After shot taking went wrong and I was left to grind the rest of the day a cheeky little pot took place at one table. God knows how we both managed to get 2400$ in by the flop. Don't try this at home.
Monday, 29 September 2008
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008
WCOOP Discontent continues
Despite winning my first EVER MTT on a US site (i think) - Tuesday came and went without any WCOOP cashes.
A friend had started playing a 270 man 20$ PLO8 mtt which I proceeded to bust myself out of. In the process I ended up with 30k when average was 4k and 2nd in chips had 12k. Still I proceeded to crush the field and take down a well earned 970$. It was nice to play in an MTT where people where making so many more mistakes than I was used to in 100r and it raised the thought that perhaps I should be playing lower stake MTTs if I am going to Final table a much higher percentage of them Maybe I should at least play the 50$ 80k at 8pm when I do play full time.
Realizing that I had never won an US MTT made me really focus on FT and made the money irrelevant so I was essentially playing for pride.
It was too be a good day for me as I also won an MTT sat to the 2-7 NL event to practice (or learn) my play and made the money in 1000+ plus field in the 100r where I decided to take what i read to be a cointoss with AQ v 99. I was gutted when I didn't hit and failed to make the top ten stacks but I guess I took the +EV option with the dead money and an above average stack to give me a good shot for FT.
A 3 day break before Tuesdays 500-500-500$ and the 500$ 2-7 WCOOPS did hep me regain focus and get some rest from the laptop.....even tho it new sleek Macbook pro!
I spent a lot of Tuesday studying 2-7 and playing Matt HU on stars.
The 500$ 1R+1A meant you effectively started with 16k in chips and looked to be a 1pm finish and it was pretty uneventful for me for the first 3 hours, giving me enough time to bust out the single draw.
I felt in the 2-7 that 5k starting stacks were quite short. The game is pretty active and I can't imagine this one went on for long. There were some strong players at my table who chipped up very quickly. I felt I was pretty card dead like I had been all day in the game and in the end I got pretty coolered.
My first sickner is when I limp called from early pos with a 8632 draw in an attempt to disguise my hand. I drew a 7 which I was prepared to broke with for my remaining 2k. I decided to lead out for half of it and got snapped by a fucking 86! The guy seemed to be a very strong player and I couldn't understand why he had decided not to put me in. Maybe he assumed that because I limp-called and then lead I had either a BLUFF or an 86+
Anyway more BS was to come after my first 8 of the day as I got it allin predraw holding a 2347
I drew a 9 he made an 86532 and seeing as he was worse than me he it seems very possible that he was drawing to a 86 or worse an 2356 which given straight blockers as well as the one in my hand makes that kind of a bad beat. Mind you I only had to draw bad and he will win there alot anyway.
The fact is that I love this game and I was gutted to bust out plus there was a 50k overlay meaning 1 in 6 cashed and I still couldn't convert.
The 500 1R+1A had a similar structure to the 10k event. I picked up AA 5 times and still managed to finish 200 out the money, with a lovely 260k for 1st place.
Despite having both Aakarii and Lee Nelson at my table (both who got owned by my AA) I missed to spots to become double average as i was surprised with how weak my table had been all night and became more convinced by the importance of paying attention to these players.
The first was when I called a midpos raier with ATdd. Maybe a 3bet here would have been better but I felt like I could outplay these guys post flop to the point whereby if I hit I would stack them.
A flop of T 8 2 seemed like it could have trapped me as I reraised his C-Bet and then snapped his shove. I felt like he has been pushing his draws hard and sure enough he had 97ss.
unfortunately for me it came 7 then 9 and I was crippled down to 6bbs. We had discovered that Villain was a low stake losing sng donk but had recently cashed in a WCOOPS event for 42k so that shits on my record.
I did manage to double up 3 times, thanks to Aakarii giving my AA a spin with his 33.
It was AA for the 5th time which was to be my downfall which I guess is mathematically probable.
