A few days before April 1st my sister called me up and said that she and my niece wanted to come visit for a day. I was ready to call her bluff, but sure enough at 8am on April 1st they were waiting at the airport. We caught up, hung out on the strip, and went to a hockey game for Shelley's birthday. They left the next day to pick up a car, but we had a lot of fun for 24 hours.
I have played a handful of tournys this month with nothing to show for it. I am going with reads a lot more with mixed results. Case in point: to get knocked out of today's 1K tourny at the Bellagio I called all in with King hi, because I was convinced he had a straight draw. Thats a bit extreme and I need to realize how weak most of these fields are. There is no reason to risk all of my chips in a marginal spot like that one. With the 25K main event coming up I need to be in the right mind set. So the next 2 weeks it will be important to play well. On a side note I made a bet against Ben Fineman today getting 3 to 2 that the main will get 300 contestants. I maybe a fish, but I am a hopeful fish.
I did have a sweat for a final table last night in the Venetian 1K. We were down to 16 players with me at or near the chip lead when the following hand went down. I raised the cutoff with 98dd and the small blind (who has a bunch of chips too) called as well. I had no previous history with him and my only read was that he liked to splash around. The flop was Qd10c6s giving me a double gutter. He checked and I bet 3500 (pot was about 8K). He called and the turn was a Qh. He checked and I checked for fear he could c'raise me off my hand. The turn was a beautiful 7d giving me the nut straight. He quickly bet 13500. My first instinct was to just call, due to the size of the bet. But I convinced myselft he would do that with AQ and KQ as well, so I made a raise to 52K. He tanked forever and counted out his chips and the longer he took the more I tried to look weak. It worked and he called, but the also has 66 for a boat. Another instinct play that went wrong, but thats a huge cooler for that stage of the tourny. I ended up going out 12th and out of the money.
My high school buddies Matt and Andy and coming out on Thursday. We will be going to the Grand Canyon and some other Vegas activities. Cant wait.
Justin "robert07" Young
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