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pokerpops:
--- Quote from: Erimus on July 11, 2012, 00:26:44 AM ---
You should stop hitting sets, seem to recall some fish doing a similar thing Sunday night ;).
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lol - indeed
played last night, despite planning not to
entertaining in the extreme
Hand 2, young Luke raises pre, I small 3-bet with K 10o
flop 10 high two spades he bets, I shove
he calls with K6ss and obvioulsy gets there
CHIPS!
Hand 3 there"s a 3way allin (not involving me) and by hand 6 two of us have taken the rb and addon...
It calms down after that (well, calms down a little) and I have a run of cards KK twice, AA twice, AK a few times. I raise 26dd and flop is 345ssx :)
I get loads of raises and c-bets through and yet, somehow or other, I bubble
4th
FML
to be fair, I donked off a chunk in SB an unraised pot when my 103ss flopped a flush draw and BB shipped behind my check with bottom pair...
I can should fold here but it was 24k to call to burst the bubble, give me c50% of chips in play 3handed and I had 28k back - but there were so many potentially better spots to come where I could take his chips.
after that I went to shov/fold mode. chipped up a bit but eventually random guy (who had earlier 4bet shoved A4ss and cracked AA) called me with K4s - can"t really fault the call given my range, but his "I"ve folded this hand twice to your all in" suggests that he wasn"t putting me on a range....
flopped OESD and bricked
I could should have finished the job last night. I didn"t because I made an expensive mistake late on. That"s happening too often and I need to stop it!
This isn"t in crystal clear HD - but is nonetheless a classic
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYLMTvxOaeE[/youtube]
pokerpops:
Finally!!
Managed to finish the job in the £15+£15 at G last night.
Three very new players, one is a lifelong friend of Matt Frankland (yeah, I had to ask too, but he"s a big hitter online and has a decent set of live results too). Happily his talents haven"t rubbed off on his friend, his friend"s dad, or his friend"s dad"s mate. Unless his major talent is getting there in unusual ways and then overbetting the pot to let you know he has.
Got very lucky vs Brian "fossil" Harland aka Erimus. Called a small raise from a comfortable stack and picked up a baby flush draw and an OESD. We got it in with him having just the flush draw reducing me to just 6 outs. Happily one of them rolled off on the river.
Later I got even luckier. Although I got a teensy bit unlucky first having AK in late position when one of the youngsters who has only just doubled up to have 14bigs open shoves and flips over AA. No miracles, but it was a minor setback at that stage.
Youngster has lost a few and open shoves utg 6 handed for about 8BBs. UTG+1 overshoves for around 20BB, one fold and back to me with QQ
I call, and here"s the luck...
The player in the seat to my left, with a stack of around 15BB, decides that the action thus far suggests that he"s going to be behind. He folds KK...
On their backs and QQ>JJ>A7cc
Great fold fella
Got heads up pretty quick with a decent chiplead, around 170k - 100k. It evened out a little then I went back into a decent lead until he took a very strange line which ended with him all in on the river of a 4c 10s Js 9d Ac board
I rule out the Ace having paired him up, I"m pretty sure he raises any ace pre.
Two pair? Bets weren"t big enough to represent that, given that that would rule out a flush draw for him.
A jack or a ten? Maybe, but it felt like a missed flush draw so I made the call with Ks 9d. He instantly announced "good call" and showed 3h 5h for absolute air. Much respect to him, and maybe I"m just not good enough to understand what he was repping.
A win and now it"s a week till my Day1 of the DTD Grand Prix. Maybe I"m beginning a run of runnning good again?
pokerpops:
Rungood vanished on Sunday.
As did, it seems, my playing ability. I had a lot on my mind on the day having driven to Northampton to get the car loaded up with the stuff Dad wanted to take with him at the start of his new life.
No excuses though - I just played badly and ran into a lot of people making hands. I raise QQ get two callers and a 10 10 8 flop which one of the callers donks out on...
At the last hand before the first break utg raises and I have around 4000 left which I shove with 10h 3d, he calls with 99 and I bink a 10 first card out and hold.
After the break I am card and spot dead and eventually I get to shoving over an utg raise with ad1 5d and get snap called by the mighty Ac 9c which holds
So I fire a second bullet (did I mention I won three Golden Chips?) and try again. Re-entering late in level 5 I have some successes but eventually I find 4c 4s and shove over an ep raise
he snap calls with the mighty Ac 9c and obviously an Ace arrives on the turn. Ah well, it meant I was back at Dad"s by 1am and got a whole five and a half hours of sleep before driving to London and shifting all the stuff into his berth.
I decided to take my third and final attempt on Tuesday and it all went much better.
Ran golden - second or third hand I played having arrived about 5 minutes in I raise JJ and flop a set, I check, he bets, I call. Blank turn, I check, as does he, river is another blank and I pick up 2200 in chips but drop a single 100 momentarily before the other three chips. Nobbish opponent cries "string bet" and the ruling goes against me so he gets to call and see the total strength of my hand for just 100. Not happy with the ruling although he claimed he would have folded to the full 2200 so I made 100 extra..
Knocked him out a while later when I raised Qd Jd to 900 at 200/400/25 and he shoved for another 2225 with J 10,
the board ran out 4c 3h Kd 10d ad1 to give me my first live Royal Flush.
Raised AJ and saw a flop of JAJ vs someone who had KJ and paid me a full double up. Chk/chk flop, I led turn, he raised I 3bet he called and then called my river shove for about 60% pot.
Called a raise with 89 and flopped a pair, turned trips, rivered quads and having called a bet on the flop I led the turn and river and got paid
Have posted a hand on the analysis board from late on and will save stop with the boring stuff and cut to the end result
I survived to Day 2 as 5th stack from the night with 143000. Back on Saturday at 2500/5000/500
pokerpops:
1873 entries, probably c1500 players, 11 left...
3pm, my ante of 10,000 and big blind of 80,000 will leave me with 520,000
It"s all complicated by my view on the value of the Golden Chip and a reluctance generally to ladder.
I suspect that by 3.10 I"ll either be out, or have a more usable stack
duke3016:
--- Quote from: david3103 on July 29, 2012, 11:47:25 AM ---
1873 entries, probably c1500 players, 11 left...
3pm, my ante of 10,000 and big blind of 80,000 will leave me with 520,000
It"s all complicated by my view on the value of the Golden Chip and a reluctance generally to ladder.
I suspect that by 3.10 I"ll either be out, or have a more usable stack
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