Sorry there has been no coverage

I don’t know why there has not been any coverage on the events. Tomorrow I will be playing in the Venetian event as there is an Omaha Tournament at Caesars and the No-Limit Event at the Venetian is a great event as it is a $150 buy in and you start with 7500 in chips, which is great value. I am sorry to report that I played in the event today at Binions and with 109 players I went out 22nd. They paid the top 10 and no I didn’t take a bad beat. I actually think I played the hand bad. Here is what happened.

The blinds were very high at 800/1600 with a 200 ante. I was sitting with 17K in chips. It folded all around to the Button and he raised to 4200, I thought he could be trying to steal the blinds as he had been in the past. I looked at my hand and had AJ of hearts, and I moved all-in for my remaining chips. He instantly called me and turned over AK of diamonds.

The flop came down Q106 with 2 hearts so it actually was a great flop for me. As now his King was no good as it would give me a straight and any heart would give me the flush. Well the turn brought an 8 and river 6 to not improve my hand; and I was sent to the rail.

The question is now looking at the hand how should I have played it. I talked to some other players about the hand and 4 out of 4 said they would have done the same thing. But I think I played it bad. If I could play it over again here is what I would have done. If I would have just smooth called his raise and the flop came down as it did, I could just move in on the flop and there is no way he could have called as he only would have Ace high and that is a hard call for an additional 13k. Or if the flop came with anything but an Ace or Jack. I could just fold and look at a better place to move all-in. So even though the other players I talked to would have done what I did, I learned something from this hand.

I will update tomorrow night after the event.

Until next time.