I suck at 2-day events, what can I say?

2-day event fail again haha. I never make Day 2 of anything! (except the Cascades Women’s Event earlier this year, but that doesn’t count right?)

I actually made it to the very last hour of the day. In fact, I only had to last 30 more minutes to make it to Day 2. The problem was I was short stacked and I’m pretty sure limping to Day 2 is the dumbest thing ever, especially when I still have to outlast like 25 people to be in the money.

At my last table I got down as low as 5bb. I pushed A3s in LP and got called by a pretty big stack in the bb by 89s. I held. A couple orbits later I shoved 22 in early MP and got called by the bb with AKs and miraculously held. Now I was up to 25bb, wow!

My “big” stack did not last long. In MP (just before the HJ) I about min raised 33. The stacks behind all had about equal or more chips than I had except for one guy that was 9bb deep. I like my raise a lot for many reasons in a live game. I would probably open fold this in an online tournament.

Unfortunately one of the least desirable scenarios occurred and the shorty shoved. I was assuming this would happen at least a third of the time, though, so it wasn’t much of a surprise. Even if he has the nittiest range in the world (which he didn’t), I was priced in to call because the antes made the pot huge.

Anyway I called and he unfortunately had 44. I was down to 12bb now. Then I shoved QJ blind versus blind and he called with 44 too. 44 is my undoing! GG with 30 min to go in Day 1.

Overall I’m pleased with the way I played yesterday. I sadly nit folded AJ twice to shoves. I was ahead in at least one of them (he showed me ATs) but I am still confident that I made a solid fold. ATs is well at the bottom of the range of a live nit that doesn’t usually play tourneys.

I rambled longer than intended. I’m about to go celebrate my birthday with my favorite person 🙂 Have a good day!