330 Deepstack TR
As I sit here with a wicked flu on a Saturday night I figured id write a short TR on the 330 DS from this past Thurs.
Whenever I go to Brantford I cross my fingers on seating assignments. Usually6/8 tables are golden, the rest are relatively tough. My perception when I sat down was that this would be a more difficult table.
I find strategy of playing the BCC tournaments much different than an approach I would take in Vegas, or Wsop, or even OPT. There is much less of a need to be creative at BCC. Instead of finding ways to take chips, I just wait for people to give them to me. I still open the same % of hands, and wait for the regs to get mad at this strategy and dump to me.
15k starting stack and 30 minute levels, the deepstack structure makes for a good 10-12 hour MTT.
3rd hand of the tournament tattoo/piercing guy I know from Fallsview opens seat 3 for 3x, mp calls, I call on the CO with 67dd and puck calls. Flop is 589 2spades (EZ game). Tattoo bets 3/4, MP flats, I flat as well. Im on the fence with raising/calling here but I dont think I stack if the board gets worse so Im good with it. Turn is an offsuit 10. Tattoo bets 2200, MP flats. I make it 5500 and they both call, which concerns me a little. River is a FML non spade 5. Both players check to me.
I tanked for a little and decided that this just isnt the place where someone is going to check 99, 88 or quads so I ship it in, and they BOTH tank call. Tattoo shows 89 and MO has JJ. They both lament that they thought I missed my spade draw. Tough Game.
Won 2 more hands that I remember before the first break.
The first hand I 3b KK on the puck from a young/aggro CO who called down flop/turn with an OESD and then a decent bet on the river with bottom pair. Non believers.
At 100/200 bad limper limps MP, I raise to 1100 on the puck it AKo. I flop some random A high board (like A63 or something like that). Guy checks, I bet 1200 and he jams like 10k. I guess he can have a random 2 pr there but I think its a pretty easy call and he shows A9.
First break I had just under 60k.
I only remember 1 hand during the 2nd set of levels. I had been chatting with a young competent guy who was 2 to my left - he could definately comprehend what was going on. 150/300 folded to me on the button and I open A10. My new friend flats and the flop is 348 rainbow. He checks, I Cbet 800 or so, he checkraises to 1800. I really havent got out of line postflop in the last 3 hours so I jam (like 8-9k effective) and he calls with 85cc, which surprised me a bit.
Anyway, I miss the overcard draw and lose, and ended at 2nd break with around 45k.
The 3rd set of levels is a blur to me but I know there really werent any big hands, and I ended around 80k which was still well above avg.
We were down to like 2 tables now and the table had become very familiar/frustrated with me, specifically seats 4-5-6 who I could hear talking about how many pots I opened / theyre gonna get me/ etc etc.
The other benefit was that most of the chips were at our table and the smaller stacks were at Blondefish' table. This allows for way less preflop variance and more / deeper postflop play.
Other than learning how to play 1BB effectively, I generally adhere to the GTA strategy of casino regular poker (tx Joben). In a nutshell, the theory is that I put 2-3BB in so often with such a wide range, nobody even notices when I put 50bb in with the supernuts.
A good example of this, I think it was 1500/3k, I open MP with A10o and seat 6 complainer from above says something outloud about me always doing that on his BB (troof!) and calls. The flop is K103 he does this thing where he counts out a bunch of chips and then checks, I check behind. The turn is 6 or 7 and he fakebets again, I check again. The river is a king, and he checks. I think the pot is about 18-20k at this point. I bet a ridiculous amount, I think around 30k. For some reason based on his frustration I knew I could get a really light call. He calls with a 6/7 in his hand (whatever the turn was) EZ game.
From about 15 players down I opened up to probably 30-40% pre and accumulated a top 2 stack when we hit the final table, probably around 175k.
I didnt really spazz out too much at the FT, mainly because the guy to my left was cardracking everything (plus I had some guy to my immediate right who wouldnt shut up about EV/ICM/Rake Free Satellites).
I lost a bunch of chips 6 handed with A7 < AK AIPF. Then I doubled back when I shipped K5 in the SB and binked a K vs. 77 for like 8bb.
Won a bunch more when A2 > AK pre to get 4 handed.
Bigstack busted Russian guy and Buddy to get HU with like a 90-10 chip advantage, I put it in on a AJ7 flop with 94o and lost to J7.
TLDR.
Whenever I go to Brantford I cross my fingers on seating assignments. Usually6/8 tables are golden, the rest are relatively tough. My perception when I sat down was that this would be a more difficult table.
I find strategy of playing the BCC tournaments much different than an approach I would take in Vegas, or Wsop, or even OPT. There is much less of a need to be creative at BCC. Instead of finding ways to take chips, I just wait for people to give them to me. I still open the same % of hands, and wait for the regs to get mad at this strategy and dump to me.
