By shaundeeb on February 26th, 2008 (more posts by author)

Well I ended day1 of the LAPC 10k with 50k well above avg after playing really aggro getting a nice suck out in 1 big pot and losing 10k chips last hand of the day playing well. I had a semi tough starting table recognizing fellow online player xthestienx, eric cajelous no idea how to spell his last name,kristy gazes, and humberto I'm a douchebag brenes. Anyways I had one of the larger stacks at the table and def expected some interesting hands. I chipped up in first 2 orbits another 10k chips stealing a few blinds and winning a few other pots. It's my BB now I notice youngish female raised to 1200 utg at 200400 notice shes shaking a bit first hand she's played too so Im like wow she has a big hand here. Folded to me in the BB I peel the Ad and think wow great spot for aces shitty spot for AQ etc. So I find another red ace behind and make it 5500 a bigger 3bet then I would usually make but I knew she wasnt folding nad since we both had 55k stacks at the time I wanted good effective stacks for postflop getting it in.

So the flop comes Kx 9x 5c not the best flop but better then KQ10 I lead for 9k she makes it 26k I shove pretty quickly. When she didn't instacall I was so happy knowing I had best hand she ends up calling and showing me the other 2 aces. I'm like sigh getting freerolled in a pot I should never be freerolled in. Anyways board runs off clubs so I lose the 110k pot and I am left with 1050 chips bust next hand with A9o to QQ obv.

So the only good news about my quick bustout was I had 15min until the pokerstars million started up. I then got into online grind mode went deepish in a few things that mattered the best run coming in the stars 200r. I ended up fting that with a solid 2nd place stack was a good lineup but no one I was that worried about based on seat position and stack sizes. Anyways play solid for a bit guy limps whose limped a few hands at ft shown diff hand strengths

He limps CO I am otb with KK and like 300k stack at 5k/10k I make it 38k he makes it 80k I ship it in he calls with the other 2 KK. obv flop has 2 diamonds which he has Kd for and I obv get freerolled again for a massive stack in biggest equity spot.

The best that came out of this day was the fact that even with those 2 beats in spots where I shouldn't be getting freerolled stung a bit but I didn't tilt as bad as I have in the past for hands that had far less of an impact on the future. Yah I would be so happy to still be in the 10k with my 55k stack at that point or get a top3 in the 200r but whatever another day to grind coming up.