Well, I "should" be able to pick up my availability to play more tournaments as spring/summer rolls around. I did find some time to play in the PPO Spring Series Event #28. I got to the casino with 10 minutes to spare the start time of 7pm. This was interesting...there were 3 players signed up... I was going to decide to not play due to the lack of interest, possibly due to the Borgata events at the same time and the whole Easter weekend thing(This was Monday, though...) They were apparently going to play the game out no matter if 3 was the total and give out a trophy, and have rebuys till 9:30pm(though I'm not sure what would happen if there could end up 1 player left prior to 9:30 would the game be over or would they just sit there and take tons of blinds...?) I was curious to see what could happen and why not try to win a trophy(I'd take ANY trophy at this point). So I was #4 and we sat 2 players at a table for about 5-6 minutes when a few more stragglers came over and by the end of the first level we had 2 full tables(near full) about 16 players. 2 players were quickly KO'd at the other table. My table was pretty straightforward with pretty tight play happening, nobody getting crazy and nobody taking over. I was down a little and up a little when 5 minutes in....The 3rd level, a girl who'd played apparently pretty tight up to this point(55 minutes isn't a good indicator, but it's all I got...) raised 100-200 to 600 in early position(70BB effective stacks, 14K). I look down at pocket Ks and make it 1500. The fact that she raised 600 wasn't necessarily a red flag, 3x wasn't un-standard at this table at this time. I was pretty much making 2.3x raises and my 3bet 1500 isn't all that large. I basically figured she'd call with A-Q and below Js, possibly raise higher than that and maybe the 1500 smallish looking raise could make a few A-Q and below to possibly 4-bet me but not necessarily look committed. All folds around to her and she makes it 4K. I'm pretty pumped about this, however, I also instantly feel gross in my stomach, like there's a possibility that her entire 4bet range is only AA....
I hope if her possible range is still (on the tight side) Qs and up+ AK I don't think I can ever think of folding.(right...?) I don't like Calling, it allows me to get outplayed by an Ace on the flop if she's going to shove a lot of post-flop hands after putting in so much and it's near 1/3 of my stack. However, at the same time, I don't know if she'll also ever call a shove with anything but Aces...Oh well, I shoved and she called, just as I feared Pocket Aces, dryest, most boring board you could ever lay your eyes on and I couldn't even vie for a 14 players left tournament trophy...couldn't even make the final table...gross...
It's been a while since I've had a legitimate cooler and so early...so I guess I was due pretty hard...
Can't wait for next time...hopefully sooner than last time...
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