$300 +1 Rebuy Live Tournament

Just finished playing in a $300 buy in tourney. Wow. Just wow. That's all I can say about the quality of play. Some of these players are so bad I just can't explain. Everyone starts with a 10k stack and is only permitted one rebuy within the first hour for an additional $300. In these live events, the field is so soft so there is really no point in rebuying straight away as one is likely to double up with a top pair top kicker type of hand. 33 players entered with $5.5k going to first.

Didn't get a lot of hands. Didn't play a lot of hands. With blinds still at 50/100 (30 minute levels) UTG raises to 400 and gets called in 3 spots. In the SB I look down at QsQd and raise it to 2500 total. Of course I get two callers and a flop of Jh 1oh 5c. I lead for 3200 into 8k or so, leaving myself committed with only 4k behind. Unfortunately, they both fold and I'm up to 15k.

In the second level I raise MP 3x with QJdd and get called by the hijack. Flop comes down Js 8s 7c and I lead 1600 into 2000. The hijack raises 4k more, I turbo muck and he shows a flopped set of Jacks with the case Jack on the flop. Sick. Good fold me.

Same level and I'm on the button. Pretty much everyone limps in and I call with 45dd. Flop comes down 10d 10c 3d. Everyone checks to me and I lead for half pot. SB and BB both call. At this point someone is bad enough to slowplay their flopped set of trips so unless a diamond comes I'm folding. The turn comes Kd making my flush. The SB leads for about 1/8 of the pot, BB folds. I fold face up. He shows me Kc 10h for the boat. Good fold me.

For the next two levels I play less than 5 hands and then I get moved to another table. I still have my initial starting stack of 10k but the average is around 15k. In late position I shove 15BB with AJdd and the blinds fold. SB told me he had JJ. Terrible fold by him. Two hands later I shove AKo into a preflop raiser, he folds and shows 99.

Few hands later I'm UTG with Ah 1os and I make a standard 3x raise with the blinds at 300/600. I've got around 17BB. In retrospect I should have just folded pre and waited for a better position. I get called by UTG+1 (same guy who folded JJ pre) and another spew monkey. Flop comes down Ac 8c As. I lead for 1/2 pot and get smooth called. Spew monkey folds. Turn is the 5s. At this point I think op might have Ax as well as 99-QQ as he is bad enough to play big pairs like that. But I have less than the pot size to bet so I shove my stack in the middle. 20 seconds of "thinking" and UTG+1 finally calls. Initially, I was happy he took so long hoping he had 99/1010/JJ but he slowrolled me and shows 88 for the flopped FH. Obviously I don't get there. epicfail on that hand.

Stupid tournaments. Give me a couple hands/flops and I would crush that field. There are literally less than 5 competent players in those tourneys. Anytime I play against them it's +EV for me. I need to get some of those players in a cash game! Oh well. Overall, I'm happy with my play except the last hand. Till next time.