Bharat Naidu

DONRAJA creates Chaos…. This time off the table… Part -2

February 26, 2014 in News

Now for the more Constructive part, what does IPPA as group intends to do? Motives? and Targets. Just to put in our thoughts and agenda, I’ll jot down the below points :-

• Encourage new talent, Increase awareness about poker amongst non poker playing members. – By having weekly free rolls.

• By Staking Young talents who have performed consistently – Monthly Leader board winner gets staked for set No. of games, e.g. Sunday Million, The Big’s, The Hot’s etc.

• Organizing tournaments in co-ordination with existing Poker rooms, with pre decided blind structures and interests of all the players considered (whether small fish or big fish) – Already a few Promoters & Organizers have shown their interests in helping our initiative, by the way of dolling out free seats & stays.

• Organizing Bi-yearly round ups to meet new comers personally and know their thoughts about the game – in very initial stages, but will eventually get there as a forum.

• Arranging advanced poker training by Indian Poker Pro’s – few already on board and willing to impart knowledge.

These are the few healthy and constructive initiatives which we as a team have decided upon. Poker only stands to gain out of it and we surely encourage new idea inputs.

The founding members of IPPA are Dushyant Shekawat, Uday Patil, Ashutosh Naik & humbly yours very own Donraja Anna.

Thanks for reading and see you on the felt.

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DONRAJA creates Chaos…. This time off the table… Part -1

February 26, 2014 in News

There has been lot of developments over the week… Some good n Some bad. I would divide my blog into 2 parts, namely Destructive and Constructive…

I say “Destructive”… Cause we all know why PPA was created. To some new comers, let me give a refresher…

It all started with Bobbe Suri starting a small group called “Poker Buddies”, to which he invited all the known faces in poker and soon it swelled to a decent number. For unknown reasons the group was transferred to IPC head Daniel Helmuth and then it was more IPC promotional activities there. Subsequently Vinay Suchede, floated a new group called PPA & knowing his honesty and integrity, the whole poker community supported his cause and soon it swelled on to become a very large group with the intent of betterment of the poker community in India.

But later, Vinay decided to step down on moral grounds or rather he was pushed out, by power hungry personalities who had ambitions of world dominance. Which I personally along with many regulars believe was uncalled for. The story goes that, Vinay was accused by IPC that he is a Poker Guru stooge. I can vouch for vinay’s integrity and unbiased behaviour. But this was the exact support which he was expecting from his fellow admins and I don’t think he was supported the way he was expecting and the whole purpose of having a mutually understanding community was defeated.

Lately, it’s been a more hypocrite approach by the admins of PPA, few issues we had with their policies :-

• Freedom of Speech, I know some people those who are even scared to speak in PPA, from the fear of getting banned!! We don’t need watchdogs, i am sure our government is doing a better job there.

• Admin’s just being biased to people they favour, defeats the purpose of having a neutral forum.

• Being trigger happy, Offlate admins are just so happy in banning people without any rationale or explanation. They think, they are God’s greatest gift to poker community.

• Recently, a Poker regular RG Pkrplr was banned.. For a prank I played on him and Vinay Suchede by calling them Jasoos (spy) and provocation leaders. Are they so shallow?? Say if tomorrow I make a PPA admin, a admin of IPPA(without his consent). Will they ban him too??

• Uday Patil the revolutionary, who started it all. I don’t exactly know what transpired… But surely was nasty, some maturity was expected in this case too.

• What is the motive of the group?? World supremacy or Individuals ego?? Don’t see betterment of poker in any of the decisions made so far. Having 3 different forums to discuss poker?? Who comes up with such idea? Tomorrow they will make sub forums for Booming too?? Bad booming, good booming, micro stake booming, etc

• What about the general agenda of helping grow the awareness of poker and encouraging new talent?

It used to be a forum which I checked many times, every day. Now it has become meaningless and just some cut copy paste jobs from poker portals. R.I.P.

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sorry for delay….

