NAPT Mohegan Sun Day 1 Update

Day got off to a good start: I made some big hands and won some big pots during levels 1 and 2 to go on break with about 50K. I’ll post more details after the event is over but basically I played a couple of pots in position against Carter Gill and Kathy Liebert and got there. Generally happy with how I played those but lost some value against Kathy by giving her way too much credit.

During round 3 a new, tough player joined the table on my left. I can’t put my finger on who he was but he was definitely familiar to me and played well until he tilted (to someone else, unfortuntaley). He rivered (and value bet) me to take one big pot, then I tried to take A-high to showdown when I should have turned it into a bluff and ended up having to fold the river to him. Was down around 40K at second break.

I didn’t do much during rounds 5 and 6. Table got tougher with the addition of Jon “FatalError” Aguiar and Adam Junglen, thankfully on my right. I lost one sizable pot going for a thin value bet with 88 on a KK433 board and folding to a shove that MIGHT have been a bluff (but probably not).

Rounds 7 and 8 I was just card dead as the table got tougher and more active. Winning pots without a hand was nearly impossible, and I wasn’t even getting cards good enough to bluff with. Despite the fact that I opened hardly any pots, I still got 3-bet like 2/3 of the time. Just got ground down like that and finished the day with 30,800, just 800 chips more than I had at the start of the day.

We lost about the field, so average stack is probably about 60,000. Here’s to a better tomorrow!