WBCOOP Omahahaha

Goal number one in the World Blogger Championship of Online Poker is accomplished. I finished 16th out of 450 runners earning myself entry into the WBCOOP and a Step 3 ticket ($82). The play overall was a whole lot better than I expected. Maybe I only found the good tables or something, but I think there was a lot of good play in the tournament. I thought I played extremely well, got lucky at the right times, and only missed played one maybe two hands which I'll talk about later. This tournament was really interesting and had an extremely interesting situation that is unique to this type of tournament series. I really enjoyed playing and am happy to have accomplished the goal in a game I don't play very much (Full Ring Omaha! I play a lot of 6 max but there are kind of different!)I'm going to talk about a couple interesting hands and then talk about the unique situation in the tournament.

Blinds: 150/300 Stacks: Me- 7905 Villain- 6k
My hand: KQ92 double suited.
Villain opened from the button to 1050 (pot). I probably should have folded but I though that if I hit a huge pot, I would have a huge stack at the time and be able to bully the bubble that's coming up soon.
Flop: Q33 rainbow
I decided to check. Villain bets pot (2250) leaving 2810 behind. The bet look really scared. There was no way that the villain had a 3. He never, ever has a 3! I tanked a little bit and basically was hoping he potted it with like an AKxx type hand and would fold. I shipped and he snapped off with AAxx.

I basically got lucky after that doubled up a couple times then blinded down on the bubble. After the bubble burst, I got into a situation with blinds at 750/1250 where there was a raise/re-raise/re-re-raise and I had JJTT and a chance to quadruple up. I hit a ten ball and went from 5k to 22k. Lots of little hands here and there and was up to 70k.

Blinds: 1.5k/3k Stacks: Me- 70k Villain- 96k Short Stack Idiot-16k
My hand: AdKcJd7c
I open from mid position to 7175. SSI calls and villain calls on the button.
Flop: QT3 rainbow
I flop a semi-wrap. I check which is where i make my mistake. SSI checks and villain pots it for 26k. I have at most 13 outs (3 aces, 3 kings, 3 jacks, and 4 nines). If the villain in the hand has KQJx, we are drawing really thin. I probably should have lead the flop and hoped for a fold. I gave up control and the villain punished me for it. I think I may have been able to check/raise and got a fold but it's really doubtful. I think I was either going to lose all my chips or win a bunch. I probably took the safest route which is probably not the most +ev play, but i felt it was at the time. I ended up finishing 16th which is a huge start to the WBCOOP series.

This tournament was very unique in that it is a satellite to the WBCOOP Final, but it also has prizes for finishing good in the tournament. Near the bubble, I basically gave up a lot of equity by blinding myself down in order to qualify for the final. The thing is I gain a lot of equity in the other tournaments before the final. I have already qualified for the final so I don't have to worry about limping into the money in the other qualifying tournaments.
By blinding down and losing equity when I normally would have pushed way earlier, I have gained equity in the next 5 tournaments. I can now take risks and rape the bubble as I can't qualify for the Final again in order to gain lots of chips and get to a final table to earn more tickets and prizes.
I thought this was unique because I almost never blinded myself down to 3-4 blinds. You lose equity doing such a thing, but in this case I'm gain equity too. It's really a confusing thing even though it's simple and I don't know if a lot of people knew what they were doing or if they will take advantage of already being qualified in the future.

Thanks for reading. Be sure to catch up tomorrow as I blog about the 1st of 3 No Limit Hold'em WBCOOP events! Good luck and run good! Peace!