I played it cute, calling UTG+1s raise (with few reads on Villain) knowing that one of the table donks had just been crippled down to 5k and would be most probably shoving anything and hopefully induce an isolation shove from the UTG+1.
It worked perfectly, I snapped, he had KQos and made 3 Queens. Bed time
Friday, 12 September 2008
2 More EPT seats
2 hard weeks of online poker have come to a semi-successful end.
My Friday night session followed Thursday nights with another top 80/350+ finish in the 100r although this time instead of losing a top 3 stack, I grinded an average stack before running k8cc into BBs ?? (can't remember) but I was behind. I simply shoved allin on button for 20 odd bbs and was snapped, thankfully he only took half my stack but its not like I can consider myself as UL as Thursday when I ran my 3bet AK into a cold 4bettors AA and then one orbit later managed to achieve the same feat with AQcc!
Anyway alot of my focus had been on my 3 step 6 tickets, one of which I had lost on Thursday and the other 2 which I played on Friday.
I found myslef at one point doing well in the rebuy, then an hour later 5 tabling the PLO and HU WCCOPs aswell as these 2 fucking steps.
Anyway the London Package was an important win for me because it gave my bankroll a much needed boost. The EPT Budapest was a nice bonus as I took down one of the 2 seats in a very very soft field of 10. I have never been to Budapest and now I have an excuse to leave the country....I wonder how much sunbathing I can do in November?
The HU WCOOPs was a little bit of a fustrating end as I managed my 4th bubble of the series, 2 cashes in 11 is pretty fucking horrible even if 2 were in 5cdraw and 7cSud.
I played DBL_J_22 and managed a huge spew of chips as I spoke to a friend on the phone. Then left with half my stack and facing a 4bet in my attempt of a 4th successful 3bet I decided to stack of with Q9os still with loads of play left in me and almost no FE. My genius thinking was that I may as well gamble here because if I could hit I would tilt him enough to win the match easy and thus make the money. I don't think my read was awful and Villain did have AK but if I had just started the match not on the phone then I would have had enough focus to play properly and not spew. If your ever on the phone in poker....get of it.....its -EV for definate!
My Friday night session followed Thursday nights with another top 80/350+ finish in the 100r although this time instead of losing a top 3 stack, I grinded an average stack before running k8cc into BBs ?? (can't remember) but I was behind. I simply shoved allin on button for 20 odd bbs and was snapped, thankfully he only took half my stack but its not like I can consider myself as UL as Thursday when I ran my 3bet AK into a cold 4bettors AA and then one orbit later managed to achieve the same feat with AQcc!
Anyway alot of my focus had been on my 3 step 6 tickets, one of which I had lost on Thursday and the other 2 which I played on Friday.
I found myslef at one point doing well in the rebuy, then an hour later 5 tabling the PLO and HU WCCOPs aswell as these 2 fucking steps.
Anyway the London Package was an important win for me because it gave my bankroll a much needed boost. The EPT Budapest was a nice bonus as I took down one of the 2 seats in a very very soft field of 10. I have never been to Budapest and now I have an excuse to leave the country....I wonder how much sunbathing I can do in November?
The HU WCOOPs was a little bit of a fustrating end as I managed my 4th bubble of the series, 2 cashes in 11 is pretty fucking horrible even if 2 were in 5cdraw and 7cSud.
I played DBL_J_22 and managed a huge spew of chips as I spoke to a friend on the phone. Then left with half my stack and facing a 4bet in my attempt of a 4th successful 3bet I decided to stack of with Q9os still with loads of play left in me and almost no FE. My genius thinking was that I may as well gamble here because if I could hit I would tilt him enough to win the match easy and thus make the money. I don't think my read was awful and Villain did have AK but if I had just started the match not on the phone then I would have had enough focus to play properly and not spew. If your ever on the phone in poker....get of it.....its -EV for definate!
A Great Laydown by Romanello?
