August 6 Live Tournament
I almost missed out on sunday's live tourney organized by T&I Poker. Some real life issues came in the way and I almost decided not to go. But then I made a good excuse to myself that since I left with a profit both times I went there before, not going over would be a mistake, right? The real reason offcourse was simply that I felt like playing some cards.
I think I were about 4 or 5 hands into the game where I found a nice opportunity to properly introduce myself to the other players. A nice pair of kings, and I think I was in early position. I limped in, got raised for something like 300, and a put in a very significant reraise. I'm not sure about the exact amount I reraised with, but it was a raise that he should have interpreted as "Bugger off, you're beat, just fold, hand over those chips and you can wait till you get nice cards again". But it seemed he wasn't listening at that moment so he called.
The flop was all rags, and thinking he could only have had a very high pocket pair, but definitely no aces, I wasn't going to show him the turncard. I believe I tossed in an orange chip then as continuation bet, which is exactly half our starting stack, or I simply went all-in, but atleast he folded. Though the move was just to let the table know I wasn't afraid of pushing my chips in early in the game.
The table I played at was pretty active, lots of aggressive players, most tight, some quite loose, and limping was something almost unheard of at our table. If you wanted to limp from early position, you could better already raise to atleast 4 times the big blind so you didn't have to bother reaching for your chips a second time. Tried to get a tight image myself so my steals would succeed better later on when the pots would be larger (which worked well since I never got moved to another table. Later on I managed to make some nice steals after completely missing the flop or reraising someone all-in preflop with J9 and stuff like that).
For the rest of the game I also didn't bother with slowplaying much. Slowplaying that day involved nothing more then waiting slightly longer then usual before tossing a bunch of chips in the pot. I definitely wasn't going to let the next card be cheap. Only once did I try a checkraise when I flopped the nut straight with 75o, on a board with two clubs, but since everyone checked it failed. Bet out strongly on the turn when the third club came to represent a made flush and luckily nobody actually had the flush so the pot was mine anyways.
There has only been one non all-in hand I've been involved in that went to the showdown before the final table, which was when a player reraised me to test if I were bluffing while he held nothing (only the turn gave him a great draw and he hit his runner-runner flush on the river. I knew I was most likely beat here but wasn't going to give the table the impression I could be bluffed of any made hand for such a small reraise, and was curious what he had, so I paid him off).
One nice hand was the hand that would be the last before the dinner break. I had 99 in the small blind, there was a standard raise from early position and about 5 or 6 people called. Flop came down 678. With so many callers I assumed I would atleast be against an overpair and possibly a set, and tons of draws. The pot was already quite big, and I didn't think a significant bet would make everyone fold, and since nobody wants to get busted in the last hand before dinner break I just tossed the whole package in there and got no customers.
When I had slightly over 2ok chips a new guy came sitting over at our table. Seems he had personally busted his old table or something and came looking for new victims, since he had a tray with about 100k chips. From the start he made it perfectly clear to the table who the chipleader was, and showed he didn't like to get bet into, playing and defending pretty aggressively (he eventually ended up 2nd in the tourney).
When he was sitting in the big blind and it was my turn I looked down at my hole cards and saw a nice pocket pair of jacks. Hoping he had a playable hand, I raised all-in right away, trying to double up here. The other people folded and he was considering to call me. Which was good since it meant he atleast had a decent hand, like a small pocket pair or two face cards. I also tried to talk him into calling by saying something along the lines off "Stop with that silly Sam Farha impression, everyone at this table knows that you are just acting like you actually got a hand, will count your chips for a minute, and then end up folding anyways". I don't think saying that actually mattered, he was probably just wondering if he had two live cards and if I would have an overpair, so he called with JQ. Jacks held up, and I doubled up there. Me and him got involved in a few other hands that ended up in my favor, so I got a nice portion of his chips.
Eventually I reached the final table with a good stack of chips (well, I was already there, I just had to move seats). This was going to be a long stretch for a final table, about two hours, because the play generally was very tight. Two players very early on pushed the table around by going all-in very often, taking down the pots most of the time, but after a while both of them got called by players who had enough of it. I think both times the callers had worse hands but managed to outdraw them. Then again, there's no luck or bad luck involved in poker. There are only good and bad outs.
One guy who had reached the final table (I think he ended 5th or 6th) had been quite good at hitting those outs at the right moment. A few hours before the final table he was down to about 1500 chips and still managed to make it into the prizes, quite an impressive comeback. Earlier on he was sitting directly to my left, and twice or thrice I didn't even try to steal his blinds, but he almost caught me in a bluff when he was seriously considering calling me with his middle pair (I had 63s, bottom pair on that board).
Played too passive myself myself on the final table, did some pushes with ace-rag or small pocket pairs to steal the blinds, and went all-in with K5o when the person in the big blind didn't have enough chips left to justify a fold, but other then that I didn't get involved in enough pots to allow my stack to grow enough to compete for the first place.
I still managed to finish third place myself, actually losing to one of my favourite late-position hands in no-limit, 7-5, and received a nice envelope with 540 euros.
Selfshine didn't make it to the final table today, but he won a sidegame at the tourney, a 20 euro sit-and-go, giving him 80 euro profit to cover the buyin. And since we always partly split the profit he received 200 euros from the profit, so this sunday earned me 280 euros to add to my bankroll.
