Day 7-8: Still Playing!
Still 16 left in the $550 at the Venetian, I’m probably ~12ish or so, maybe 10th at best. We start up again at 4pm local time and 1st is $70k. If I make final table then I break even on the trip.
Blinds are 10k/20k/4k and I’m at 340k in chip, 17 bb but only 5m, which is kind of gross but that is my comfort level. I was 4th in chips with 45 to go but went hot/cold on hands, I either got monsters or complete air and nothing even marginal enough to blind steal with. I built my stack by sucking out 10 BB with AJo vs AQ AI preflop and then got AK allin vs AQ and that held too. I got a couple RR in there to get as high as 450k but then blinded down until we quit for the day.
We stopped at 2 am and most of the other players wanted to keep playing, I pretty much told them to go fuck themselves as they were trying to pressure the two of us into playing until the Final Table. I was tired as fuck and I wasn’t going to budge.
Anyway, wish me luck. I figure even if I get into 2 coinflips thats 25% chance I’ll get top 4 with 2 double ups, top 6 get 5+ figure cashes. I was able to build my stack yesterday from 30k and 10 BB up to 100k and 20 BB without ever going to showdown over the course of a couple hours. I dont know how good these remaining players will be in shortstack play but I imagine they will be better than the previous ones. I’m a little nervous before we start but I’ve played against better players online and have been in worse situations so experience is definitely on my side.
Wish me luck!