join us in San Jose Costa Rica to play
the live cage event three eight thousand
dollar packages are guaranteed each week
on America's card room
what will you do when I'm freedom will
you fight against that no we've all
right and we will live I fight and you
may die
run no left at least a wild
and dying in your beds many years from
now would you be willing to trade all
the days from this day to that for one
chance just one chance to come back here
and tell our enemies that they may take
our lives but they'll never take
the second hand of the 9 handed final
table were under the gun blinds are
10,000 20,000 20,000 big blind ante and
we looked out at ace queen offsuit with
nine hundred thousand chips and double
average it's a clear open forty five
thousand to go action folds the middle
position who shoves all in for three
hundred thousand no other significant
short stacks at the table so he doesn't
have too much to risk with payouts but
we go in the tank he shoved in under one
second I mean it was quick these type of
shoves are usually indicative of hands
that are no brain shoves like ace king
pocket tens plus with ace Queen off
we're not doing great against this range
but as you know we don't like to fold
too much and we're not risking our
tournament life the advanced
implications of us raise folding to a
fifteen blind show under the gun well
tell the table that we're raising light
under the gun so there is some merit in
calling off here gambling to get the pay
jump and to set the tone for the final
table so we put in the call he shows
pocket sevens pretty light we're
flipping the flop comes ace nine deuce
all diamonds the turn is the five of
diamonds and the river is the queen of
clubs
we bossed a player there's now eight
left and we have just over 1.2 million
with blinds at 12,000 24,000 24,000
braids handed middle position opens to
55,000 were in the cutoff with ace Jack
offsuit original RAZR is second and
chips with around 700 thousand so we
could call but I'd rather take the lead
and put max pressure on him pre and post
flop get the blinds out of there
so we three bet to 3x 165 thousand the
blindfold and action is back to him if
he shoves all in he has to have a
premium or else he's really putting too
much risk on the table to jeopardize
this whole stack versus the only guy
that can bust him he folds we take down
the pot and chip up we now have
approximately 1.4 million 1/10
six-handed small blind who has 600,000
limps at 15,000 30,000 30,000 we're in
the big blind with 10 for offsuit I
don't want to go too much into my
general strategies but I like to raise I
the big blind with a polarized range so
10 4 isn't very playable post-flop so we
make it 100,000 to go the small blind
shoves all in didn't expect that most
people don't plan the limp Jam but I
think even less people limp and then Jam
out of spite or out of frustration so he
was probably planning on doing this so
we're definitely not getting bluffed we
went for it to uncap our arranged pre
and take it down and this time it didn't
work
you know aggression pays but aggression
also hurts sometimes so don't be
frustrated if your moves don't work
stick with the plan
stay aggressive I chipped up to 1.4
million by being aggressive so we're not
gonna stop being aggressive in these
spots we're gonna take the initiative
and really go for it put max pressure on
our opponents remember chip lead with
$28,000 up top let's get this
first-place prize for the bankroll
challenge be a great great victory and
that win trophy is so sweet I wouldn't
have any other trophy from any other
casino let's get
with blinds add fifteen thousand thirty
thousand thirty seven thousand action
folds to the small blind ace ten suited
versus ace Queen he shoved to five
hundred and thirty five K I called he
says ten please town the flop attend
hits the turn and he says hold please
so that got him up to 1.1 million and me
down to nine hundred K few orbits later
this hand happens I looked on at Jack
six off suit in the small blind
he had lint shoved on me once before
when he had around 20 blinds now that
were thirty blinds deep a little
different metagame so I raise it up 3x
to ninety thousand he calls the flop
comes Jack eight five two hearts very
draw heavy flop for his limp calling
range he checks about one hundred
thousand he makes it two hundred and
eighty thousand what's here up in here
I think he would raise pocket fives or
pocket eights or possibly limp jamb them
so we can discount those from his range
I don't think he'd lived call Jack five
Jackie it's a small possibility but we
have a jack
so his range is mainly draws six seven
nine ten Queen ten heart draws combo
draws the type of player that wants to
bluff the big dog so we could call can't
really fold top here or we can shove and
deny all of his equity because it comes
down to a simple choice really
get busy living or get busy dying
so we shove all in and he stab calls he
shows Jack eight of clubs I show my hand
he says that's good hand the turn is the
six giving me outs to the wind but the
rivers are seven and we're out of the
wind five hundred and fifty dollar
tournament it's 2:00 a.m.
forty degrees we cash for $4,400 twenty
percent sold bankroll challenge update
is right here
