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