June 8, 2013 in News

coming up soon… prolly in an hour :)… cheers

[QUOTE=techdemo;bt1438]The entire PokerGuru community is waiting for Part 5![/QUOTE]

Macau Trip – Part 2

May 4, 2013 in News

So here I am with my 2nd part…. Had slept early morning after all the action and get up right in time for the 6 pm game…. It’s the 5.5K buy in tourney, which I had won a satellite seat for. So I start my game and was playing good and chipping up on regular intervals. At one point I had 24K chips and avg was 11K chips, then this hand happens. The Russian chip leader on table has almost 26-27K chips and had been playing very wide, literally playing 70-80% of the hands and generally 3betting & 4betting quite frequently. Just before this hand there was a tank trap by KK vs AA and AA held up by the chipleader.

So on UTG I m dealt AA and I raise 2.5x pretty early stage and I think blinds were 100/200, there is 1 limper and the aggro player is on button and he 3 bets my UTG raise. I act as if I m tanking and 4bet him 2.5x his raise. He makes the call, so I put him on drawy hand or some pockets … the flop is 827 rainbow, so now I C-bet 60% pot and he re-raises me and I shove. Only to be shown 77 for a flopped set and I didn’t hit any of the Ace. So my aces are busted and so is this tourney.

And I head back to my cash tables, only to have learnt from my mistakes and decide to play only 25/50 game, as I can play that game with a lesser damage to the pocket. But as destiny would have it, the waiting list for 25/50 had swelled to 2-3 hours waiting and the only seat available was 50/100 table. Reluctantly I take the seat and am grinding, sooner than I realize I m 6-7K up and decide this is good for the day to hit and run and not get stuck again. So with profits I leave the table within 1 hour and am free at 8-9 pm and then a PGT mentor “The Bigg“ comes like a savior and offers to give a city tour by the night… which I truly enjoyed and we had a great time taking some nice oriental massage for a fresh day to come ahead with no more bad beats. Damage 1.5K$, oh didn’t I make money in cash and am already freerolling the days tourney!! So wtf lets have fun and be happy… :p

Day -3
I was against the idea of playing Day -1B, as I didn’t like the structure and there was no feeling from inside saying that this is the ONE… But then is when I Bump into Vermaji again and he gives me gyaan, saying if you played day1 … you should surely play day 2 … as its your dead money laying there all to be taken :p and me being so naïve 😉 fall for it . Play the game and I run bad and am busted before the breaks. Again am back to the same spot what now?? Ok we always have the cash tables to kill time and I put my name again on 25/50 tables and wait for 2-3 hour waiting period. So I go ask the TD, why do u have so less cash tables ?? when you know that there will be around 300-400 floating players on every day. So I get the answer that as per the govt law they can have only 4 cash tables at any given point of time and have to pay taxes on tables even when there is no game going on. So it made sense for them to have only 4 licenses.

Anways, the waiting was killing me and by then my roommate RG had got knocked out. He suggested lets go to Wynn and kill it again, me being a reformed poker player, told him bhaiyya (bro) I can only play 25/50 and Wynn doesn’t have anything less than 50/100. So then he suggested lets go to Starworld casino and so did we. And we got our seats, again I make 4-5k which is almost a double up on smaller tables and am happy with the earnings, so decided to hit and run. But my roommate was stuck and he decided to stick around for longer time.

End of days Play, look ahead for the part 3 …

Maiden Macau trip – Part -1

May 3, 2013 in News

Ok… this is my 1st blog on PG blog’s. Rightly timed after my 1st maiden International Poker trip… so after lot of flip-flops due to my father’s ill health, I finally decide I am making the trip on 19th April as scheduled with a few Poker buddies. I reach airport and hook up with Vermaji, Kanjani and am looking for rest… couldn’t find any more guys… nevertheless was gung ho about the trip and didn’t care much!! So we land at HK airport and we all had to take a ferry to Macau… I wasn’t carrying any HK$ on me and the exchange rate offered at the terminal was terrible, so there comes my savior “Bombay-lad” (Vermaji) lends me some dough and later also lends some more for my hotel check-in. So at airport we take taxis to our hotel, as the taxi boots are small I had to share with another guy … unknown to me then!! Now know as the 3k event winner Amit Ajwani, maybe it was sharing the taxi with him that just rubbed some luck on to me!! You never know 😉

