BCC Trip Report
Went to bcc today for the $125 deepstack. Started at 10am, got there plenty early and was first one at my table. I should admit to something pretty lame.... This is actually my first live tourny at a casino. 
Ive played semi regular at home games, and even played cash at bcc before. Figured after like 8k online games, its time. haha.
Table draw was okay.... Good mix of tight old guys, and a few middle aged guys who had no clue. Early on, 5x opens were common, and dont forget to follow that up with 1.5x - 2x pot cbets.... First few levels I had a few good hands, AA, AK, QQ, JJ all of which got very little action if any.
There was an odd ruling (imo anyways). They broke a table, and the guy who came to our table was entering into the sb position. Instead of waiting for the puck to pass, the dealer insisted that he posts the bb??.... So they called a floorperson over, who said no, he posts the sb. Still I thought that was wrong, that he should be waiting for puck, but the guy was fine with it so w/e. During the hand the dealer calls the TD over, and he said the guy should have posted the bb. ugh. #bccaments
Anyways the next few levels were kinda ugh, then my awful mistake....I think I had about 14k and blinds were 300/600/75. utg had 3500 or so and was fairly active, shoves. I am utg+1 and look down at 77. Table had not got into any preflop raising wars at all, in fact there were only a few 3bets all day. I called the 3500, which I think is my mistake, but want input from others as I think I should shove or fold, never flat..... Anyways obv the old guy shoves lp for another ~6k. This guy was pretty rock solid tight, so I pretty much figured him for AK+, 99+ maybe AQs?... Thought about it for a while and folded. Which is also probably a mistake.
I think two more levels passed without much of note and then I busted when I shoved 5bb ep with JQo and got called by young guy in mp with KQs. He hit his flush by the turn, I was out the backdoor philli style before the river hit. Was trying really hard to find a spot sooner to jam, but there really wasnt much. Stacks got shallow very quickly it seemed.
Think I busted in 40th/80.
TL;dr version...
#bccaments
#firstlivetourny
#donkwithchipscantpulltriggerwith7s
#busted40th
Ive played semi regular at home games, and even played cash at bcc before. Figured after like 8k online games, its time. haha.Table draw was okay.... Good mix of tight old guys, and a few middle aged guys who had no clue. Early on, 5x opens were common, and dont forget to follow that up with 1.5x - 2x pot cbets.... First few levels I had a few good hands, AA, AK, QQ, JJ all of which got very little action if any.
There was an odd ruling (imo anyways). They broke a table, and the guy who came to our table was entering into the sb position. Instead of waiting for the puck to pass, the dealer insisted that he posts the bb??.... So they called a floorperson over, who said no, he posts the sb. Still I thought that was wrong, that he should be waiting for puck, but the guy was fine with it so w/e. During the hand the dealer calls the TD over, and he said the guy should have posted the bb. ugh. #bccaments
Anyways the next few levels were kinda ugh, then my awful mistake....I think I had about 14k and blinds were 300/600/75. utg had 3500 or so and was fairly active, shoves. I am utg+1 and look down at 77. Table had not got into any preflop raising wars at all, in fact there were only a few 3bets all day. I called the 3500, which I think is my mistake, but want input from others as I think I should shove or fold, never flat..... Anyways obv the old guy shoves lp for another ~6k. This guy was pretty rock solid tight, so I pretty much figured him for AK+, 99+ maybe AQs?... Thought about it for a while and folded. Which is also probably a mistake.
I think two more levels passed without much of note and then I busted when I shoved 5bb ep with JQo and got called by young guy in mp with KQs. He hit his flush by the turn, I was out the backdoor philli style before the river hit. Was trying really hard to find a spot sooner to jam, but there really wasnt much. Stacks got shallow very quickly it seemed.
Think I busted in 40th/80.
TL;dr version...
#bccaments
#firstlivetourny
#donkwithchipscantpulltriggerwith7s
#busted40th
Comments
nice TR haha
Want me to tell u about the chairs? Lol
Do u mean shove the first time, or call the old guys shove?
Utg had 3s and old man had AK. My 7s would have held too :mad:
This is why the shove is better than the call. Calls invite others to come along for the fun. If you shove your stack in, you are likely going to given credit for the same sort of hand you put the old guy on, maybe even stronger based on your image, and this might cause hands like 10/10 to fold, rather than take the risk. Call/fold is very weak.
I started at table 4, then got moved to table..... 6 maybe?
I enjoyed it, not gunna make it a regular thing though thats for sure.
But if the players left to act don't know you will always call or they don't play like this then depending on villains you can gain fold equity for your weaker range by looking like you're trapping. With strong hands vs. some players you can encourage a reshove or a flat from a wider range by looking like you are too weak to shove and might fold.
Here by shoving, you can expect to make live players fold aq lots, and ak sometimes, and qq or kk even.
The reason you prob shouldn't fold now I think is the pot odds you've created for yourself. Even if you are behind the range he's shoving you still likely have odds to call.
For 180s: After seeing you FTI/fold I would def start opening my reshoving range to capitalize on the fold equity. Also I never expect you to FTI Ak or AQ. So your actual shove range becomes strong (I would tighten my calling range). If someone FTI/calls with their monsters as a trap then their actual shove range is weaker, and you can make tight fold vs there FTI's and some strange looking light calls vs their shoves. So I take notes for people either fti/fold or fti/call with their stack size, antes or not, and their hand if they show.
orly?
Never calling, well maybe not never, but very rarely..
hahahah
Mark
Hey, I fully admit that I suck. I would shove with 77 in that spot to try and get HU with the guy.