$300 Planet Hollywood 100k gtd

15/6/2015

Afternoon decision to play the 4pm flight of the PH $300 event. I was going to play tomorrow instead by was feeling fresh early afternoon so decided to jump into this and late-reg for this with 50 bigs. Came in just ending level 4 and immediately won a small pot. Table seems placid enough so far.

Been a little frisky and 15k quickly becomes 20k.

Quickly into level 7 and I'm bang on the average. Table isn't getting too out of line and I'm just conserving chips and taking the odd shot once per orbit or so.

Level 8 and 300/600/75. I'm on 27k so all good currently.

Welcome to that well known tournament animal, the guy who can't or won't fold AK. It just cost me my tournament on the final hand of level 8.

I raise to 1700 at 300/600/75 with 99. Young guy I've been chatting with makes it 4100. I call leaving myself about 17500.

Flop is 8 10 Q. I don't mind the flop for my hand... I'm pretty sure he's got AK, and I check to let him bet, he bets 3500, and I check-raise all in for another 14000.

He sighs, asks for a count, twiddles his chips, and finally calls for around 3/4 of his stack.

Turn 10

River J to make him a straight.

Out we go after playing I think pretty well and getting in a position to be well over average and have a commanding lead in the table. I just say well played and good luck and leave. What else could you say?

Maybe try the 11am flight tomorrow. I'll sleep on it.

2 Comments

Gene OLeary

23/6/2015 05:44:03 pm

You need to lighten up on yourself , reading your blog is brutal, LOL I have seen your past results and you can do it .Hendonmob states over 1 million in earnings. I hope to see you at a table soon, Will be in Vegas this weekend, Doing a day 2 here in California @thebicyclecasino and then off to Venetian for their deepstacks and a WSOP event . Some people here in California ask me if I am you . LOL ,,, I tell em no it's another OLeary is all. keep a positive attitude and you will get in the big money again .
Good luck Kevin , Gene

Kevin

24/6/2015 05:44:42 am

Hi Gene, (hygiene?)
Thanks for writing in. All good. It's a weird thing. My updates could be just limited to "level 5-12,700....level 7-14,000" and so on, and some of the readers, especially investors would be perfectly happy with just that. I guess it's part of my personality that I embellish the writing with stuff a bit more personal and try to add a bit of humour for entertainment value also. Sometimes it works reading back, and sometimes it gets a bit dark. Maybe at times it's too honest. The poker's all good. I've been doing it forever and know how quickly a bad run turns good, and vice-versa.
I'm in town for a few more weeks, please feel free to come say hi if you get a chance, we must be related somewhere back there!
Kevin.

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