So, i decide to go in TS and play the deepstack tourneys. The last time i was here, i didn't really get anything going, and really didn't feel that confident about how i played. Yesterday was a totally different thing. I started off the day on a table where pretty much nothing happen for the first 2 hours. I got up to 12K, then back down to 10K, and stayed pretty steady for a while. I really didn't pick up anyhands. This is the only interesting one in the early levels.
Blinds 50 - 100, UTG limps(old man that limps alot), other guy limps, i look down at 4c 6c on the button, and limp, blinds limp. Flop comes 2d 4d 5c. Goes check check, UTG bets 200. Gets to me and I call, the rest fold. Turn 2s, He bets 200 again, so i call. River is 3d and he bets 500. I actually thought about this for abit, i fealt i had the best hand, but i guess he could do that with somekind of flush draw. On top of that, he's probably not calling me with anything i beat, i decide to call. He shows Ah 5h.
Now i get moved to another table and i haven't played a hand in about 5 rotations. I called once in the blinds with 66 after a raise and 3 callers. mucked the flop.
This hand comes up, 100 - 200 blinds, 25 ante. Early position raiser, tight player raises to 550, folds to me in the SB, and i call with 8h 8d. Guy in the big blind(steaming big time) calls. Flops comes out 7d 4d 2d. Now theres the about 1700 in the pot, and i want to find out if the preflop raiser has a big pair, so i bet 975, if i get raised by preflop raiser, i'm folding. BB shoves for 1000 more, so i obv call. He shows 7c 5d. In pretty good shape with a bigger pair and a bigger flush draw. Turn 7. River 3s. He wins. So now i'm down to 7K and i decide, if i wanna go deep in this, i gotta start making some moves because i'm not picking up hands.
The player to my right is a sick online player Agame18, or something like that. I know who he is, but he has no idea i know who he is. I use this to my advantage and i know he's going to be stealing blinds. Next hand is dealt and its folded to him, he makes it 550 to go, i said to myself, i'm re-raising here with any2 because i haven't raised a pot for like 1.5 hours and he has to respect me and he had been folding to re raises pre. I look down at Qh 8d and i make it 1325 to go. He snap folds, and i pick up the 1000 extra that i lost against the steaming guy.
Next rotation, still the same blinds, a guy thats been raising alot and seems to be kinda nervous, maybe playing a little out of his bankroll makes it 600, a guy thats been calling alot calls and the player on the button, if he had a big hand would raise there all the time, from what i had seen. I had like 8500 in chips and I decided that i'm chipping up in this spot, picking up 2000 chips. I look down at Ad Jh which makes it a little easier, i make it 2900 total. They all fold and the initial raiser says, your hand has to be better then 10 10.
Next hand i play, same guy raises to 600 UTG, UTG+1 calls, and i call with Kd Qd on the button, BB calls also. Flop comes Ah Jc 6s, they all check really quick and i bet 1550 into about 2500 and they all fold. UTG +1 says, "worst played Kings ever"
Now i've been raising maybe once or twice by rotation and pretty much taking it down preflop, and just making a follow up bet and winning. I get dealt 5c 6s and the player that raises alot, but doesn't call alot(doesn't really protect his blinds is in BB) so i pick on him and raise to 1125 at 200 - 400 blinds with 50 ante. This time he decides to call. Flop comes out 10c 9s 2h. He check to me, i bet 1775 and he thinks and calls. Turn is Ad. Just by the look on his face, i can tell he doesn't like the card, and i'm thinking he called me with like something like J 9 and he put me on AK, AQ. Now the pot is about 6000 and he checks nad i bet 3800. He folds and very frustrated.
The next hand i played, tight player raises 3 spots from the blinds to 1100 (same blinds as previous hand) same player that was calling alot before calls again, and i look down at Qc Jc in the BB and call 700 more. Flop comes Ah Ad 5c. Now, i know that i might want to take a stab on this pot on the turn if no1 bets the flop. I take about 5 seconds shuffling my chips and decide to check my Ace(thats what i want to make them think). They both check pretty quick. Turn is 7h. I fire out 1350 into the pot of about 3800 and they both fold.
Next hand i played, well didn't really play it, but i've been giving away my blinds pretty easy, because i don't really need to get too involved because i'm getting away with everything at this table. Even though, i would consider 3 players, really good players. So a good player raises my BB for like hte 3rd rotation in a row. Blinds 250 - 500, 75 ante. He hasn't really been re raised at all when raising blinds of people, he raises 1500, and i look down at Js 5c and decide to take a stand and stop him from raising my blind, i raise to 4100 and he folds right away.