15k starting stack and 30 minute levels, the deepstack structure makes for a good 10-12 hour MTT.
3rd hand of the tournament tattoo/piercing guy I know from Fallsview opens seat 3 for 3x, mp calls, I call on the CO with 67dd and puck calls. Flop is 589 2spades (EZ game). Tattoo bets 3/4, MP flats, I flat as well. Im on the fence with raising/calling here but I dont think I stack if the board gets worse so Im good with it. Turn is an offsuit 10. Tattoo bets 2200, MP flats. I make it 5500 and they both call, which concerns me a little. River is a FML non spade 5. Both players check to me.
I tanked for a little and decided that this just isnt the place where someone is going to check 99, 88 or quads so I ship it in, and they BOTH tank call. Tattoo shows 89 and MO has JJ. They both lament that they thought I missed my spade draw. Tough Game.
Won 2 more hands that I remember before the first break.
The first hand I 3b KK on the puck from a young/aggro CO who called down flop/turn with an OESD and then a decent bet on the river with bottom pair. Non believers.
At 100/200 bad limper limps MP, I raise to 1100 on the puck it AKo. I flop some random A high board (like A63 or something like that). Guy checks, I bet 1200 and he jams like 10k. I guess he can have a random 2 pr there but I think its a pretty easy call and he shows A9.
First break I had just under 60k.
I only remember 1 hand during the 2nd set of levels. I had been chatting with a young competent guy who was 2 to my left - he could definately comprehend what was going on. 150/300 folded to me on the button and I open A10. My new friend flats and the flop is 348 rainbow. He checks, I Cbet 800 or so, he checkraises to 1800. I really havent got out of line postflop in the last 3 hours so I jam (like 8-9k effective) and he calls with 85cc, which surprised me a bit.
Anyway, I miss the overcard draw and lose, and ended at 2nd break with around 45k.
The 3rd set of levels is a blur to me but I know there really werent any big hands, and I ended around 80k which was still well above avg.
We were down to like 2 tables now and the table had become very familiar/frustrated with me, specifically seats 4-5-6 who I could hear talking about how many pots I opened / theyre gonna get me/ etc etc.
The other benefit was that most of the chips were at our table and the smaller stacks were at Blondefish' table. This allows for way less preflop variance and more / deeper postflop play.
Other than learning how to play 1BB effectively, I generally adhere to the GTA strategy of casino regular poker (tx Joben). In a nutshell, the theory is that I put 2-3BB in so often with such a wide range, nobody even notices when I put 50bb in with the supernuts.
A good example of this, I think it was 1500/3k, I open MP with A10o and seat 6 complainer from above says something outloud about me always doing that on his BB (troof!) and calls. The flop is K103 he does this thing where he counts out a bunch of chips and then checks, I check behind. The turn is 6 or 7 and he fakebets again, I check again. The river is a king, and he checks. I think the pot is about 18-20k at this point. I bet a ridiculous amount, I think around 30k. For some reason based on his frustration I knew I could get a really light call. He calls with a 6/7 in his hand (whatever the turn was) EZ game.
From about 15 players down I opened up to probably 30-40% pre and accumulated a top 2 stack when we hit the final table, probably around 175k.
I didnt really spazz out too much at the FT, mainly because the guy to my left was cardracking everything (plus I had some guy to my immediate right who wouldnt shut up about EV/ICM/Rake Free Satellites).
I lost a bunch of chips 6 handed with A7 < AK AIPF. Then I doubled back when I shipped K5 in the SB and binked a K vs. 77 for like 8bb.
Won a bunch more when A2 > AK pre to get 4 handed.
Bigstack busted Russian guy and Buddy to get HU with like a 90-10 chip advantage, I put it in on a AJ7 flop with 94o and lost to J7.
TLDR.
Comments
- "Huh, what ante? You mean I have to put in an ante every single hand??"
- "Wash the &^%$#@ cards!" as I "Chris Ferguson" my cards right at the dealer's head
- "Change the *&^%$#@ deck!" - In the next orbit in BvB, I was ready to break my elbows next with a Nash equilibrium insta-shove vs. SGTMIL, but I look at the first card and see a 2 again - 2-5.
- "Change the *&^%$#@ dealer or I'll sit out until the next dealer!" - Next time it folds to me & SGTMIL, I look at the first card and it is a 5 again. :rolleyes:
I never got to play a hand against SGTMIL. Whenever I folded, SGTMIL would raise bigger than average, then would surprisingly get flatted light (instead of jam/fold) by his old tablemates.
After I was eliminated, chose the cheque option to give to my better half, and gave the dealer my customary tip, I only had one thing left to say:
"Brantford is more &^%$#@ rigged than Woodbine!"