The Dragon was slain in Oklahoma, Team Tunica claims the kill
Me and Donald actually drew the same table for the $1070 NL and not only that, he drew seat 8 I drew seat 9 so we're sitting next to each other. We signed up several hours apart too which was pretty funny. It was a well structured event, 6000 starting chips, 25/25 blinds and 40 minute rounds. We had David "The Dragon" Pham at our table and he's a well known tournament circuit pro. Very aggressive, and very tricky is the general consensus. I've never played with him but I was happy to see him at my table as I enjoy watching pros play. What I noticed was a few people making some total bonehead plays trying to outplay him and basically donating chips to him instead, and he chipped up from 6000 to 8000 in the first level without any showdowns.
I'm still at 6000 when I play my first major hand, I pick up QQ in the 25/50 round, I limp in UTG+1. A guy in middle position pops it to $325 a big raise which means a pretty big hand from this guy, David calls on the button, I elect to just call. Flop is Q97 with two spades. I check. Original raiser bets $600, "The Dragon" makes it $1200. I'm out of position on a very drawy board so I chose to make it $3500. Original raiser tanks and folds, "The Dragon" pushes all-in, I call obviously. He has middle set of 9's for a total cooler flop. I fade the 9 and double up to 12k leaving him with 2k.
He runs his chips back up to about 3200-3400 and then he calls another raise in late position, Donald calls out of the blind. Flop is AK5. Donald checks, orig. raiser bets, the Dragon raises, Donald reraises, the Dragon shoves... Donald calls. A5 top and bottom pair for the Dragon, 55 and a set of 5's for Donald. Another cooler flop. Donald puts the finishing touch into slaying the Dragon and Team Tunica emerges victorious from the fierce battle with the pros. Don't mess with us down in Tunica, aight? We'll fuck you up.
Disclaimer: We may need to flop a totally superior hand to your great hand (aka: a cooler) and have you commit your chips with three outs or less, but if these terms are met, we will fuck you up.
Donald finds a way to spew his chips and I get AA somewhere in the 100/200 round, I open for a standard 600 raise, super uber tight guy makes it 1500 out of the blind, I make it 4000, he moves in, I call. He has KK. Easy game. I fade the K and I'm up around 20k. Donald busts shortly after on a coinflip when he actually ends up having 18 outs on the turn flushdraw, overcards and a gutshot against the guys pocket fives but he misses and goes out. I win some smaller hands and get up to about 28k when a lady gets moved to my table with a mound of chips. The average in the tournament is somewhere around $14000 and I'm twice average so I have a good stack and she has me well covered. She wins her first two hands then doesn't play another hand for the remainder of the 100/200 level.
On the 200/400 level we're about to go to break, the very last hand before the break when she opens for $1200. I call with 99. Flop is 9-6-6. Hey, I'm running ok, whaddayasay? She bets $2000, I just call. Turn is a 2. She says "I'm all-in.". Wow, I call. She says "Damn!" and tables JT. No pair, no draw... I win a 56k chip pot very last hand before the break and spend about 8 of the 10 minutes on break stacking my chips.
I cruise along and we're down to 4 tables or so, I get up to about 80k chips. With three tables left, I get AA again, someone else has KK AGAIN. I AM THE COOLER KING, HEAR ME ROAR! I bust him too and I'm at 130k. I pick up some blinds and antes and I peak at 168k with two tables left. Top 18 pays and we're about to get to the final table bubble when I raise KJ of hearts to 10000 playing 1500/3000. A lady in the BB is shortstacked and pushes allin for 15k more. I call, she has AA and she holds. I lose another couple small pots and we are down to the final table. I come into the final table about 6th out of 10 in chips with 114k.
Payouts are something along the lines of
1st: 58k
2nd: 34k
3rd: 23k
You have to finish 5th or better to make more than 10k
Brant, who is a friend of mine I've met about a year ago at this very tournament was at the final table also and me and him play the first pot I'm involved in. I'm at right over 100k when he raises to 15000 playing 2000/4000 in the hijack (two off the button). I know he's a loose player, very aggressive and he's playing for first. He's definitely going to raise a very wide range of hands there. I look down at KQ on the button and I just call deciding I'm taking a flop instead of reraising and having him move in some marginal hand, or moving in myself. I don't like moving in 100k so early in the FT even if I think he's raising a wide range, with KQ, so I elect to take a flop. Small blind who has a big stack also calls. Flop is Q-T-6 and small blind checks, Brant immediately announces he's all-in. Damn, this is a predicament.
