In The Money
I played in the Chiptalk.net Thursday night tournament as usual. tonight is the first tourney of the new quarter. After last night's crappy play in the $11 R&A, I wanted to make a good showing and that I did.
I caught a set against AA early and doubled up I 3 bet all in. I continued to build up a nice stack and then got someone with a slightly smaller stack to get all his chips in against my AA. I was in the top 10 the whole way and top 3 as we hit the final table of 9. I managed to win a big pot with KQ and became the chip leader with 7 left.
I feel like I played very well and only really made one mistake. I was the chip leader and tried a blind steal. BB called who was a tricky player. He check raised me on the flop when I probably should have checked. Not really much of a mistake but I lost 3500 of my 17k chips on that hand. I managed to get them back and top 5 got paid. With 3 left I was short stack with 16k against 20 and 25k and I got my chips in with the best hand:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t800 (3 handed) [url=http://poker-tools.flopturnriver.com/Hand-Converter.php]Hand History Converter Tool[/url] from [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com]FlopTurnRiver.com[/url] (Format: FlopTurnRiver)
Button (t24781)
SB (t20256)
Hero (t16463)
[b]Preflop:[/b] Hero is BB with Q[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif[/img], T[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/heart.gif[/img].
[color=#666666][i]1 fold[/i][/color], SB completes, Hero checks.
[b]Flop:[/b] (t1300) 3[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif[/img], 9[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif[/img], T[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/club.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](2 players)[/color]
[color=#CC3333]SB bets t1600[/color], [color=#CC3333]Hero raises to t4800[/color], [color=#CC3333]SB raises to t19406[/color], Hero calls t10813 (All-In).
[b]Turn:[/b] (t36319) 7[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](2 players, 1 all-in)[/color]
[b]River:[/b] (t36319) 8[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/club.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](2 players, 1 all-in)[/color]
[b]Final Pot:[/b] t36319
Results in white below: [color=#FFFFFF]
SB has 8s 7h (two pair, eights and sevens).
Hero has Qs Th (one pair, tens).
Outcome: SB wins t36319. [/color]
Oh well. Nothing I can do but sucks to lose that way. At least hit the straight if you're going to take me out. Not bad though.
I also managed to make $100 on Party while clearing the $100 bonus pending. So overall I made about $240. Too bad I can't do that every day. Hopefully one day I can :) Til then, may the flop be with you!
I caught a set against AA early and doubled up I 3 bet all in. I continued to build up a nice stack and then got someone with a slightly smaller stack to get all his chips in against my AA. I was in the top 10 the whole way and top 3 as we hit the final table of 9. I managed to win a big pot with KQ and became the chip leader with 7 left.
I feel like I played very well and only really made one mistake. I was the chip leader and tried a blind steal. BB called who was a tricky player. He check raised me on the flop when I probably should have checked. Not really much of a mistake but I lost 3500 of my 17k chips on that hand. I managed to get them back and top 5 got paid. With 3 left I was short stack with 16k against 20 and 25k and I got my chips in with the best hand:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t800 (3 handed) [url=http://poker-tools.flopturnriver.com/Hand-Converter.php]Hand History Converter Tool[/url] from [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com]FlopTurnRiver.com[/url] (Format: FlopTurnRiver)
Button (t24781)
SB (t20256)
Hero (t16463)
[b]Preflop:[/b] Hero is BB with Q[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif[/img], T[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/heart.gif[/img].
[color=#666666][i]1 fold[/i][/color], SB completes, Hero checks.
[b]Flop:[/b] (t1300) 3[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif[/img], 9[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif[/img], T[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/club.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](2 players)[/color]
[color=#CC3333]SB bets t1600[/color], [color=#CC3333]Hero raises to t4800[/color], [color=#CC3333]SB raises to t19406[/color], Hero calls t10813 (All-In).
[b]Turn:[/b] (t36319) 7[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/spade.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](2 players, 1 all-in)[/color]
[b]River:[/b] (t36319) 8[img]http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/images/smiles/club.gif[/img] [color=#0000FF](2 players, 1 all-in)[/color]
[b]Final Pot:[/b] t36319
Results in white below: [color=#FFFFFF]
SB has 8s 7h (two pair, eights and sevens).
Hero has Qs Th (one pair, tens).
Outcome: SB wins t36319. [/color]
Oh well. Nothing I can do but sucks to lose that way. At least hit the straight if you're going to take me out. Not bad though.
I also managed to make $100 on Party while clearing the $100 bonus pending. So overall I made about $240. Too bad I can't do that every day. Hopefully one day I can :) Til then, may the flop be with you!
