| 1 | 5-Sep | Fri | 14:30 | $215 | NL Hold'em [6-max] | $1,000,000 |
6-Max NLH Mtts are fastly becoming my favorite and most successful tourney genre, stars WCOOP opener had 7,217 players but to my shock 30 minute levels! I guess I shouldn't be suprised and I have played them last year but still i was expecting a Sunday Mill type thing and instead it was very well structured. 3k starting chips tho and 5 hours till the money meant it went fairly quickly. 6-Max tourneys do seem to go quicker because you are forced to be more active than full-ring.
What made this tourney a pretty easy ride was not just the time my 88 stacked JJ pf or my a6 donk over shove stacking ATss bvb but also the large field meant there was as much dead money as the Sunday Warm-up....if not more given that more US donks may make an effort to play it.....whereas the Warm-up may too early on Sunday morning for some hung-over beer-legend donks....(thats just a crazy theory but probably true).
Anyway thanks to the above point and my frequency of playable hands and boards I was able to get into a good grove from the start and felt like my pace was pretty consistent all the way through.
I did have alot of interesting hands but the one that stuck out the most was the beat I received just before moving table:
I had 25kish which was above average and we had about 800 left, 1080 cashed.
-A weak Spaniard who had been fairly nitty and weak post flop (rarely stabbing or even raising pf!) did his standard open-button-limp. The blinds were 200-400 and although BB was on 50k I felt like he hadn't been out line to warrant folding any 1 gap connectors, in this case 24os.
Flop was 358ss: we all check.
Turn: Ad BOOM!
>I bet 1200
>Spanish button reraises 2.5xish
I feel like he's too bad to guarantee he will bet river for me, and I don't want any scare cards to come that will prompt me to lead river and thus risking only a call from villain:
>so I raise another 2.5xish
>Villain stacks....
... shows A3os and sure enough hits a river 3!
I get moved table and am a little soar because I'd let him limp that button all day, only once putting him in with T8os only for him to show TT.
Anywho I won 2 tosses on my new table and was back up to 30k in no time.
Another spot that was interesting was when I had a mini card rush and took down blinds a few times, then raised button to 999 with AQos blinds still 200-400.
Even stack of 30k 3-bets to 3999 and I'm basically ready to snap-4bet/Shove when BB comes in for a 4-bet shove of 12k.
I really still want to get it in here regardless because the sb has created enough dead money for AQ be a profitable call against BB range. Had BB had more chips this spot becomes an easier fold because it is a bigger proportion of my stack and the dead money becomes irrelevant. Also I feel that an average player has to have 99+AQ+ with a larger stack. In this instance BB has a perfect stack size to shove plus an ideal button2bet>SB-3bet scenario to squeeze.
However despite all this analysis I opt to give up my 999 on the grounds that I do not close the action with a call and that I do not know enough about SB to make it definate that he can't have a hand. Also AQ is still pretty sick because now the times I am in a 2/3way allin AK,QQ+ become a significant part of my opposing hand ranges.
Either way I feel like I have a headache with this spot and I now have lost all my FOLD Equity which was a good part of my insta-4betting line that had originally been planned for the SB Villain.
2-1 odds are obviously too short for SB Villain who elects to fold and I am left feeling a little annoyed that I hadn't gone with it but just feel that AQ is number 1 hand players are going to give up easiest because it is crushed so much and needs to catch to win the times that it isn't.
So my final hand was a couple later. I decided that with the blinds now 300-600 I was going to 3-bet a button opener.
PokerStars Game #20176128738: Tournament #200800001, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level X (300/600) - 2008/09/05 19:40:27 ET
Table '200800001 645' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: roeveld (21163 in chips)
Seat 2: horryclutch (5805 in chips)
Seat 3: Showtime1603 (44455 in chips)
Seat 4: BBQbowser (16565 in chips)
Seat 5: Bassysaffari (28939 in chips)
Seat 6: dinidani (26878 in chips)
roeveld: posts the ante 50
horryclutch: posts the ante 50
Showtime1603: posts the ante 50
BBQbowser: posts the ante 50
Bassysaffari: posts the ante 50
dinidani: posts the ante 50
BBQbowser: posts small blind 300
Bassysaffari: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Bassysaffari [Ks Th]
dinidani: folds
roeveld: folds
horryclutch: folds
Showtime1603: raises 1000 to 1600
BBQbowser: folds
Bassysaffari: raises 3000 to 4600
Showtime1603: calls 3000
*** FLOP *** [9h 4c 2h]
Bassysaffari: bets 7600
Showtime1603: calls 7600
*** TURN *** [9h 4c 2h] [Ac]
Bassysaffari: bets 16689 and is all-in
I maybe didn't take enough time to think this through....(even though c-betting seems standard).
Showtimes call on flop seemed like a draw or a weakish 9x. I was probably done with the hand until the Aces dropped and I see an opportunity chip up to 40k with a shove. Also I'm not devastated if I bust here as the $ I want is a good 700 players away and i will need to find some better spots than the one I'm faced with to double up again.
He snaps and shows Deuces for a set.
post analysis of the hand would suggest that this is a rash shove. At the time I felt like my C-bet could be floated by Showtimes stack and that it could be draw/9x. However if I'd taken more time to think I could have perhaps realized that he was more likely to shove all of his value/semi-bluff range here. He should also know that a good player probably isn't going anywhere after putting in 30% of his stack and I should have seen this as strength, even though at the time I took this to be hearts that he wanted to peel the turn with before committing against my pair+ and thus the reason I had initially shoved the turn.
As usual the sick thing in this spot is even though I can't put him on 22 my instincts still tell me I'm behind and that I am going to get snapped, weird ay?
I felt calling 22/44 was a little bad here if he assumes that I will bet most flops and that he can only play back against me 12.5% of the time when he does make a set. So thats 87.5% of the time i win in theory and the times I flop massive I can maybe check and induce him to commit more money.
I don't really feel like he can have 99 here, I reckon he has to be shoving over a lot preflop, maybe I'm wrong, but my 3bet doesn't look a lot like AA/KK and I am have been active enough for 99 to be a 4bet every time.
Perhaps I should just be folding my KT>then calling>then 3-betting, i.e my line started with worst decision.
Anyway a cash 1/1
or 1/2 cos i did play:
| 2 | 5-Sep | Fri | 16:30 | $215 | PL 5-Card Draw | $100,000 |
But seeing as I had to ask someone at the table about strategy (which he declined, cunt) then I think this was more for fun. Weird game, I did do some in-tournament-research on 2p2 and I can already see that there is an interesting dynamic that seems to be simillar to NL-Single Draw which I will deinately have to study up on. Still PL 5CD has some very interesting poker aspects but i busted with 777xx 2-draw to a made flush allin preflop which was my bad. I drew 2 which I think is identical to holding one and drawing one (unless you put ur opponent on ur pat high card such as an Ace or King and thus some outs are dead, im not sure) either way it looks like its about 9-1 to fill, something like that...anyway fuck it. I doubt i'll play that again.
But despite my Bluff-out of the 6-max its a positive start to the WCOOPs, I have already cashed more than I did in whole of FTOPs (0$)!
Limit Holdem and Triple Draw tomorrow, yuck, sleep till Sunday? hmmm
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