Imagine a ragged busted pissed off donkey angrily saddling up to a seat at the wsop. We have had a terrible ride thus far and long for the saner days of Don Quixote.
Today is a 10am start - very strange. It's a deep stack tournament, which we prefer because it allows us to play more hands hunting and then play post flop (which we believe, perhaps incorrectly, is where we are strongest) starting 25-50 with 15,000 in chips.
We don't play a hand for the first five or six and then play four in a row. It was too fast to take notes so this will be a little sketchy.
Seats 3 and 4 limp and 5 raises to 125. Weak raise with 175 already in. We call from seat 6 with 9To. Weak hand but this is why we like deep stack. Seat 8 raises to 375 and everyone folds to weak ass seat 5 who calls. We call and the pot is about 1300 when the flop comes 359 with 2 spades. Hmmm. Seat 5 checks and we check believing that seat 8 will try to buy it. He does. He bets 1100, which is like screaming "please don't call!" Seat 5 folds and we min raise to 2200. He thinks for a minute and calls. Hmmm, probably doesn't have an over-pair. Turn comes Ts giving us top 2 pair but 3 spades on the board. We don't want another spade. We bet 3000 and he calls. Hmmmm. River comes 4d. Perfect. No spade and didn't pair the board. We bet 5500 hoping he's misplayed AA or KK. He goes into the tank and folds. Oh well, great pick up anyway.
Next hand we have TJ and flop a jack against 3 players. Two of them call our small bet and the turn is a rag. The bb calls our turn bet and the river is a rag. He checks and we check. He had flopped an open ended straight draw and rivered a pair. Our jacks take it down.
Next hand we have JQh. Yep 9T followed by TJ followed by JQ. We raise preflop and get 2 callers. The board flopped something like 34T. We check and they check and the turn comes J. We bet and they fold.
We at under the gun with AQd and raise to 125. We get 2 callers and the flop comes 9TA with one diamond. We check. We are most likely good but someone could have 2 pair. Seat 4 bets 175 and we call to see the turn heads up. It's a K. Hmmm. Not good as this does nothing for us but create a gut shot straight draw and it increases her 2 pair odds (yep - lady in seat 4). We check and she bets 375. We call. River comes J giving us the nut straight. We bet 1500 and she raises to 3300. We three bet and she pushes to split the pot with her JQ. We had her pre-flop and post flop but she turned a straight and we got lucky to catch up on the river.
We raise to 150 from seat 5 with 88 and get called by the blinds. Flop comes KQQ. Sb checks and bb bets 250. Hmmm, looks like a bluff. Here's what we're thinking - I've been pretty aggressive so if he did hit the flop, he would more likely check and let me bet it. The fact that he bet it, in this case, weighs a little against him having it. Also, as long as he doesn't have one of the Ks or Qs we are very likely in the lead. We call and watch for his turn action. Sb folds. Turn comes another K. He checks. Fantastic card for us. It couldn't have made him better because if he had one he already had us beat. However if he has a Q, he has to worry that we called with a K and now have kings full. We bet 375 hoping it will look like a suck bet, just low enough to make him call when we have a monster. He folds. Great.
Playing 50-100. We are in seat 4 with QK and raise to 250. Seats 6, 8 and 9 call and the bb raises to 1250. Hmmm. We call and seat 6 calls. The flop comes A9T with two diamonds. All we have is a gut shot straight draw when bb bets 700. Weird. The pot is over 4000. There's no hand he can have that makes that make sense. There's a straight draw and a flush draw and lions and tigers and bears. For 700 we call and hope a jack turns. Seat 6 calls and the turn comes a 4c. Total rag. Bb checks and we check. Seat 6 bets 2200. Bb folds. This is the suck bet scenario. The pot is over 6000 and we would think he's begging for a call, but like the flop bet, there are just too many possibilities on this board for a suck bet to make sense. And his call on the flop, as opposed to a raise of the weak 700 means he doesn't have much to defend. We are in a perfect position to raise to 6600 and bluff him out of a big pot. The problem is that he could have a weak ace and call us and we literally have nothing but a jack prayer to back up our bluff. We fold. Hmmmmm.
Seat 3 limps and seat 4 raises to 300. We call from seat 6 with 55 and see the flop with the blinds and seat 4. It comes 467. Great flop for us as it probably didn't hit seat 4 and gives us the open ended straight. Unfortunately there's a good chance it hit one of the blinds but they both check. Seat 4 bets 450 and we raise to 1450 hoping to take it down. We are happy to see he blinds fold but seat 4 calls. The turn comes T. That could have hit him but he checks. We take another stab betting 2200 and he tanks for a minute and then calls. The river comes 6, pairing the board. He checks. Hmmm. The river didn't help him but he's been calling us down and likely won't call with anything we beat (even AK) or fold anything that beats us. We check and he shows KK to take it down. Ouch. We are back around our starting stack.
Seat 3 raises to 250 and gets called by seat 4. We call with 9Qd in seat 5 and the bb calls. 4 of us see the flop 279 with 2 diamonds. Great flop for us. Bb checks and seat 3 bets 700. Seat 4 calls and we just call. He could have an overpair and let's see if we get a diamond before he gets to bet again. Bb folds and 3 of us see the turn Ks. Seats 3 and 4 check. Strange. We check to see the river and its a 9! Seat 3 bets 1200. Hmmm. Does he have a 9. His betting would support that, but is his kicker better than Q? He preflop raised, which doesn't support A9. He checked the turn, which doesn't support K9, 97 or 92. We raise to 3600 and he calls. He had A9 and takes it down. It was a loose preflop raise, but it worked for him and donkey is limping.
Seat 3 raises to 300 and gets calls from seat 7 and 8. We call from the bb with 46o. Bad starting hand but we're already in for 100 and there's no one behind us to raise. Flop comes 6JQ. We check our tiny pair and seat 3 bets 800. Seat 8 calls. The pot is almost 3000 so we call. This would only happen with the deep stacks. The turn comes 4 giving us 2 pair and surely not helping them. We check and seat 3 bets 1200. Seat 8 calls. We can't slow play anymore. They each likely have a pair and are looking for their second to crush our small two pair. We raise to 4200 and they both fold.
We play a handful of less memorable hands, winning and losing a few hundred here and there. We end round 2 with 16000 in chips. Just about where we started, ragged busted and pissed off.
All the best,
El Donkey
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