I played WPT Five Diamond at the B last week. It didn't go well. I had been having good results in tournaments (or at least passable) and was very loose and confident for this WPT, so I was disappointed that I couldn't get anything reasonable going. I haven't posted hands in a while, so I'll post a few annoying hands that wound up costing me the tournament while they're still relatively fresh in my mind.

In the first level UTG opens to 300, CO calls, I squeeze black aces in the sb to 1625. Honestly, I don't usually squeeze here, but... sometimes I do. We're 40k deep, but before the hand I think I honestly thought we were 30k deep-- I guess I just haven't played in a WPT since they went from 30k starting chips to 40k starting chips.

Both call, so there's ~5k in there and the flop is J64r. I bet 2300 in honor of Michael Jordan, UTG is the only caller. Turn is Ks bringing a FD. I bet 4600 in honor of Michael Jordan x2, UTG calls again. River is basically the worst card in the deck, Qs, I check fold to 9k.

Shrug, nothing else I can do except flat pre.

Second level is 1-2, UTG is a tightish player and opens to 600, UTG1 calls (he's wideish here, some suited and connected stuff), CO calls, Donk calls on button, I squeeze sb to 3300 with ~30k effective now. Folds to CO, who calls. 632dd, I bet 3500, CO calls. Turn 9d, I bet 7200 I think... He makes it like 17k, I fold.

I'm not going to say what I had, but thinking about the spot on the whole I am looking at his range and trying to figure out what he has-- I guess he could have three nines or a flush. I think the turn is a bad card to barrel unless I have Ax with the A of diamonds. I was overestimating how often villian would raise the flop with AXdd I think-- before I decided to barrel the turn (it's not relevant what I had, just not a flush or a set or a straight, which are the only hands I can continue with in the second level of a 10k against what I think is a random tournament player [sidenote: he wound up 3-bet, 5-betting T3o and getting it in against AK]) I just thought he would have a lot of one pair hands that would fold turn. I think I was wrong. If I'm going to bet a diamond I think it should be a K or Q of diamonds to kill some combos of those hands that he has and to make sure he folds black tens.

I ran it down to like 4k and then ran it back up to like 30k by winning two all ins and some other stuff. At 150-300/25, UTG minraised (active player with ~18k), donk calls in the CO, and I make it 2100 with black aces again on the button (this is smallish, but is directly related to the stack size of UTG, I want him to have room to 4b fold, which is a thing that does happen), UTG begrudgingly folds, donk calls. Flop is 983ss, donk check calls 2300 (I should have bet more, honestly in the moment I forgot that PFR even minraised in the first place, I should have bet 2800ish). Turn is a red jack, he check calls 5400 (I made up for the small flop bet with a big-ish turn bet, but very necessary against a bad player who is blinded by equity like crazy). River is an offsuit 8, he check calls 12500 and 78 is good. I told him I was fine with him winning the hand, I just ask that in the future he hits a ten or a seven instead of an 8, one of the safest cards in the deck that actually limits his combos of slowplays. Shrug.

I later busted when I shoved like 20-25 bigs over ZeeJustin's 2.66bb UTG open with AQo and ran into AK, pretty standard stuff.

The good news, however, is that Chewy made the TV Final Table and scooped up 220k for fourth, so I ended up winning money on the tournament!

He's headed to day 2 of Epic, so I'll be sweating that as well.

I am a little disappointed my last video didn't get more attention, I thought this two part series (second part out tomorrow) was my best effort in a while.