As we saddle up to our table in the Brasilia room, table 92, the dealer tells us that our table was already broken and we are moving to table 21. We were going to be in seat eight, which is a good starting seat. Now we are nine, which is slightly better. It is really a trivial difference, but it still feels good.
First hand of the tournament playing 50-100 seat 4 raises to 225. Small raise and no one is sitting in the SB seat so there's dead money. (There are 4 seats with chips but no players). We are a little jittery when we look Down and see QKd on the button. We raise to 625 and the BB and seat 4 fold. We won hand one!
In seat 4 we have AK and raise to 225. Seat 4 and 7 call and we see the TJQ flop. Amazing! We would slow play but there are 2 spades and we are a little too afraid to give a card away. Hmmmm, who are we to be afraid. We check. Seat 4 checks and seat 7 bets 500. Now it's time. We raise to 1400 and seat 4 folds but 7 calls. Hmmmm, a set? 2 pair? Spades? Small straight? KQ? Turn comes 2s. Not good. We certInly can't let another spade fall as we don't have one. We bet 1900 and he RAISES to 3600. We cant get better on the river so calling now means calling a river bet too. Even if another spade doesn't fall, it seems likely that he has it already. We fold. Ouch. Big loss ten minutes in.
They have removed the empty seats from play and we are now playing 5-handed.
Seat 4 raises to 300 and everyone folds to us in the BB where we wake up with AA. Giddey-up. No slow playing here. We raise to 800 and he calls. Great. Flop comes 48Qs. Hmmmm, we don't have a spade. Three on the board is trouble but it's unlikely he has 2. We bet 1100 and he raises to 2800. Not good. He could have a set, a big queen, two spades or anything with the As. We put 1700 in to call to see the turn and it's the best possible card, Ah. We have top set. Unless he has 2 spades, we have him beat. We bet 2800 and he raises to 5800. Hmmm, he could have 2 spades, AQ, A of spades with anything else, a set, 2-pair maybe but probably not? We call as the river is huge. A spade and we are out. If it pairs the board we are all in with a big boat or quads. If it's neither we will call down and hope he doesn't have 2 spades. It's neither. The 6h comes leaving us with top set. We check and he bets 8800 into the 19000 pot. We call and he shows 69s to take it down.
I took a photo of that. Not because i want to remember it. I pray i forget - although you are welcome to a copy if you'd like. Nope - i took the photo so i would have something to do to prevent myself from throwing my chair across the room or doing something really bad.
We are suddenly short stacked, sitting with 6000 in chips when the field average is 30000 and we are not even an hour in. We have had two premium hands, one that flopped a broadway and one that turned top set, both taken down by flushes. Want to scream.
80 minutes in we get our third premium hand. That's a lot in 80 minutes, hopefully this one won't turn into a third disaster.
We raise to 325 from seat 3 with AQc and get calls from seat 4 and the BB. Flop comes 88Q. Great flop unless someone has an 8. We bet 600 and seat 4 calls. The BB folds - good, that was the more likely place for an 8. Turn comes Q. Amazing. We bet 1000 hoping for a call. He folds. All good.
Seat 3 raises to 225 and we have AK in seat 4. Our 4th premium hand. We raise to 800 and everyone folds. Okay. We likely don't get any more from him unless he hits the flop, which would be bad. Okay result for what he likely had.
Seat 3 throws in a big chip and states his raise a little quietly. The dealer asks him to repeat and his voice croaks "three" in a "i am weak please don't raise me" way. Everyone folds to us in the BB and we raise to 1200. He folds. Our cards are irrelevant, but we had 48o.
We have rebuilt the stack to just over 15000. Huge recovery and Donkey likes the taste of blood. In seat 4 we raise to 325 with 99 and get called by the BB. Flop comes 45T. We bet 450 and he calls. Turn comes 3. We bet 800 and he calls. River comes 2. He checks. We check. If he has an A or T he wins and he likely calls with nothing else. He shows AK to take it down. Wow. He slow played the pre flop action and then got lost and wandered onto treasure. He probably shouldn't have called the flop, he shouldn't have called he turn. But he made runner runner for a straight on the river and then checked it hoping we would bet the river.
We see bad flop after bad flop and slide down to 12000.
In seat 3 we raise to 325 with JKh and get called by the BB. Flop comes 5TJ rainbow. He checks and we bet 400. He calls and the turn comes 7. He checks and we bet 900. He calls and the river comes 3. He checks. Hmmmm. Pretty confident we have a winner as the turn and river rags unlikely to have helped him so we want to bet as much as we can and hope for a call. We bet 2100 into the 3300 pot. He calls and mucks when he sees our hand. Great!
We finish round 1 with 17,300 in chips. That's pretty bad, but still a great recovery from 6,000.
Hopefully more to come in two hours - no sooner.
Pleasantries from
Blood-on-the-lips Donkey
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