I don'T know if you noticed, but i showed 1 hand during this whole time, and built my stack from 7K to 24K without showdown, and without really making a hand. Now i know this doesn't always work out, but i must say it fealt pretty good to be in this spot without showing down anything.
The next hand i played, is when the BB is sitting out, at 300- 600 blinds, 75 ante. I'm UTG, and i raised to 1600 with Ad 9d. I know i might get played back at, but i'm taking 1675 if i get lucky and no1 picks up anything. It gets to a shorter stack and he thinks for abit, a few seconds and shoves it in. It folds back to me, my read on him when he shoved was that he wasn't very strong, and that he was making the shove light because the BB was sitting out and he probably identified that i was stealing alot. So the pot is 1675 + 1600 + 1600 ... roughly 4900 and he shoves for 7000 more. I know A 9 is not a big hand here, but from my read, i didn't think he would of even thought about shoving with AK AQ. I just don't think he has me dominated. He would obv snap shove with 9's and up. I'm thinking he probably has something like KQ or a small pair.(I just had a very stong gut feeling) So i call, and he show 55. I win the race and i'm up to about 34000.
The very next hand, a tight player that hasn't raised in Ages raises to 1600 and i look down at Ad Qd. Now, i'm never folding this for 1000 more in the BB. He has about 8000 behind. I start thinking of the posibilities and decide to raise it up, i know i'm pricing myself in, i'm just hoping he has something like JJ and lower, or just using his image to fold(i actually fealt that i was beat, but couldn't put myself to folding AQ preflop, this is probably the only hand of the day where i really didn't feel comfortable with my play, i wish i would have folded preflop, but that would just be too sick.)He goes all in and show QQ, flop is Jc 8d 7d. Now that i see this flop, theres no doubt in my mind that i was putting this guy all in on the flop, when i have 2 overcards to the board with a flush draw. I missed and he doubles, and i'm right back down to 24 000 ish.
Pretty soon after, the table breaks and i get moved into Fishbones old seat where he just busted about 5 minutes ago.
He talks to me about the players at the table, so that i knew what was going on when i sat down. I sit down, and i put this info to use right away. I pick up Kc Jd in the cut off and make is 2100 at 400 - 800 blinds, 100 ante. SB calls and the rest fold. The flop is Ks 9d 2d. He leads for 3000 and has 4775 behind. Adam had just told me that he had never seen this player lead without having it. Now i go in the tank and try to figure out if this guy would flat call with AK or KQ in that spot. He's an old man, and i know they don't really raise that much with AK, so after being in the tank for a minute or so, i said "sorry guys, this is a big lay down" and i showed my K J and everyone just lost their minds when the old man showed AK. I guess he wanted to tell me i was sick. After having the info i had though, i'm not that sick.
The next hand, a lady joins the table, and usually a lady is pretty tight, and i pick up XX UTG + 1, and i make it 2100. The player with the big stack at the table, insta raises to 6100 without really thinking about it. He looked weak to me, and Adam told me that this guy, if he notices you raise alot, will re raise you. I put all this info together, and it got back to me and I shoved it all in. Now the pot, with his 6100, my 6100 and the antes and blinds is about 14400 and i'm pushing 17900 more for him to call. I knew that i had enough to not give him 2 to 1. He goes in the tank and finally tosses 20 000 in the pot(he had about 30 000 more left behind) while turning his head. I said, "i really thought you were re raising me weak" he responds "i was", then i said, "do you have a pair", he says "no", so i said, well, coin flip, he shows 6s 7s. I show 3 3. I think this was a rediculous call. Board comes out 8 10 J, so he has 2 overs with the gut shot, turn is 7. Im now looking for the 9 to chop, but i mise.
GG me. I really think i played really really good. The hands that i posted here are pretty much everything i played. I didn't post a hand when i raise with K 9 and hit a K Q J flop and get the auto fold on the follow up bet. I think thats almost the only flop i hit.
This day was a little crazy, i didn't pick up AK once, i had KK early and i took the blinds at 25 -50, did the same thing with QQ at same blind level. My biggest pair was 88 for the rest of the day, and i limped once with 55 and folded after missed flop. I finish about 70th out of about 240 peoples. This is just to say that i'm really confident in my game at this point, and can't wait to get back on the tables.
