Sorry about yesterday, the day started off well with me reaching 28k at the first break could have and should have been more but I had a few out draws with people getting there on the turn or river + I manage to get away with losing the minimum with an over pair to the board to a full house (on the river). At this stage I was feeling quit confident, the table was quite lose and the stranded of play was not what I was expecting. Unfortunately after the break things went a bit wrong firstly losing 2k to another guy who out draw me. I did not mind this as I was betting every street and they kept calling (bad standard) and I knew that a big hand was coming my way. Then came the 3 hands that was my downfall in the 4th level
I"m on 24k EP raise I call with 10 10 player behind re-raise the EP folds, I go all-in he calls with AA. The guy had just lost a hand with KK v AQ on the river and was down to 9k, he instant re-raise and so I thought he could be steaming,
his range is quite wide here from AK, AQ, KQ down to small/medium pp. So my thinking is that I I"m either flipping or a big
frav plus he could fold as he still had chips to play with.
Hand 2, I made a raise on the button with A3, SB calls flop 3 spades (I have the A spades) he bets out 600 I raise to 2k he calls, turn card Ace, he checks I bet 2k he calls (after some time) blank river he checks again so I check, he flopped the straight.
Hand 3, again theirs a raise before me, I have JJ so re-raise get 1 caller then get a re-raise. Now this guy has done this several times (the 1 player that seemed to know what he was doing) and shown anything from AK to pocket 5. The raise was to 2.5k I still had about 10k at this point so for me a call is not an option so its fold or all-in. I opted for the all-in expecting him to fold, he has AA.
On reflection I should have folded, the game was still early we was only at the 100/200/25 level so to stick 10k in at that level was bad, I went with my read which was wrong.
Now that I have played at this level, it"s made me want to play again, the standard of play was far less then what I was expecting. Perhaps I did not adjust to the structure but ths is something I have learnt.
Sorry that you did not get a run for your money
