1. 2008-05-13 07:46:59

   6th Tourny of the VPT

   Early Going

   Here we are already the half way point. We ended up having a great turnout of 9 players. The early going saw Jonas take down quite a bit of pots same with my dad. Meanwhile, I was getting some bad cards and couldn't do much with it. Then finally when the blinds are 100/200 I am in the BB holding Jonas makes it 500 to go. I re raise and make it 2,000 he calls. The flop was I checked he bets 2,000 and I went all in after much deliberation thinking that he was going to call cause it was under 3,000 to him to call. He ended folding after that hand I was put in better shape.

   6 Handed

   After doing some folding and the table getting smaller with some more elbow room (Which is always very nice!!). Dave get's knocked out on a suck out by Addison. Then Addison won a 3 way all in with knocking out Jonas and Justin when they both had him dominated with a miracle 3 on the river all of a sudden we are down to 3 handed.

   3 Handed

   I was 2nd in chips but all 3 of us had more then enough chips with the blinds only at 300/600 there was plenty of play to be had. I thought I was getting knocked out when my did not improve against my dad's which crippled me. Two hands later I river a 9 for a pair to stay in the hunt. Soon after, I flopped a straight to stay alive with . Then hit the Ace on the river to stay alive. I definitely felt like the comeback kid. When my dad got knocked out I barely had Addison covered going into heads up.

   Heads Up

   By the way before I get into heads up. I wanted to mention a very funny thing which almost costed Addison the tournament, my dad raises Addison pushes all in with after some delibration, my dad calls and shows a far better hand and won. This crippled Addison and somehow he came back by winning a couple of all in's. He clams that is his hand that he always plays. If Addison would of been knocked out soon after. That would of qualifed as a "Matsow blowup". The first two hands went his way and he had the slight chip advantage. I stole a couple of blinds and made a re raise with nothing, with that I re gained the advantage until. I pick up the flop gave me 2 pair which I was looking to capitalize on this situation. I check raised all in Addison called with and thank god the board didn't pair for a split and took it down with some valuable points to gain the point lead over Addison.

   Food for Thought

   Thank you everybody for showing up for our best turnout for the season to date. Stay tuned on the tournament that I will write about which I just got back from actually that should be out by Friday. Take care and may all your pots be monster.

   Posted by Nick L at 2008-05-13 07:46:59

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Comments on “6th Tourny of the VPT”

1. • Posted by Ethan g 2008-05-14 16:58:39
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   • Good work.

2. • Posted by Jason M g 2008-05-13 17:10:54
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   • Nice win! Why'd you raise with that on a rainbox board with trip aces against what appeared to be a strong hand? I guess you would force him to commit if he had an ace, but it just seems unlikely that he does, and if he does, you could get him in on the turn and river. Maybe you smelled something funny - it's hard to do the right thing when you don't know for sure what they have.