100 Buy-In At The Goldstrike

I decided to go to Tunica saturday afternoon and play in the $100 buy in NL tournament.  This particular tournament has a $10 dealer toke that gets you an extra 2k in chips, bringing the starting stack up to 6k.  The tournament got under way with about 60 players.  My table was probably standard, mostly soft except there were two guys who where 2/5 NL regulars.

I made it through the first hour and break, up to around 8k in chips.  When we came back, the blinds were 200/400 with a 25 ante.  I started leaking chips around this point, folding to a couple short stack all ins, etc.  So toward the end of this level I’m sitting at around 5k in chips in the big blind.  There are two folds, and the next to act is one of those two 2/5 NL regulars, these guys had been stealing very often.  He makes it 1200 to go, and it folds back around to me.  I look down at AKo and insta push, hoping to get the guy to fold.

He thinks about it for about a minute, says call, and says “I hope you have high cards”, and flips pocket 6’s.  The flop comes K 10 J Rainbow.  The turn is a 6, and the river a blank.  So I get up, say nice game to everyone, and leave.  I could have folded there, waited on a different spot, but I felt like I had good FE against that guy b/c of how often he had been stealing, and I really don’t feel bad about taking a coin flip in that spot.

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