Friday night I went to a local out of town game. It was rebuy night, where there is unlimited rebuys for the first 2 hours. There ended up being 30 buy ins for 25.00. I started out playing with an open range while the blinds were low. I couldn't catch anything so I tightened up to wait on hands. A couple of players at the table said that I should try to bluff as it was getting to the 2nd hour and I still had not won a pot.
I told them that I was still o.k. I am patient and will wait on a hand to play. With about 8 minutes left in the rebuy period I had half my starting stack. I figured I would open up my range again and call down any straight or flush draw. If I catch I could possibly double up and if not I could rebuy for a better stack. I got a 4 5 off suit and called a small raise to see the flop. The flop came out 7 3 2 rainbow. Two players in the hand were betting and I called it down to find my 6 on the river. I had tripled up and was able to coast into the break.
After break I got AQ and raised it up. The table aggressor called. A 3 7 came on the flop. Aggressor is know for loving the low cards so I couldn't rule any cards out of his range. I led out a hefty bet and he called. K fell on the turn. I led out another large bet. He went into the tank and said that he has A3 but put me on AK. He finally folded. The very next hand I got AK and raised. I was called by the chip leader at the table. An ace hit on the flop and I bet through the river. He had a smaller ace as I had expected. I now had a dominating stack.
From that point I stole a few blinds but did not get much action. We finally moved to the final table.
At the final table I played fairly tight until I got AK. The short stack at the table went all in so I called. He had a pocket pair and doubled up. The very next hand I looked down and had AA. The same guy raised so I 3 bet. He went all in and I called. He had AK this time and was knocked out.
From there I couldn't find a hand I wanted to play until we were 3 handed. One of the other 2 had just been raised all in and he called with a 5 9 off suit to double up. I had QQ and he called my bb. I went all in and he called as I had hoped. He had A9o. The flop brought a 9 and the turn brought another 9. I had him covered with around 6 bb's left over. I couldn't find a playable hand the next few rotations and the blinds went up again. I was sitting with a little over 2 bb's now. I waited for them to be in the blinds and went all in, in the dark. I got a caller and when I flipped over my cards I saw I had 7 2o. He turned over 10 7o. I caught a 2 but he found a 10 to take me out.
Third place was worth 125.00 so I was able to come home with some money.
On Saturday we went to Wichita to do some Halloween costume shopping. On the way home I convinced my wife to let me swing into the Kansas Star Casino to play some free slot play that was on my card. She said o.k. so I stopped in for a few quick spins. I thought I had 15.00 on the card but it turned out they had given me 35.00. I ran through the slot play and did not hit anything so I put 10.00 more into the machine. Right as I was getting to the end of it, I got some free spins and ended up winning 60.00 on the free spins. I cashed out being up 50.00 on that stop.
On Sunday, we had lunch at my brother and sister in law's after church. We sat around there watching some football for most of the afternoon. Finally around 3:30 I decided I was going to slip home and play some Sunday tournaments. I had 1 good run in the 11.00 Sunday game. Everything else was a bust. I made it to the final 4 tables in the 11.00 game when I got JJ. I only had 10 bb's left so I went all in from UTG. BB had QQ and knocked me out. I won just enough to cover the rest of my buy in's for the day. I was actually still down some after that cash. I played some 6 man sng's and some heads up sng's, but could not get ahead for the day. I finally gave up when I realized I had been tilty for some time and wasn't going to make a profit. It wasn't my night.
I heard this weekend that the Kansas Star is going to start having tounaments on Sunday's in November. It will be a deep stack event with 120.00 buy in. My next couple weekends are booked, but if I find some free time in November or December I will try this one out. I think it will draw quite a crowd.
I have my next local game tonight. We'll see if I can't increase my live bankroll a little more.
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