So I played the $10 6 max tourney last night on Stars and couldn’t believe how bad the players were..Maybe because it was a Saturday night, but my tables were a mixture between lagtards and weak/tight nits..I got off to a rockin start after stackin a lagtard in 2 hands which I thought I played really well

The 2nd one I had KK in the bb and 2 limpers and SB completed, so I popped it up about 6x…Lagtard called, flop was Q75 or something ragged, I bet 3/4th pot, he calls..Turn was a 9, I bet almost the pot again and he about min raised me, I decided to call since he was most likely full of shit and had either air or some sort of bad draw..River was a blank and I decided to check to him and let him either hang himself or take a relatively cheap showdown..He jammed it and I called, he was too laggy for me to fold there and he showed 8 10..

Afterwards I ran into some donkey who gave me some troubles..He was directly to my right and I opened from UTG about 4 times and he flatted every raise and floated every c/bet..So then this hand happened

IhaveNolife24182 (11:58:18 AM): i opened qjs utg, the bb was a huge donkey who kept flatting all my raises
IhaveNolife24182 (11:58:59 AM): so we take a flop hu, pot is 450, flop is j10x, 2 h..he checks, i bet 300 i think, he calls
IhaveNolife24182 (11:59:10 AM): turn is another jack, he checks, i bet like 700, he calls again
unkysimba (11:59:32 AM): oh hell
IhaveNolife24182 (11:59:37 AM): river is an 8, he checks, i fire like 1200 or so in there, he goes all in for 3K total, i begrudgingly call, he fliips q9 os over
IhaveNolife24182 (11:59:43 AM): nice play sir, you fuckin douchbag

So then I built back up again, taking most of my chips back from him when he tried bluffing me and I snapped that off

Until this hand..

so then i build back up, button raises to 600 at 75/150, im in the sb with 88 and the bb is sitting out(which greatly extends his range here)
unkysimba (12:00:57 PM): agreed
IhaveNolife24182 (12:01:02 PM): so i made it 1800, he has like 2700ish i thnk after his pf raise so i commit myself to his stack
IhaveNolife24182 (12:01:16 PM): he makes his stand with a7 and rivers an ace

Once again build back up, snapped off another button raise with a9 and somehow out ran his j10 when he decided to make a stand when he wasn’t pot committed..People are idiots

After that I got moved to another table, which sucked cuz I had solid reads and knew exactly who I could steal from..Anways, this table was really nitty, so I was still stealing once an orbit..I made one good play when I opened J10 os in the CO and the BB flatted me..Blinds were 200/400, I had about 10K to start the hand, he had about 8K I believe..So he flats for 1200, flop is K 6 3 R I think and he leads out into me for 1200..This looks ultimate weak to me and hes got enough behind that I have fold equity w/out shoving, so I make it 3.2 K and he folds..Money bubble bursts shortly after that when my bust out hand happens..

IhaveNolife24182 (12:02:59 PM): so i have like 12K, blinds at 300/600, utg opens for 2400 and hes one of the tourney CL’s
unkysimba (12:03:27 PM): gotcha
IhaveNolife24182 (12:03:34 PM): i have aqs in the sb and really dont have much of an option here..flatting sucks my left nut, no other raise makes sense, and folding is so weak tight in a 6 max tourney against one of the CLs
IhaveNolife24182 (12:03:43 PM): so i jam it, he snap calls with kq
IhaveNolife24182 (12:04:00 PM): flop kjx and i miss my 7 outter

And that was that…I got dealt really good hands in this tourney and got paid on a lot of my good hands because its 6 max, but I got sucked out on 3 major pots so whatever..Not much ya can do, I felt I played really well and didn’t spew a lot..I’m really trying to avoid playing OOP unless I’m 3 betting/jamming any flop..I did a good job of that yesterday, along with controlling pot sizes with my raises to make comfortable bets/shoves..Good tourney all in all, despite the lack of big cash