Late night on Tilt
I am playing the $17K guaranteed tournament on FTP. The buy in for this tournament is $24+2 and drew 907 players, giving us a prize pool of $21.8K. This tournament features 12 minute levels and 3,000 starting chips. The play has been as expected –bad. We have lost 132 during the first level of play.
On-line play is not my strong suit. It is difficult to keep my mind from wondering. So I am writing this blog while playing. It is my hope that my writing here will help to keep me in touch with the action on the table. Unfortunately I type way to slow to provide commentary on every hand, so this experiment seems to be a failure thus far.
Dag open limped from utg+1. Mr. R rose to pot and it is folded around to Dag. Dag ends up taking the pot on the river with a large bet. No show down. He is UTG now and open limps again. Mr. R pot raises and I fold my 4 7 off-suit from the cutoff. The blinds fold and they are heads up. Each street is checked down. Board shows 2 K J K 10. Dag wins the 900 pot after calling a river bet from Mr. R with pocket eights.
Just folded my K6 suited. The same two players are in this hand with . A turn bet gets Hia to fold. 4 4 A A J on the board and a river bet gets Dag to release his hand.
Mr. R limped and I raised to 4 bb with KQ off-suit and Mr. R calls. Mr. R leads out on the flop and I reraise. Mr. R folds.
Mr. limps again with 800 chips and gets reraised for his trny life by Dag. Mr. folds! Dag shows AJ suited and looses to AK suited . Mr. R has played 23/24 hands. He just doubled up with the 78 suited vs. QQ, staying in with a gut shot draw after the flop.
The next hand Mr. R is moved to a new table. It’s folded around to me in the small blind, and I raise pot with A8. The big blind insta-folds.
It’s amazing how long two minutes is when you have to pee….
At the first break I have 5390 in chips. The average is 4748. There are 573 players remaining.
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