Had two pretty interesting hands in Vegas last week:
$800 Ultimate Stack at Venetian, 200/300/300 blinds, I have 20k of 40k start stack. Early pos goes 700, button goes 3500. Neither had been crazily out of line. I have QQ in the BB. I decide to flat the 3500 as jamming feels like overkill but 4b small also just screams I HAZ HUGE HAND. Early pos comes along, so 11k in pot, I have 16.5 back. Flop is 753. I check, planning now to jam over BTN c-bet. Checks through though. Turn Q. BOINGA. I check again, and again it checks through. River T. I lead 10k. Early pos thinks and folds, BTN thinks and jams, I obv snap call and he turns over the ole 64 offsuit. LOLOLOL. So he just randomly decides to 3b trash and of course I have the exact stack to flat call and he gets a 753Q runout with 64 vs QQ and also no river board pair. COOL. I re-enter and basically never have anything until I bust 8 hours later.
$140 at Aria, down to 18 players of 97, paying 13. I have lost 2 all in pots that each would have made me tourney chipleader. One was with about 40 left, I call A9 on ATT8ss, he has QJ and rivers a 9. Then the next was with about 22 left, guy jams 18 bigs, I rejam JJ, he has 77, 7 window.
So now I have about 13 bigs and min-open AThh UTG. Tight guy in MP calls, BB calls. About 37k in pot, I have about 55 back. Flop A93. BB jams for like 70. MP has about 45k back. I jam also. BB now exposes his hand before MP acts and shows A2. NOW, MP exposes his hand without acting, AJ. MP tanks about 3 minutes and then calls. It really sucks that MP gets to see that he has one of the players beat AND that there is only one A remaining so I cannot have AA and very unlikely to have AK or AQ. So for me to get in this spot, I need MP to flat AJ with 10 bigs instead of 3b all in (I would fold to this player's 3b) AND BB to flat AND the case ace to fall AND BB to jam AND BB to expose his hand. I do not catch up, and am allin the next hand for the BB and ante. I get 22, 3 players limp and I beat 2 of them but lose to SB's 43o as he flops a 4 (same guy who binked his QJ against me earlier in huge pot).
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