Undoubtably one of the best ever televised laydowns, and pleased to see it done by a Brit. I guess this truely is a testament to the differences between live and online poker, and possibly the difference between most tournaments and the WSOP Main Event.
Folding JJ's full in this exact spot online is not only near impossible but i'm not even sure that
it would be considered that good?
I wonder if Roberto (who is a very good player) considered laying it down for the cameras? If its wrong its not such a big deal, if he's right everyone in the poker world will remember it for a longtime to come. It will go down as a memorable "play" in WSOP history rather than a memorable "blow up", arugument or drunken display that currently dominates the WSOP top 10 moments to remember.
What do I think? I think he layed it down because he definately thought he was beat. Villain is a bit of a donk so his reads are likely to be strong. I think even if Geller doesn't show he knows that he will "see it on TV later" but I also think that live players are more used to making these big folds. Online players play multable tournaments in a day and don't have to travel far for each one. Also they are averaging between 100-1000$ where as live players average 1000-10,000$ so theres more reward in doing so.
I bet if Geller did NOT show and the HH was posted on 2p2 90%+ would be advocating a call.
With about 4 live tournaments under my bet this year and 3 big ones coming up I should be looking to once again adjust my game to these sort of tests....
I am having flashbacks of last years EPT London where I was unable to fold KK against AA on a 5 high flop when Villain smoothed my 4bet preflop in position. I was able to check to him but unable to believe that I could ever lay this down against the Online LAG kid. A big lesson for me and hopefully this laydown will act as a timely reminder.
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
September: Rescheduled
A few adjustments have arisen because of clashes in WCOOP and WSOPE events.
I have decided to play the PLO event as well though I will concentrate from now until then on either playing live satellites or raising funds myself.
The WSOPE Main Event would be a very tight squeeze in between the PLO and EPT and would also require a satellite however I can safely say that I will add it in if I manage to get a good cash somewhere in the 20 million$ worth of prize pools! Having said that I will probably find even more ways to blow up before/just into the money.
I have decided that tomorrow night and next Wednesday will be late nights so may as well try and donk my way through the Stud games. Hopefully small field but then everyones chasing those illustrious WCOOP bracelets......??
I won't be surprised if the HU and PLO tourneys get scrapped this Friday, as i may be forced to board the Lash Train; destination Drunken City and no doubt stopping at Charlestown and hopefully no where else.......RESOLVVVVE!
Mind you work on Saturday (Steps) so will be forced to go and seeing as its a party in Hackney I may have to change the destination to Backstabbing Central....hopefully not.
Anyway heres the Schedule.
I have decided to play the PLO event as well though I will concentrate from now until then on either playing live satellites or raising funds myself.
The WSOPE Main Event would be a very tight squeeze in between the PLO and EPT and would also require a satellite however I can safely say that I will add it in if I manage to get a good cash somewhere in the 20 million$ worth of prize pools! Having said that I will probably find even more ways to blow up before/just into the money.
I have decided that tomorrow night and next Wednesday will be late nights so may as well try and donk my way through the Stud games. Hopefully small field but then everyones chasing those illustrious WCOOP bracelets......??
I won't be surprised if the HU and PLO tourneys get scrapped this Friday, as i may be forced to board the Lash Train; destination Drunken City and no doubt stopping at Charlestown and hopefully no where else.......RESOLVVVVE!
Mind you work on Saturday (Steps) so will be forced to go and seeing as its a party in Hackney I may have to change the destination to Backstabbing Central....hopefully not.
Anyway heres the Schedule.
