WSOP: Lake Tahoe Edition Part II

Well that was a bust...sort of.

I started off playing well, picking up small pots and building my stack. I wasn't getting any real hands, so I didn't get into any real confrontations until the 50/100 level. With a stack of 1875, I open raise to 250 from UTG with JJ. A loose player on my left calls and a short stack on the button with 750 chips goes all in. I reraise all in to isolate, caller folds and the other guy flips up AK. And I lose my race. This was my spot and if I had won this, I was sitting in decent chip position. At the end of the level, I push all in with AJ having 975 and get a slightly shorter stack to go allin with TT and the guy wih AK from before calls me with, you guessed it, AK. K on the flop, A on the Turn and Ten on the river to put me in 3rd place for the pot. I finished around 220 out of 363.

I proceeded to play the 3/5 NL game for the next 10 hours, buying in for $900. I ended up losing that with my QQ vs. AA when I flopped a straight draw and stuck it in. So I rebuy for $500. And in comes Mickey.

Mickey is raising almost every hand from $65 to $100 preflop. He busts once and then starts to catch and destroy some people. I play an AK soft against him for $100 and his JT catches up and then I pushed with AQ and pick up the pot. I should have done that with the AK.

Here comes this hand which was really weirdly played. A couple limpers and Mickey does this weird raise to $20. I call in the cutoff with JJ after thinking if I wanted to reraise or not. It was such a weirdly played hand with the small raises and there were a fair amount of people in the hand, so I decided to play this cautiously. Then the button reraises to $40. And here is where I make a big mistake. Everyone calls and it's to me. The fact that nobody reraised meant there were no Aces/Kings/Queens around and the button was just making a pot building raise. I agonized for a bit and instead of sticking it in (which i should have done) I just call.

Flop is 96x 2 clubs. Mickey makes a smallish bet at the flop ($30) and I reraise to $150, wanting to know where I stand. This tight player cold calls and the Mickey calls. The turn is a non club 8. It's checked to me. I have around $400 left and I figure that any proper bet will commit me and that I need to make a proper bet to protect against the clubs. So I stick it in. To my relief. Tight older guy folds (I thought he had a weak hand because he just cold called me on the flop and was getting fed up with Mickey's antics) and Mickey calls after a while with 104 of clubs. T on the river and I am up a little bit for the session. An hour later my brain stops working and I decide to call it quits because I need to drive home.

$25 session profit. Yay.

Yesterday was way more profitable for me, but the hand on the day there will have to wait until next time.