Seats 4567 all limp. We haven't seen this yet. We are in seat 8 with AKs, a premium hand. We should raise, but the BB is the short stack with 4400 in chips and hopefully we can induce him to push. We limp, and so does seat 9 and the SB. The BB folds. Sad. Still, we have a monster brewing with 6 other players. Flop comes A47 with 2 diamonds. Great flop for us. Everyone checks to us and we bet 1000 into the 1400 pot. Seats 4 and 5 call. Turn comes 2c, putting 2 clubs on the board. They check and we bet 5000. Seat 4 raises to 10000. Oiy! If he has a set, we're dead. He could have a straight with a 35, but that's highly unlikely. More likely he's on a flush draw hoping we'll fold (or he flopped a set). We call and the river comes Kh. He bets 7000. What to do? The K is a crazy card. It is fantastic if he somehow has 2 pair, but the real threat of a set doesn't get impacted by the K. We call. He shows 35d. He missed is flush draw, but his a straight on the turn. Oiy, that really hurt. That's why we play those 35d sometimes; he got paid big time. We're way down. Time to sit up straight and double up to where we started :( I want to vomit. I'm going to regret not raising pre flop for a long, long time.
Seat 5 limps and everyone folds to us on the button with JQd. We limp and see the flop with the blinds and Seat 5. Flop comes 5JK with 2 spades and a diamond. The BB bets 500 and Seat 5 folds. We call and the SB folds. Turn comes 3s and BB checks. We bet 900 trying to sell a flush. He raises to 2000 and we fold. The bile is spilling upward.
Still thinking of the AKs. I'm not sure there was a worse way to play that hand. Then again, I'm not sure I played it poorly. I would have looked like a genius if the short stack pushed, but I should have folded to the raise on the turn. However, if that raise we're an Ax flush draw, I again would have looked like a genius. The 35 was highly unpredictable. If we though we faced a flush draw, however, we should have pushed all in. My AK couldn't expect to get better. So the play starts to look good, but I should have paid more attention to the number of limpers who got the free flop and I should have given greater chance to a set or straight.
We see a couple flops and discard, each time leaving 600 in the pot. We're down to a third the chips we started with. I'm considering taking a walk, just to relax. That or swearing off anything short of premium hands.
The first player to bust at our table is gone. Probably 15% of the field is busted. That doesn't make me feel better. Aaaggghhh!
In seat 6 we limp in with 67c. Seat 7 limps and seat 8 raises to 800. We call as does seat 7. The flop comes 45Q with 2 clubs giving us an open-ended straight draw and a flush draw, for 15 outs, or roughly 53%. We check and seat 7 bets 1000. Seat 8 folds. If we were playing 3 handed, I might make a small raise to build the pot. Here, with just over 50% playing heads-up, I'd rather take the pot down now or race for the double up. We push all in. He folds; that's just fine. We're back over 10,000, actually over 11.
Seat 3 raises to 500 and gets 3 callers including the short stack. It's only 400 for us to call from the SB with Q9h, so we do and the BB does. Six players. Happy to see a flop for 3000. Flop comes 8TQ with one heart. We check and everyone checks to the button who bets 1600. He's very aggressive, and likely doesn't have a Q, but he could. We call hoping for a 9Q or h to turn. Everyone else folds. Turn comes Td. Terrible, now he beats us with a T. We check and he bets 3000. We have to fold or push. If the turn had been a rag, we might push. We fold. Back to just over 10,000.
We've lost another player; the short stack is gone.
Last hand of the round everyone folds to us in seat 7. We raise to 600 with 45h hoping everyone will fold and make their ways to the bathrooms instead of fight over the final pot. The blinds both call and the flop comes A35 with 1 heart. Not bad, but not great. The SB bets 1000 and the BB folds. Do we call 1000 to win a pot of 2800? Hunt for the 245 or 2 hearts? We call. Turn comes 2. Miracle card; we have a straight. SB bets 800 into us. We were hoping for a big bet; 800 is less than the bet on the flop. Very strange. We have almost 9000; how to get that all in? We call, just hoping the river isn't a 4 (which would put the straight on the board). River comes 2, pairing the board. This could give him a full house, but if that's why we exit the tournament in 2 rounds, so be it. He bets 2000, which is somewhat eclectic in light of the 1000 and then 800. We go into the tank for a minute and then push all in. He goes deep into the tank, which is great, because he would have snap called with a full house and likely with the 46 straight too. He mulls it over for a while. I stand up and get my bag, ready to exit with everyone leaving for break. Finally he calls and mucks his hand when he sees the straight.
Still very frustrated with the AKs hand, but we finish Round 2 with 21,700 in chips. That's a fighting stack, even if it's only 72% of what we started with. That was a great time to get lucky and the double up would indicate that it couldn't have been played better.
Trying to flush the AKs out of my furry donkey head, but I know that's the hand I will most likely remember tomorrow and next year.
Eric Kurtzman
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