13 11-Sep Thu 14:30 $215 NL Hold'em w/Rebuys $1,000,000
14 11-Sep Thu 16:30 $320 7-Card Stud $100,000
15 12-Sep Fri 14:30 $320 NL Hold'em [Heads-Up] $500,000
16 12-Sep Fri 16:30 $215 PL Omaha [1R1A] $300,000
17 13-Sep Sat 14:30 $530 PL Hold'em [6-max] $400,000
23 16-Sep Tue 14:30 $530 NL Hold'em [1R1A] $500,000
24 16-Sep Tue 16:30 $530 NL 2-7 Single Draw $200,000
25 17-Sep Wed 14:30 $320 PL Omaha w/rebuys $500,000
26 17-Sep Wed 16:30 $320 NL Hold'em [6-max] $500,000
WSOPE SEP 19 - SEP 22 Event 1 : No-Limit Hold'em £1,500 + 75
33 21-Sep Sun 16:30 $5,200 NL Hold'em Main Event* $10,000,000
WSOPE SEP 24 - SEP 26 Event 3 : Pot Limit Omaha £5,000 + 250
October 1-5 EPT London £5,200 + 200 500
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
Event 9: a lesson in trash talking
| 9 | 9-Sep | Tue | 14:30 | $215 | NL Hold'em [4-max] | $400,000 |
I played this event similtaneously with the 100r.
My starting table was very soft so for the first 3 levels I was able to really run it over.....something which I have not been able to say for a while on Stars.
Anyway i felt like I played really well in this one and I had a top 100 chip stack as we approached the bubble.
Then some suernitty 19 year old comments on how he is just trying to hold on for the money and this starts up a bit of friendly banter between all 4 of us. The nit says "come on you guys must have known what it was like at one point", me and multitummen2 agree with him and say we are only joking, Grunter321 seems incapable of being anything but an arogant twat and disagrees. Up to this point I felt like multitummen2 was a bit of a LAG and had caused me one or two problems when I had opened up UTG but eventually i did get him in one pot that i got him to bluff twice at. Grunter321 had played very very oddly I must say. Judging by his profile pic, which was a standard live pose with chips and cards of some tourney victory, (which did hit me as APPT or some EPT event because of the shirt which I assumed was a Pokerstars one) I gave him some credit. But some of the odd plays, including floating alot of flops OOP but never applying any pressure on later street apart from the time he spiked his horrible 6 outer and even then he was lost.
Anyway to get back to the story; I remarked on The Nits comments by saying that I had been able to sympathise with him recently when I played the 10k$ event as I was sort of concerned with making the money first before I even thought about the win because I was pretty tired and getting beat up everytime I opened up light due to my horrific table position. In this scenario I had made it an aim to chip up but also concentrate on making the money as it would be a great feat for me because it equals my biggest cash on Stars (which we know isn't amazing) and add to my growing confidence that has been building over the last 2 months that I have been playing highERstakes poker.
multitummen2 asks me when I mention the 10k event, which I know may sound like a brag (lol that I played not won a tourney) but which was said because I found it amusing that I had been in a simillar situation to this kid, and I told him that I had sattelited in on Sunday.
Anyway Grunter being the fucking cocksucker that he is starting quizzing me on WHY had I played it and that I was a losing player on stars (which I think I am by 700$, a buyin FFS, in MTTs but which I am quickly rectifying these past weeks).
And it was funny because since playing more in the daily 100r and other events, as well as steps and 3-6 to 25-50 cash games I have not heard any of the Bullshit chat from any players that I was so used to on Crypto in the shitty little multis.
So I ask him if I am actually a losing player still and he and his even twatier railbird are giving it all the chat, all the LOLing, and I have Matt railing me who is quick witted (he is a pro in this type of chat, even when we started 3 years ago) keeping my corner.
Anyway without boring you with the details there arose 2 significant finds after all this Bullshit.
1. I was playing a volitaile 4-max format and completely lost my game even though I was trying to tell myself not to. I busted out 20 mins later: firstly trying to crack this arseholes AK with Q9 when he 3-bet shove and I called with like 5k-8k pot odds and secondly having 77 v KK in which i limp-raised allin B V B so kind of a cold deck. However whilst I was getting trashed by this prick and his rail buddy it was obvious that the other 2 players were quite rightly taking advantage of this situation and stealing our blinds, where as I was alot more passive with theirs. I should have been focused to regain my chip advantage after making a questionable call with Q9 against a guy who was not going allin against me without a hand....but still probs mathematically close.
