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May 16, 2009

So I went into day 3 with almost 1/10th of the chips in play and was just waiting for the blowup. I started with Dario on my right with a decent number of chips, and a Scandi who looked agro on my left. I didn't do much before our table broke when they got down to 27 players(this took under an hour).

At my next table I didn't recognize too many player, but the same Scandi was a few to my left, and on my direct left was a Bwin qualifier who by how he acted at the table seemed like he knew what he was doing better than most of the other Bwin qualifiers.

My first real hand of the day, I open the SB with J4 to 16k at 3k/6k/500, BB defends

Flop: J98 rainbow, I check planning to basically bet if he checks the previous street, and check call any bets that don't look too fishy.

He bets 20 at 37, I call
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Turn: blank, I check, he bets like 35 at 77, I call

River: blank(possibly an 8 actually), I check, he checks behind with K9 and I hold

In this hand I don't think he'll be as straightforward as a lot of people and could potentially raise at some point with like T8, KT etc or could potentially make pretty big hero calls after I check the flop and bet turn and river. If he were to have shoved this river(he had a PSB back) I'd have most likely folded but been a little confused as to why he bet under 1/2 pot on turn and potted river rather than going like 2/3 pot, 2/3 pot

An orbit or two later, I open AK in the CO, he 3bets the button committing himself(he was fairly short now) I get it in, he had AJ and I hold to get up to like 740 or so

The very next hand, I open the CO to 15k with 44, and the Scandi guy from my old table 3bets the BB to 46.5k about 600k deep (average is under 250 at this point I believe)

Folding here could likely be right since his range is FARRR from just big pairs and my hand plays pretty miserably postflop, but I think its good for future value to get the image of not folding to 3bets since in actuality I always fold to 3bets and don't want people 3betting me too much.

Flop: KT8cc, he bets 45 at 99 and I just don't ever see him sizing his bet like this with T9cc, AJcc, AA, TT etc

I feel like this is usually like JJ, QT, air, Kx something that basically doesn't want to play a big pot. I hadn't picked up this bet-sizing tell off of him specifically, moreso off of everyone who has ever played tournaments.

I raise to 125k, he thinks a while before calling.

I figured this call was likely a hand like KJ or QQ or something, possibly a draw that isn't that strong(like Q7cc), occasionally but very rarely a big hand that he was trapping with where he super-owned me with bet-sizing. I thought the most likely candidate was that it was something of the KJ/QQ variety where he realized my range is likely stronger hands and decent draws and wanted to give himself the opportunity to soulread if draws miss.

Turn: 5c, he checks with about 420 in his stack and about 349 in the pot. I bet 150, and he folds after a little bit.

I don't do stuff like this with complete air often, but at this stage of the tournament(both of us have like 1/10th of the chips and I'm fairly confident he doesn't have a monster) I felt it was a decent time to spaz out.

At his point I had about 900 and was a pretty sizable chipleader with 17 left where average was about 400.

Now Dario Minieri got moved to my right again and another young Scandi guy. I didn't do a whole lot since my cards were pretty mediocre, but basically let the 3 of them go nuts against each other.

A couple typical hands

I raise in EP to 21k at 4k/8k/1k, SB (Scandi who is new to the table) makes it 57 after making it super obvious he has a hand(counted out his chips as if to call, played with them a while before announcing raise), Dario makes it 150, Scandi shoves like 450, Dario folds

Scandi raises HJ to 17.5k, other Scandi makes it 42 on the button, call

Flop: T66r, check, 56k, 120k, jam for 400k, call, 86>A5

So basically I was just trying to get hands, and at this stage didn't really succeed at that.

I went into the final 9 about 3rd in chips with near a million where average was about 650k. Since day 4 was super short, I'm gonna include playing from 9 to 6 in with my day 4 trip report

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