Hello to whoever ends up reading this... so i finally decided to start a blog. I've been meaning to for about a year now... and out of sheer boredom finally finally got around to it.
My name is Jason Mercier, I am a 21 yr old, professional poker player.
I am in Cannes, France right now where I will be for 3 more days before heading off to barcelona for the first EPT event of this season. I arrived here the morning of the 2nd. The whole reason for coming was to play in the main event of the Partouche Poker tour (8500 euros buyin). I have already been knocked out of the event, which i played on day 1a. I am very bitter about this tournament, because it was the first time ever that i showed up over an hour late for a live event. I had forgot to bring my real alarm clock with me for the duration of this trip, so i set my phone alarm for 1:30 pm (tournament to start at 3 pm). the phone alarm never went off or if i did i turned it off without realizing it, and i woke up at 4:05... showing up to the casino, unshowered, at 4:25. i had missed the whole first level of blinds and seeing as how there was one good player and 7 donks at my table, it was probably very crucial.
The tourney started off very brutal, I had raised 2 pots out of the first 4 hands i was dealt. One i was 3 bet and the other i stole the blinds. On the 5th hand, i had 55 in mid pos, raised to 300 at 50 100 level. cutoff shoves for 2400. dude looks like a donk and normally i would fold but didnt feel like he had a pair so i called. he shows 7 10 hh lol. i smile as the flop comes J 9 2 turn 3 river 7... bink! classic race situation eh 7 10 vs 55 haha. nh sir. im down to about 17000. I end up getting down to about 15k before i double up with the ol 2 3 off. there were about 5 limpers and i was on the button. i made it 1050. btw the players here are so terrible its shocking really. its like san remo all over again. the 2nd limper flats and everyone else folds. im assuming he has a mid pair 66-TT is what i put him on. flop comes 4 5 8 rainbow and he donks in for 2k. I flat trying to rep a big pair. obv an A i kno im good maybe just rep something big fire turn small if he checks and ship river if he calls turn. anyways turn 3 and he bets 2k again. at this point he looks very annoyed that i called turn but i can tell he doesnt think i have much. i decide that i should probably just call seeing as how im priced in now. figure a 2 3 6 and A are all winning cards for me. River: 3 he bets 2k once more, if he had bet like 4 or 5k i may have just called but the 2k on the river is obv block bet with 66 77 99, 89 A8 etc imo. I wait about 5 seconds and shove my 10100 in. he tanks for about a minute and throws the chips in. i show 2 3 off ding! and he about loses his mind lol. eventually telling someone else at the table he had pocket nines. so i doubled to about 31k on that hand. Got up to about 34k and then hand after hand of spewtastic poker... i lost pretty much every hand i played after that... getting 3 bet every time i opened and never having a decent hand to play back and guys flipping KK, AA, AK every time i folded. guys hands were so transparent and i was sitting there helpless and card dead.
On my bust hand, the blinds were 200 400 with a 50 ante, utg +1 limps, utg +2 limps, hi jack limps cut off limps and small blind completes. im in bb with KJdd and about 8k total in my stack. I figure there is enough dead money out there to shove and if i get called i figure ill be up against a pair or maybe A10. i shove, first 2 limpers fold and the dude in the hi jack agonizes for about 90 seconds before making the call. the other 2 guys quickly muck and dude flips AK... i was shocked to say the least at how long he took to call. he was a huge fish btw. whatever... Q 8 6 A 2 and im out. GG me
I came back to the hotel and proceeded to spew 7k on 10 20 and 5 10 plo on stars... was just running really bad. Yesterday i woke up at 7 pm after sleeping for 13 hours! i cant remember the last time i slept for that long. i went over to the casino to see how my friends were doing in day 1b and planned on eating from the free buffet and then going to see if there were any cash games running. After dinner, i went over to the cash table(s) and saw a game was about to start. everyone had around 5k-7k in their stacks so i assumed it was the same game i had played 2 nights earlier 20 40 NL (euros). I had 6k in chips on me so i decided to sit with that, u cannot reload with cash and the cage is kind of far so i didnt want to risk not getting a seat. I found out when the game started that it was 50 100 NL (euros) which is kind of a big game for me... its like 75 150$ NL... but my 6k covered everyone except 1 kid and there were 2 young kids and like 7 older guys (donks usually)... so i decided to stay and play. 7 and a half hours later I left the game with 22910 euros. SHIP IT! such a soft game... guys were so bad. ill explain more later if i get the chance.
Anyways im going to play the 2nd chance tournament today. 1500 euro buyin, its a 2 day tournament, 10k starting stack, 40 min levels 25 50 to start. should be an insanely soft field, considering most of the good players are still in the main event. and if i bust im gonna try to play that cash game again. well this completes my first blog entry ever hope to do more soon.
pE@cE it
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