This week on 5/3/06 was the first tournament in the CR league. It is a 6-max table NL format. There will be tournaments every other week for 4 months. Points are awared based on number of entrants in any given tourney, i.e. week 1 had 80 entrants so first was 80, second 79 and so on.
This was my first ever 6-max table anything. I had never played that either SNG or MTT. It seemed very aggressive at times. I have a very aggressive player to my right who raised relentlessly.
Before I played in this tournament I watched a couple 6-max videos on CR to get an idea of the style of play and strategy to employ. I found it very enjoyable and the level of play for the most part was very exceptional. I say quite a few people lay down very big pairs on scary boards and in the face of big bets. I have to say, that I have seen so many people call down with underpairs that this was a very nice change of pace. I had to lay down AAs once when the board came QJT and it was checked to me and I bet 1/2 the pot and one PF caller folded but then I was check/raised 2-3 times my bet. I thought for a little bit and mucked as I figured it was either a set or two pair with KQ and quite possible AK, which in the end it was AK.
I did not have very good luck as far as the table dynamics were. I had the biggest stack at my table and it was 3-handed. The other table was 4-handed and the other shortstack was at that table. Even though we were playing hand for hand and the same number of hands, I was paying the big blind once every 3 hands and he was paying it once every 4 hands, which is obviously a huge advantage. And the other thing was his table had 3 decent stacks and then the short stack, so there wasn't one huge stack that could run over the table like at my table where he raised 5 out of every 6 hands at a minimum. After surviving for about 3 or 4 orbits and realizing that I was getting pummeled and at a severe disadvantage I made a move with K6o when the big stack min raised me. I suppose in hindsight I should have just waited and waited and if I blinded out so be it. He had KQ and I bubbled. This was very frustrating because there really was nothing I could do to overcome my positional table disadvantage. Nobody's fault, but mine I guess for not having enough chips, but it sure doesn't make sense to me in terms of table balancing to have it the way it was. I finished 7th ahead of many top CR players so I have to be very happy about that, but hitting the money and a final table is what I really wanted.
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