I sit and think about what to do, asking for a count. He has about 85000 more if memory serves, I had something like 97k left and would've been screwed if I call and lose. I doubt he'd be tricky enough to move in with a set here, I was thinking he might actually be tricky enough to move in with KK or AA cause there's like 60k in the pot and he has 85k or so. He'd get looked up light. I was trying to figure out what to do and I was taking my time when he asks me "Do you have a pair yet?" I said, "Do you?" and he just grins. I started thinking man, does he have KJ or maybe AK? I definitely thought I was ahead after he said that, and I said call. He tables KJ, turn another Q and river a blank and I get up to around 215k or so and I'm the chipleader again of the tournament. I'm feeling great and I plan to play a good, solid game.
Only a few hands later, I raise up 44 in the cutoff to 12k, big blind defends. Flop 9-7-4 with two diamonds and I'm loving it. He checks, I bet 10000, he immediately says all-in. I insta-call, he tables AQ of diamonds for the nutflushdraw. Diamond on the turn, and he jumps up screaming "Yeah! Yeah!" and I'm thinking to myself you fucking ass, there's another card left, if there's any karma in poker the board needs to pair on the turn and send your pre-celebrating ass home. But alas, another diamond comes on the river that doesn't pair the board and I lose about a 230k pot. I'm still left with 100k after the hand, but if I win that one I have a gigantic chiplead on everybody and I think something major would have to happen to fuck it up and go out anythign but top 3. I'm very very disappointed but I'm not feeling tilty, I'm very focused and I think I still have a shot to win it back.
A few orbits later, I blind down some, then open A4 of clubs to 15k, guy on my left immediately reraises to 50k and I fold. I'm now down to 75k. I blind off two more orbits down to 60k. Blinds are up to 2500/5000 with a 500 ante. It folds to me on the button, I look down at T-6 of spades. I'm way last in chips, there's 7 left and the guy in 6th has twice my stack, although all of them are hovering around 140k. I shove in to pick up the blinds, big blind tanks but finally calls with AJ. I have live cards but I brick everything and bust 7th for a very disappointing $7141. Oh well, there's always next time. $58k sure would've been nice. I truthfully would've been happy with anything over $15k but $7k felt pretty bad under the circumstances.
I'm still at 6000 when I play my first major hand, I pick up QQ in the 25/50 round, I limp in UTG+1. A guy in middle position pops it to $325 a big raise which means a pretty big hand from this guy, David calls on the button, I elect to just call. Flop is Q97 with two spades. I check. Original raiser bets $600, "The Dragon" makes it $1200. I'm out of position on a very drawy board so I chose to make it $3500. Original raiser tanks and folds, "The Dragon" pushes all-in, I call obviously. He has middle set of 9's for a total cooler flop. I fade the 9 and double up to 12k leaving him with 2k.
He runs his chips back up to about 3200-3400 and then he calls another raise in late position, Donald calls out of the blind. Flop is AK5. Donald checks, orig. raiser bets, the Dragon raises, Donald reraises, the Dragon shoves... Donald calls. A5 top and bottom pair for the Dragon, 55 and a set of 5's for Donald. Another cooler flop. Donald puts the finishing touch into slaying the Dragon and Team Tunica emerges victorious from the fierce battle with the pros. Don't mess with us down in Tunica, aight? We'll fuck you up.
Disclaimer: We may need to flop a totally superior hand to your great hand (aka: a cooler) and have you commit your chips with three outs or less, but if these terms are met, we will fuck you up.
Donald finds a way to spew his chips and I get AA somewhere in the 100/200 round, I open for a standard 600 raise, super uber tight guy makes it 1500 out of the blind, I make it 4000, he moves in, I call. He has KK. Easy game. I fade the K and I'm up around 20k. Donald busts shortly after on a coinflip when he actually ends up having 18 outs on the turn flushdraw, overcards and a gutshot against the guys pocket fives but he misses and goes out. I win some smaller hands and get up to about 28k when a lady gets moved to my table with a mound of chips. The average in the tournament is somewhere around $14000 and I'm twice average so I have a good stack and she has me well covered. She wins her first two hands then doesn't play another hand for the remainder of the 100/200 level.
