There are no off days: Days 8-10
Monday March 14th-Wednesday March 16th: I arrived on time for the 10am start of the Bay 101 main event. Vince made the shuffle up and deal announcement and we were underway. My table was mostly unfamiliar to me outside of bounty Hoyt Corkins on my direct right and an online player I'd seen around a few seats over. Hoyt really seems like one of the true gentleman of our game and was a pleasure to speak to for the short period I lasted in the tournament.
A few hours later I had become the first Shooting Star eliminated. I awkwardly made my way over to sign the bounty shirt that is awarded with the $5,000 in prize money. As to how this happened can be explained by copy/pasting the post I later made in HSMTT on 2+2:
Level 3 at the Bay 101 10k. I am one of the bounty players and they go to great lengths to make sure that everyone knows it, so if anyone busts me they get $5,000 (plus a T-shirt!)
I have been by far the most active player at the table, especially this level. I haven't really had to show any hands down because people keep folding to my barrels. I haven't been psycho or anything, but I've raised a lot of pots and fired multiple barrels in numerous of them. I have a moderate amount of history with villain for how early it is, and he's been one of the more active players but hasn't been crazy aggro or anything like that. Villain is a perhaps mid 30's Asian dude that I don't recognize. We have one main hand of history from the 50-100 level, and played some other smaller pots since then:
We both had about 30k to start the hand at 50-100. I had black Kings in EP, he was SB. Preflop I made it 300, he called in the SB, everyone else folded.
Flop: 9 8 6 (Pot 700)
He checked, I bet 500, he made it 1500, I called.
Turn: 6 (Pot 3700)
He checks, I bet 2700, he calls
River: Q (Pot 9100)
He thinks a bit and donks 3000, I folded (standard?)
On to the hand in question:
My stack: ~27,000
Button: ~45,000
I hold 8 7 UTG+1 at 100-200 blinds.
Preflop: UTG folds, I go to 500, folds to the button, button calls, SB folds, BB calls.
Flop: T T 9 (Pot 1600)
BB checks, I bet 1000, button calls, BB folds.
Turn: 6 (Pot 3600)
I bet 2700, button thinks for quite some time, counts down some chips, seems to consider raising, then decides on a call.
River: 2 (Pot 9000)
I bet 8200, button thinks a little bit then announces allin, I...
I had told myself on the river that if I bet that large, I thought the combination of my being a bounty, his well covering me and my image would cause him to shove AT some percent of the time, which was all I needed when getting nearly 2.7 to 1 on the river. However, it seems very few other people think that an unknown will shove AT there, and near all were in agreement that they would fold, so it seems I am a donk. I hate when I do that shit. Also interesting to point out is that many people said they would call the river in the first hand, so it's good to see I'm folding when I should call and calling when I should fold.
I spent the next day in San Francisco with Matt Affleck and Heika. She'd never been and I hadn't seen it in years, so we spent the afternoon and early afternoon walking the city getting occasionally drenched as the rain alternated between drizzle and downpour. It's a damned good looking city though.
I had no problems with getting to the gym during the period. On Monday I go in and did an ab routine then 18 sets on my back. Tuesday I got 15 sets in on my legs after having exhausted them walking the city all day. There were no problems maintaining the diet in San Jose and I haven't had any difficulties with cravings.
We flew back to Vegas this afternoon. It was a quick 90 minute direct flight from San Jose that arrived at 2:30, allowing me time to get to the gym for nearly an hour before starting a large Wednesday just on time. I accumulated stacks in a few of the larger tournaments of the day but took only one of those deep, the $100 rebuy six-max on Stars. Unfortunately, I became the final table bubble boy but the approximately $3000 score would have approximately covered the buy ins of the day. Hours:
Session start: 4:00pm
Registration end: 8:30pm
Session end: 11:04pm