World
Series of Poker T+32 10K Day 2
No,
it's not the lunch break, it's the heartbreak.
I went in to today with 9950, took a shot
at the blinds and got blinded off a little
taking me down to 6.5K, then got back
to 9K with an all-in move at the pot that
got two people to lay down very good hands.
That was the good news, the bad news is
that they were now suspicious of my all-in
so I was going to have to be careful about
doing that again. But then soon after
a miracle hand came along that couldn't
have set up a more perfect situation
I limped with AQo under the gun, you could
question the wisdom of that, I certainly
considered raising, and considered folding,
but limping at this table seemed to work
most of the time, and again I had a pretty
good table. So there were 5 callers, I
needed to flop perfect. Well how about
KJT rainbow, is that perfect enough? I
checked, one big stack guy bet 1500, another
big stack called (both had around 50-60K),
back to me I had to decide whether to
take the pot right there or slow play.
Because of my previous all-in hand I decided
I didn't have to slow play at all, if
they had anything they would most likely
call my obvious bluff this time, so I
shoved in my 8K. The first guy (who had
laid down his hand in the previous all-in)
folded again, the other guy didn't hesitate,
he called with KJo. And the rest is history,
a J on the turn and IGHN. I'm feeling
sick because I read that hand so perfectly
and if I'd won it I would have had over
20K and been back in the race, instead
I'm just another statistic.
I
went into this event thinking I had no
chance, and that mostly likely would have
been true once the field narrowed and
I was up against the big guys, but based
on my table yesterday and the one today,
I think if I had won that hand I could
have gone a long way and had a fighting
chance, I won't be so fearful next year
when I try again to get into the big dance.
Paul
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