International ROE tournament

On Wednesday I made my first visit to the International for some time to play in the £30+£30 round of each tournament.

Hand1
Play Q♥9♥ on the button, pick up pot on a Queen high board on the turn.

Hand2
Raise AQ to 125 UTG and get two callers including the BB.
Flop is Q, 8, 7
I bet 300 and BB calls.
Turn is an Ace
I bet 500 and BB folds.

Hand3
I check my option in the BB with AQ44 or some such nonsence
Flop arrives 4♦ Q♣ J♣
I bet 200 and get min-raised by the cutoff. He has already misread a hand once, trying to play a three card flush, so I have no idea what this means so I call. Turn is a 2h
I check call cutoff’s bet of 400
River is 6h - an uber blank
Cutoff bets 500 and I can’t think of a single draw that came in for him. I make the call and win - our man was trying to play a three card straight this time.

Hand4
Blinds now 150-300.
I raise from cutoff to 800 with the monster 7♣3♥
BB calls, and then checks the Ace high flop
I bet 1400 and he calls
The board is rainbow, so I can’t see what draw he can be on, so I give up on the hand, and he wins it with a bet on the river.

I take my add-on and am left with 7700 for the freezeout section which is below average.

I fold a few orbits to go down to 6500.

Hand5
4 limpers for 400 and I find AQQ9 DS in the small blind.
I pot it for 2k total.
Gabriel calls from the button.
Flop is a disastrous looking 4, 6, 9 with two spades (I have none)
I decide to follow through though and pot it again which puts Gabriel all in. He makes an easy call with a pair + flush draw + straight draw.
The turn brings the 3 which completes his straight draw.
I am left with 700 chips.

Hand6
I get nothing for the whole orbit, and figure I best move in UTG with the final Omaha hand which is AQ45. I get called in 3 spots and don’t win.

A disappointment, but I very much enjoyed playing a live tournament again.

The following evening I registered a £240 win in the Loose Cannon cash game, so at least I ended up with a small profit for the week’s poker activity, although I’m still a bit gutted about the £700 hit to my stack in the last post!

Have a good weekend all.