Thursday, July 20, 2006

Foxwoods $100 MTT

I am heading to Vegas to play in the WSOP Main Event next week, so I wanted to get some live play in before then. So. . . last night I headed down to Foxwoods to play in their $100 tournament. Pretty awful structure, but I knew that going in. You start with 2000 in chips & blinds @ 25/50. Within 40 minutes blinds are up to 100/200, so if you haven't done something significant in the first 20 hands, you're thrust into push/fold mode.
I only saw one flop. I had junk in the BB and got to check. Flop missed me completely & I folded. Besides that I had AQs in middle position and open raised to 150 (25/50 blinds) and took down the blinds. So once level 3 (100/200 blinds) hit, I was down to 1700. After blinds passed me I was at 1400. I stole blinds with A2o by pushing when it was folded to me in the cutoff. After that our table broke. I moved to my new table and played my one hand there in the cutoff. Blinds had gone to 100/200 with 25 ante. I get ATo & open the action by pushing my 1675 all in, hoping to take the 525 in blinds & antes uncontested. Button reraises all-in behind me with AKo and holds when the board doesn't help me. Oh well.
I tried wearing sunglasses for the first time. . . I hated it. I was in the 8 seat & had a hard time seeing the board & players' cards at the other end of the table. I just feel like there's no real advantage to wearing glasses. Only the aforementioned disadvantages.

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