I will do a review of Poker in Vietnam and maybe even a video when I have the time. But this post is more about my post mortem of how the series went for me personally.
In one word, BAD. I busted from the main event, Championship event, head hunters, Big Blind Ante 2, albeit a final table on a side event, but overall a very disappointing trip for me. The most upsetting is that I felt that I played so poorly, made so many mistakes and really deserved to lose.
The first event for me was the headhunter. Busted twice, AT < 67 (30bb), A7 < 35 (24bb). I felt that I played okay, but just got beaten by uber loose players that got lucky on me. Then it was the main. The structure is beautiful, and with crazy loose players every where I elected to play a looser range early to build a stack. It was working fine, starting stack was 25000 and by level 2 I already had 45000+. Then came this eventful hand.
Blinds were 50/100, I was on the SB with 6h5h. UTG+1 made it 300, mid post called, I called but BB (nitty player raises to 1500). Both other players called. They all had about 20k ish stacks and I covered them all with about 42k. Effective 200bb deep in a tournament, I elected to complete the 12bb more. Flop was 234! What a beauty! I checked the nuts, BB bets 5000, UTG+1 tanks a raises to 22k, mid position shoves for 21k and of course I can't fold the nuts. 4 way all in.
BB had AA
UTG+1 had 88
Mid post had 44
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| If I won this pot, I would have 1000bbs+ |
Turn 3 - GG
But what pissed me off the most was UTG+1 had about 475 in chips behind when he raised to 22k. That was part of my side pot. But he insisted that he did not commit those chips and folded on the flop. I am like WTF?!? Are you kidding me? You committed 23500 and you fold for 475 more? At the end I let him keep his 475, but him and the Vietnamese people he represented lost the respect I used to have for them.
Had I won that hand I would have been sitting on about 1000bbs. But I guess it just wasn't mean to be. After that I just lost focus and patience and played really badly from then on, and carried over to other events as well.
After busting the Championship event, I did a lot of soul searching, reviewed my every play and my conclusion was, I PLAYED SO BADLY I DESERVED TO LOSE. The following day I played another event and I managed my only cash and final table this trip. The payout was tiny but I was happy I adjusted my mindset and fixed my mistakes. I think I made one mistake that tournament which is a huge improvement from the numerous mistakes I made the days before.
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| My only cash and Final table this series |
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| Did well at a local cash game |
I did play one session of cash game and I ran good and played okay and won a decent amount to soften the blow this trip has cost me. I haven't been playing as much as I planned to earlier this year and I am still far from my 10 cashes target for the year, but I am happy that I was critical at myself and it made me a slightly better player afterwards.
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