HugePoker

As my twitter-followers know, I’m out of the $1K stimulus package event. I’m not sure, but I think this was my fastest bust-out from a WSOP tournament - I know I had one last year where I busted before the first break, but I think this one was even shorter…

I caught some strong hands early on, but never got enough action on them to win a big pot. In the process I think I developed a pretty loose-aggressive image, when in fact I was playing pretty conservatively. But when I did try to get pushy I never got any respect, and drained away some chips with continuation bets. I lost a big chunk with A-K against a guy who called my limp-reraise out of position with sixes and then called a big flop bet with third pair. If I’d had the guts to 2-barrel him on the turn I probably could have pushed him out, but that would have committed my whole stack and I just assumed he must be stronger than sixes - I thought Jacks or Queens were likely when he called on the flop so I just shut down.

After that I bounced between 1500 and 2000 chips with the blinds at 25-50 (the started at 25-25). The player on my right raised to 150 and I looked at A-Q - I flat-called in position and everyone else folded. The flop came Q-4-4 with two spades, my opponent checked and I bet 300. He immediately checkraised to 825, which would have committed over a third of my remaining chips. I decided he had seen me bet the flop and then give up quite a bit, so he didn’t have to have a big hand, and that if he had me beat the money was going in anyway, so I reraised to 1650 all-in. He actually thought for a long time, which made me think my hand was good (or possibly chopping), but he finally called and turned over Kings. No suckout on the turn or river and Huge was out in a big fat hurry.

Not sure when the next big event will be, but I’ll keep reporting…

sadly,
-huge