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With an off day from the Bellagio tournament and a day full of huge guarantees online, there is no way I could pass up playing on the computer. I wake up at 1PM and fire up as many tables as possible, then throw on my headphones and completely zone out.
I was wise to arrange a house with a group of guys who are as big (if not bigger) workaholics as I am, and with the huge Sunday guarantees, there’s no chance anyone in the house would skip playing today. Unfortunately, I only have the laptop to work with, so the most tables I can realistically play is 10, and even that is a major bitch to manage on the one screen. Because of the massive multi-tabling and overlap, I’m forced to play pretty straight forward all day, trying to keep things as automatic as possible.
By the end of the day, I’ve made one final table, a $75 buy-in $17,500 guarantee tournament that due to it being Sunday, has a nearly $12,000 first prize. I come into the final table second in chips and pretty much coast into six-handed in second, a little behind the chip leader. I haven’t been very aggressive or out of line when the largest hand of the day comes up:
My stack: ~557K, Button: ~570K, blinds 8,000/16,000 with 2,000 ante. I hold Ac-Kh in the SB.
Pre-flop: Folds to the button, button raises to 36,363, I re-raise to 118,000, BB folds, button instantly crams, I instantly call. The button tables 2-2 (for some reason online, people four bet/shove on me very wide quite often and I’m not sure what I’ve done to earn this LAG-tarded image.)
Flop: 9c-8c-4c
Turn: 4d
River: Jc
I explode out of my chair yelling “BOO YAH!!” and high five Tom. I now have over 1.1 million with the next biggest stack holding 301,000.
Going into heads up I have 1.88 million to my opponents 269,000, but he doubles up by sucking out with A-3 against my A-5. I chip him down a little before we get involved in a major pot:
My stack: ~1.63 million, SB: ~514K, blinds 12,000/24,000 with 3,000 ante. I hold Qs-3s in the BB. The SB has been playing pretty aggressive and spewy, and seems very bluff capable. He’s also been open raising a ton.
Preflop: SB completes, I check.
Flop: 3c-6h-Ad
I check, SB bets 24,000, I call.
Turn: Ts
I check, SB checks.
River: Kh
I check, SB fires out 96,000, nearly full pot. I go into the tank and try to add up the hand. The way this guy is playing, there is almost no chance he limps an A pre. I also really don’t think he limps K-Q. Additionally, most of his bets with good hands have been sized to get calls, making his close to pot bet totally off for the big hand he’s trying to represent. I call and he tables Js-8s and is crippled.
It’s not long before I get a chance to finish the tournament. Going into the hand, he has been instantly cramming over all my completes all through the heads-up match, so I decide to try and trap:
My stack: ~1.82 million, BB: ~325,000, blinds 12,000/24,000 with 3,000 ante. I hold Ah-Tc in the SB.
Pre-flop: I complete, BB shoves, I instantly call. BB shows Qh-Jd and I need to hold.
Flop: 5h-6d-4h
Turn: 2h
River: 4s
In the entire 90 days I’ve been traveling, I have found my way online for only five of them. I have won a tournament on four of those. I hope I run this good forever. Especially, tomorrow.
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