By timex on September 15th, 2009 (more posts by author)

Another short update, will make a more thorough update of the trip once I get home but my flight leaves in a few hours. Yesterday I didn't really get too much started, I won some pots early in the day and for the first couple hours was hovering silghtly below average. I got moved to the TV table with about 800k when average was 900k, and within 6 hands I 3bet AKo on the button, got called, cbet the J52r flop and got jammed on by an old guy, folded, raised QJo on the CO with like 25BB, folded to a button 3bet, raised KQo UTG+1, got 3bet by UTG+2 22.5BB deep, folded, raised AQo UTG 20BB deep, got 3bet by the SB who was nitty and folded. That was a fun way to give away over 1/2 my chips.

After that I just kind of picked my spots to steal/resteal and was relatively card dead, and kind of stayed around 400-550k chips for several hours while several eliminations lead to us being down to 11. I called a 4BB shove with Q6, lost to J9, had like 15BB and eventually had one of my shoves called when I had KQo and Carter Phillips(bodybuildiningpokerplayer) had 66 and held to bust me in 11th. I wasn't too upset to bust since all day things hadn't been going spectacularly and winning just didn't seem as in my grasp as it did in say Dortmund this year when I was crushed after losing.