Weekend Wendover Trip
This past weekend, a bunch of us from the meetup group decided to take a Wendover trip and play in their spectrum tournament. For the most part, the field in Wendover is pretty weak and if you can avoid the land mines, it is definitely a +EV tournament. However, I think the structure sucks out there because they are super fast but you just have to adjust your game accordingly.
I decided to play the Saturday event, which was $100 w/ $100 rebuys. 25/25 starting levels, 2K in chips, 30 min rounds. I was able to chip up early with little confrontation. I was able to pick off a bluff with KK on a 3 flush, 4 straight board. Other than that, no one really got in my way. Where I ran into a little trouble was after the break. blinds 100/200 and the highest I was able to get to was about 9K. I went card dead but was able to steal a few pots here and there to stay afloat. 500/1K level, I get moved to a new table with 7K. 2nd hand at the table I get dealt QQ. EP opens to 3K, I shove 7K, player to my left reshoves for 40K and obv tables KK. Lucky for me the flops comes 9 10 J and I make my straight. VERY NEXT HAND I get QQ again! Same player opens for 3K, I shove again (this time for 20kish and he snap calls me. Of course I think I'm in trouble with the snap call but he tables A7o. He still had about 35K behind so I didn't understand the call but whatev. BB says "I FOLDED A7!" Uh oh...Board runs out with an Ace and GG me. Finished about 30ish out of 120. Oh well, what can you do.
Cash game didn't go according to plan either. My table was so weak and I just couldn't capitalize. First big pot I played I ran top 2 pair into a set. Bought in again and ran KK into AA. Awesome. That happened in about an 1 1/2 hrs. So I decided to not play anymore poker on Saturday. Sunday, I sat and played for a few hours but couldn't win any big pots. I was so card dead early that I built this super tight image and when I finally started getting hands, I didn't get much action. By then, everybody wanted to leave.
In all, the trip was very unsuccessful. Took a little hit to the bankroll but nothing major. I'll get it back.
Thanks for reading!
TK
I decided to play the Saturday event, which was $100 w/ $100 rebuys. 25/25 starting levels, 2K in chips, 30 min rounds. I was able to chip up early with little confrontation. I was able to pick off a bluff with KK on a 3 flush, 4 straight board. Other than that, no one really got in my way. Where I ran into a little trouble was after the break. blinds 100/200 and the highest I was able to get to was about 9K. I went card dead but was able to steal a few pots here and there to stay afloat. 500/1K level, I get moved to a new table with 7K. 2nd hand at the table I get dealt QQ. EP opens to 3K, I shove 7K, player to my left reshoves for 40K and obv tables KK. Lucky for me the flops comes 9 10 J and I make my straight. VERY NEXT HAND I get QQ again! Same player opens for 3K, I shove again (this time for 20kish and he snap calls me. Of course I think I'm in trouble with the snap call but he tables A7o. He still had about 35K behind so I didn't understand the call but whatev. BB says "I FOLDED A7!" Uh oh...Board runs out with an Ace and GG me. Finished about 30ish out of 120. Oh well, what can you do.
Cash game didn't go according to plan either. My table was so weak and I just couldn't capitalize. First big pot I played I ran top 2 pair into a set. Bought in again and ran KK into AA. Awesome. That happened in about an 1 1/2 hrs. So I decided to not play anymore poker on Saturday. Sunday, I sat and played for a few hours but couldn't win any big pots. I was so card dead early that I built this super tight image and when I finally started getting hands, I didn't get much action. By then, everybody wanted to leave.
In all, the trip was very unsuccessful. Took a little hit to the bankroll but nothing major. I'll get it back.
Thanks for reading!
TK
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