2008-08-13

13th Aug: The morning session started good

The session started very good.

After 46 hands heads-up I doubled up my stack from 50$ to 100.80$. After the hand which I posted in my previous post I met on the table very agressive player. After some check-raises I got the control over the table and my stack increased.

After that I joined 3a.m. EST 10$+1$ NLHE tournament. I love this structure - 3000 chips and 15 minutes blind levels. The post will continue with the information of the tournament.

10:30AM Update:
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After first two blind levels my stack increased to 4,735 chips. I am doing very well till now.
I am posting 2 hands from the first 30 minutes:

Hand #1: Lose with AQ against agressive player - stack dropped to 2,300 chips
This player started to went all-in almost each hand (couple of hands before this one we splitted with AJ both) and I got decision to call him. No help from the board and his pocket 8's won the coin flip.

Hand #2: Win full house over full house - stack doubled up
A lot of limpers in this hand and I called from SB with my pocket nines. Another nine on the flop and I was happy with my set and checked. I had some worries if the opponent made flush on turn but he shown pocket 4's and my full house 99933 kicked his 44433

10:40AM Update:
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25/50 blind level started good for me - my AKsuited again opponent's all in with AQ and I made nice 7,000 chips stack - very good for this stage of the tournament.
At the moment I have 7,370 chips and 69 position in the standings.
Hand #3: AKs won against AQ

11:05AM Update:
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No action in last level before the break and I finished the first hour with stack of 6,995 chips and 150/586 position. Average stack is 5,400. No needs to change anything after the break at the moment.

11:15AM Update:
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Hand #4 Unsuccesfull bluff
No comments about his preflop call, but I didn't find the right way in this hand and my stack dropped.
With 3,700 chips I still keep my chances in the tournament.

Couple of minutes later my all in with KJ and flopped King killed me when the opponent called preflop with A5 and made two pairs on the turn. My bad run in the tournaments continues, I have to work a lot over that.

After short break I will continue with HU Cash 50NL.

11:34AM Update:
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Good run in Heads-Up continues. I started with XXHOTCAKEXX, and after about 15 hands I almost stacked him for 40$.
You can see below the both hands which made it:
XXHOTCAKEXX Hand 1 - My set won

XXHOTCAKEXX Hand 2 - He tried bluff, unsuccesfully

After those hands my stack on the table is 90$

12:40PM Update:
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The session continued bad for me. I played with zhaozhan77 and lost almost 100$.

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