In my last post, I mentioned that I played in the Railbird freeroll on Sunday. Here is a recap of how it went. We started of with 867 players with the top 81 places paying. When we got into the money, I opened up the payout page, and noticed that everyone who places higher than 10th place earns less than one dollar. That would be a waste of my time, even though I get good experience from these MTTs. My goal was to make the top 10 places.
When we got down to 25 players, I was second in chips, but way behind first place who had more than double my stack.
Not too long after, I knocked out a smaller stack and had increased my stack to over 100k. Unfortunately, jmopga had about 80k more than me, but at least I had pulled away from third place.
Everything was going well. I was playing smart. Didn't take any unnecessary risks. No bad beats (oops, did I say that? Doh!) until this hand. We had 6 players at my table and I was in the BB. Everyone folded to the SB who raised. I had QsKs and since this could easily be a steal attempt, and I had a good hand 6-handed, I reraised. SB called and the flop came 4sKc3c. SB checked this flop and I led out with a 3/4 pot size bet. SB called. Hmm, flush draw? Middle pocket pair? A3? A4? I thought he could have any of these hands. Hell, maybe even 56 or 25. I could not put him on any specific hand, but I thought these were his possibilities. The turn brought a 7h. The only hand that had me nervous was 56, but out of all the possible hands he could have, I put a 12% chance that he had 56. He checked again and led out with another feeler bet of 3/4 pot size bet. He called again. It really felt like he was chasing, so I put him on a flush draw, with a possible inside straight draw as well, so maybe Ac4c. The river brought a 5h. No flush and only one of the possible hands I put him on would beat me. I bet 1/4 pot which put him all in and he called. He showed a 6h7s for a straight on the river. HOLY CRAP! He chased an inside straight draw to the river for almost all of his chips! How did this guy get make it this far with over 800 players?
I accepted the loss and didn't let it effect my play. My stack was hurting, but I kept playing smart, and I finally made the final table, and my goal. Mr 67 offsuit (vlkn06) still was in it, and still had most of my chips he donked off of me.
When we got down to 6 players, I was dealt 7sTs in the SB. Everyone folded to me and I raised 3x the BB to semi-bluff steal the blinds. The BB called. The flop came 2dTd3d. I had top pair, but with three diamonds on the board, there was a possible flush. I was low on chips and needed to double up and with top pair, I was feeling pretty good about this hand. I went allin which was a little less than the size of the pot and the SB called. He showed 3s9d for middle pair and a flush draw. The turn brought a 9s giving him two pair and the river was a blank knocking me out in 6th place.
Mr donk went out next followed by Mr. Lucky (jmopga - the guy who hit his two pair on the river to knock me out). Here is how the rest finished.
I am very happy with 6th place out of a field of 867. If I could do this in a live tournament for big cash, I could bank some sweet coin. My next big live tournament is in May, so lets hope I can play in a similar fashion and make the final table.
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