By shaundeeb on February 21st, 2008 (more posts by author)

So I woke up today played a few online steps and a few mtts said if I bust everything quick I'll play the 1500 live mtt here so I busted everything said fuck it let's go donk off money live. So I end up playing in it get a decent table draw recognize fellow online mtter ely cash and omaha guru sirens. I know sirens can and will gamble early and often he's made that clear. I get my awful 3500 starting stack at 25/50 blinds to 5k without anything all that interesting raising a bunch and hitting boards. Then I raise AQo utg+1 9 handed table to 125 2 people call who have called a bunch before sirens in CO makes it 600 with 2k behind often I snapfold this but I was quite sure he was squeezing wide and folding a bunch to 4 bet and AQ has equity and less likely QQ AK AA etc. So he tanks and folds. A few hands later he opens ep guy calls Im otb find JJ squeeze he shoves his 2k I call quickly and bam upto 9k in first 30min. I coast for a bit play a fun hand vs a guy who limp/calls in LP to me to his left when I raise his 100 limp to 425 with Q4o he calls KxQd5d flop check through turn 9d I have no d he c/calls my 600 bet. River is a 3o he checks I confidently through a vbet of 1250 out there and he tanks and calls and mucks when I show. Such sick value imo.

Anyways lose a lot of chips next few hands get down to 8k. Have a really tight BB and bad players to my left raise K8cc in the HJ to 375 at 75/150 sb calls nit folds bb. HU to flop Ac10x3x he c/calls my 400 turn 3c he check/calls my 1200. River 6c he checks I bet 3k he snapshoves for 4500 more I call obv and he has AsQc I dunno if he thought he had the fd or what.
So Im at like 18k now massive cl still no antees. I bleed down to 7k before anything decent happens to me at a new tougher table get a stack when Im at about 14k tight lady opens utg+1 to 700 pretty tight range I call otb with 99 flops Q73r she bets 800 weird bet I float cuz she plays faceup on turn. She leads 2500 now Im quite sure she thinks she has the nuts I then notice its the 9d putting a fd out there with the Q but she never has the fd if she had AKdd she check/calls turn. Anyways turns a low blank she bets 2500 again with 6kish behind I slightly cover shove she tanks for 25sec and calls with AQ lol.

Im at 25k now coast for a long time till I get KK when a old guy open shoves 44 11.5k utg at 400/800 Im in MP. Most interesting hand/me getting owned was 3 tables left have some history with joe tehan I think he respected my play up until this hand anyways he opens in EP to 3200 at 600/1200/200 could be a wide range he was looser earlier. I have 78dd in sb and 80k stack to his 75k and rays in BB so I call flops Kh9h6x I check planning on c/calling then leading turn but he checks behind and makes a comment so I think he had a piece or something turns Ad. I check he bets 4k I decide to try to semibluff the turn and raise him to 11k. He tanks for 2 minutes before 3betting me to 22k total. We have 50k behind if I called which would be about a potsized shove so I think I can call and shove when I get there regardless of heart and always get paid by his big hand. Unfortunatly I missed and the river was Kx and he checked behind and showed Ah10x him having the Ah is what made him able to make this play and for value/pot control. Anyways I felt owned 3bet/folded once later and raised and won a bunch of blinds to end the day with 64,400 which is about avg.

WC ran decent rays in with a shortstack obv and tufat got 19th getting setup in LP