The 2nd tournament last about 20 minutes for me when i couldn'T lay down a big hand like a donkey.
UTG makes it 150 at the FIRST blind level, i wake up with Kc Kh, and make it 400 to go, and UTG calls. Flop comes Kd Qs 9c, He checks, i bet 550 into 875, he makes it 1550. Now at this point, i say to myself, does he raise J 10 UTG, and would he check raise with the absolute nuts on a rainbow board. May i remind you, we are playing 5 handed. So i call the 1000 more. Turn is 7c. He bets 2500. I think for abit. I say to myself, it looks more and more like he has the straight, but he could have like KQ or 99 and be playing it like that. Who knows, he could have QQ and just flatted there preflop. I say to myself, well, if he has it, he has it. If he doesn't, i'll let him bet on the river. I call, river is 6s. He goes all in for 6000, well i have 5500 left out of my 10 000 starting stack. I question myself if he would do that with with the staight, or would he bet like 2500 - 3000 just to make sure i call. I call, and he shows Jd 10d. I'm done.
GG me ... let me know what you think of that last one. Kinda weird one. I must say that my gut was telling me to fold, but i said to myself, if he doesn't have it, i have a big stack early and i can take advantage and play aggresive and probably build a nice stack early instead of grinding my stack up for hours and busting around 9 hours of playing and not cashing. Not that it would happen, but chances are, thats going to happen since theres only 15 peoples cashing out of 170. On the bright side, i finished in 1rst, 170 out of 170. HAHAHAH
Until next time ...
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
I love poker
Since my last post, i've basically bubbled all the big tournaments i've played. I finished like within 50 from the money in all the big tournaments, Ftops, the sunday Mil, and sunday tourneys on FT. Cost me about 2K in all of those. I feel like i've gotten too tight as of late and too pasive. I'm working on being back to my aggresive game.
On a positive note, i played a tournament at Lonestar - 20$ buy in with a rebuy. I ended up not rebuying. I actually ended winning the 24 man tournament for about 300$ and chopping the Last longer bet.
I fealt good the whole time, and alot of those players had no clue how to play a tournament. My table was just limping like everyhand. I got a couple funny/interesting hands that came up.
We are 7 handed,blinds 100 - 200, Utg limps, next guy limps, Mike limps, i limp with 22, button is 2700 deep and makes it 1200 to go, blinds fold and UTG limper calls, rest fold. The flop comes 7d 4d 2d, UTG fires 1000 into pot of about 3100, Button shoves for 700 ... yes 700 more and UTG folds Qs Qc face up. The button shows As 10c. Now this hand is just funny, not only for what happen, but for what would have happen if the Button limps instead of raising. Hands were :
SB Kd 5d
BB : 4 4
UTG: Q Q
UTG +1 : ??
Mike : 8d 9d
Me : 2 2
If we limp, theres 2 people who flop set, and 2 people that flop flushes. And if QQ would of had a diamond, i'm sure it could have been a pretty crazy pot, since everyone just always calls. To finish this hand, we ran the turn and river and the cards were 7 4 2 7 7. Which made QQ the winner. The eventual winner of the hand was the only player to not have a pair or better.
I laid one of the sickest beats i've ever put on someone. I raise in Early position with Ad Qh to 1550 at 300 - 600 blinds. Player to my left calls and leaves himself with about 3500. Now i only know a couple players in this tournament that can play, and i honnestly give this guy like any pair or any Ace to call there(thats just how bad its been). So theres 4000 in the pot, and i have about 12 000 left. Flop comes Kc 2d 5s. I just decide to shove and judging by the players all night, he's going to fold alot of hands. Well, for some odd reason, he decides to call with KK. My response was "Well, i got chance", Turn 10s. I then proceded to say "Jack me" and the river brought a Jack. LOL about a 3% chance of me winning that.
