We have 297,500 playing 600 1200 with 200 ante. The disproportionately large antes make this another prime blind stealing time. There's 3600 in the pot before cards are dealt.
Donkey is tired and going to try to play tight and conservative so as to minimize mistakes.
Seat 4 raises to 2600. We re-raise from seat 6 with AT to 7600 and everyone folds. That's a win of 6200 because of the size of the antes and blinds!
S7 raises to 2600 and we call from the BB with JT. Flop comes 47J and we check because we expect S7 to bet. He checks and the turn comes A. Not good. We check and he bets 4000. We call. River comes Q and he bets 11,000. We call, hoping he's bluffing. He's not. He shows an ace and takes the pot.
S3 raises to 2500 and gets called by 6 and 7. We call from the SB with 9J and the BB calls. Huge pot brewing. Flop comes with a 9 and 2 clubs and everyone checks to the Button who bets 6100. S3 and 6 call, so we call. Huge pot, but we need a 9 or J. The turn came a small club, the betting got crazy, and we got out. Two people wound up with flushes.
We raise to 2600 with AK in S5 and S7 raises to 6600. We just call to see the flop. Flop comes 26K with 2 clubs. We bet 6000 and he calls. Turn comes 6 and we bet 12500. Again he calls. River comes 5c putting 3 clubs on the board. Has he been calling hoping for a club? We check and he bets 13,000. We call and he shows AA. Wow. This round is starting badly. It's time to get nitty (i.e. Just play the very best hands). We're down to about 225,000 in chips again!
SB raises to 3700 and we call from the BB with JQ. Flop comes 8TA and he bets 5000. We call, hoping he doesn't have an A (or that we'll turn a K or 9). Turn comes 4 and he checks. That means he doesn't have an A and thinks we do (because we called). We bet 9500 and he folds.
S7 raises to 2500 and the Button makes it 7800. We have JJ in the SB and fold. That's playing nitty. We're happy to see S7 re-raise to 15,000, but the SB goes all in for 47,800. We couldn't play JJ for that. When they both show KA, we wish we had called!
We raise to 2600 with AQc from S4 and get called by the BB. Flop comes JKK with 2 clubs. He checks and we bet 4000. He calls and the turn comes 6d. He checks and we bet 8000 and he calls. River comes 5h. He checks and we bet 12500 hoping he'll fold. He goes into the tank for a full two minutes, but then he calls with a 9J to take down the pot.
I played a few hands and folded after the flop, taking small damage on each hand of a few thousand.
We're down to 210,000 and this isn't going anywhere good. The cards have just been gross and the betting increments are too high to survive that grossness. It doesn't help that we lost with both our premium hands, one of which got hit by AA. It's not just that though, we've made some bets we shouldn't make and have thereby failed to minimize losses, which was the game plan. We have 50 minutes left. Focus, focus, focus.
Despite these efforts, the round continued this way. I can't recount the hands because I couldn't take notes and I got too depressed to commit the hands to memory. Pot after pot flopped cards of no use to me. I can only hope to come back with renewed vigor on Thursday, and of course a touch of the luck that I had for the first 8 rounds.
We close Round 10 happy to still be in the tournament, sure we have quite a bit more than the average stack, trying to forget that we had 320,000 in chips, but looking forward to coming back Thursday with 188,900 in chips. I will try to remember that we started the day with 137,000, so all in all a good day; we picked up over 50,000.
Thanks for tuning in. Sorry the last round was so depressing. More on Thursday.
Your Donkey
All the best,
Eric Kurtzman
Kurtzman Carson Consultants
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