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So I played a session today:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/489207
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/489286
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/489317
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/489339
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/489342
Some were pretty standard spots where I ran bad, others where simply LOL. The weird thing is despite running really bad I still feel good about my game as I'm down only 25k today. I think I'm playing well...possibly the best I've played in a while.
As for WSOP updates, I played a total of about 10 events, and cashed in 2. I went really deep in a 3k event, but busted out when someone decided to limp/shove me allin for 40bbs from the small blind into my big blind. The sickest thing is I had made him fold the best hand 3 times before this hand, and he was SO noticeably frustrated when he limped into my BB. When I looked down at AKo i chuckled to myself a bit and made it 4.5x to go. In the blink of an eye he had shoved his stack in w/ J9hh and I followed immediately after shoving in my chips and tabling my AK. The board ran out QJ-x-9-x, with the turn adding insult to injury. A few hands later I reshipped on him with 55 into his 88, and despite hitting a 5 on the turn it was already too late because the flop had come J-8-6 :/.
My Main Event bustout hand was 100% due to my inexperience with live poker. Maya Antonius (Patrik's Soon-to-be Wife) was at my table playing a good TAG game opening a lot in late position into my BB and SB. People behind her were fighting back by calling a lot and I was fighting back by squeezing a lot ^^. So with this dynamic, one of the older/tighter gentlemen who had been doing a lot of random spastic moves such as opening 5x quickly limped UTG. I looked down at QQ and knew immediately it was the nuts based on how I was playing and popped it up 4x. Somehow it folds around to him and he instantly calls. Flop comes out 2-7-7r and I fire quickly once he checks to me. The guy INSTA check-raises me, and I make the call after thinking "If he fires turn, I'm folding."
On an 8 turn he fires huge leaving himself with a little more than half his remaining stack. I looked down at my hand to look at the beautiful ladies one last time before I fold, but as I did so I thought about it a little more. I had been playing very aggressively, and this guy had been doing a lot of weird stuff. I thought maybe he could overplay 99-JJ like this, or perhaps he could've been just flat out bluffing. So vs a range of 99-JJ/air/AA/KK/7x, I decided to try and make a live read to sway my judgement. I glanced at my hand and play with my cards a little and make mucking motions, clearly indicating that I didn't like the spot I was in. Then I asked him, "Will you show if I fold?" to which he replied "Sure...I'll show you either way" and ended it with a nervous chuckle. This swayed my judgement, and I shoved in my whole stack only to get instacalled by J7hh. GG ME.
After talking to one of my horses Corwin Cole about this situation for a while, I realized my read on his mannerisms wasn't accurate enough to sway my judgement--I should've just folded. Oh well...you live and you learn. I' get'em next time!
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On Friday, I'm flying back to the motherland (AKA China) with my parents and brother. We're making stops in Hong Kong, Macau, Shanghai, Beijing, and Guiyang both for vacation and to visit family. Hopefully we'll be able to get tickets for some Olympic events, but I highly doubt it as we tried to get tickets for the opening ceremonies and couldn't. Before we leave I'm probably going to do one more blog post, and until then hopefully I'll run better!
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