Coming off the high of a good weekend of cards, I decided to try out the $55 Tuesday Derby tourney again. Took 2nd. last week, but with 100+ players I wasn't looking for much.
So the first half of the tourney goes pretty much the same as last week. Every time someone busts out in the first 3 rounds, they fill that seat with an alternate (6 tables +alternates = 100+). Much of this appears to be dead money, and I double up twice when someone moves in with 2nd pair, no kicker on pair, etc.
Surviving down to 2 tables things get iffy. I'm down to the felt probably 6 times from here on out, and double up all of those :shock:
Down to one table, I've got average stack at 18k, blinds at 2/4k. Small stacks are desparate and pushing, and then we're down to 4. Now I'm a serious short stack. I push all in for about 12k with 55, AJo calls and my pair holds. Down to 3 and this one guy (a total ass by the way), goes all in, the other guy has a huge chip lead and calls and wins with A9o. So he's got 60k+ to my 20k, and he says "man I'm tired, lets just split the 1st and 2nd money and ill take the 1st place title. I'm down 3 to 1 chips, so it's a no brainer to me. 2nd is $948, 1st is $1450, but we chop and each get $1200. Sweet
So that's 2 2nd place titles in 2 weeks at that tourney. Next week I'm looking for the win!!
-David "Kid"
So the first half of the tourney goes pretty much the same as last week. Every time someone busts out in the first 3 rounds, they fill that seat with an alternate (6 tables +alternates = 100+). Much of this appears to be dead money, and I double up twice when someone moves in with 2nd pair, no kicker on pair, etc.
Surviving down to 2 tables things get iffy. I'm down to the felt probably 6 times from here on out, and double up all of those :shock:
Down to one table, I've got average stack at 18k, blinds at 2/4k. Small stacks are desparate and pushing, and then we're down to 4. Now I'm a serious short stack. I push all in for about 12k with 55, AJo calls and my pair holds. Down to 3 and this one guy (a total ass by the way), goes all in, the other guy has a huge chip lead and calls and wins with A9o. So he's got 60k+ to my 20k, and he says "man I'm tired, lets just split the 1st and 2nd money and ill take the 1st place title. I'm down 3 to 1 chips, so it's a no brainer to me. 2nd is $948, 1st is $1450, but we chop and each get $1200. Sweet
So that's 2 2nd place titles in 2 weeks at that tourney. Next week I'm looking for the win!!
-David "Kid"