On the 200/400 level we're about to go to break, the very last hand before the break when she opens for $1200. I call with 99. Flop is 9-6-6. Hey, I'm running ok, whaddayasay? She bets $2000, I just call. Turn is a 2. She says "I'm all-in.". Wow, I call. She says "Damn!" and tables JT. No pair, no draw... I win a 56k chip pot very last hand before the break and spend about 8 of the 10 minutes on break stacking my chips.
I cruise along and we're down to 4 tables or so, I get up to about 80k chips. With three tables left, I get AA again, someone else has KK AGAIN. I AM THE COOLER KING, HEAR ME ROAR! I bust him too and I'm at 130k. I pick up some blinds and antes and I peak at 168k with two tables left. Top 18 pays and we're about to get to the final table bubble when I raise KJ of hearts to 10000 playing 1500/3000. A lady in the BB is shortstacked and pushes allin for 15k more. I call, she has AA and she holds. I lose another couple small pots and we are down to the final table. I come into the final table about 6th out of 10 in chips with 114k.
Payouts are something along the lines of
1st: 58k
2nd: 34k
3rd: 23k
You have to finish 5th or better to make more than 10k
Brant, who is a friend of mine I've met about a year ago at this very tournament was at the final table also and me and him play the first pot I'm involved in. I'm at right over 100k when he raises to 15000 playing 2000/4000 in the hijack (two off the button). I know he's a loose player, very aggressive and he's playing for first. He's definitely going to raise a very wide range of hands there. I look down at KQ on the button and I just call deciding I'm taking a flop instead of reraising and having him move in some marginal hand, or moving in myself. I don't like moving in 100k so early in the FT even if I think he's raising a wide range, with KQ, so I elect to take a flop. Small blind who has a big stack also calls. Flop is Q-T-6 and small blind checks, Brant immediately announces he's all-in. Damn, this is a predicament.
I sit and think about what to do, asking for a count. He has about 85000 more if memory serves, I had something like 97k left and would've been screwed if I call and lose. I doubt he'd be tricky enough to move in with a set here, I was thinking he might actually be tricky enough to move in with KK or AA cause there's like 60k in the pot and he has 85k or so. He'd get looked up light. I was trying to figure out what to do and I was taking my time when he asks me "Do you have a pair yet?" I said, "Do you?" and he just grins. I started thinking man, does he have KJ or maybe AK? I definitely thought I was ahead after he said that, and I said call. He tables KJ, turn another Q and river a blank and I get up to around 215k or so and I'm the chipleader again of the tournament. I'm feeling great and I plan to play a good, solid game.
Only a few hands later, I raise up 44 in the cutoff to 12k, big blind defends. Flop 9-7-4 with two diamonds and I'm loving it. He checks, I bet 10000, he immediately says all-in. I insta-call, he tables AQ of diamonds for the nutflushdraw. Diamond on the turn, and he jumps up screaming "Yeah! Yeah!" and I'm thinking to myself you fucking ass, there's another card left, if there's any karma in poker the board needs to pair on the turn and send your pre-celebrating ass home. But alas, another diamond comes on the river that doesn't pair the board and I lose about a 230k pot. I'm still left with 100k after the hand, but if I win that one I have a gigantic chiplead on everybody and I think something major would have to happen to fuck it up and go out anythign but top 3. I'm very very disappointed but I'm not feeling tilty, I'm very focused and I think I still have a shot to win it back.
A few orbits later, I blind down some, then open A4 of clubs to 15k, guy on my left immediately reraises to 50k and I fold. I'm now down to 75k. I blind off two more orbits down to 60k. Blinds are up to 2500/5000 with a 500 ante. It folds to me on the button, I look down at T-6 of spades. I'm way last in chips, there's 7 left and the guy in 6th has twice my stack, although all of them are hovering around 140k. I shove in to pick up the blinds, big blind tanks but finally calls with AJ. I have live cards but I brick everything and bust 7th for a very disappointing $7141. Oh well, there's always next time. $58k sure would've been nice. I truthfully would've been happy with anything over $15k but $7k felt pretty bad under the circumstances.
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