Tournament Sunday (Addendum)

Ok I just got knocked out of the FTP 750K too. I chipped up from 3000 to 11000 and I have no idea how because quite frankly I didn’t care and wasn’t paying attention at all because I was so annoyed with the results of my first nine tournaments. I then got it in on a flop of 528cc with A3c versus someone who flatted preflop with QQ and hit an Ace on the turn to win a 17000 chip pot. Suddenly I had 20000 in chips and was coming 4th out of over 2000 remaining. Time to concentrate…

I then had around 22000 when this hand came up. I had AA on the button and it was folded to the cutoff who opened with an 15000 stack to about 820, an open of about 2.5x. I decided to just flat since there was a good chance he had nothing and would fold to a 3-bet. Also the big blind in this hand was PXFactor, a player whose name I recognised. I’m not quite sure who he is but I think I’ve seen him on some high stakes heads-up tables and his name in any case suggests he knows about PokerXFactor and hence tournaments in general. Thus I thought there was a good chance if I flatted that he’d squeeze. After I called the small blind called as well which got me a little nervous since PXFactor now had awesome odds to see a flop and I didn’t particularly want to see a four way flop with my AA with quite a bit of money behind (relatively). Fortunately PXFactor did his job and squeezed to 3777 total. The original raiser called and through my muffled excitement I decided to also flat. The pot was now big enough that I could profitably get it in on any flop and I salivated at the thought of PXFactor pot size c-betting all-in and the cutoff calling all-in on the flop. The small blind folded and the flop came T64r and PXFactor checked (probably having squeezed with air) and the cutoff shoved all-in for a pot sized bet. I called and PXFactor folded.

The cutoff showed JJ and I’m in my happy place. I’m a 92% favourite to win a 33K pot and have a chipstack of 40K+, good for second position in the tournament with 1000 people left.

I think you can guess what happened next…

FML.

And yes, I did go 0 for 11 today. Not one. Single. Cash.

I think I’m going back to the casino tomorrow (Tuesday) since the workers are coming in and ripping out our carpet. I’ll go play the 5/5 game again and register for Thursday’s opening event of APPT Sydney as well. I’m obviously due to run good so in that tournament my plan will simply be to shove every hand and watch the bad beats ensue. Wish me luck.