So we check in to our Hotel Sheraton – Macau, its 4-5 hotel properties attached together and right opp. to City of Dreams (COD)… the PokerStars new home in Asia. So we check in and head straight to the casino to play the 750$ satellite to the 5.5K$ event… again I hadn’t exchanges my US$ and had to borrow from Ajwani, which proved to be lucky as I was able to win a seat through the sattys. later at 8pm we had the 2K$, which I grinded for 4-5 levels and am able to make a decent stack, when this hand happens. We are in the last hand before the break and I am dealt JdTd SB and I raise to BB as the whole table has folded and he flats. So we have a flop AhKhQh and am only scared of a single card flush completing, so I check to BB to see his action and put him on range … so he bets and I flat him, To trap him on later stage!! The turn is a Ac and I again check to which he fires another C-bet, so am sure he has A and so I shove… unfortunately he has AQ and insta calls…. Me is drawing dead!! And leave the tables and head to cash game!!

So there is a long waiting list in the Cash Games and eventually I get a seat after 1 hr waiting.. and I am on 50-100 table which in Indian terms is 350/700 Rs. I start with 12K$ and able to grind and make it 14K. Then this hand happens, I m dealt 55 in MP+1. I flat 100 and MP+2 makes it 500 to go… he gets 2 callers and I flat too… we see a flop Td5h8d , EP player checks to me I make it 1.8K$ and MP2 flats to which the button makes it 8K …. EP folds… and I shove 12K on this move, MP2 folds and button goes on tank for just 4k more… but later makes a crying call wid 2d4d and hits his flush draw and I get disgusted wid his play and head to my room… relax for some time and get a hold of the situation.

Now I am angry and wanna recover the loss back!! So my roommate Mr.RG , suggests lets go to Wynn and grind there as we find lot recreational players there. So I agree and load on my US$ and also ajwani joins us and we go to Wynn casino, we easily get 2 seats on 50/100 same table and ajwani sits on a different table. So I change my strategy and start playing a LAG type, and on showdowns I had been showing lot of mid and bottom pairs…. Which the Chinese were stunned to see as they play very tight game and just playing a LAG game I am already stuck 20K$ and am playing wid my last 12K$ and my whole trip is in jeopardy as I am stuck almost 80% of my trip funds. I m wondering what the fuck have I done and don’t see a way out!! Unless I really start playing well, I am not going to get out of it!! So I start playing very aggressive and am able to chip up to 25K$ without any showdowns.

So now I get dealt a hand TT MP and I raise to 450 and I get 2 callers…. I hit my set on flop 8 T J, I again lead another 1K into the pot and there is just 1 caller and rest fold. Turn is a 5 and didn’t do much to the board ….. so I fire another 3K into a 3.5K pot… he calls it too, now ajwani who was playing in another table comes over as he just made sum huge profits and was done for the day and asks me to show my cards!! I show him TT and he is following the action. So the river card comes another J, and the board pairs up… Now the pot is about 9.5K and I think if he has sum over pockets or the J he is not gonna fold it, so I overbet 15K into 9.5K pot and he tanks for 10mins and makes a crying call and I insta flip my FH, which is gud to take down the pot and am almost near 52K and stick around for another 10-15 mins and leave the table with net profit and a memorable trip saved from disaster!! 😎

Part -2 to be continued……

Macau Trip – Part -3

May 7, 2013 in News

Day – 4

So far so good…. Today I had a very good feeling about the tourney, as I personally like the KO format. So around 4pm we reached the venue and played the 1.2k satty for the Main Event. Which obviously I bombed, as it’s more of a shove fest and flips after the 3rd level. You are playing with avg 8-12 bbs, you just need to pray to poker gods to keep you on a card rush or expect to win all your moves/flips. Anyways now that I got knocked out and hadn’t had my lunch yet… I headed to McD with RG and had some BigMac (Avg meal 40-60$), which was our staple diet for most the time or there was one Indian restaurant Aruna (Avg meal 60-80$)in Holiday Inn food court.

