We trot into Round 11 with our 188,900 in chips. 6,598 players started in this tournament and 1,765 are alive as we start the day. Our table has chip stacks ranging from 25,000 to 400,000. There are 2 people with stacks larger than ours and only one short stack (25,000).
Our table, 111, will be the 3rd table broken today, so we probably will only be here for a few hands.
We're playing 800 1600 with a 200 ante. That means 4200 in the pot before cards fly.
In S4 we raise to 3600 with A9d and get called by S5. Flop comes 47Q with 2 diamonds. We would love to check and get a free card, but he'd probably bet and we'd have to pay to see the turn. It's better to bet it ourselves and get the added benefit of him possibly folding. We bet 5500 and he folds.
Next hand we raise to 3600 from S3 with AK and get raised by the BB to 10500. We have position, so we just call. Flop comes 238 and he bets 12,500. We call, hoping to hit an A or K. Turn comes 7 and he checks. Hmmmm. We fire 22,500 into the pot and he folds.
S4 raises to 3200, gets called by the Button and we call from the BB with 35s. Flop comes A46 giving us an open-ended straight draw. We check and S4 bets 10,000. The Button calls, making this a big enough pot to call. We call and the turn comes J, our first spade. Not good. We check and S4 bets 25000. The button folds and the pot doesn't merit another call for this price. We fold.
Our table breaks and we move to a new table.
We limp from S6 with A4h and get raised by the Button to 4600. We call and the flop comes 56T with 2 hearts. We bet 7500 and he calls. Turn comes 5s. We check and he bets 12500. We call. His bet of roughly half the pot is the borderline of where we would call with a flush draw, but an A may be a winner for us too. The river comes 2c. We check, he bets 17500 and we fold. We are down to 153,000 chips.
S4 limps and we limp from S6 with KK looking for the raiser. Three more people limp! What a strange table. Five of us see the 4TA flop. Terrible. Everyone checks through the whole hand - J turns and 5 rivers. The SB takes it down with AQ.
S5 raises to 3600, button calls, and we call from the BB with K5c. Flop is 23T with 1 club and we fold to S5's bet.
S6 raises to 3800 and we call from S8 with TT. Flop comes 359 with 2 spades. Great flop. He bets 7000 and we raise to 19000; we're really only afraid of JJ, QQ, KK or AA. He calls. Turn comes Qc. Terrible. He checks, but if he has a Q he would trap us this way. We check and hope for a small river card or a T. River card - A falls. Worst possible thing. He bets 20,000 and we fold. His play reflects 2 big cards, from the pre-flop bet, to the call, to the raise on the river.
Very frustrated right now with the cards hitting the table. Haven't won a pot since I sat down here, and not because we're playing tightly. Head in the game.
From S3 we raise to 3600 with JJ and get called by both blinds. Flop comes 23K and they check. Hopefully they don't have a K. We bet 5500 and the SB calls. Turn comes 4. He checks and we bet 10500. He calls. River comes T and he checks. No idea what he has, but if it's a K, he's not folding. We check and show the Js. He mucks. We finally won a hand.
We raise to 3600 from the button with A5 and get called by the SB. Flop comes 46K. He checks and we check. Turn comes 5. He checks and we bet 4500. He calls and the river comes 3. He bets 15000. This makes no sense unless he hit a set of 3s or a straight. Most likely he's bluffing, but we can't beat anything but an all out bluff. A good semi-bluff (ie he has a 6) beats us. We fold.
S5 raises to 3800 and we call from S7 with 77. The BB calls and the flop comes 6TA with 2 spades. BB checks, S5 bets 5900 and we fold.
S8 raises to 3500 and S9 re-raises to 8000. We fold AQ in the SB. Would love to play, but too much chance one of them has AK or AA. Even KK could be disastrous for us.
There were a few hands I didn't relay here, but we end the terrible round with 138,200 left in chips! Starting to feel the words "all in" press on my lips, but have to push that down and make sure we do it at the right time. For example, we could have done it with the pre-flop KK, but we'd be headed home now and the AQ would have all our chips.
All the best,
Eric Kurtzman
Kurtzman Carson Consultants
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El Segundo, CA 90245
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