News / Annette 15 / 17 October 2007 / 7 Comments

Hey guys,
For those who are not Norwegian and haven't been following my blog on Cardplayer, this will be my first write up on betfair, so I just wanna say how happy I am to have signed with this site, and I promise to keep things exciting for not only me, but everyone whose following my process as well :)

I guess everyone wants to hear about the WSOPE that just finished, so I'll just jump right to that.

I got to London three days before the main event so I'd have time to play the $10k PLO event. I bought in, got my seating arrangement and went to my table in a hurry as I was late... and to my surprise the table was really really tough. I had Phil Gordon, Alan Cunningham, Tony G as the biggest names, and also two solid Fulltilt peeps whose name I can't remember. It turned out to be sort of a re-buy tournament where u got 10k chips to start off, and then u could add on or get 10k more if u lost the chips u had. The strange thing is that you didn't have to pay for it, so they could just started us with 20k instead and made it a deep stacked freezeout instead which would have been a lot easier.

I got off to a really bad start having to fold lotta good preflop hands after totally whiffing the flop, so I donked off the last of my chips with 88xx on 856 board just to get rid of em. It was obv I was beat but I only had about 5k at that point and I just wanted to get back up to starting stack by re-buying or suck out. So I lost the hand and re-bought. The blind structure was awful and the blinds were already 150-300 after the 're-buy period' ended and I only had 9k. My bus-tout hand was pretty standard. I was dealt AAQ8 with one suit (not that it really matters when telling the hand) in middle position. 4 limpers and I make it 1800 with 6200 behind and Tony G calls my raise. The flop comes Q84r. I bet 3500 with 2700 behind obv showing that I'm not going anywhere. For some reason he decides to just call my bet which was weird. The turn was a 9 and I already had the rest of my chips in the pot pretty much before the turn card was even dealt, and he snaps me with JT98. GG me.

Now to the good part... the MAIN EVENT woohoo!

Ok ok ok, don't get too excited cuz this part will be long and I'll include key hands and thoughts on why I played them the way I did and probably some chit chat so grab some popcorn and get ready :)

Day 1:

My starting table wasn't terrible:

Seat 1: Tight middle aged guy
Seat 2: Same
Seat 3: EPT winner Andreas Høyvold. Plays pretty laggy, but possible to extract chips from.
Seat 4: Ted Forrest: Lol, I gave him some respect before we started but turned out he's just a calling station pre and tried to win every pot whose checked to him post-flop.
Seat 5: 25ish year old guy, pretty aggressive, good player.
Seat 6: Me
Seat 7: Biggest nit I've ever played against?
Seat 8: Tight pre-flop but will pay off with top pair and marginal holdings post-flop and can't fold over-pairs.
Seat 9: Very good aggressive online player named Atimos/Jovial Gent/Shenk0.

So as u can see, there wasn't too much trouble. We started with 20k in chips and two hour long levels. I wanted to build up a pretty laggy image because I knew the table wouldn't break in a while if at all, so I was playing lotsa pots, always coming in for a raise pre-flop and people started loosening up a lot with their calling requirements against me as I wanted them too. I donked off about 3k doing this but that was just because they kept flopping the nuts on me lol. I also folded AK to Atimos ' re-raise the first time he did it, but then he proceeded to do it like 10 times that day and I'm pretty sure now that I had the best hand lol. The hand that cost me the most the first level came up after about 1 hour of play. Ted Forrest had been up to his same old limping in to 80% of the pots and calling any raises. He limped in EP and I made it 450 to go in MP with Ac3c, everyone else folded and it was HU to the flop. Flop is T93 with two spades so a lotta draws and I figure one barrel wont be enough if a blank falls on the turn to get him off a draw and I wont be able to represent anything on the river if he calls a flop bet and I check behind on the turn, so I bet 650 on the flop which he of course he calls. The turn is Tc, so everything still missed. He checked and I fired 1100 this time pretty sure he would fold any straight-draws like 78, J8 etc at this point, He flats again and the river is 3d, so I hit a pair lol. I know I'm behind though unless he's got a straight draw, but even a missed flush-draw can be ahead of me if he picked up a pair on the way and I've shown much strength the entire hand. He checks to me and I fire 3000. He thinks for two or three minutes before calling with 66! Looking back at the hand, I think my mistake here was that my 'story' didn't make sense unless I had a T or 99 which I wouldn't have bet as much with on the river hoping for a call. Ted knows I don't have JJ+ here by firing again when the second T hits when its very likely that he's got one when calling the flop bet, and we both know its important to keep pots small early in tournaments (unless ur bluffing or have the nuts) :). My river bet was too big for it to look like I wanted a call, so he made a good read and it paid off for him. The first hours went really shitty and I left the table 5 minutes before the break started cuz I was getting tilty and didn't wanna blow anymore chips. Was down to 13k at this point.

The break ended, and I came back not planning on slowing down yet as we were sooooo deep that losing chips didn't matter yet.

The guy to my right was constantly raising Teds limps to isolate and get him HU and I re-raised him 3 times with zip, and he folded every time. Picked up some chips there and some blinds from time to time. Also played a big hand against Andreas. He raised in EP to 600 at 100-200. I flatted in the CO with Ts9s. The bb came in as well, so there's 1300 in the pot already. The flop comes out A68 with one spade. The bb checks, and as Andreas bets 1000 I can already see the bb getting ready to muck his cards, so I decide to float him in position with some outs and a backdoor draw because he would probably slow down on the turn if he didn't have an A. And knowing his utg range is pretty wide after seeing him open 68s from the same pos earlier makes me think it will work more often than not. The bb quickly folds and the turn is the 4 off spades, so I now have a flush draw and a gutshot. To my surprise andreas fired 3000 this time with about 15k behind. I have about 13k total. This bet to me screams like AK, AQ or nothing. I don't think he's betting this much with a set, and a good two pair he will probably give me some rope with knowing I will bet most of the time if he checks, So I'm thinking, with the hands that I put him on, what can he call a shove with? He has to put me on at least a set or two pair if I do so. AK and AQ gets insta-mucked cuz there were no draws on the flop. The only one I coulda had was 57s which woulda hit on the turn, so my range here is super thin. So I ship it in and he reluctantly folds his hand.

This got me back up to starting stack and I was feeling a lot better. Just a little later I flop a set of 2s after calling Andreas's raise again. The nit behind me comes along too from the sb and we're three to the flop. 26K with two clubs. Andreas checks and I bet 1800 which is about pot, He immediately throws a bunch of 1k chips in the pot and raises to about 7500. As with all nits, they usually don't raise huge if they flop sets against an aggressive played like me, so I didn't think he had 6s. Ks he woulda re-raised preflop for sure so I'm 99% sure I'm good here so I ship in the rest praying for him to have AK. He thinks and thinks and thinks before calling with AK drawing basically dead and I double up to almost 40k.

After that, I bluff off some, and I fold to a lot of re-raises, most of them coming from Atimos and I chip back down to 35k when the biggest hand of the day is played. I look down at 2s again, and the blinds are now 150-300/25 which was the last level of the day.

The WSOPE Continued...

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