2. This Grunter321 has the kind of results that you would not be ashamed of as a poker player.
Firstly he won the Aussie Leg of the APPT in December last year for 750,000$ which is a great score. And secondly since then he has around 150,000k in online tourney winnings which is a pretty standard score for any good "online tourney pro", a score which I would like at the end of the WCOOPs or as soon as possible, but then again wouldn't we all LOL!
http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/grunter321
So this guy has had one brilliant tournament....something most of us just dream about and wonder when ours is going to come.
So the question is: since he has had a good score and can consider himself a pro, is he an arsehole to still be commenting about people losing players and being an arrogant bastard for thinking just because he won an event that he has earn't the right to do this?
I'd tell him one thing, and that is the reason he did not play the 10k$ event is because he is actually more -EV then I am. Its funny these fuckers who have one good score and thus the bankroll/sponsorship to have repeated chances are actually just average playing Aussie Meatheads who are so fucking cocky they will never have good banter with anyone cos they are so stuck up there own fucking arse and therefore detatched from everyone else.
I hope that when I win my triple crown this season I do not become like this.
Apoligies for that rambling, I may have to edit it at some point as, like most my posts, I am writing on my laptop at late hours with no spell check.
Anyway my 2nd cash from what should be seen as a positive WCOOP.
I did make a questionable play 40 out the money in 100r today when I tried isolationg tilting shortstack (JJ) via cold 4betting out the UTG opener with A8dd!
Just one of those things that in theory was ok but in reality I just knew knew knew I was a. getting called and b. by AK so annoying "radar swtched on but do it anyway things" that we all do.
I have started 4-tabling 3-6$ in an attempt to start taking poker as a proffesion more seriously. I have dusted off my 12-16k$ (varying, spun up roll!) on Full Tilt Poker and seeing as they won't let me deposit for some reason I will not be playing the crazy 25-50$ cash games anymore on there.
So my main aims are to grind from now on and continue to improve my MTT game via studying videos and also analysing my own hands.
I have also realised that the WSOPE event 1# is on September 19th so I will be "hopefully" missing the 500r and 1000PLO WCOOPs if not more. It just shows how much of a 100% online freak I have become. The thought of sitting through all those hands in a casino is putting me off. Also because I have played live poker about 10 times this year which should really be like 50-100 if I am to improve the "live" aspects of my game.
Monday, 8 September 2008
Events 7 and 8.
Monday night saw a predictable early exit from the:
I started real well but the temptation to play a big pot when my hands were drying up got the better of me.
I had 4kish and took a decision to gamble with a wrap against a set even with scary 2flush on board. My read was right and I was well live but I didn't hit. The fact that supper was ready and that I could eat without a laptop was a big part of my decision given that the break was a minute away.
Either way this event does not have deep enough stacks for my move ever be a blowup.
Thinking I was playing this for the novelty and that my fatigue would soon get the better of me could not have been more wrong.
Not only do I think this is an amazing tournament format but I even found myself fresh and eager at 2.45am.
Despite coming 290th out of 1128 with 168 getting paid I still exited with a smile on my face and mainly dissapointed I wasn't playing anymore because I was having so much fun.
The reason why the format is so good is that everyone knows their stregnths and weaknesses and so no one player can just run things over without splashing his stack around or just running like God.
Given that I rarely made a hand the whole tournaments and that I was forced to play some big NLHE and PLO rounds I can at least give myself credit for playing a solid game.
I only really want to touch on one hand which is my exit hand in RAZZ (pictured below).
Just it was a sick beat in that on 5th street the Villain had to catch runner runner on me. He improved to a 8-7 low on 6th but i now had 4 of his outs to in my hand leaing him with just 8 cards!! sure enough he did indeed spike a 5 and correctly bet it and i was left with just 600.
