Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Enjoying my tourneys

Spent the last two days playing 6 sit & go's at once on stars. I moved up to the big $10 tables and have continued to show a profit. Although I'm not really in it for the profit at this point, mostly just fun, the profit obviously is nice. I threw in a few $20/$30 tables in the mix but didn't do that well. Even though 1-2 trials isn't much of a sample size, I can tell I'll need more concentration on the higher buy in games.

I just completed my best run of 6. Playing 4 - 9 person tables and 2 - 18 person tables. I got 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th on the 9 man tables and got 4th in both the 18 person tourneys, which is really disappointing since I was chip leader on both tables going into the final 5, a bunch of suckouts ensued ending with this gem where I ended up sucking out and still losing.

Seat 3: dmoney424 (3520 in chips)
Seat 4: CapnGunner (1210 in chips)
Seat 7: RikkiDee (9095 in chips)
Seat 9: RoJo8 (13175 in chips)
dmoney424: posts the ante 25
CapnGunner: posts the ante 25
RikkiDee: posts the ante 25
RoJo8: posts the ante 25
RoJo8: posts small blind 100
dmoney424: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RikkiDee [6c 7c]
CapnGunner: folds
RikkiDee: calls 200
RoJo8: calls 100
dmoney424: checks
*** FLOP *** [5h Ad 4c]
RoJo8: checks
dmoney424: checks
RikkiDee: bets 500
RoJo8: calls 500
dmoney424: folds
*** TURN *** [5h Ad 4c] [4d]
RoJo8: checks
RikkiDee: checks
*** RIVER *** [5h Ad 4c 4d] [8h]
RoJo8: bets 800
RikkiDee: raises 2200 to 3000
RoJo8: raises 2200 to 5200
RikkiDee: raises 3170 to 8370 and is all-in
RoJo8: calls 3170
*** SHOW DOWN ***
RikkiDee: shows [6c 7c] (a straight, Four to Eight)
RoJo8: shows [4h As] (a full house, Fours full of Aces)
RikkiDee said, "hah"
RoJo8 collected 18440 from pot

I am fully aware of the fact that when the board is paired your straight/flush may not be good, and have been burned on it many times before, and I would usually just call his reraise. But against this opponent, it was very possible that he was playing something as weak as an ace or maybe a 4 like this. He had a VPIP > 70% according to my newly installed poker tracker, and was overplaying the shit out of everything, so I truly thought my straight was good, oh well even fish can get monsters.

One of the best hands I had was this one, where I had the semi-dream scenario of holding KK on the 2nd hand of a low buyin tourneys where the fish are easily caught.

Table '15198346 1' Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: CakeBatter (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: Hustler923 (1490 in chips)
Seat 3: msgolfer (1480 in chips)
Seat 4: NimCross (1500 in chips)
Seat 5: snakecheck (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: beachlife (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: BigNards84 (1530 in chips)
Seat 8: RikkiDee (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: kuivabo (1500 in chips)
msgolfer: posts small blind 10
NimCross: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RikkiDee [Ks Kd]
BigNards84 is connected
snakecheck: folds
beachlife: raises 40 to 60
BigNards84: folds
RikkiDee: raises 240 to 300
kuivabo: folds
CakeBatter: folds
Hustler923: folds
msgolfer: folds
NimCross: folds
beachlife: raises 400 to 700
RikkiDee said, "crap"
RikkiDee said, "i cant fold em"

(for the record I've never folded KK preflop, and I would almost never give my opponent credit for them especially in a $10 game, but his betting was way too suspicious, I almost did it, well not really)

Hustler923 said, "go got it"
RikkiDee: raises 800 to 1500 and is all-in
BigNards84 is disconnected
beachlife: calls 800 and is all-in
RikkiDee said, "damn it"
RikkiDee said, "i knew it"
*** FLOP *** [8h 8s 6d]
*** TURN *** [8h 8s 6d] [Kc]
*** RIVER *** [8h 8s 6d Kc] [Kh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
beachlife: shows [As Ah] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
RikkiDee: shows [Ks Kd] (four of a kind, Kings)
Hustler923 said, "wow"
RikkiDee said, "hahaha"
RikkiDee collected 3030 from pot
msgolfer said, "wow"
RikkiDee said, "running quads"
RikkiDee said, "not bad"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3030 | Rake 0
Board [8h 8s 6d Kc Kh]

I'll take it I guess, and as a lesson that aces can happen. I still can't imagine folding in that situation, and calling is clearly just stupid. I'll take the chance that I'm against aces, surely it will pay off in the long run for all the times they have queens, AKs, jacks etc...

Oh I went on to win that tourney, can't win without at least one suckout right?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

can't be afraid of one hand that can beat u.
Jo Say

3:44 PM  

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