Laters we headed to some floor games in casino floor as we had almost 1-2 hrs more for the KO event. Of all the games in floor my favorite was Sic Bo, those of you not familiar with it… it’s a 3 dice game… wherein you guess the total of 3 dice or different combinations. And are rewarded accordingly, I always tried betting on nos which had better payout ratios. Like the extreme probabilities 4,5,6 or 15,16,17 …. It really paid off, as I was most of the time being in positive zone in this game. Preferred the electronic version with Live Dice, as it paid bonuses on your bets and also you could bet on Jackpot which could be upto 240K $…. Anyways it’s time for the events to start and I head to the tables.

To my utter surprise, I find my roomie RG sitting right next to me and also I have position on him… What a sweet revenge for all the snorings I had to face… :p Anyways, right from the word go … I had been playing aggro and had been chipping up steadily. Within the first 2-3 levels I had almost 21-22k stack, while the avg was around 9-10K. Still I hadn’t got any bounty, as the last double up I got the other guy had just narrowly covered me. I was having a beast run, then is when RG suggested that we should swap our bounties and not claim if either of us knocks each other out. Being a gentleman what I am and having the chiplead, I didn’t mind and thought what are the odds that I am going to knock him out (1:9). So after like 4-5 hands I m dealt AQo on SB … and Cutoff raises 2.5x, and Button RG 3Bets and I 4bet… RG shoves and I call. Only to be shown AQo, for which I shouted ohhh Chop – Chop. But as destiny would have, I rivered a single card Q high flush to knock him out. And so did I get my 1st bounty, only to give it back, as per the deal:).

Now I was bounty hungry, as I had the chip lead and still no bounty … then a short stack shoved almost 3k chips from MP with 55, I reraised him with 54o and then it was heads-up and my cards didn’t hold. Still the bounty was eluding me, again there was allin from short stack, reshove from another short –stack… this time I had a semi decent card J8o vs AK vs KQ.. and I clipped my 8 to knock both of them and claim my 2 bounties. So I have been sitting with lil above avg stack and then there is another 2 way allin and I find myself with Supernuts 33 and I instashove only to be running against TT and AQ…. So the guy with AQ hits his Q on the flop and on turn I hit my 3 for a set and knock 2 more out :p. So I finished the day 1 with above avg chips and headed back to room for sweet sleep.

Next day we all are in the money and the game gets going quite fast and within no time I see lot of player getting knocked in regular intervals. And eventually I finished at 14th place and 5 bounties, losing some flips. Overall was pretty satisfied with the way I played, a job well done and deserved some celebrations. So I find out some nice place where there would nice crowd and we can sit n enjoy some drinks. So I was suggested two places, 1 was Divino and the other Playmate (not to be mistaken for playboy).

So we 1st head to Divino with 2 of my poker buddies, who wish not to be named. God knows why?? :p. Anyways Divino is a very high class strip club with lot of girls from the European descent and also some americans work here. It’s a very well organized place with amazing performances by the girls. So here we met a girl called Victoria, who was very friendly and hailed from budhapest and had massive dragon tattoo on her Back. Was fun to talk to and also when we said we are here on a poker tourney trip, she started telling that she plays poker too and would love to join us in the casino, to which we declined the offer as we needed to be focused on our mission… Shipping the dragon :p Total damage 500$ / person .

So next we head to Playmate, this is a strip club too but with more of Asian and some Afro – euro crowd. It’s located in Guia hotel, which is very close to the light house and also the building has very Portuguese feel architecture. I was not allowed entry to this club as I was wearing flip – flops and as per the house rule it was not allowed. Then I had to work around Mumbaiyya style and then the bouncers who were all Indian allowed us. Inside we had lot of gals who were over friendly and probably available too, but we stuck to our drinks and left the place in some time, as we needed to rest for the next day. Damage 50$/drink.

Final part to be concluded soon… and thanks for the encouragement for the blog ..

The Beginning of an ending – 5/5

June 13, 2013 in News

So now that I have qualified day 2 of the ME, am quite relaxed… nonetheless could have cruised in comfortably had I only kept my cool and not spewed!! That’s a different subject all together, anyways…

Day -7

Not much to do, except hanged around playing some cash games!! And nothing interesting to talk about…

Day – 8

Registered for the 1500 NLH and got out as soon as i got in… Probably i took it too easy and wasn’t serious about the game… Played cash games and got up with just break even, Or maybe i am missing my folks back home and have lost focus on the trip!! its been a long 8 days and suddenly u start feeling it’s been tad too long!! Evening we hit the Friendly Playmate bar, again i am wearing flip-flops and the same drama continues!! I guess it’s a bambaiya thing to do things which are not allowed… we call it G main masti!! Nevertheless I get entry, have some drinks and soon after some while leave the scene!

