Game 103

Game 103 was the £70 tournament at Leo’s casino. Managed to finish 14th out of 79 entries but only 9 got paid. Didn’t have much to play with for the first 4 hours of the tournament, eventually managed to build a 40BB stack late on with 20 players remaining. Eventually went out after jamming 15bb from MP with JJ, button woke up with AK and managed to hit an A on flop and that was that. Made two big mistakes late on which cost me a bigger stack and a better chance to make inroads in the game.

Noteworthy hands

When down to 2 tables (18 players) and in the first hand I played on the new table with new players I was in the BB with Q10o. Folds around to the SB who decided to raise, 2.2x the blind. I make a standard call and we go to a flop. Flop comes QhJh8d. SB bets 50% pot and I call. Turn is the Kc and SB just open jams for 25BB. I really felt like he was weak/scared but because there was so much of his potential range that would have had me crushed I decided to fold.

On further reflection, I’ve learned that I should have raised on the flop if not gone all-in. Even on the rare occasions when SB has AA and KK, I still have at least 32% of equity against these hands as I could make 2 pairs or even a gutshot straight.

The other mistake was open-folding AJo to a UTG raise when I was in the HJ. This is never a fold, it’s a call or a 3bet.

Thoughts

I’m not going to lie, tonight after I built up my stack I froze. After playing the short stack for so long I didn’t change gears. I didn’t look to further enhance my stack, I opted to conserve it which at that stage of the tournament is the completely wrong thing to do. I’ve decided to expand the things I write about post-game from tonight. I slipped into the habit of just saying whether I’d played well or played badly and I stopped analysing mistakes leaving myself open to make them again. From now on I’m going to go into more depth and make notes of hands that I am uncertain if I played them correctly and hopefully figure out and remember the correct decisions to make.

Recap so far….

103 games.

Eleven 1st place finishes.

535 hours of poker.

£7320 buy-ins.

£19090 in prize money.

£11770 Profit.

£22 Per hour.

160% Return on investment.

P/L + £11770