Ugly Day

Played a bunch of 45 man sngs today, got skunked, not a single cash. I also played the 8pm 6max KO. Had a good start and a super donkey on my right who kept getting lucky to get all of his chips. He eventually shipped a bunch to me and I was sitting nicely.

Built up a nice stack and kept it slowly building when the antes came into play. Had 20k when the avg was about 14k, 2nd position raises to 1200, I make it 3k with KK, he thinks for a while then shoves for 7k, I call, he has QQ. Spikes a Q on the turn chopping one of my legs off. But I was able to come back, button shoved for 10k when I had 11k in the BB with AQ, and held up against AJ. Went back into semi bully mode, had about 30k when bubble time came around. Abused that a bit. Had an interesting hand where the button raised to 1500, I 3bet from the SB with K9o, he flat calls me. Flop 98x, he has about 6-7k left, and I just hope hes not slowplaying and go allin, he calls with QJc and I hold up. Weird play, especially considering we were very near the bubble. We get into the money and I continue to cruise, taking the blinds when I can.

Lost almost 10k on a hand where I flopped a huge draw, but folded to a turn raise when the guy min raised my 2/3 pot bet and the board had paired. But was still sitting on about 30k. I got moved to a new table and a few hands in I get QJ in the SB. The c/o raises to 3k, and my first thought was that I should reraise. However, this was a player who was at my table earlier and was really pretty horrible player who had a high propensity to bluff. Because of this I decided to flat call his raise, trying to spike a good hand where I could bust him. BB also calls and the flop comes JT8 2 diamonds. I would normally lead out here, but because of the read I had on the raising I wanted to trap him. I check, the BB puts in a pot size bets, then raiser thinks for a big then folds. This is not what I had planned, me and the bettor had about the same stack size and his bet was just under 10k. After a little bit of thought I made the retard move and shoved allin, he called and his AJ held up. He played his hand straight forwardly, the only thing I could hope he had was some draw, in which case he still would have called my shove, and I would have had to dodge a bunch of cards.

How bad was my shove? Pretty bad. I don't really get called by a worse hand unless its something like J9. I am ahead if he has a draw, but if its the nut flush draw he has at least 12 outs, and maybe even a straight draw to go with it. The other scenarios he has AJ or KJ and is way ahead.

I could have folded and had my 27k left and been sitting just fine with the blinds at 500/1k. I am really upset about this move, he played his hand transparently and I just couldn't make the right move. I need to cut out these mistakes deep in tournaments to get my next W.

The thing that made me most upset was that my first instinct was the 3bet the c/o raiser. Had I done this, then the BB most likely wouldn't cold call a 3bet with AJ and I win the hand. The preflop raiser had about 14k total, so if I make it 8k, and he shoves, there is no way I am folding and I am sure my J on the flop would have been enough to take down the pot. Make the 3bet there, and I am probably still playing in the tournament right now.

Next mistake, a good amount of the time I would lead out there against a preflop raiser with top pair. But I had already planned a trap against this specific player. If I lead out about 3500 and the BB raises me then I can get away from my hand for cheap. Instead I check he makes a large bet, and then im stuck in a fold or shove position. Lead out there, and keep the damage to a minimum.

Both of these didn't happen all because I changed my normal plan for the donkey who I thought I had a good read on.

-Boooom