Day – 9

Finally the Big Day is here!! Day 2 of the ME… I have butterflies in stomach, it was like going for the SSC board exams… to calm things down I called up a close buddy and asked if he wanted to get some authentic massage?? He was game and so we headed to Grand Waldo Spa, at the reception we are told “Sir there is no hanky panky here” we break into laughter and say we don’t need… Thanks for the information.:) Let me brief you about the spa culture in the Far East, it’s a very socialising experience and most friends bond and bathe together!! Yes Bathe together!!

So we enter get into our robes and again get out of it…. Get out of it??? Yes we get out of it, coz you need to be fully nude to get into the pool!!! I was like what the hell, if the chinks don’t mind!! Why should I feel shy?? So I take a dip in the pool and spend some time there and then the Jacuzzi and sauna… also alongside the pool they have a lavish Fruit salad spread & some non alcoholic Drinks…, change into the robes provided… again head to the floor above for our massage… Now I am really looking forward to an authentic oriental massage with no hank panky!! So in comes the masseuse dressed in a doctors apron!! And I go wow they must be so professional that they dress like doctors!! Anyways I greet her and she says thank you, and that’s the only word she speaks in English and next 1 hour we don’t talk… and all this while she has been watching some Chinese serial, very similar to ekta kapor style melodrama… and the massage I would rate 6/10. So we get out of there and head to canteen and have some authentic Chinese food. Finish up and take a shower and off to C.O.D.

So I take seat and I start off aggressive take down the 1st hand of the game by 3 betting, feel good about the way i started. And then we grind on waiting for eliminations to happen and then after sometime i am dealt AQo UTG+1, this is when a player opens UTG and lay my hand down, didn’t want to get aggressive with an UTG raiser and whole table to act behind me… Soon we start hand for hand play, this is when i am dealt AQo again on the button, so the whole table folds to me and i open the pot only to be 3bet by the Big blind. I assume he is defending his blinds and 4 bet him, now he 5bet shoves and he is covering me… i know he is a aggressive player and could shove with a wide range of cards. I go into a 5 min tank and then is when he starts his table talk, says i am not fucking around and somehow I believed him… So he either has a pockets or Ax kind of card and also same time he doesn’t want me to call, coz if he loses he is gonna be crippled. Reluctantly i fold and as a friendly gesture he shows TT, probably on second thoughts i should i have taken a flip here.

Soon, the TD announces that we have a tournament bubble and all are in the money, Yuppie!! And now I get AQo UTG, with just 9-10 BB’s left, I shove and Button Insta calls wid AA.. Thats the end of my Macau Dragon Dreams, Now I am totally shattered and hate poker… Really need to work on my AQo strategy!! Really screwed me in all 3 occasions I was dealt…

So I decided I need to play a game where i don’t have to use my brains!! And head straight to the slot machines, grind there on the 10cent machine for 1hr and have lost quite a bit by now. Then decide i need to get back on this slot machine and move on to 1$ machine and in flat 20 mins i hav lost 60% of my trip bankroll …. there was no reasoning of what i was doing and was total clueless and matter of time had lost alot of money, which can’t be even told here… It’s that embarrassing… i head back to room withdraw the last 40% of bankroll and blow that up too on Carribean Stud Poker and Slots combined!! This is the 1st time I am confessing about my stupidity and i realized it quite late what shit i have done, but it was partly to be blamed on the long trip and was missing my better half, she has been very instrumental in what i am today and a supporting pillar of my life. I called her and told what mess i have done, she just said in 1 sentence … Dont worry think as if you had a great vacation and move on.. Wifey i Love you…. Muaahhh

Day -10

Broke!! And have to go back to india… Luckily had all those plastic cards to get me through the day. So my roomie Rajesh Goyal (RG) comes to the room and asks how was my day and i say I blew it up on Sic BO…. ask him how was his day/trip and says i am just break even!! I go wat!! Weren’t you down massively and then he says 1 nite changed it all and he ended the trip in positive note. So we discuss lot of hands and then he tells me the following hand, which i felt was an amazing hand and i had played a similar hand online which was criticized by all the Grinders, but only my result was not as good :)!!

