POTD #71 Monte Carlo Mondays vists the EPT

A Three Way Hand with 75 suited in the €100k SHR

The premise of this Monte Carlo Monday series was that I would count down all the hands I played in Triton Monte Carlo 2024 that I felt were bigger punts than the hand where I lost all my chips to Vladimir “Gambledore” Korzinin at the $150k final table. Today’s Monte Carlo Monday we will be looking at a hand where I, in what is becoming a common theme for this blog, misplayed a combo draw. Another common theme in this blog is the unreliability of memory. I remembered this hand taking place in the beautiful Salles Des Etoiles at Sporting Casino in Monte Carlo in 2024; the problem is, when I dug into my notes, I realized that while I remembered the location correctly, I misremembered the date. This hand, per my notes, took place in May, which means it did not happen during Triton Monte Carlo 2024 but during EPT Monte Carlo 2024. Nevertheless, I ran all the sims and wrote up a blog.

Next week, we will return to Triton 2024. For those interested, I am running out of punts from this trip, which means I will be blogging about my hand vs. Mr. Korzinin quite soon, but for those that care about the lore of this blog or my internal consistency, this is “technically” a violation of the Monte Carlo Monday concept.

EPT Monte Carlo 100k 2024, 2k/4k/4k (SB/BB/BBA)

It folds to Kayhan (400k) who raise t8k, I (200k) call 7♠️5♠️ in the SB, Sirzat (400k) calls in the BB

Flop (28k) 8♣️8♠️4♦️: I check, Sirzat checks, Kayhan bets 7k, I call, Sirzat, calls

Turn (49k) K♠️: I check, Sirzat checks, Kayhan bet 25k, I fold, Sirzat folds