WBCOOP and Pokersluts Recaps

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A total of 369 blogger donkeys came out for the WBCOOP main event yesterday. With starting stacks of 5k and the blinds at 10/20 and 10 minute levels it was hopefully going to be a good day. As luck would have it I knew two people on my starting table, OhCaptain to my right and EasyCure to my left. I was deciding throughout the day whether to play the tourney a little more aggro than usual or not.

It quickly became apparent that UBASUKA2 was the fish at the table. Early on I actually folded AQ to his 3bet and he showed 77. Just a few hands after that I was able to win a pot vs him.



Good start to the day. it was going to be a race to see who would take his chips first. I was able to take a few more off of him with this hand.



The next big pot came about 40 minutes into play. I decided to limp with 9's on the button and see what happens.



I was able to see a free turn card and with a raise and two callers ahead of me I wanted to bump up the pot a bit to make the flush draws pay a little bit. I was perfectly willing to dump the hand if the flush got there (depending on the bet size I guess).

At the end of the first hour I was sitting on 6700 in chips. Not a great stack but more than enough to work with when the blinds were at 50/100/10. In the second hour my table broke and I landed on a table with Loretta8 and a lot of big stacks. My 6k stack was 6th on the table. The five bigger stacks all had at least 11k. I picked-up KK and played it a little cautiously after the flop.



Not long after that I picked-up aces and raised pre-flop and was called only by the BB. I cbet the flop and then checked the turn which induced a river bluff where I just flatted with the aces and got my stack a little over 10k. About 15 minutes before the second break I played the 65cc for a limp UTG+1.



My thought process after the flop was to take one off and see if I could hit. It was a large flop bet but if I miss on the turn I can fold and still have 5k and around 16 bb's. Not the greatest play in the world but I can live with it. By the second break I had 13k in chips with 141 players remaining. Not a large stack for me so I had to see if I wanted to keep pressing or fold into the money.

I was folding quite a bit in the third hour when this hand comes up which took a bit off of me.



Now I am really in lockdown mode till we reach the money, till this happens.



I mean can I play this hand any more like a pussy? If I am going to fold then just fold. Not my greatest play in history. The bubble burst shortly after that and when it burst I had 4.5 bb's left. Not long after that I shoved 66 and won the race vs AJ and I had a stack of 11k. About a half dozen hands after that my AK held vs KQ and I was all the way up to 25k and a very healthy stack. I pretty much didn't play a hand after that until the next pay bump when we reached 45 people. My bustout hand.



The double paired board kicked me out in 42nd place good for a $109 tournament ticket. I tried to see if I could use it for a sit n go but I can't. I will probably use it to play in a $109 sat to get into a $530 mega somewhere down the line.

Congrats to BuddyDank for his deep run and 12th place finish.

The good week continued last night with my 3rd place finish in Pokersluts Razz for a small profit. I still hate razz.