Wrap up of Event 54
My day 2 of Event 54 wrapped up just after the bubble was broken. I started the day with average chips at a comfortable table. I never really had any hands for the first hour, so my image was really tight. I got a pair of queens under the gun and opened the pot. The blinds were 500/1000/100. It was folded around to an active big blind who called. Long story short, a king came on the flop. The big blind led out with a $1k chip. I called. The turn brought another king, and the big blind led with another $1k and I called thinking with the second king on the board that it was unlikely he had a king. The river is a brick and the blind bets $6k. I spend a good deal of time evaluating the way the hand went down and what the big blind had been showing down. I made the wrong decision and called. The blind shows the king eight right away, so i mucked my hand without showing.
Now I am short stacked with about 8k remaining in my stack. We are about a hundred away from the money, so I move into survival mode. I am able to shove all in a few times that are not called. I get AK with less than ten away from the money when I look down to see AK. I shove my stack again and am called by jacks. I am saved when a full house appears on the board for a chop. The bubble breaks soon thereafter. I went out 346/3.844 to earn $1,868.
Oh, by the way: Check out Short-Stacked Shamus’s blog Hard Boiled Poker fame who mentioned little ole me. Thanks Shamus!
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