I basically just took control of the tournament from that point on. I would raise 50% of hands and took down most pots right there. Eventually, they would shove but they would be so short that i had to gamble with my 7 2 off and obv would hit 2 pairs. So yeah, was pretty much a cake walk. I really have to get back into the live game, i made so many mistakes with the chips and raise sizes because i couldn'T get used to the chip value.(didn't help that the genius running the thing decided to have white and purple chips as 1000 chips)
I ran really good and busted probably 10 - 12 peoples out of 24. (busted 7 of 8 on the FT)
I made one call, i'm not too sure what i think about it, but it worked out. We are 3 handed, blinds 1500-3000 and button folds, SB(he seemed to be a poker player and knew what he was doing) completes and i check with 9d 5d. Flop is Jc Jd 5c, he checks, and i bet 4000 and he shoved for 13700 more. now theres 14000 in the pot. I was trying to figure out what he had. I don't think he would go all in with the Jack because he would wanna let me bet again on the turn. I couldn't put him on medium PP because i'm pretty sure he raises those. He could have a huge pair, like AA or KK maybe even QQ. He could also have something A, K high which i would assume is probably good there most of the time. He could also have picked up a flush draw or even have a 5 also. I came to the conclusion that he was making a move on me and that he thought i had air. I had been stealing so many pots in that nature that i thought it justified me calling there. If i called, i had about 40 K left in chips, that would put us about even, but if i'm good, i basically win because the other player has only about 10K left. I called and he tabled 22. He said he tried to trap me preflop. I'm not too sure what to think about the play. I know i was raising alot, but i was taking flops out of the big blind alot when i had nothing. For his play to work, i have to raise preflop, but not a large amount so that i would be priced in. I won the hand, and won the next hand for the win.
Was only a 350$ win. But it still fealt kinda good even though it was a pretty weak feild.
That is all .... GG
On a positive note, i played a tournament at Lonestar - 20$ buy in with a rebuy. I ended up not rebuying. I actually ended winning the 24 man tournament for about 300$ and chopping the Last longer bet.
I fealt good the whole time, and alot of those players had no clue how to play a tournament. My table was just limping like everyhand. I got a couple funny/interesting hands that came up.
We are 7 handed,blinds 100 - 200, Utg limps, next guy limps, Mike limps, i limp with 22, button is 2700 deep and makes it 1200 to go, blinds fold and UTG limper calls, rest fold. The flop comes 7d 4d 2d, UTG fires 1000 into pot of about 3100, Button shoves for 700 ... yes 700 more and UTG folds Qs Qc face up. The button shows As 10c. Now this hand is just funny, not only for what happen, but for what would have happen if the Button limps instead of raising. Hands were :
SB Kd 5d
BB : 4 4
UTG: Q Q
UTG +1 : ??
Mike : 8d 9d
Me : 2 2
If we limp, theres 2 people who flop set, and 2 people that flop flushes. And if QQ would of had a diamond, i'm sure it could have been a pretty crazy pot, since everyone just always calls. To finish this hand, we ran the turn and river and the cards were 7 4 2 7 7. Which made QQ the winner. The eventual winner of the hand was the only player to not have a pair or better.
I laid one of the sickest beats i've ever put on someone. I raise in Early position with Ad Qh to 1550 at 300 - 600 blinds. Player to my left calls and leaves himself with about 3500. Now i only know a couple players in this tournament that can play, and i honnestly give this guy like any pair or any Ace to call there(thats just how bad its been). So theres 4000 in the pot, and i have about 12 000 left. Flop comes Kc 2d 5s. I just decide to shove and judging by the players all night, he's going to fold alot of hands. Well, for some odd reason, he decides to call with KK. My response was "Well, i got chance", Turn 10s. I then proceded to say "Jack me" and the river brought a Jack. LOL about a 3% chance of me winning that.
I basically just took control of the tournament from that point on. I would raise 50% of hands and took down most pots right there. Eventually, they would shove but they would be so short that i had to gamble with my 7 2 off and obv would hit 2 pairs. So yeah, was pretty much a cake walk. I really have to get back into the live game, i made so many mistakes with the chips and raise sizes because i couldn'T get used to the chip value.(didn't help that the genius running the thing decided to have white and purple chips as 1000 chips)
I ran really good and busted probably 10 - 12 peoples out of 24. (busted 7 of 8 on the FT)
I made one call, i'm not too sure what i think about it, but it worked out. We are 3 handed, blinds 1500-3000 and button folds, SB(he seemed to be a poker player and knew what he was doing) completes and i check with 9d 5d. Flop is Jc Jd 5c, he checks, and i bet 4000 and he shoved for 13700 more. now theres 14000 in the pot. I was trying to figure out what he had. I don't think he would go all in with the Jack because he would wanna let me bet again on the turn. I couldn't put him on medium PP because i'm pretty sure he raises those. He could have a huge pair, like AA or KK maybe even QQ. He could also have something A, K high which i would assume is probably good there most of the time. He could also have picked up a flush draw or even have a 5 also. I came to the conclusion that he was making a move on me and that he thought i had air. I had been stealing so many pots in that nature that i thought it justified me calling there. If i called, i had about 40 K left in chips, that would put us about even, but if i'm good, i basically win because the other player has only about 10K left. I called and he tabled 22. He said he tried to trap me preflop. I'm not too sure what to think about the play. I know i was raising alot, but i was taking flops out of the big blind alot when i had nothing. For his play to work, i have to raise preflop, but not a large amount so that i would be priced in. I won the hand, and won the next hand for the win.
