Tournament Pain
It’s been a busy few weeks as the Joe Hachem Deep Stack Series consumed a lot of my time, while another related project took up the rest of it. We wrote daily reports and covered several events live for PokerNetwork, while I manage to also play a few events myself.
I thought it was going to be another disappointing series as I looked to try and secure my first cash result in a live major. I was deep in the opening event before having pocket kings cracked by ace-queen within sight of the money. I also played solid in the limit event, despite being short the whole way before losing QJ vs QT all in pre, within one table of the money. I busted early in my next NLHE event, before tackling the PokerPro event. It was the first event where I amassed some chips and was confortable the whole way through. Unfortunately I suffered from some techincal problems that the machines were having which caused me to lose my blinds at a crucial stage of the tournament. Down to the last 11 players and playing five-handed I ran my AT into AK in a blind battle, was crippled and eliminated soon after, just three spots from the cash.
I played another NLHE event and busted early before going deep in the 6-Max. This tournament, despite being the largest buy-in for me for the series, was the most enjoyable and comfortable to play. I was able to accumulate chips early and was in control of my table which had a couple of solid pros on it. I just have a better feel for where I’m at during a hand when playing six-handed that the full ring boredom. Unfortunately I made one costly mistake in this event. I was drawn into a pot from the small blind in a limped pot with Q9 and saw a KQ3 flop. An early position limper fired a small bet which I decided to call with my middle pair. I then turned a 9 to make two pair. I guess I overplayed by hand by check-raising my opponent all-in, however my main mistake was that I misread the size of his stack. I thought he had three grey $1,000 denomination chips behind, but the one at the bottom was actually a yellow $5,000 chip. The greys and yellows are very hard to distinguish across the table. Of course I should’ve asked for a count. Anyway my opponent called with KQ and I took a big dent. I tried to fight back, but Sam Youssef got moved to the table and proceeded to open every pot like a madman. I finally made a stand with A8 but ran into AJ and was eliminated in around 40th place.
0/6 in the JHDSS, with only the Main Event to come…was it even worth the bother?
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