Alright so I’m cruising at this point…have direct position on the best player at the table and have people quaking in my midst. The two guys to my left are continually bitching about me stealing their blinds, etc. I build my stack off one guy in a few different pots-
I open A6, he calls from BB. Flop T62r he check/calls a bet. Turn T he donks small, I call. River 3x he donks the same amount and I call, he mumbles something like “You have it for sure” and shows AK.
VERY next hand I open A6s in CO, he calls from SB, BB calls too. Flop A49cc, he checks, I bet, BB folds, he check/raises all in for about 100k (after I bet like 10k)…I’m pretty skeptical at this point but decide to fold, not really sure.
A few orbits later I call his open with 88, flop 8Q5dd (I run well), he check/calls. Turn 5 he checks small, I bet, he calls. River 2x he donks really small, I jam the rest of his chips in and he folds, showing JJ. Nice pot.
I think for a while I hold the chip lead, building nice large titanic looking stacks. Others had a few nice stacks as well and the field was dwindling.
With that said, my stack started to drop in the later parts of day 1. A few bad opens (resulting in me either getting 3-bet or called or other spazzy shit like the BB calling then full pot donking into me on the flop) and a few bad plays (where I once opened QQ, bb called, flop Axx check/check, turn K he donks small I call, river A he bets again and I call and lose to KQ).
The structure itself is kindve lame…the blinds/antes start to get pretty big and there’s not much play. A few lost pots result in a loss of a chip lead -
H1- I open A5o, BB calls (new guy, he seems semi competent relative to the field). Flop JT9dd he checks and calls a bet. Turn J he donks into me and I fold, I think I hear him whisper he had 87 and saying he played it bad, though, I’m not sure.
H2- I open ATo a few hands later, same guy calls from BTN. Flop KT2cc, I check, he checks. Turn 8c, I bet (I have Tc) and he calls a bet. River 3x I bet again for value and he calls, mucking his hand.
So I’m card dead for the next few hours, down to probably 13bbs or so, getting chipped away. At this point we’re probably down to like 19 people or something. I have like 74k with 2.5k/5k blinds. Our table is short handed as well (since we busted a few people) and we were down to six.
Same guy as above opens to 20k from MP. I’m in the BB with QJo and shoved (though, I think this was/is a mistake)…seeing as he’s probably never folding with 4x raise and my hand isn’t all that great. I think a 2.5x open and my shove is pretty good but this, not so much. He calls, flips over 88 and I win a race on a QJxxAx board.
I’m sitting decent and decide to just grind out the rest of the night…we play down to 16 players when it hit 3:00am, I’m sitting at probably average in chips with 187k with like 20ish bbs. I was pretty wiped at this point, as we played for like 13 hours.
Final table/results/etc will be posted tomorrow, this is a bit long.