Hey....at least i got my money in real good. I think if i 3bet preflop he may fold when that Jack hits on 5th street because he can give me credit for a near lock. Or maybe he is just a tard.
So to sumarise my series so far I have cashed just once busted early twice in PLO and 5 Card Draw and finished just outside the money in this one, the 10k and Limit Holdem.
I'm not exstatic about this record but I am happy with the way I have played and the form I am showing and so I want to continue this momentum into my remaining 12+ events.
I think the good news is that the smaller events are out the way and that the bigger prizepools are nearer the end of the championship so the big money is still to play for. I'm only one event a day till fiday so good rest inbetween.....bullddOOZer ONne TIMMMmme!
| 7- | 8-Sep | Mon | 14:30 | $215 | PL Omaha [6-max] | $300,000 |
I started real well but the temptation to play a big pot when my hands were drying up got the better of me.
I had 4kish and took a decision to gamble with a wrap against a set even with scary 2flush on board. My read was right and I was well live but I didn't hit. The fact that supper was ready and that I could eat without a laptop was a big part of my decision given that the break was a minute away.
Either way this event does not have deep enough stacks for my move ever be a blowup.
| 8 | 8-Sep | Mon | 16:30 | $320 | 8-game Mixed Event | $200,000 |
Thinking I was playing this for the novelty and that my fatigue would soon get the better of me could not have been more wrong.
Not only do I think this is an amazing tournament format but I even found myself fresh and eager at 2.45am.
Despite coming 290th out of 1128 with 168 getting paid I still exited with a smile on my face and mainly dissapointed I wasn't playing anymore because I was having so much fun.
The reason why the format is so good is that everyone knows their stregnths and weaknesses and so no one player can just run things over without splashing his stack around or just running like God.
Given that I rarely made a hand the whole tournaments and that I was forced to play some big NLHE and PLO rounds I can at least give myself credit for playing a solid game.
I only really want to touch on one hand which is my exit hand in RAZZ (pictured below).
Just it was a sick beat in that on 5th street the Villain had to catch runner runner on me. He improved to a 8-7 low on 6th but i now had 4 of his outs to in my hand leaing him with just 8 cards!! sure enough he did indeed spike a 5 and correctly bet it and i was left with just 600.
Hey....at least i got my money in real good. I think if i 3bet preflop he may fold when that Jack hits on 5th street because he can give me credit for a near lock. Or maybe he is just a tard.
So to sumarise my series so far I have cashed just once busted early twice in PLO and 5 Card Draw and finished just outside the money in this one, the 10k and Limit Holdem.
I'm not exstatic about this record but I am happy with the way I have played and the form I am showing and so I want to continue this momentum into my remaining 12+ events.
I think the good news is that the smaller events are out the way and that the bigger prizepools are nearer the end of the championship so the big money is still to play for. I'm only one event a day till fiday so good rest inbetween.....bullddOOZer ONne TIMMMmme!
Sunday, 7 September 2008
WCOOP Event 5. 10,000$ NLHE with Video Highight
So the tourney started fairly well.
With 25k in chips and a 30 minute clock there is obviously no need to go crazy.
The thinking behind this first pot was that I had previously been 3bet out the blinds and had to lay down 99.
Villain played AK awfully, bloating a pot with just TPTK so when he did make 2 pair on river he had to stackoff and thus lost his early chiplead.
I lost the videos of the other 2 hands which i felt my opponents misplayed but here are the Hand Histories.
