Day 4 - $10,000 Main Event

Ok, so today started with 481 players and I'm 19th in chips with $383,500. The day started with some pretty crazy moves - i think there were five people all-in the first round. A couple hands in third position makes it 12k and I call two behind. The guy right behind me then moves all-in for 140,000 and we both fold. After being moved to a different table, I pick up 2,2 in the SB and it folds to me. I make it 17k and the BB re-raises to 38k. I flat call and the flop comesK,9,3 and we both check. The turn brings an ace and we both check again. The river is a duece and I check because it really looked like he wanted to bet the turn, but seemed a little afraid of a check-raise, so he checked. Now if I check, he will almost certainly bet, which he did - 25k. I think for a while to determine how much I can raise, then make it 80k and he calls. Cutoff makes it 15k with blinds at 2,500/5,000 and 500 ante, I call in the BB with QTs. Flop came Q,7,5 rainbow and I check call a bet of 25k. Turn was a jack and we both check. River was a 2 and I check call a bet of 30k and lose to the K,Q. I think I could have folded on the river, given the guy was a fairly tight player and the bet on the end definitely didn't look like a bluff. A while later I make it 15k in second position and get called by a short stack in middle position. The flop came Kc,6c,2 and I check. He bet 20k and I moved all-in with my A,K and he folded. The a short stack moved all-in from early position for 42k and I call in the BB with J,J. After the board of 7,2,2,K,3, however, his K,T bested my hand. Then a hand came up where the K,Q guy raised to 15k and I called with 9,9. The flop came Q,6,4 rainbow and he bet 25k and I called this obvious continuation bet. The turn came a 3 and he bet 50k and I call again, because I feel like his bets are much bigger this hand than last hand and, thus, are more likely a bluff. River was a 6 and we both checked and my 9.9 held against his A,T. I raised in second position to 15k with J,J and the SB re-raised to 50k and I called (same K,Q/A,T guy). Flop came 5,5,2 and he bet 100k and I called. Turn came an ace and now he moved all-in and I fold in disgust, however, he shows me the K,K, so I ended up getting pretty lucky that A came on the turn. After the break we came back to the table and a guy had gone all-in the first two hands, and was all-in for the third time in a row UTG (he had just lost 80% of his chips on a bad beat before the break). I look down at 9,9 and decide to go all-in myself on the button, which covered his 200k all-in. Blinds are only 3,000/6,000 with a 1,000 ante, so this was actually a pretty difficult decision. Anyway, the 9,9 holds up on a board of J,J,3,A,T to his 5,5 and I'm now over half a mil. A little bit later, the nine seat opens all-in for 120k and had also taken a couple bad beats and become very aggressive. I look down at A,K on the button and move all-in myself and I'm in great shape against his A,Q. The board of 8,7,2,J,6 does not improve his hand and now I'm at close to 700k. UTG I make it 20k and two behind me shoves all-in for 192k and I call. I have A,K and he, weirdly, has 9,9. The flop of 9,6,Q all but kills me and the 6 turn put the nail in the coffin. The meaningless river was a Js. A bit later folds to the button, who raised in late position 100% of the time when folded to, and he makes it 12k. I call with A2s, as does the BB. Flop came A,7s,2s and I checked. The BB bets into the preflop raiser 25k and the button makes it 75k. I decide I can't fool around on this board and make it 250k and they both fold. The same guy makes it 18k when it folded to him in the cutoff and I call on the button with K,J. The SB calls and we have bigstacks battling it out, yet again. The flop was K,K,8 rainbow and they both check to me and I bet 20k. SB folds and preflop raiser check-raises me to 70k. I call and the turn was a jack. He bet 150k and I decide to flat call, as he wouldn't fold to an all-in with A,K or K,Q, so why not let him bluff a worse hand on the river? River brought a dreaded A, but he checked, so I'm pretty sure I can value bet it, and that's just what I did - 150k and he called and mucked. I make it 0k in second position with J,T and two behind me calls with A,T. Flop came T,7,2 rainbow and I bet 20k and he calls. Turn was a 4 and we both check. River was an ace and I check call a bet of 30k. In retrospect I think I could have folded here, as this guy got in through a $2 qualifier online and was an extremely weak/tight player. Plus his small bet didn't seem like a bluff. A while later, after the same guy kept position raising, he did it again when it folded to his button. I look down at 4,4 and decided to go with it against him, but not the BB, so I make a 3x raise and he shoves in for 5k more and I insta-call. Unfortunately, however, he has 7,7 and I get no help and take a 275k blow to my stack. After dinner a hand came up where UTG raised to 20k and I call in the BB with 67s. Flop came 9h,5h,3h and we both check. Turn was a T and I check-raise his bet of 50k to 150k and he moves all-in for 700k after a long think and I'm forced to fold. I could have flat called or folded, but by flat calling, how do I know if I'm good if I hit? Plus, I wouldn't want to hit, but have it be the forth heart. I think I should have just bet out the turn and folded to a raise, but oh well. For the next four hours I went completely card dead and lost the only decent hands I picked up. I got T,T in early position and raised and a new guy to the table in middle position called. Flop came Ks,J,3s and I check folded. The other time I raised UTG with A,Q and a guy who had seen me fold for the last 3 straight hours raised 3x and I decided to fold, given he knew how tight I was playing and couldn't possibly be bluffing. He showed me J,J unfortunately, but I was still happy with my fold, as this was the worst possible hand he could have had. I ended the day with $550,000 after being up to 1.1mil. I was a little frustrated with how the day went, but was happy to still be in the mix. The average at this point was 650k. More to come...