WSOP-C NOLA; Recap Part Three
Played the five o'clock mega the thursday before the Main Event.. Thought I built a good table image and chipped up pretty quickly. Also, made some thin value bets and got calls. So playing well. Can't remember precisely where it came undone. Think about two thirds of the field was gone and I made a couple of raises I had to fold to shoves. The last one like that I opened KQ o/s in the hijack seat. Player on the button who didn't show down many hands but I believed to be tight shoved. He was also good enough to steal. But I thought I'd find a better spot. Didn't. Reshoved myself, light with QJ suited, and the initial raiser Mihail, a wide open cash game player, who actually had a hand this time with 99 and I lost the race. He thought about folding because of my image and our history. Good thing is I might get some calls from his weaker hands in the future, bad thing is I was out. No nightly tournaments and...