my diamond sky
I know what you're thinking Jeff what are you playing at the Aria for here to
turn a 10k satellite into 300k tournament entry making dreams come true
all thanks exposure from the poker vlog people are having trouble monetizing
this is how you monetize High Roller fans reach out to you and give you some
free rolls give you some opportunities win win $100 plus dinners just the tip
of the iceberg you too can monetize your blog $10,000 satellite to a three
hundred thousand dollar tournament didn't expect to be playing this to kick
off the summer but
reality has a weird way of making things happen without the vlog I never would
have been granted this opportunity so thank you to Aaron his generosity and
second place finish in the Bellagio High Roller let's turn this 10k into 300 K
then into five K or five million should I say few steps ahead of us but there's
no reason we can't win it let's win today
the field looks soft
our starting table is six handed six max tournament you see one is ambush
see - is Stefan sondheimer
c3 is live Maury
c4 is open c5 is Dan Shak
and I'm in seat six
so overall with the field I'm pretty happy with this table draw and
positioning two killers on my left Liv Boeree and Dan Shak and an open seats
were five handed
with blinds at 500 1000 1000 for 5 handed and Liv Boeree opens to 3000
under the gun we're on the button width to read jacks definitely good 3 bet here
but you do a position and might be over playing our hand a little bit she's
pretty tight so we put in the call the blinds fold flop comes Queen 6 8 she
checks thinking she has like a mid pair type and maybe ace king at this point so
I want to bet for value bet 3,500 and she puts in the call turn is a for
putting two flush draws out there still think we have the best hand she checks
and I bet 8,000 and she quickly folds pocket jacks are good with blinds at 500
1000 with a 1,500 big blind ante front of the gun with 5 7 of clubs raise it up
to 3,500 trying to target the big blind who want to get heads up versus him even
with a small suit connector unfortunately a mush calls Stefan calls
Liv Boeree calls out of the small blind in the big blind folds flop comes jack
eight for two spades one club I think we got a barrel and barrel big
very draw heavy board seven high never good so let's see if we can get some
folds with our range advantage bet twelve thousand and cush and Stefan fold
and Liv Boeree calls from the small blind putting her on maybe a team Queen
of Spades flush draw nine ten flush draw a straight draw combos some
Jack acts rarely pocket eights or pocket fours turn is the Jack of Diamonds we
started this hand with around 65,000 it's pretty pretty close if I should
barrel this card I showed a lot of strength betting into three people so I
think we can rep the jack and hopefully get her to fold her flush draws and
straight draws maybe eight X combos pocket nines hands like that so if we
had two Jack we're gonna bet 20 2007 up an easy Ripper Jam giving her a bad
price we do about 22,000 and she folds we now have 100,000 back to starting
stacked after losing a few pots early 30-minute levels 38 entrants so far at
the Aria
with blinds at 1000 1500 1500 cutoff Joe McKeon opens - for thousands
Dieterich fast flats the 4000 on the button
I'm the small blind with East three of hearts one hundred and thirty thousand
chip stacks so I put in the three bet to 18,000 some guy I've never seen before
is in the big blind where five handed and he puts into the cold four balls of
41,000 he has about 150,000 to start action folds around to us can we put in
the warm 5 do we have fold equity 3x in his cold for we got the ace blocker
we got the suited broad way do we go for it in this spot I'm here to play
fearless but feel like he's got a big pair a skiing ace queen and he's not
gonna fold so we put in the fold and live to see another hand
with blinds at one thousand two thousand two thousand or five handed new table
see one is Sam's horrible see two is Joe McKeon see three is re Engel I'm in c4
c5 is vacant and seat six is friend Mike action folds to me in the cutoff and I
opened five thousand with ace Jack Ace of Diamonds Jack of Hearts everyone
folds to Joe McKeon the big blind who puts in the call started this hand with
about eighty five thousand for Joe is about 150,000 Bob comes Jack three deuce
two diamonds he checks we bet for thousands he calls the turn is in off
suit for each X who size up with our top top and wheel draw to eleven thousand
and he puts in the show up all and after asking me to see my chips putting us to
the test
what do you do what hands beat us could have some sets could have jak 3 jak do's
Jack for suited possibly depending for the big blind I don't think he has juice
3 juice for kite folds those free 5 6 is the nuts when you peel one off try to
get there and then do a big jam as opposed to a small raise it tough to say
think our hand it might be a little bit too strong to fold in this spot and a
winner-take-all mostly format I think you got a play to win kind of sucks that
we have the ace of diamonds that eliminates one of his possible
semi-bluff combos it could be bluffing with something like Jack acts of
diamonds or King King para diamonds whatever so we put in the call and he
shows ace 5 of Hearts probably the worst hand we could be up against
the rivers of brick and we're out of the Aria $10,000 300k super high roll or
satellite big shout out to Erin to put us in such an event
appreciate the opportunity good warm-up with a series playing with all these
top-level pros you get a good feel for what they're all about so I'm gonna take
a lot away from this experience and become a better player I'm still not
sure how much I regret my call with ace Jack obviously I was horribly wrong but
you know might be just too weak to pull these check on that board against an
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