Mohegan Sun Summer Showdown

[Kurn]

OK, back from my first satty shot. Very happy I did not plan to buy into the $400 + 50 LHE. Only 36 entries. If I'm going to take a week vacation to shoot for some serious cash, that $4,330 1st prize would look very disappointing.

Played one $60 + 15 super. 1/5 entries wins a ticket to the $300 ME super (1/8 in that wins the seat).

32 started (6 seats, 7th gets $120). I ended up 12th. Starting stack of 6,000, 20 minute blinds. Nothing really earth-shattering overall, except for one great live-poker moment; the kind of thing that makes me say "I love live poker".

Level 3 100/200. 30 left.

I'm MP1 with 6,780, and have played very few hands so far(One pf raise that I took down with a c-bet). I make it 500 to go with J9 figuring maybe I can get a little jiggy with a mediocre hand that could stack somebody if it hits. Older guy (well, maybe 5 yrs older than me) in the 9 is the only caller. Pot is 1200. Flop comes 9 6 6 and I think I hear him check so I bet 800. he protests that he didn't check, and the dealer agrees. I take my bet back, and he acts like he's going to bet, then checks again (yes, people really do that). I bet 800.

Now he starts looking at his chips and thinking. I'm pretty relaxed, if for no other reason than I can fold and still have a decent stack if I think I'm beat. I notice he's now picked up 3,000 and he suddenly looks right at me. Now I'm not really looking right at him, sort of off to the side, but I can see everything he does peripherally and it is clear he is trying to get a reaction from me. He put the chips down and counts the rest of his stack and then picks them up and looks at me again. At that point, I am convinced if he raises, it's a bluff and my intent is to shove over the top. He stares me down a little more and folds with a little too much effort to make it looks like he doesn't want to. I guess I looked too confident in my weak TP/WK.

Things slowly slipped away. The old guy (sounds funny coming from me) limped in EP often enough to short-circuit some steal ideas I had, then after we were down to 16 or so, a woman with about 25,000 was moved to my immediate right and kept minraising most hands and ruining any fold equity I might have when my M got below 8.

13 handed right after the 2nd break we went up to 600/1200/a100 and I open-shoved for 7000 UTG with T7o. Guy who had me covered by 1500 or so called, and flipped up JJ. The good news was I flopped a 7 and rivered a T. The bad news? he turned a set.

I'll head back down tomorrow of Wednesday for another shot.