it's time for a new bankroll challenge guys
let's turn twenty five thousand dollars into five million dollars all we have to
do is win one tournament let's go to the Bahamas and win this event
Simon trails
day one of the $25,000 PSP see we're in the Bahamas we're gonna be aggressive
fearless we're gonna have to bluff so let's Bluff against people that can
fold we're gonna bag up around 120,000 and come back on day 2
are you videotaping me
60,000 starting chips blinds are 100-200 with a 200 ante the very first hand I
get dealt East King off suit under the gun you might have to put in the warm a6
bet to show him who's boss let's start it off with an open to 600 action folds
to the big blind any folds we take down the first pot
I opened to 600 in mill position with Ace King offsuit folds the big blind a
middle-aged Indian male who puts in the call the flop comes jack 6-3 rainbow he
checks we can down bed a little bit 500 is the bet he puts in the call he's
gonna have a lot of weak Holdings here weak Jack's 6 X 3x maybe even some bad
straight draws the turn brings a queen it's a great card for our range we could
still wrap our story he checks and I size up to 2,000 he thinks about it for
a long time it looks like he's pretty weak but he puts in the call the rivers
an officer do so for 5 gets their could barrel but I think he's gonna hold on
with his jack axe for some reason we check and he shows 6 3 off suits two
pairs good good thing we didn't fire that river blinds are 100 200 200 for
the first two hours actually holds the middle position and Brazilian male aged
30 to 40 he opens to 600 I'm in the cutoff with 10 8 of spades it's a good
candidate to 3bet so we do that and make it 2000 ago he snap calls so not putting
him on a premium at this point Bob comes East 7-5 the 7 of spades great board for
us to see bet we down bet to 1,500 and he snap calls okay he probably doesn't
want me to keep firing turn us the ace of spades giving us a flush draw
he checks time to rub that ace maybe even thin value with kings or queens at
3,500 any snap balls let's hit a spade on the river the river is a nine of
clubs he checks and I just don't think he's gonna fold
we checked behind and he shows ace four of clubs around first break and we have
50,000 from our 60,000 starting stack
horrible service here here to spend 15 minutes to buy tickets to buy food you
can't buy food with cash for some reason
so I got $6 a conch chowder and it was spicy chewy and almost unedible
I love massages that's how we can use them whatever but blinds at two hundred
five hundred under the gun plus one with pocket East's love pocket aces make it
1200 gone my immediate left axe pretty strong and makes a three-bed to 3300
action folds back to me and I put in the warm for bit that's right
nine thousand ago he thinks about it for a minute
and folds aces not cracked
you make investments
with blinds at 400 800 800 action folds I mean the small blunt I have Jack eight
of diamonds I could raise here but these medium strength hands are better for a
limp so they can check behind with dominated jacks and dominated eights and
dominated flush drawers or they can raise and you can still see a flop
compared to raised get three but and it's a lot tougher to see a flop
plus they have positional advantage so it's best to keep the pots small he
thinks about it and makes it 2,000 more 2800 to go the plan was to limp call
let's limp call the flop comes eight seven four with the seven four of
diamonds a great flop I check and he down bets to 2200 he's repping an over
pair I guess maybe a better eight or he's just see bettin blindly my gut says
to check raise you know go for value but do I really want to get in stacks here
you can't have that fearful line of thought you got to claim your acadec wa
T while you have it I should have checked raised to around 7000 but
instead I'm just going for the slow play we for sure have a the best hand if not
we have great equity to get there even against pocket aces I think we're a
favorite so I just put in the call planning to play future streets the turn
is the Queen of Hearts putting it back to her heart draw out there I check and
he knuckles so I definitely think our eight is good here and all I'm thinking
in my head is no ace on the river and the river is the ace of hearts I kid you
not so I can't bet here for value I don't want a better as a bluff so
hopefully we can just check it down I check and he bets 3800 a very small
value ish type bet signifying that he did indeed hit his ace on the river
calling just isn't profitable here not many hands just gonna randomly Bluff
with with this sizing I think it really Telegraph's the strength of his hand so
we're gonna do something unheard of and turn our third pair into a bluff
we can have all the sets we can have all the two pairs we can even had a flop to
straight or more importantly we could have backdoored a flush it's very
unlikely he bagged or to flush because he hopefully you it's very unlikely he
backed or to flush because he'd likely barrel if he picked up that flush draw
equity so we check raise to 14,000 he is disgusted he can't believe it
he got there with his ace rag and now he's facing a check raise a very rare
occurrence as a bluff he knows this is usually for value and this forty year
old from South America doesn't care he's stubborn he puts in the call I show my
jacket and he shows East three of Spades definitely losing call in the long run
whoo check raises rivers as a turning a parent to a bluff only legitimate hands
that I'm not turning a pair into a bluff would be like nine ten diamonds
something like that very very slim Holdings they're so good for him he wins
a big pot and we're now down to about fifty thousand chips
I put forty three thousand seven hundred ships in the bag
not the best finish but we were very aggressive we took a lot of spots today
to accumulate a lot of hands got through that
I can't document because we played so many damn hands overall pretty
disappointed in a lot of the hands I played but you know I'm just being
honest you know you live and you learn not in the best mindset with all the
traveling the very poor service and various tilting factors that have
occurred on this trip so we're gonna come back tomorrow as fresh as possible
hopefully get some good sleep eat some good food if that's even possible in
this atrocity of an island and crush bag up at least 200k and go onto day three