This is my Hand for Hand analysis.
As I said in the first half, I voluntarily played 109 hands. I'll be covering all the interesting hands from that set. I won't cover dull hands, or any hands where I just folded (even though there were a couple interesting ones). So here we go.
Format is #Hand, blinds, starting chips, hand, explanation.
#2 10/20 1500 6-6 from the BB. Flop is A-6-5. +500. A nice way to start!
#6 15/30 2550 AsJs from #2. Raise 4x with one late caller. 285 in the pot. Flop is 8h-3s-Qs. I bet 150 for continuation and get raised 450. Call with odds. Turn makes my flush and I clean him out. +1500
#8 15/30 4286 KsJs from #2. Gun calls, I call, BB calls, 105 pot. Flop is Kc-Qh-9S. I bet 90, gun calls. Turn is 9c, he raises my 150 to 300. I call (probably bad). River is 10c and saves me. +500
#10 25/50 4605 AcQc from SB. Middle position raises, I call, BB goes all in (1000). I fold. Middle had AJ, BB had KK. I congratulate myself. -150.
#12 25/50 4780 8-8 from #5. Open for 4x, SB calls, 450 pot. Flop Q-4-7 rainbow. He checks and calls my 250 continuation, 950 pot. Turn is 8 giving me trips on great board. He checks, I check (probably a little too clever here). River he bets 500, I raise, he goes all in and is cleaned out with K-Q. He could have won on the flop but instead...+2620
#13 25/50 7475 A-Q from SB. Call a raise. Nobody improves until the river A, when he decides to "bluff" with 1820 into a pot of 750. He had 6-6. +2220
#23 100/200 13551 Kc7c from SB. #3 raises 3x. I chose to call. I can't really explain this call; when I saw it in the DB I was pretty shocked. I'm sure I had a reason at the time, but it was probably a bad one. Anyway, I'm less than 1% to flop a flush, much less the nut flush, but that's exactly what happens...Ac-9c-Jc. He has AK, and I stack him. +7470.
At this point, I was in #1 for the entire tournament, probably about 1000 places left. That's never happened to me in a big tourney. Since I play conservative, I'm used to maniacs pushing chips all over the table while I try to slowly gain in front of the blinds. Here, my (well mostly) good play has put me up and up and up. Except for #23. That was just dumb.
#24 100/200/a25 20.5K A-10 BB. This was a supertight table, with tons of blind-stealing and only about 1/3 flops. On this hand the button and SB called, so I raised 4x (should have been more) properly expecting to win the hand. Button called, pot 2025. Flop 10h-5h-7d. Button calls my 1500, pot 5K. Turn Js. I check, he bets 2800, I call, pot ~10K. River 7s, I call his 1800, and lose to 10-Jo. -6925. Oops. His play on preflop and flop was terrible. My turn and river were bad. This hand really haunted me. I did kind of make friends with the winner, though. He eventually finished #40 and then railed and rooted for me the rest of the way.
#27 200/400/a25 13K JJ SB. #4 goes all in 2920, I call, lose to AA. Loose? -2945.
#36 300/600/a50 19K KK #2. I run into AK all-in with 8.5K. Board is 10-J-A-Q-4 and I am saved by a split. +625
#38 400/800/a50 17K KQ BB. Loose-aggressive SB open-raises, I call. I call (??) a flop of 7-9-J rainbow, but get out when he bets the 8 on the turn. -5K. Damn it.
#41 600/1200/a75 14.5K Ac7c #3. I open raise (??), SB goes all-in with 8k, I call at about 3.5-1. He turns over QQ. Board comes A-7-Q and I have a heart attack. Turn is A. If I were him, I'd be pissed. +10.5K.
#42 same 21K QQ BB. I lose to all-in K-10 when he gets a K on the flop. Kind of ironic. -7.5K.
#45 800/1600/a75 11.5K QQ button. My all-in gets called by AcKc; I hold up. +14.5K
#46-56 A long run of bad cards, where my only action was blind steals. At this point the blinds have climbed until I'm getting +7K on a win though. 54-56 I go from 21K to 50K.
#57 2K/4K/a200 52k J-4 BB. Big stack SB calls, I see free flop of Q-J-7 and he calls me down with bad odds to a straight draw. +17K and I'm in much better position now.
#58 2K/4K/a200 71K A-10 SB. Small early stack raises 4x, I call, pot 22K. Flop is 9-Q-K and I feel obligated to call his lst 9K. I wrongly figured A's were outs; he had AQ. -17.5K
After this, another long string where I'm being slowly blinded out.
#60 3K/6K/a300 45K AdKh SB. I reraise, he calls 70K in the pot for a flop of Q-5-6. With 18K left I feel committed anyway and semibluff the rest of my chips in. fortunately my AK nothing beats his AJ nothing, and I double. +56K This one hand gave me enough chips to maybe reach the final table if I could be steady.
#61-69 Are all blind steals that build me significantly.
#70 6K/12K/a600 112K QQ gun. I raise, #2 goes all in over my count, and I beat his 7's. How did this guy get this far in the tournament? His donation doubles me +133K.
This came just in time for two reasons. First, we were down to about 12 players, and things got really tight for a long time. Second, I saw no cards and floated in 9th for many rounds. Before I knew it, i was back down to ~100K just from getting blinded out on the short-handed table. We sat forever with 1 out to final table, when this happened:
#75 8K/16K/a800 141K As6s gun (5 handed). I raise 40 to steal, BB calls. Board 6d-4s-Ks gives me middle pair, top kicker, nut flush draw. He checks, I bet half, he goes all in well over my stack. Pot is 220 and I have 50K, so this is supereasy. He had 99; the turn gave me my Ace and high placement on the final table! +152K.
Beyond this the play actually kind of breaks down in being interesting. I obviously won a lot of hands, but they were all pretty much dull, just blind steals or folds on the flop. The blinds were big enough that they were all significant, though. I was chip leader almost the entire time. I did have them both short stacked and might have won uncontested were it not for this hand near the end:
#?? 20K/40K/a2K 1600K K-J SB (3 handed). I open raise 120, BB reraises 360, I call, pot 726. Flop is 7c-2c-7s. BB puts in his last 275K. I folded, but later realized that he would have bet with basically anything here, and I'm getting 4-1. On the one hand I'm probably beat, but on the other if I call and win it's over, and if I call and lose it's no big swing either way. Don't know. -362K.
But since I lost that hand we were basically even, and chopped after #3 was eliminated. It may very well have cost me $200. But who am I to complain. +$1200 tourney!
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