I played the 1K rebuy a little splashy, but my table was playing fairly nitty. I showed a couple bluffs that worked and from there I got paid off on all my made hands. The big one being KK vs AK for 50K in chips. I did the double add on to put me up to 75K. I chiped up quickly to 100K, but hovered between 120K and 80K for some time. As we approached the bubble I played a bit more aggressivley which allowed me to balloon my stack to 165K when the following hand came up. Player A (a random who on the hand before opened to 16K and folded when a small stack pushed for 30K more), opened for 11K in early. I found AKo and three bet him to 30K in hopes he is either a nit and will fold or feels attacked and will rip with worse. Instead he flat calls. I have not played with him at all, but I guessed he is not capable of slow playing a large hand in this spot. Medium pairs and AQ are the most likely range. The flop was J103 rainbow, he checked and I checked behind. With 135K behind and 75K in pot I did not like a small bet and since I had position I did not like a pot committing bet. The turn was the Ace of hearts and he immediatley bet 50K. I hate my hand and this spot and wanted to fold, but there was too good a chance I had the best hand. I could just call and see if he slows down, but I felt like I would miss some value from his range of worse hands. I decided to rip 85K more and he snapped with the nuts (KQhh). If I could have found the discipline (sp?) to just call and fold to a push on the river, I think that was the correct play. But, since I have never played with him I dont know if I could have done that. So at 115am I busted a couple spots from the money.
I got up Sunday to play the whole slate, but I did not cash in anything making the day a 4K loser. There is a Bellagio tourny today. I have no idea how much or what game, but I am going in to play. I feel like I am playing good poker and expect something to happen soon.
Justin "robert07" Young
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