RG in mid position is dealt QTss and EP opens to 700 on 100/200 table, he flats and so does the button. Flop J99 rainbow all checked, turn 5h and button raises 1500, EP folds and RG flats. River is Ac, again RG checks and the button fires a 3500 bet and RG snap calls!! Villain tables 8 high and RG flips Q high and takes down the pot… The villain goes crazy and says how can you call that?? To which RG replies….. “I thought i had a straight…” LMAO 😎

So we check out of hotel and reach the ferry terminal and head to HKIA for our connecting flight to Mumbai. Here again i go crazy and splurge on shopping only to get out of the depression and bought loads of stuff for folks back home. So Uday n me take an adjoining seat and start drinking and that’s when Uday says they won’t give us more than 2 drinks, how the airlines treat passengers and all, so to this I tell him let’s make a record and take 6 drinks :p … so cheekily we take drinks from different pursuer and airhostess, by now i am fully sloshed and don’t even remember how i reached my home in Mumbai 🙂 lol … had a great time, and uday thanks for the flight masti 😉

So to sum up the whole trip….. i would rate it as an excellent experience and do feel the game is easier and can be cracked with better returns than in Goa or in some of the home games. But mental stability and proper bankroll management is highly recommended. And yes i will be going to MPC again in august and would love to have all my friends back again….

Hope you guys enjoyed my personal experience …. Thanks, Colombo here i come…

Macau Trip – Part 4

May 11, 2013 in News

Day 6
A beautiful morning and a fresh day to look Forward to, so as usual we get up late afternoon and Head to our Favourite staple Joint McDonalds for our brunch. So at around 3.30 we reach the COD to play the satty, where I busted and had not much of luck. And then to kill time, decided to grind on the cash games…. So I grind and am to able to recover the satty buyins :p …. And next to recover is the ME buyin!! And also I have no plans to play Day 1a and I m still grinding and the 1st day of ME has just started. Then is when my roomie comes and says you should play Day 1a, then on 2nd thoughts I decide ok lemme play it today and get over with it. Meanwhile I was able to make a decent 7-8K profit and very close to the ME buyin. So I late reg almost after 1hr, and so I join when the blinds were 50-100.

So I get to a all chinese table, and 1 guy was getting very lucky and had chipped up very soon to 70-80K chips …. I’ll call him chinese chip leader (CCL) and me being myself was opening 60-70% of pots and bleeding… That is when this hand happened, I had almost 11K chips from starting 15K …. On button I m dealt Js 6s, and I try to steal and bet 3X , i.e 300. I get called by Big blind and a MP player, and the flop comes Kd Qd 5d . I standard cbet as they both check down to me, I bet 750 and I get flat called by the BB and the other guy folds. Turn is a 3c and didn’t change much to the board, he checks and I bet 2000 and he flats again. Now this makes me think, what probably is he flatting with ??? A weak hand or a high single card flush draw, so on the river there is another brick card 8s. He checks and I fire out 4000, as this the only way I can win the pot… he thinks for a while and makes a call, and I flip my J6ss and he flips KQ for top 2 pair and I am crippled down to 4000 Chips :(Now I am thinkin of my exit plans and decide to exit with a fight and grace, all this in the 2nd level of play….

