Borgata 12pm
191 runners, 10k starting stacks.
Break #1 18k. Doubled up on: 4 limpers at 50/100 i pop to 400 in sb. one caller - UTG sammy farha type, similar in age, personality, and ethnicity. nice fun-going guy. all others fold. sammy was late, missed perhaps 5 orbits. he actively splashed around after joining the table and has about 8k+. i had increased my stack to about 13k. Flop 899. I lead 800 (about 2/3 pot). sammy asks how much i have behind LOL. he calls. turn 5, i check, he bets 2200. i tank and feel confident in a read. i raise to 5000, he calls. river 6, he shoves, i insta-call and he should know that based on my bet sizing. i show TT he shows KTo for a busted bluff.
Break #2 short update from the loo. stack about 30k just trying to play smart. Some weak players at the table. Down to approx 95 players.
Break #3. Less than 10bb, down to 38. Too many interesting hands to recount here. Passed on a race and had a premium hand lose. i also bet table CL off a hand in which i should have extracted my full house for value, but i was playing for his whole stack and wanted to represent a flush draw, hoping he puts me all in, but he folded. Got lucky also JJ vs QQ we both flop sets but i river a flush.
Busto at 32. not a bad run but a few changes and i could have gone deeper. over all, i think i can now hang with the friday crowd.
i played 1/2NL with a bunch of young guys, including a talkative German guy (i like many things about Germany), and just had a blast. i played many more hands, particularly those that play well multi-way, and it paid off. i recovered about half my tournament entry fee.
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How much did Sammy have?
i edited the blog entry to include stack sizes.
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