Almost a good showing
I played the $11 Rebuy and Addon Tournament last night at Pokerstars. After seeing Hit21Hit from PSO being on the leaderboard at Paradise, I took a look at some of the tournament tracking sites and holy crap. The guy has made like $60k plus since May playing the $30 and $100 R&A tourneys.
So I decided it is time for me to step it up a notch and start playing some of these bigger prize pool events more. First place for this one pays 13k and I've probably played in about 10 of them before and I've cashed once.
I started off not getting any hands to play. I managed finally to triple up near the end of the rebuy period when I got KK in against JJ and KQ. I then had almost 4k chips and the addon got me to about 6k.
I picked my spots here and there and was somewhere around 16k chips at the 400/800 level when this hand happened:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t800 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)
saw flop|saw showdown
Button (t71415)
SB (t29913)
BB (t16010)
UTG (t65448)
UTG+1 (t10845)
MP1 (t59550)
MP2 (t26652)
MP3 (t8680)
CO (t28480)
Preflop: Hero is BB with 2c, 5s.
UTG calls t800, 2 folds, MP2 calls t800, 3 folds, SB completes, Hero checks.
Flop: (t3200) Qs, 4c, 6c (4 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks, MP2 checks.
Turn: (t3200) 3s (4 players)
SB bets t2400, BB raises to t7200, UTG raises to t64598, MP2 calls t25802 (All-In), SB folds, Hero calls t7960 (All-In).
River: (t111160) Ad (3 players, 2 all-in)
Final Pot: t111160
Hero has 2c 5s (straight, six high).
UTG has 6h 6d (three of a kind, sixes).
MP2 has 3d 3c (three of a kind, threes).
Outcome: UTG wins t60080. Hero wins t51080.
After that I called a couple raises and missed the flop. Then I tried to reraise a button steal with 33 out of the BB and he called. Flop came KQ8, I froze and checked and he bet big like usual and I folded. He was running over the table, I tried to make a stand and it didn't work, sigh. I then had about 37k chips left. I should have just called to try and hit the set. Instead I lost 1/4 of my stack.
Waiting for a hand I finally got TT with 27k chips at 1k/2k. I raised to 6k and another guy min reraised me to 10k. I call. Flop Q86. I didn't think I had the best hand but the pot was the size of my stack so I pushed and he called with AA. I luckily hit the river T and doubled up. He had the last laugh later though.
We got into the money and I was UTG with QQ and 67k chips at 3k/6k. I pushed and guy i had beaten earlier with my tens called his last 20k with AQ. He hit the Ace of course and I was down to 40k.
Next round I'm on the button with A8 and the CO open raises and I push. SB comes over the top all in, CO calls. CO has 99, SB has TT. Flop comes...Ace...9...7 and I'm screwed and the river is a Ten just to rub it in more. I finished 85th place out of like 1400 for $90. I maybe should have waited the orbit and moved up another pay level and hope for a better spot but I was tired and needed to either double up or go to sleep.
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I finished the Sun Poker promo for PSO. Now I just have to play 250 more raked hands for the August reload bonus. Hopefully I will get my Nevada Jacks set soon!
I'm going to play a live game today with a bunch of people in the area from Chiptalk.net. Hopefully it will be a lot of fun. $25 tournament of which $5 is a bounty on each person. Should get to see a lot of cool poker chips too.
So I decided it is time for me to step it up a notch and start playing some of these bigger prize pool events more. First place for this one pays 13k and I've probably played in about 10 of them before and I've cashed once.
I started off not getting any hands to play. I managed finally to triple up near the end of the rebuy period when I got KK in against JJ and KQ. I then had almost 4k chips and the addon got me to about 6k.
I picked my spots here and there and was somewhere around 16k chips at the 400/800 level when this hand happened:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t800 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)
saw flop|saw showdown
Button (t71415)
SB (t29913)
BB (t16010)
UTG (t65448)
UTG+1 (t10845)
MP1 (t59550)
MP2 (t26652)
MP3 (t8680)
CO (t28480)
Preflop: Hero is BB with 2c, 5s.
UTG calls t800, 2 folds, MP2 calls t800, 3 folds, SB completes, Hero checks.
Flop: (t3200) Qs, 4c, 6c (4 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG checks, MP2 checks.
Turn: (t3200) 3s (4 players)
SB bets t2400, BB raises to t7200, UTG raises to t64598, MP2 calls t25802 (All-In), SB folds, Hero calls t7960 (All-In).
River: (t111160) Ad (3 players, 2 all-in)
Final Pot: t111160
Hero has 2c 5s (straight, six high).
UTG has 6h 6d (three of a kind, sixes).
MP2 has 3d 3c (three of a kind, threes).
Outcome: UTG wins t60080. Hero wins t51080.
After that I called a couple raises and missed the flop. Then I tried to reraise a button steal with 33 out of the BB and he called. Flop came KQ8, I froze and checked and he bet big like usual and I folded. He was running over the table, I tried to make a stand and it didn't work, sigh. I then had about 37k chips left. I should have just called to try and hit the set. Instead I lost 1/4 of my stack.
Waiting for a hand I finally got TT with 27k chips at 1k/2k. I raised to 6k and another guy min reraised me to 10k. I call. Flop Q86. I didn't think I had the best hand but the pot was the size of my stack so I pushed and he called with AA. I luckily hit the river T and doubled up. He had the last laugh later though.
We got into the money and I was UTG with QQ and 67k chips at 3k/6k. I pushed and guy i had beaten earlier with my tens called his last 20k with AQ. He hit the Ace of course and I was down to 40k.
Next round I'm on the button with A8 and the CO open raises and I push. SB comes over the top all in, CO calls. CO has 99, SB has TT. Flop comes...Ace...9...7 and I'm screwed and the river is a Ten just to rub it in more. I finished 85th place out of like 1400 for $90. I maybe should have waited the orbit and moved up another pay level and hope for a better spot but I was tired and needed to either double up or go to sleep.
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I finished the Sun Poker promo for PSO. Now I just have to play 250 more raked hands for the August reload bonus. Hopefully I will get my Nevada Jacks set soon!
I'm going to play a live game today with a bunch of people in the area from Chiptalk.net. Hopefully it will be a lot of fun. $25 tournament of which $5 is a bounty on each person. Should get to see a lot of cool poker chips too.
