SB folds, guy calls. River 3, guy bets 100K, I shove for like 300K more, he folds.

SB (TheOracleAA) open limps, and I check Q3s. Flop Q86, he checks, I bet 7K, he calls. Turn 3, he bets 16K, I make it 60K, he calls. River 3, he checks, I bet 200K, he calls and mucks.

I played another interesting pot with Oracle later in the day. He opened UTG, and I called UTG+1 with TT, everyone else folded. Flop 842, he checks, I bet 20K into 60K pot, he calls. Turn 3, he checks, I bet 75K, he calls. River 4, he checks, I bet 175K, he makes a crying call with JJ. That’s what I get for going for thin value in a tournament, but I dunno- we talked about the hand and he agreed he may well play 77 and 99 the same way. Honestly I thought even AK could be possible for him to call if he thought I was just barreling at it.

Much later in the day, the thin value betting worked out well for me in a weird way, though. Blinds 8K/16K, I opened to 42K with AKo on my button. SB folds, BB, this kid from Toronto who was acting like a huge douche, called. The flop came 3s 4s 6c. We both checked. Turn A, he checked, I bet 35K, he raised to 90K, I called. River 9s, he checked, and as I reached for chips, he told me not to go turning my hand into a bluff. I was pretty sure my hand was good and that he wasn’t putting me on a flush, since I hadn’t bet the flop, so I bet 200K. He instantly threw his hand away and started whining about how sick it was that I had gotten there and he shouldn’t have tried to get tricky on the flop, etc. That doesn’t sound like a hand that loses to AK….

So that was fun. Thanks for following along, and wish me luck tomorrow!

16 thoughts on “1.2 Million Going Into Day 6”

  1. Hi Andrew,

    I’m following your progress closely, impressive as always!
    Good luck on day 6!

    About the set hand, you raise it up on the turn when straight and flushdraws hit.. The pot is 3way; unlikely UTG has a straight or flushdraw, but are you not worried the small blind comes over the top of your raise once in a while? You’ll hardly get the price on the redraw – which is not always good. Besides the SB didn’t get a chance to show strength on the flop.

    About the Q3s, are you checking pre because it’s suited or are you worried he’s going to limp-raise? Pretty sick run out 🙂 what do you think he was holding ? I’m confused by his turn lead on this dry turn followed up with another bet-call move.. can’t imagine he had a twopair hand like Q8 / Q6 / 86 .. but also can’t imagine he had the AQ ;D
    Given you’ve showed so much strength I think he has to have had Q8/Q6 :\

    TT v JJ hand, how do you feel about his flop check.. would you like his flop check with 99/77?

    did your Toronto kid understand poker at all? 🙂
    you could have put him on life tilt showing him one card, the off suit king 😉

    Good luck tomorrow!

    • If he does he does, but I don’t think it happens too often. More important I think to chase him out and charge UTG for what is quite possibly a draw. I’d expect SB to lead those hands most of the time on the turn.

      Re: Q3s, it’s possible he limp-raises, if he does limp-call he’s not just going to check-fold whiffed flops, etc. I just wanted to keep the pot small, as I think I have a better chance of outplaying him that way. I don’t know what to make of the turn lead, but I think he could do it with a hand weaker than a Q, like an 8 or 6, for protection and because he thinks I have very little. I was planning to raise turn and then check down river until I saw that I’d made two pair (I didn’t look at turn card until after he’d bet). The thing about me showing a lot of strength is that he probably gives me a polarized range for doing that. So when a seemingly innocuous card hits the river, and I bet big, 76 probably isn’t too different from Q8.

      I think he played the JJ hand well, especially if I’m going to barrel off with TT (which, I reminded him, most players are not). I could see playing 99 and 77 the same way but maybe folding the turn or river with those.

      The Toronto kid was actually pretty good, he was just a brat. Showing the King would have been awesome!

  2. Table 347
    Seat 1: David Baker (951000)
    Seat 2: Andrew Brokos (1223000)
    Seat 3: Eric Baldwin (292000)
    Seat 4: Russell Rosenblum (152000)
    Seat 5: Brian Jensen (521000)
    Seat 6: Rafael Sansrodrigo (440000)
    Seat 7: Breeze Zuckerman (738000)
    Seat 8: Paul Evans (305000)
    Seat 9: Adam Levy (1147000)

    Another rendez-vous with Bakes;) I guess you’re too deep in the tournament to get a really soft table. At least you have position on Bakes and roothless. Tough table afaik. GL

  5. Lol “this kid from Toronto who was acting like a huge douche”. The TT hand w/ oracle is pretty odd, sounds like an interesting dynamic.

    Keep it up + GL!

  7. We see the names and the amounts of the players at your table, and maybe you’ll get the scoop on each as you have in past days. You’re going in strong- have fun and we’ll be following!

  8. Good luck Andrew!

    I’d totally written off poker earlier this year. But your continued success at the WSOP has got me re-thinking the lack of effort I put into the game.

    All the best on Day 6!

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