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Tales of the Honeybadger
Honeybadg:
APT at the Fox
111 runners with 14 re-entries @ £500+45 - 20,000 chips - 45 levels.
Summary levels 1-6 - played well hit plenty - double the average or more.
Some of the play in these levels was amazingly bad ...
Cue TT into Ax99T vs A9 ... A9 bets the river ... TT calls and sighs ... cue 2 mins of explaining he has won the hand ...
Levels 7-11 : Unbelievably card dead - though played and missed every suited or connected hand.
In fact in the whole day no AA,KK,QQ,AK.
The player to my right had been playing some super loose and spike hands so very keen for him to double me up! Infact I had position on the "aggro" players for most of the day but really wanted a proper hand to re-shove.
Level 12 - last of the day - choose a spot - AJs shove not called - and finally the 66 re-shove called by the Q2s ... and only one winner there. It"s my classic exit hand - I had one chance earlier to re-shove KJs (my "favourite" exit hand of 2011) but in the zone of no pairs or better than ATs for 5 levels I elected to wait ... marginal and frustrating ...
Managed to net +£195 at Blackjack in the mini breaks!
L
Swinebag:
--- Quote from: Honeybadg on January 29, 2012, 12:50:32 PM ---
Cue TT into Ax99T vs A9 ... A9 bets the river ... TT calls and sighs ... cue 2 mins of explaining he has won the hand ...
--- End quote ---
you weren"t in this hand then? (or did you have A9)
Honeybadg:
I wasn"t in the hand ... make"s it harder to suss a table when people don"t understand how the hands rank ... (or what hand they have)
Oddly the lady with the A9 later had a race with JJ vs KQ ... into 89xTQ and thought she had lost ...
It really was a weird table -I am kind of gutted I didn"t get any hands to play in the middle section.
I had a chance to call a re-shove for 30BB when I had 80BB with AQ but on balance decided better spots to choose ... then no cards for 5 levels ... the re-shover was new to the table but then re-shoved with T9s called by AA ... the T9 won ... and of course now a reasonably big stack ... his next trick was to call a re-shove from a tight player with A3 vs KK ... Ace on the river ... It"s a bit unplayable ...
With more info it"s an insta-call - but with no info his limp UTG could be strong (could have been strong) ... It"s good to play these things but really need a lot more time to play enough to get rid of all this volatility.
L
Honeybadg:
Cue TCOOP 46 - Sunday Warm Up.
A good start then AA into 9845 vs 55 ... lost the min.
Then rivered two pairs vs the rivered straight ... lost just about the min ...
I then shoved Q9s into A7 no help ...
I guess this is the type of hand I might have been shoving yesterday - albeit didn"t see many Q9s hands!
Obviously a case for re-shoving with trash to induce folds but would want to be suited/connected and none of that in the middle.
Genting seems a long way away - will be a stronger field although I guess enough qualifiers who strange ideas - looking forward to it.
L
Honeybadg:
Genting Tour - Main Event - Leg 1
Made day 2 with dust (10BB) - not the aim but really no sensible spots to shove on the last level of day 1.
First two hands A9 and AQ shoved through and shown - so up to 15BB and in a tiny bit better shape.
Elected to not push 22 UTG (correctly as it happens) ...
But got killed in ridiculous fashion ... I am the BB with AJ (no SB) ... BB is 1600 ... Antes 200 ...
Late position elects to limp ... obvious shove for me ... pretty quick call with Q8s ... I don"t mind him shoving that ... but limp call??
It"s kind of pointless - but of course only one winner in the scenario ... 8 on the turn ...
Pretty disappointing would have been back to 34,800 - playable at 800/1600 (200)
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