December 2 Poker Blog

Tonight's Bodog poker blog series. Tuesday we started out with 33 players. I immediately started receiving premium hands like KK, Aa which was unreal for me!! In fact early in the tournament I received KK to my delight! Snappy LC raised a min raise to 60 with the blinds at

15-30. I reraised him with a big rr to 340 to thin the field as well as go heads up with Snappy.The min raise could mean a wide range of hands that he was raising with!, but I thought Snappy's range of hands could be anywhere from QQ-88, AK-AJ, KQ . Snappy then called my rr. Then I narrowed his range of hands to either AA or QQ and I leaned more towards the QQ because I thought he would have maybe rr me allin pre-flopwith AA in this situation. The flop comes 7s 3h 10d. Great flop for me no overcards to my KK. Snappy then first to act checks, I bet 3/4 of pot 690. Snappy checkraises me allin for 2035, I called quickly with rest of my chips for 1,345 and the turn and river come up blanks and my KK holds up and I already have 4795 in chips ! Great start for me! This run continued as we reach 15-30 blind level. Trip jax raised min raise to 60. I called bet . The flop comes 10s As Qh and then everyone folded and it was back to Tripjax who bet 155 in to 255 pot which was a little more than half the pot. I had made two pair AQ on the flop and I figured that my hand was better than Trip jax and that he had Ax. I reraised the pot to 650 in order to comitt Tripjax and he called instantly with just A6 to my surprise and I ended up doubling again and now I had 6875 in chips at this early level and I knocked my second player of the night. To be continued shortly to finish the highlights of this tournament which included a knockout of famous smokee ! I enned up eight in fianl 3 way pot and got knocked out !! Good start but disappointing finish.