Main event

Ugh, busted with about 10 minutes left at the end of the day. Basically it seemed like nothing went right -- when I made plays people played back at me, when I had monsters people folded, and when I had decent hands people had slightly better ones. I do think I misplayed a few hands, but think overall I just ran like crap. My table was also very tough, with only one real fish. The only huge pot was KT vs K9 on a K98TK board (I wasn't in the hand).

Here are some of the hands I played.

Hand 1) Blinds 100/200 I raised to 500 from hijack with 77, SB who is aggro/good 3bets to 1900, I call in position. I was planning to call a barrel on most flops, and then reevaluate on the turn/river and possibly call more. But flop was 844 and he surprisingly checked, which threw me a little off guard. I figured he bets his big pairs, so I decided to bet to charge him to stay in with AK or whatever he had, but he raised to 7500 and I folded. I immediately regretted my decision to bet, and wish I checked back since I turned a hand w/decent value into essentially a bluff since I'm folding to a raise and he's rarely just check/calling flop. I was just kind of thrown off by his surprising check, and I think I definitely misplayed this one.

Hand 2) I raised QQ in EP (utg+1 i think), tight player calls in MP, fish calls in LP. Flop is 966 2 hearts, I cbet, both players call. Turn is blank (4 of clubs or something). I check, tight player makes a big bet, fish calls, I fold. River was a low heart, tight player bets, fish calls. Tight player had 99 (for flopped full house), fish had 2 low hearts for a flush. I got away pretty cheaply here fortunately.

Hand 3) I started hand with about 18k at 150/300. I raised CO with KQo to 750, button (who was pretty good) reraised me to around 2k. I decided to make a light 4bet here to 4700 b/c I didn't really want to flat, and KQ has blockers for KK/QQ/AK/AQ so seemed like a decent hand to 4bet/fold. He shipped pretty quickly, and I folded.

Hand 4) I think it was a hand or 2 after hand 3. I opened AQs (diamonds) in MP, player from hand 1 calls from button or cutoff. Flop was 3 diamonds, and I cbet. He raises me, and I think I had his raise covered by around 8k. I decided to ship, and he folded. I feel like flat-calling his raise screams monster, and I might be shipping Ad or some draws, so thought he might look me up. Not sure if flatting him is better, but I think I played this one fine.

Hand 5) I have around 16k at 150/300. Aggro guy opens in EP, fish calls in EP. I'm in EP with QQ. It was sort of a weird spot given my image -- I hadn't really been 3-betting much, so I thought they'd put me on a monster if I did and I wouldn't really get much value from QQ (i.e., they'd raise with better and not give me much action with worse). So I decided to just call, which I guess is debatable. Anyway, flop is JJ8 with 2 diamonds. Aggro guy cbets, fish calls, I call. Turn is blank, both check and I bet around 1/2 pot. Aggro guy calls, fish folds. At this point I think he probably has AA or KK -- he probably fires the turn again with a J or better, and I doubt he calls my bet with much worse, though TT/99 are still possible. River is a blank, and he makes a small bet of 3800 into 16k+. I felt like I couldn't really beat much at all, but I was getting such a great price I ended up calling, and he showed KK. If I had a few more chips, I could probably have shipped the river as a bluff and gotten him to fold, since my line looked really strong. But I think I only had around 6kish more and didn't think I had much fold equity there. Guess I could fold river, but I think it has to be pretty close. Also, I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be raising preflop and getting it in, and balancing my range by 3betting air over EP opens enough so that I can get value from QQ.

Hand 6) Cutoff opened to 1000 at 200/400 50 ante. I had around 9k on the button with 88, and I shipped. Cutoff tanked and tanked for several minutes, asked me if I wanted him to call, etc. At that point I was almost positive I had the best hand, and actually did want him to call (though I didn't respond to his question). I put him on something like AT or 55. Anyway, he ended up calling me with TT (which should have been a really easy call), and I lost. Really standard shove by me I think, and just a cooler in that spot.

Also, I had KK once, two people limped in EP, I raised to 5x, and everyone folded. I had AA once and 3bet when an aggro guy opened, and he insta-folded. Later I 3bet the same guy with junk, and he 4bet me.