Was only a 350$ win. But it still fealt kinda good even though it was a pretty weak feild.
That is all .... GG
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Staying pretty even
So, its been a while since i last posted. Not much has happen really. I haven't been playing as much. I've been kinda busy with alot of things and school and work.
I actually haven't really had anything big happen in a while. Just made an FT in a 109$ 6 max on FTP last week or somethign and made like over 3K. I made another FT on Friday/Saturday, 26$ buy in on FTP. I got 4th for like 700$. The nice part is that when we were down to about 50 players, i had 416 in chips and the blinds were 200 - 400. I got it in with 6s 3s and floped open ended with a flush draw and hit the straight for the comeback. Yada yada yada .... 20 minutes later, i was chipleader.
I also played a couple FTOPS events. I played the 216$ 6 max one. I didn't really ever get anything going. I busted with a missed draw and a guy made a sick call on me. I had Ks Qs, J 10 3 with 1 spade. Check, check, turn was 6s and i check raised him and he called. River was a blank, and i shoved and i got called by 55.
Played the 1K with Krissy and we got past about half the field. Lost a pot because of the timebank on FT, we were about to bet but we were forced to check because we had used all our time to make a decision. We missed with Ks Qs .... lol ... thats the same hand as the other FTOPS tourney, i just noticed now. Flop was As 10h 3s. We busted later with about 10 BBs. We shoved with J 4 after the UTG limped(he limped like everyhand), and everyone else folded and we were in the SB. We were picking up around 1100 chips when we had 3300 total. He had AK and we didn't hold. GG
Besides that, i've been trying to get back to playing lower buy ins. I think i need to practice abit with bigger feilds and deeper stacks because i feel out of place when i get deep in the tournaments with like 1000+ peoples. I will need to get this down if i wanna go deep in SM again.
I'm thinking of going to TS for the Deepstack. I'm pretty sure i'll be there for most of the tournaments, probably only going to play one or 2 of them, again, depending on how i'm doing and feeling with my game during the week. I really wanna play cash games. I feel that i've been playing really good, but constantly having losing sessions.
Anyways, i'm out ... back to Guitar HERO 3
I actually haven't really had anything big happen in a while. Just made an FT in a 109$ 6 max on FTP last week or somethign and made like over 3K. I made another FT on Friday/Saturday, 26$ buy in on FTP. I got 4th for like 700$. The nice part is that when we were down to about 50 players, i had 416 in chips and the blinds were 200 - 400. I got it in with 6s 3s and floped open ended with a flush draw and hit the straight for the comeback. Yada yada yada .... 20 minutes later, i was chipleader.
I also played a couple FTOPS events. I played the 216$ 6 max one. I didn't really ever get anything going. I busted with a missed draw and a guy made a sick call on me. I had Ks Qs, J 10 3 with 1 spade. Check, check, turn was 6s and i check raised him and he called. River was a blank, and i shoved and i got called by 55.
Played the 1K with Krissy and we got past about half the field. Lost a pot because of the timebank on FT, we were about to bet but we were forced to check because we had used all our time to make a decision. We missed with Ks Qs .... lol ... thats the same hand as the other FTOPS tourney, i just noticed now. Flop was As 10h 3s. We busted later with about 10 BBs. We shoved with J 4 after the UTG limped(he limped like everyhand), and everyone else folded and we were in the SB. We were picking up around 1100 chips when we had 3300 total. He had AK and we didn't hold. GG
Besides that, i've been trying to get back to playing lower buy ins. I think i need to practice abit with bigger feilds and deeper stacks because i feel out of place when i get deep in the tournaments with like 1000+ peoples. I will need to get this down if i wanna go deep in SM again.
I'm thinking of going to TS for the Deepstack. I'm pretty sure i'll be there for most of the tournaments, probably only going to play one or 2 of them, again, depending on how i'm doing and feeling with my game during the week. I really wanna play cash games. I feel that i've been playing really good, but constantly having losing sessions.
Anyways, i'm out ... back to Guitar HERO 3
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