Very next hand , I am dealt 8c 8s and 1 person from MP limps, to which I open shove and get called by the button to only be shown 3c 3d … and my cards hold. So I get a double up and am back to 8K chips. So in some while I am dealt AsKs on BB, and there are 3 limpers and blinds are 100/200. I make it 800 to go, MP reraises me to 3K and all fold to me and I shove 8K…. He thinks for a while and calls, flippin 2d 4d, those are a scary cards against AK…. But nevertheless my cards hold and I again double up to 17K chips and am back in the game, phew wat a relief!!! After a few hand now I am dealt AJo on the button and whole table folded to me, I made a 2.5X bet and the SB called (the guy who called wid 33) and on BB CCL called. Only to see a rainbow flop 9c Js 6d, both check to me and I cbet 1.2k chips…. Sb moves allin for 6K chips and CCL flats, cant keep CCL on a strong hand as he is the CL and wouldn’t flat with most of the hands in his range…. So I go all in over the top and CCL tanks a while and makes a call… SB flips 67 for bottom pair and CCL flips KQo for gutshot draw…. And the whole table goes Awww!! Anyways the turn Comes a 7 and the river 9….. I see the SB has made 2 pair and I beat CCL…. I don’t mind losing to SB as he had only 6k chips and I will get the Side pot at least… then is when sum1 said nice hand and the SB was leaving!! And it struck me late that the board paired and I had won the whole pot….. I was like whoa and now I am rolling 🙂

So after a while the TD comes and says we need to break this table after this hand !! So on the button I am dealt KK, MP 1 female raises 3X and I 3bet her, now the CCL flats again!! To which the MP gal moves allin and I re-shove, as I don’t want any suckouts!! Now the CCL thinks for awhile…. Now I am narrowly covering him and his tournament life is at risk… But still he makes the call and flips TT, the MP player flips AQss…. Anyways they both miss the board and I take down a massive ME – CL pot with 85K chips, all this in the 6th level of the game, with avg stack being around 20K !!

Now I am moved to table No.2, which usually never breaks till the end of the day. And on my right I have Dhaval “Dirty” Mudgal and on left I have an very good russian player and some relatively softer players in the MP position. So I am the CL on the table and have been very frequently 3betting most of the pots and keeping the pressure on the table and also frustrating Dirty… Then on button Dirty opens a pot when a UTG has limped and I 3bet him again with KTo, the idiot UTG flats again… probably he wanted to set mine with his bottom pairs… Dirty being a good player 4bets, now I cant 5bet him with the UTG in the hand and reluctantly fold. The UTG folds too and I go want F*#! …. Anyways later Dirty told he had A9ss, but I wouldn’t have let it go till the flop had UTG not been there !! Anways I had been playin lot of hands and stealing by 3betting and had chipped up till 110K.

Then is when I lost a monster pot of 70K with AA vs JJ…. And was down to 75K chips and wasn’t all that bad, as I still had the Chiplead… Anways, after somewhile I got KdQh on Sb and Dirty opened the pot from button… Now I know what happened earlier, so I didn’t 3bet him and also had lost a massive pot… so wanted to play it cool. The BB also called to see the flop 9s Ts Jc, I had flopped the nut straight… and didn’t really care much for the flush draw… so I checked and BB checked to Dirty, who Cbet and I flatted to only trap him on a later street and extract max value!! Probably I gambled here and proved too costly to me… the turn was 8s … Now this is not the card I wanted to see, firstly I am not keeping him on flush draw !! but now I cant rule out him to be drawing single card flush. So now I lead out 50% pot, he reraised me and I shoved to stop him drawing the single card flush…. But unfortunately he had already turned his flush with Ks7s, there is lot of way to see this hand and probably I played it bad!! But again you win some you lose some…. Now I was down to 40K chips and then I lost another flip with QQ vs Akss, but relatively to a short stack and was down to 26K….. Its been helluva ride so far, being CL to tourney life at risk stage!!

Then after a while I am dealt Ah 2h UTG and I open the pot to be called by UTG+2. We see a rainbow flop J 3 4, now I cbet and he calls. Turn is the magic 5, I again lead into the pot and this time he shoves and I insta call… He flips 56 for a OE draw and misses it on river and gets knocked out. I end the day with 46K chips, with avg chips for the day being 56K and 2 more Day1 to be played out. I considered it not a bad performance considering the swings and the single mistake I made. The day wrapped up at around 3:30 am, after completion of level 12. Quite tired and just wanted to hit the bed…

I really wanted to wrap the blog series up at the 4th part, but I guess the writer in me doesn’t want to take the shortcut and I guess I would need the 5th part to conclude the series….. Thanks for bearing and also for all the support.

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