WCOOP Event #3

Two weeks ago I won a 215$ ticket for the WCOOP. I decided to play event #3 (9max NLHE) with $2M guaranteed.

It had 12066 entrants and a prize pool of 2,413,200$, with 361.98$ for ITM and up to ~335k for the first place.

It started  at 11pm localtime on Sunday here in Germany. Given that I got semesterbreak that wasn´t really a problem. 

The table I was seated at the beginning of the tournament was very loose and I could collect chips by staying tight and only play really good hands.


This was the first hand that gave me a good amount of chips:

Seat 1: killacam477 ($9,945)
Seat 2: WILLY_PKR_BR ($12,395)
Seat 3: jmw86 ($9,770)
Seat 4: baconAVACADO ($7,665)
Seat 5: Lambo798 ($12,115)
Seat 6: wilddog1951 ($10,393)

Dealer

Seat 7: Oli_Tess ($11,200)

Posts small blind $40

Seat 8: ando206 ($8,432)

Posts big blind $80

Seat 9: TaikiYa ($9,285) 

Dealt to TaikiYa
 

Preflop: (Pot: $120)

FOLD killacam477
RAISE WILLY_PKR_BR, to $255
FOLD jmw86
FOLD baconAVACADO
FOLD Lambo798
CALL wilddog1951, $255
FOLD Oli_Tess
CALL ando206, $215
CALL TaikiYa, $175 

Flop: (Pot: $1,020)

  
CHECK ando206
BET TaikiYa, $650
FOLD WILLY_PKR_BR
CALL wilddog1951, $650
CALL ando206, $650 

Turn: (Pot: $2,970)

   
CHECK ando206
BET TaikiYa, $1,850
FOLD wilddog1951
CALL ando206, $1,850 

River: (Pot: $6,670)

    
BET ando206, $400
CALL TaikiYa, $400 

Showdown:

SHOWS ando206
 
SHOWS TaikiYa
 
TaikiYa wins the pot of $7,470 with two pair, Kings and Queens 

After this hand my chips blinded away until I could win a pot with AQ that gave me a stack of about 15k.

Another interessing hand might be this:

Table info:

Seat 1: Bandek ($18,401)
Seat 2: WILLY_PKR_BR ($26,024)
Seat 3: jmw86 ($6,593)

Dealer

Seat 4: baconAVACADO ($12,587)

Posts small blind $125

Seat 5: Lambo798 ($20,703)

Posts big blind $250

Seat 6: wilddog1951 ($10,209)
Seat 7: Oli_Tess ($5,163)
Seat 8: H0ldnemHall ($8,540)
Seat 9: TaikiYa ($14,440) 

Dealt to TaikiYa
 

Preflop: (Pot: $645)

FOLD Oli_Tess
FOLD H0ldnemHall
RAISE TaikiYa, to $600
FOLD Bandek
FOLD WILLY_PKR_BR
FOLD jmw86
CALL baconAVACADO, $600
FOLD Lambo798
FOLD wilddog1951 

Flop: (Pot: $1,845)

  
BET TaikiYa, $1,000
CALL baconAVACADO, $1,000 

Turn: (Pot: $3,845)

   
BET TaikiYa, $2,000
CALL baconAVACADO, $2,000 

River: (Pot: $7,845)

    
CHECK TaikiYa
BET baconAVACADO, $1,000
CALL TaikiYa, $1,000 

Showdown:

SHOWS baconAVACADO
 
SHOWS TaikiYa
 
baconAVACADO wins the pot of $4,922 with three of a kind, Aces
TaikiYa wins the pot of $4,923 with three of a kind, Aces 

After this hand I got 3 hand I could win a lot of chips with:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5672550

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5672551

I got moved to another table before this hand which was full of good players.(They were 2 or 3 fishes too, but compared to the first table, this one now was very tough)

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5672555

After this hand I lost a couple of small pots and blinded down to about 10BB.

I probably avoided some risky but +EV spots because I wanted to get into the money.(on a 11$ MTT for example I would have played them definitely)

After I got in the money I only had 7.5 big blinds left and the first hand I got was this one:

Table info:

Seat 1: ne2aces1 ($88,012)
Seat 2: esprit ($14,546)
Seat 3: GhettoHomie ($42,210)
Seat 4: sagedecarte ($186,704)
Seat 5: 0_WILLIAM_0 ($39,740)
Seat 6: WhyMeGeez ($109,187)

Dealer

Seat 7: TaikiYa ($15,095)

Posts small blind $1000

Seat 8: yogi147 ($24,039)

Posts big blind $2000

Seat 9: jeanckilly ($116,965) 

Dealt to TaikiYa
 

Preflop: (Pot: $5250)

FOLD ne2aces1
FOLD esprit
FOLD GhettoHomie
FOLD sagedecarte
RAISE 0_WILLIAM_0, to $5,200
FOLD WhyMeGeez
RAISE TaikiYa, to $14,845 and is ALL-IN
FOLD yogi147
FOLD jeanckilly
CALL 0_WILLIAM_0, $9,645 

Flop: (Pot: $34,940)

   

Turn: (Pot: $34,940)

    

River: (Pot: $34,940)

     

Showdown:

SHOWS 0_WILLIAM_0
 
SHOWS TaikiYa
 
0_WILLIAM_0 wins the pot of $34,940 with a straight, Eight to Queen 

I finished in 1520th place (1530th people were paid) and won about 360$ which gave me a significant bankroll push :)