PokerStars Game #20228730925: Tournament #200800005, $10000+$300 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (400/800) - 2008/09/07 18:13:35 ET
Table '200800005 33' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: TillerMaN (17235 in chips)
Seat 2: TiltMeBig (18841 in chips)
Seat 3: TheTakeover (11350 in chips)
Seat 4: driverseati (14150 in chips)
Seat 5: Bassysaffari (59974 in chips)
Seat 6: MrSweets28 (28480 in chips)
Seat 7: TIJO (46375 in chips)
Seat 8: AMAK316 (14470 in chips)
Seat 9: sappy123 (45200 in chips)
TIJO: posts small blind 400
AMAK316: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Bassysaffari [Jh Qh]
sappy123: folds
TillerMaN: folds
TiltMeBig: folds
TheTakeover: folds
driverseati: folds
Bassysaffari: raises 1150 to 1950
MrSweets28: calls 1950
TIJO: folds
AMAK316: folds
*** FLOP *** [8c As 3h]
Bassysaffari: bets 2890
MrSweets28: calls 2890
*** TURN *** [8c As 3h] [2h]
Bassysaffari: bets 6750
MrSweets28: calls 6750
*** RIVER *** [8c As 3h 2h] [Ts]
Bassysaffari: checks
MrSweets28: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Bassysaffari: shows [Jh Qh] (high card Ace)
MrSweets28: shows [Td Kc] (a pair of Tens)
MrSweets28 collected 24380 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 24380 | Rake 0
Board [8c As 3h 2h Ts]
Seat 1: TillerMaN folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: TiltMeBig folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: TheTakeover folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: driverseati folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Bassysaffari showed [Jh Qh] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: MrSweets28 (button) showed [Td Kc] and won (24380) with a pair of Tens
Seat 7: TIJO (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: AMAK316 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: sappy123 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
So what do we really think about this hand??
.........?
And the tournament "make or break" Badbeat:
91k pot with Average at 30k!
PokerStars Game #20228844713: Tournament #200800005, $10000+$300 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (400/800) - 2008/09/07 18:17:57 ET
Table '200800005 33' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: TillerMaN (16035 in chips)
Seat 2: TiltMeBig (18041 in chips)
Seat 3: TheTakeover (11350 in chips)
Seat 4: driverseati (15350 in chips)
Seat 5: Bassysaffari (49584 in chips)
Seat 6: MrSweets28 (41270 in chips)
Seat 7: TIJO (47175 in chips)
Seat 8: AMAK316 (13270 in chips)
Seat 9: sappy123 (44000 in chips)
TiltMeBig: posts small blind 400
TheTakeover: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Bassysaffari [Qs Qh]
driverseati: folds
Bassysaffari: raises 1150 to 1950
MrSweets28: folds
TIJO: calls 1950
AMAK316: folds
sappy123: raises 5550 to 7500
TillerMaN: folds
TiltMeBig: folds
TheTakeover: folds
Bassysaffari: raises 11700 to 19200
TIJO: folds
sappy123: raises 24800 to 44000 and is all-in
Bassysaffari: calls 24800
*** FLOP *** [Tc 9s As]
*** TURN *** [Tc 9s As] [Kd]
*** RIVER *** [Tc 9s As Kd] [5s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Bassysaffari: shows [Qs Qh] (a pair of Queens)
sappy123: shows [Ad Qd] (a pair of Aces)
sappy123 collected 91150 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 91150 | Rake 0
Board [Tc 9s As Kd 5s]
Seat 1: TillerMaN (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: TiltMeBig (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: TheTakeover (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: driverseati folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Bassysaffari showed [Qs Qh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: MrSweets28 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: TIJO folded before Flop
Seat 8: AMAK316 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: sappy123 showed [Ad Qd] and won (91150) with a pair of Aces
So in the end I got a little tired and was nitting around with an M of about 12.
I did well to come back and made some good moves along the way.
I can't help wondering what could have been had I won that first pot but I also felt like I had a massive disadvantage playing so late. Hard to make plays when you start to tire.
Had I known I was playing this today I would have prepared whole weekend for it.
I went out in the end by just shiping 50k from sb with KJs v Inactive button who had just more.
Thankfully he showed 99 when he called and I just knew i wasnt going to hit a 17 outer on:
[Ts As 2s 6c Ad] Board and was gone.
Friday, 5 September 2008
WCOOP: Day 1
| 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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