seoul riggdness…

Busted out of Main Event pretty early today, I started a bit short but felt pretty good about my chances as I have a lot of short-stack play under my belt so was ready to pick some good spots and build. Spent the first 90 min folding, couldn’t find a playable hand (I can be nitty but I’m talking about anything like 64s in SB to CO/Button raise is a monster - couldn’t get anything - of course everyone else waking up with AA/KK and minraising obv, it was pretty sexy stuff).

After hour and half, antes/blinds starting to eat a bit and I’m down to 17k when its folded to me in the CO. I have 44 which is the best hand I’ve seen in the day, and the two blinds players are super tight and weak. I open to take the blinds/antes and if either of the blinds raise me, I have to fold. Button is very loose and if he raises me, I think I have to call as he’s already pushed his short stack over quite a lot of late position raises. I decide its worth the gamble and open, button insta-pushes his 15k. Obv spot not great but I think I have to call so I do. He has JJ and I’m left with 2k and its basically all over. I have a really bad record on Day 2’s of tourneys, I’ve never done well on a 2nd day. I don’t know if its a bad play what I did, but its just not in me to openfold a pair in CO, I just can’t play that way. I think the call vs the loose short stack is ok, I think his range there is pretty wide, I don’t really know, tourneys are a bit weird. Maybe I could have nursed a little bit longer as blinds/antes ground into me but meh - tourneys are gay. If open-folding 44 in the CO is correct whatever, I can’t openfold there. There’s some really terrible players with massive stacks left, but that’s the way these things go I suppose. Rekrul is a machine and he’s gonna crush the final table tomorrow unless he runs pretty bad.

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Russian tourney started a few hours later which I was pretty excited about - actually, its the main reason I ended up coming to Seoul. Very little interest in the tourney though unfortunately. Traheho the wimp must have been tilted and flew out or something as he was no-show. I convinced my mate Gaz to play and we started with a total of 5 players. Everyone was pretty drunk and in jovial spirits but the tourney was a shitfight. The TD had no real clue what was going on, the dealer had never dealt Russian, everyone except me decided to play without bonus points which I think is retarded as I got out-voted. I think that situation is a bit ridiculous as if 90% of the players showed up to a HE tourney and voted to make straights beat flushes, no way does the TD just change the rules of the game - these things aren’t an election. As everyone was in jovial spirits, and it was just a little fun tourney, I agreed to the dumb rule change.

Once we got things underway and after I had to crack the whip on the lazy TD, things progressed a bit more smoothly. Carlene from Crown (now from PokerStars) did a great job with the timer and with drink ordering and we got smashed pretty quickly. Carlene doesn’t muck around. Most idiots like myself order 1 or 2 drinks at a time - Carlene orders 10 at a time which is obv best line. Hiroshi was first out, and despite being an almost unbackable favourite leading into the event, I ran sick bad to get eliminated next. It got HU between Potter and Gaz with Gaz down to 50 chips (Potter had 9950). As only Gaz can do, he won 90% of hands from that point to win the title.

I run pretty bad on house edge, and this trip has cost me around 8k but its been ok. Less jokers here than at most tourneys, so tilt has been kept to a minimum, even though I die a little inside whenever someone hands me a bill. This city is really expensive, I could never live here.

I’m going to the DMZ tomorrow which I’m pretty excited about. I hope war breaks out, should be fun…

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