shahmat's blog

Going into the final table I felt a bit more prepared than I did for the APPT final table. Once we'd played a few orbits I had a pretty good handle on how everyone was playing, except for the eventual winner, I thought he was playing alot tighter than he actually was. Without to much risk I was able to continue chipping up my larger stack while the short stacks were forced to either push or fold in alot of spots. Stack sizes were very good for me as it was tough for them to play back without a hand.

I was much more aware of stack sizes and much more aware of how big my bets were compared to theirs. This was pretty important. At the APPT final table when I raised with KQs against grant levy, I gave him the option to reshove on me with A6o where he thought he had fold equity. This ended up costing me alot of chips in Sydney and I think ultimately making it to

Feel alot better today now that its all over. Wasn't too happy with second place, but reran the heads up match in my head and I'm pretty happy with how I played it. Wasn't too much else I could do, so I'll take that red King bink from the previous day and am happy to have turned it into a 2nd place finish.

Heading into final table with the chip lead. Super tired right now, feeling good about my chances tomorrow. Made a semi-marginal call for a huge pot which vaulted me into huge chip lead when I hit. Maybe shoulda just mucked, but I don't really like folding.