Well, I really wanted to play in the Full Tilt $1,000 WSOP qualifier to the Main Event tonight, but didn’t want to pony up the $1K. So I was trying to satellite in via their $160 STTs. The structure of these was 1st gets the seat and 2nd gets $290 and 3rd gets nothing. Well of course, I end up 3 handed after a long battle and actually have the chip lead for a while. The short stack starts pushing all the time and it is pretty obvious he is doing any 2 cards. Then this hand happens:
Blinds are 150/300
Button (6,730)
SB (1,670)
Hero (5,100)
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [6c Kc]
Button Folds
SB raises to 1,670, and is all in
Hero calls 1,370
SB shows [3d Td]
*** FLOP *** [4h 7d Kd]
*** TURN *** [4h 7d Kd] [Jd]
*** RIVER *** [4h 7d Kd Jd] [9s]
SB shows a flush, King high
Hero shows a pair of Kings
SB wins the pot (3,340) with a flush, King high
So much for guaranteeing myself second place $$. It went downhill after that, with me clawing back to the chip lead and then pushing 2 times right into pocket kings. What are the odds of running into kings 2x 3 handed in the course of maybe 20 hands? They can’t be that good. hehe. So I ended up going out on the bubble, which was very frustrating since S N G’s are my bread and butter and I really wanted to play in the qualifer.
After that crappy result, I only had about $110 left which wasn’t enough to play another $160 qualifier so off I go to the 1-2 no limit tables. I posted this hand over in the community, but figured I would see about comments here as well. I had only been at the table a short while so I didn’t have any reads. I will take comments on all streets, but really am not sure about the river call. It felt like spewing chips a little.
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $2 BB (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)
UTG ($71.90)
UTG+1 ($144)
MP1 ($99.75)
MP2 ($73)
MP3 ($200)
CO ($238)
Button ($269.20)
Hero ($187.25)
BB ($17)
Preflop: Hero is SB with Th, Ts.
2 folds, MP1 raises to $7, 3 folds, Hero calls $6, 1 fold.
Flop: ($16) 5d, Js, Jh (3 players)
Hero checks, MP1 checks.
Turn: ($16) 6c (3 players)
SB bets $12, MP1 calls $12.
River: ($40) 4s (3 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $20, Hero calls $20.
MP1 shows Jd Qd
Final Pot: $80
I didn’t end up getting to $160 soon enough so didn’t get to play in the WSOP qualifer. I have a friend visiting this weekend so won’t be able to play in most of the last chance qualifiers so it looks like I will have to win my seat out in Vegas if I want to play this year.