Tournament Reports
Chiptalk Tourney Thursday night went well. I managed to finish 7th and 7th overall for the quarter to get to play in the Quarter Tournament of champions this Thursday. Bonus prizes have been added for 1st place with $70 worth of gift certificates and a 300 piece clay chipset. Back to back wins are hopefully in the works!
Last night I played the Chiptalk side tourney where I found KK in the big blind. UTG had raised and had been a loose raiser but has me covered. It folded to me and I decided to just call since I was down to about 1150 chips at 25/50. So the hand:
UTG raises to 150...folds to me in BB with KK, I call.
Flop 965 rainbow.
I bet 200 into a 325 pot, hoping to get raised.
UTG calls.
Turn is J of spades putting 2 spades on the board.
Maybe I should have just bet out, but I figured he still didn't have much so I checked, planning to check raise.
He bets 300, I check raise all in to 800ish chips.
He calls with AT of spades and hits the spade on the river.
I'm out 14 of 15.
Oh well.
I then decided its been a while since I've played a big tourney so I got in the $11 rebuy and addon at 10:15PM. The rebuy period didn't go well. Get all in with 88 vs Q5 and board double pairs AA499 giving me an 8 kicker and him a Q kicker. So frustrating. I rebuy and get it all in with AQ against 88, 55 and K4. No love for me, I rebuy again. I'm at 1600 chips at the break. I take the add on for 2000 more chips.
I now have $41 invested in the tournament. My 3600 chips slowly builds up to almost 10k at the 100/200 level.
At 150/300 I get AA in the SB. Folded to me and BB is hyperaggressive. I decide to limp, and as usual, he raises. I have him slightly covered and I really want to get all my chips in here because I know how nutty he is. So I smooth call and flop comes QJx. I check, he pushes all in, I call. He shows KT, gets no help and I have a nice healthy stack around 17k.
I didn't make any big mistakes until around the 400/800 mark. I was sitting with about 40k chips and I have QQ UTG. I raise to 2400. MP guy calls, button pushes all in to 11000. I thought about it and had seen him push in this same position with TT or JJ. MP guy has been tricky so I decide just to call in case he does have a monster and decides to push here. He calls which does not make me happy.
Flop comes T85. Check, check.
Turn comes A. Check, check.
River comes 2. Check, he bets 6k into a 35k pot. Ugh. I figure he has the ace but the pot is too big and other guy could still have some other mid pair.
I call, he has AJs (wtf who calls those raises with that).
Button shows KK and I'm down to about 24k.
I work my way back up to about 30k.
A little while later I get QQ in the SB. Guy in MP min raises to 2400. I reraise to about 8000. He calls. Q64 flop. I lead out half the pot and he pushes all in. I call. He has AQ and I double up.
I got my stack as high as 70k at the 600/1200 level, but I couldn't build after that unfortunately. I fluctuated a little here and there but I never won any more big hands. I got into the money with 180 players left around 2am and had about 65k chips.
Mostly just buying blinds from here on out and at 3k/6k I had about 36k chips and pushed with ATo, got called by AQ and I was done. I finished 104th for $80 ($39 net win) about 4 positions from an extra $40 :( Oh well. One of these days I'll get closer to that 1st prize (which was about 18k last night!).
That's about it here. May the flop be with you!
Last night I played the Chiptalk side tourney where I found KK in the big blind. UTG had raised and had been a loose raiser but has me covered. It folded to me and I decided to just call since I was down to about 1150 chips at 25/50. So the hand:
UTG raises to 150...folds to me in BB with KK, I call.
Flop 965 rainbow.
I bet 200 into a 325 pot, hoping to get raised.
UTG calls.
Turn is J of spades putting 2 spades on the board.
Maybe I should have just bet out, but I figured he still didn't have much so I checked, planning to check raise.
He bets 300, I check raise all in to 800ish chips.
He calls with AT of spades and hits the spade on the river.
I'm out 14 of 15.
Oh well.
I then decided its been a while since I've played a big tourney so I got in the $11 rebuy and addon at 10:15PM. The rebuy period didn't go well. Get all in with 88 vs Q5 and board double pairs AA499 giving me an 8 kicker and him a Q kicker. So frustrating. I rebuy and get it all in with AQ against 88, 55 and K4. No love for me, I rebuy again. I'm at 1600 chips at the break. I take the add on for 2000 more chips.
I now have $41 invested in the tournament. My 3600 chips slowly builds up to almost 10k at the 100/200 level.
At 150/300 I get AA in the SB. Folded to me and BB is hyperaggressive. I decide to limp, and as usual, he raises. I have him slightly covered and I really want to get all my chips in here because I know how nutty he is. So I smooth call and flop comes QJx. I check, he pushes all in, I call. He shows KT, gets no help and I have a nice healthy stack around 17k.
I didn't make any big mistakes until around the 400/800 mark. I was sitting with about 40k chips and I have QQ UTG. I raise to 2400. MP guy calls, button pushes all in to 11000. I thought about it and had seen him push in this same position with TT or JJ. MP guy has been tricky so I decide just to call in case he does have a monster and decides to push here. He calls which does not make me happy.
Flop comes T85. Check, check.
Turn comes A. Check, check.
River comes 2. Check, he bets 6k into a 35k pot. Ugh. I figure he has the ace but the pot is too big and other guy could still have some other mid pair.
I call, he has AJs (wtf who calls those raises with that).
Button shows KK and I'm down to about 24k.
I work my way back up to about 30k.
A little while later I get QQ in the SB. Guy in MP min raises to 2400. I reraise to about 8000. He calls. Q64 flop. I lead out half the pot and he pushes all in. I call. He has AQ and I double up.
I got my stack as high as 70k at the 600/1200 level, but I couldn't build after that unfortunately. I fluctuated a little here and there but I never won any more big hands. I got into the money with 180 players left around 2am and had about 65k chips.
Mostly just buying blinds from here on out and at 3k/6k I had about 36k chips and pushed with ATo, got called by AQ and I was done. I finished 104th for $80 ($39 net win) about 4 positions from an extra $40 :( Oh well. One of these days I'll get closer to that 1st prize (which was about 18k last night!).
That's about it here. May the flop be with you!
i saw your bust in the ct side tourny...it was brutal. his response was that he was pot committed at that point...but wtf was he doing on that flop?
btw, i reraise preflop nearly 100% of the time there.
Posted by
Matthew Feldman |
8:55 PM