Hachem Deepstack Event 7

Hey guys,

Im very tired after a long day but want to get this written down while its still reasonably fresh and because i don't think i am going to have much time in the next few days to put pen to paper, well fingers to keyboard...

As previously mentioned i headed to Melbourne this morning to play the HU event in this series. I really didn't get much sleep the night before and had a reasonably early (early for me) flight leaving Sydney at 9am. Didn't feel particularly great on the flight and had some pressure/sinus problems on the descent that was pretty aggrevating. First time this has ever happened to me so hopefully i don't have any problems on the upcoming flights. Melbourne is a really nice city overall, and Crown Casino is thoroughly impressive. Anyways to the poker.

In my first round i drew a really tough opponent. He was a HUSNGer and i really didn't expect for there to be any HUSNGers in the field. Besides myself this guy and his mate were both in, the other guy was Oasis00 from FTP (he was also on "the Poker Star - the Australian reality TV series). My opponent was fundamentally very very solid and i found it hard to find a significant edge on him, if anything i thought he gave me a little too much respect and probably folded a little too tight in some spots. The format was such that it was best of 3 matches in every round, so we were going to have to play at least 2 matches and obviously there would be some meta involved vs this thinking player.

The first hand really of note:

Blinds: 75/150
My stack: ~11k
Villain: ~9k

We definately had a 3bet dynamic at this point in time and the first level had basically been a raise/3bet/fold fest. I raise A9o otb to 400, and he flats from BB.

Flop ---> 9c4s6d

He checks, i bet 550, he thinks for a second and raises to 1300. At this point in time he can definately have a ton of air in his range and i figure my hand to be best a large %. However, this was his first c/r (i had c/r him maybe once only before this), and i expect him to be 3betting a lot of his high cards and high pairs, if i were to raise here i think his range for actually getting it in here is pretty strong because i didn't really expect him to get it in with TP hands really. So i flat his c/r.

Turn ---> Kh (board had no FD's)

He checks the turn and i decide to check back because i think he's c/f all his air but i can possibly get a small VB in on river or bluff catch if he bets certain cards, obviously he may also now VB worse 9x hands on the river.

River ---> 6s

Interesting card, i don't ever expect him to be c/r a 6 so it's actually a really good card for me. The pot was 3400 on the river, and when he checked i had to decide on a betsize. I decided to bet 1200 and try to get value out of all of his 9x hands and possibly some random hero calls. I'm still unsure if this bet was a little thin, but i don't really like checking back because it seems so nitty. He calls the 1200 and rolls over AA and i am thoroughly confused.


This match went for a long time and basically i had control for the rest of the match, we managed to get to 200/400 before we played a decent sized pot again which he took down giving him a slight advantage and pushing me down to the 15BB mark. I then re-shoved A9o on him over a 2.5x and got a fold, and the very next BB i once again re-shoved, this time with QQ and 19BBs and he tank-called KQdd. He missed and i took a large chiplead to take the match down.


The second match i was much less in control and he blew out to a big early chiplead after i played a hand like a bit of a donk, and got pretty owned to be honest.

Blinds: 50/100
My Stack: ~8300
Villain: ~11700

Pre-flop: He raises 300 and i decide to flat A2o. This was pretty close at the time because he had been folding/limping a few buttons, but i decided to flat and see what we could conjure up. This match had been played more post-flop thus far and once again there was a very aggressive dynamic.

Flop ---> Jd8h6h

Obviously a horrible board for my hand, but also a board that definately hits my percieved range. Furthermore, a lot of the c/r had been going on with dry boards and he had recently 3bet me when i c/r a K35 flop. He cbet 400 and i decided to give it a shot and c/r this board even though it kinda sucks and isn't a board that is necessarily ideal for bluffing on, however i genuinely thought i could get him to fold a ton of his range either on the flop or with another bet on the turn and possibly river if i got good cards. So i raise to 1250 and he tanks for a long time before calling.

(Pot= 3100)
Turn ---> 3h

This card was one that i still don't know what to think about it. He can definately have FD's here given his line, but it's also extremely feesible for me to have turned a flush. I planned on bluffing any heart turn and after thinking for a second i decided to bet 2200, and he instantly shoved. *sigh* Obviously i snap-folded. (he told me after the match that he had 88).


Three hands later:

Blinds: 75/150
My Stack: ~3800
Villain: ~16200

He limps and i check A2o away in the BB.

Flop ---> AAK, i think for a second and fire out 200 after he saw me see him go to fold his cards (he clearly made a motion to fold his cards and i thought this was actually pretty strong at the time but there was no way i was folding here anyways and if he did have Kx then i really didn't want to c/r him off his hand). He calls my bet on the flop pretty quickly.

Turn ---> 8 (pot= 700)

I think for a second again and lead out 500 and he calls instantly.

River ---> 3 (pot= 1700)

At this point in time it's a pretty easy shove. It's basically a case where i don't want to check and give him the chance to check back Kx, but i think if i bet here he's calling Kx regardless of my betsize. So i shove pretty quickly, and he basically snapcalls K8. Fwiw, i think his call is actually pretty bad, he doesn't really beat anything but air here because he even chops any worse Kings. I'm never triple barreling this board vs him with air so i'm not really sure why he called the river.


But anyways, this got me back to the better part of 8k and i held onto this and got as high as 11k up until we got to 300/600. At this time i basically went card dead and had to raise/fold twice in a row putting me back down to around 6k, when the next notable hand happened.

Blinds: 300/600
My stack ~6k
Villain: ~14k

We had been limping/shoving/folding for the most part, with a little min-raising when we were slightly deeper and a ton of 3bet shoving.

He raises to 3k, which was LOL insanely strong and I look down at AhJh, and i'm not folding no matter what so i just shove, he snaps AKo. The board rolls out:

---> Qh7h4c Qd Th... And i run good to get the double.


About 5 hands later we get it in again;

Blinds: 300/600
My stack: ~14k
Villain: ~6k

He open shoves and i call KhTh. He rolls over A8o for the lead. Then the board rolls out:

---> 7h8c2d Jh 3h... and *bink* i run good and move on to the round of 16.

The match went for over 3 hours and he was certainly a very good tough opponent. I definately got my fair share of run-good in the second match, but i really felt i got the toughest draw in the tourny.

Anyways, I am insanely tired right now so will re-cap the rest of the tournament tomorrow possibly on my flight i will write it out because this took longer than i thought and i need to sleep so bad so i can get out and see Melbourne tomorrow.

Will finish this in another entry tomorrow~!


GL in your games!

Matt