This last weekend was the Main Event and last event of the year for the CMPPA. Up for grabs was the Player of the Year for the CMPPA, the St Cloud Series of Poker Player of the Year and the Main Event Champion. This is our only two day event with 30,000 in chips and one hour blinds. Turn out was good with 30 players making it. Myself and two others had a side bet on who would be 1st out and who would be last man standing. It was looking good for me early as my 1st man out horse lost 18,000 in chips in the 1st half hour, but then doubled up. It only took a little over an hour and one of the others picks were out and I lost on that bet. It always amazes my that you give a bar player more chips and instead of playing longer in a tournament they just bet more to make bigger pots and lose out just as quick. I decided to play the much more aggressive as I have been playing as of late. It sure made for a roller coaster of a day. I was down to as low as 15,000 and up as much as 60,000 by second break at 6 hours into tournament. What usually happens at our longer events happened again this year. Most of the weaker players get knocked out early and you are left with mostly good and tight players. After second break I looked around my table and decided that aggression was going to work well with the players on table, so I opened my game up quite a bit. I was at the time a mid size stack on table. the strategy worked pretty well except for one of the bigger stacks who was on my left was calling most of my raises and then reraising me either on the flop or on the turn costing me chips and forcing me to fold. It was frustrating for me but if I had his stack I would have played the same way and on top of that he was running hot and getting the cards to back it up. At about 9 hours in I raise preflop with A-K clubs and he calls. Flop is 8-7-2 two clubs. I make a good size continuation bet and he reraises and decide it's time to race him with my two overs and flush draw. I move all in and he calls with pocket 6's. A little risky play by him with two overs and the chance that I had an over pair but he had the chips to call. I didn't improve and was out. Looking back I am very happy with my play for the day. I certainly could have tighten up when I had a decent stack at that table but really felt aggressive was the right call. Maybe not as I was now on the rail. There was still 3 hours of play left. Dustin said that he would run until the end of night for me and I went home with 13 players left in tournament. I was expecting there to be anywhere between 8-12 players left when I showed up to run day two. Boy, was I surprised to find only 5 players left. Wow! I asked Dustin why so few and he said that the bigger stacks keep playing big hands against each other and knocking each other out. It created tow big stacks and 3 much smaller stacks. In a way two of the final 5 and money makers had folded their way to the money. It just goes to show how impatient bar players are in long blind level event. There was over 900,000 chips in play and the tournament made it to heads up at 3000-6000 blind level. Heads up lasted about an hour between Dustin Hoff and Amanda Mock. Amanda had a massive chip lead and Dustin was mostly card dead and playing much too passive for heads up. So, Congratulations to Amanda for winning the main event and both player of the year honors. They were well deserved. Which will lead me to my next blog soon about women in bar poker. See you soon!
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