Results: + $360
Bankroll: $1280
I think I were about 4 or 5 hands into the game where I found a nice opportunity to properly introduce myself to the other players. A nice pair of kings, and I think I was in early position. I limped in, got raised for something like 300, and a put in a very significant reraise. I'm not sure about the exact amount I reraised with, but it was a raise that he should have interpreted as "Bugger off, you're beat, just fold, hand over those chips and you can wait till you get nice cards again". But it seemed he wasn't listening at that moment so he called.
The flop was all rags, and thinking he could only have had a very high pocket pair, but definitely no aces, I wasn't going to show him the turncard. I believe I tossed in an orange chip then as continuation bet, which is exactly half our starting stack, or I simply went all-in, but atleast he folded. Though the move was just to let the table know I wasn't afraid of pushing my chips in early in the game.
The table I played at was pretty active, lots of aggressive players, most tight, some quite loose, and limping was something almost unheard of at our table. If you wanted to limp from early position, you could better already raise to atleast 4 times the big blind so you didn't have to bother reaching for your chips a second time. Tried to get a tight image myself so my steals would succeed better later on when the pots would be larger (which worked well since I never got moved to another table. Later on I managed to make some nice steals after completely missing the flop or reraising someone all-in preflop with J9 and stuff like that).
For the rest of the game I also didn't bother with slowplaying much. Slowplaying that day involved nothing more then waiting slightly longer then usual before tossing a bunch of chips in the pot. I definitely wasn't going to let the next card be cheap. Only once did I try a checkraise when I flopped the nut straight with 75o, on a board with two clubs, but since everyone checked it failed. Bet out strongly on the turn when the third club came to represent a made flush and luckily nobody actually had the flush so the pot was mine anyways.
There has only been one non all-in hand I've been involved in that went to the showdown before the final table, which was when a player reraised me to test if I were bluffing while he held nothing (only the turn gave him a great draw and he hit his runner-runner flush on the river. I knew I was most likely beat here but wasn't going to give the table the impression I could be bluffed of any made hand for such a small reraise, and was curious what he had, so I paid him off).
One nice hand was the hand that would be the last before the dinner break. I had 99 in the small blind, there was a standard raise from early position and about 5 or 6 people called. Flop came down 678. With so many callers I assumed I would atleast be against an overpair and possibly a set, and tons of draws. The pot was already quite big, and I didn't think a significant bet would make everyone fold, and since nobody wants to get busted in the last hand before dinner break I just tossed the whole package in there and got no customers.
When I had slightly over 2ok chips a new guy came sitting over at our table. Seems he had personally busted his old table or something and came looking for new victims, since he had a tray with about 100k chips. From the start he made it perfectly clear to the table who the chipleader was, and showed he didn't like to get bet into, playing and defending pretty aggressively (he eventually ended up 2nd in the tourney).
When he was sitting in the big blind and it was my turn I looked down at my hole cards and saw a nice pocket pair of jacks. Hoping he had a playable hand, I raised all-in right away, trying to double up here. The other people folded and he was considering to call me. Which was good since it meant he atleast had a decent hand, like a small pocket pair or two face cards. I also tried to talk him into calling by saying something along the lines off "Stop with that silly Sam Farha impression, everyone at this table knows that you are just acting like you actually got a hand, will count your chips for a minute, and then end up folding anyways". I don't think saying that actually mattered, he was probably just wondering if he had two live cards and if I would have an overpair, so he called with JQ. Jacks held up, and I doubled up there. Me and him got involved in a few other hands that ended up in my favor, so I got a nice portion of his chips.
Eventually I reached the final table with a good stack of chips (well, I was already there, I just had to move seats). This was going to be a long stretch for a final table, about two hours, because the play generally was very tight. Two players very early on pushed the table around by going all-in very often, taking down the pots most of the time, but after a while both of them got called by players who had enough of it. I think both times the callers had worse hands but managed to outdraw them. Then again, there's no luck or bad luck involved in poker. There are only good and bad outs.
One guy who had reached the final table (I think he ended 5th or 6th) had been quite good at hitting those outs at the right moment. A few hours before the final table he was down to about 1500 chips and still managed to make it into the prizes, quite an impressive comeback. Earlier on he was sitting directly to my left, and twice or thrice I didn't even try to steal his blinds, but he almost caught me in a bluff when he was seriously considering calling me with his middle pair (I had 63s, bottom pair on that board).
Played too passive myself myself on the final table, did some pushes with ace-rag or small pocket pairs to steal the blinds, and went all-in with K5o when the person in the big blind didn't have enough chips left to justify a fold, but other then that I didn't get involved in enough pots to allow my stack to grow enough to compete for the first place.
I still managed to finish third place myself, actually losing to one of my favourite late-position hands in no-limit, 7-5, and received a nice envelope with 540 euros.
Selfshine didn't make it to the final table today, but he won a sidegame at the tourney, a 20 euro sit-and-go, giving him 80 euro profit to cover the buyin. And since we always partly split the profit he received 200 euros from the profit, so this sunday earned me 280 euros to add to my bankroll.
Results: + $360
Bankroll: $1280
posted by Soultwister at
6:15 AM
2 Comments:
lekker hoor die 3e plaats jammer dat ik zo vroeg moest afhalen tegen de man met de "Good outs" zoals jij het noemt ;)
You think the finaltable was tight? That Cigarguy took on almost every hand...
You had some nice runs... I sat to the left of u.
Almost kicked u out.. but u hanged on ... with qk on the flop...
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