Saturday, February 19, 2005
It's a Kind Of Magic.....
....How to turn a big stack into 11th.....
How I got to 60000. £20 PLHE event. 82 runners. £7700+ pool. 1000 starting chips.
Had no joy in rebuys and never won a hand until freezeout. Even then I was down to 700 with 50/100 blinds. Get 77 and raise and have to call allin after bb reraises. 4 to flop A73 A on turn. Amazingly bb KK and I am back in the hunt. Get 33 and limp in. Flop A35 and bb has A7 and doubles me up.
Antes up to 200/400 and I get JJ. Guy on right raises pot I reraise, foe on myleft reraises but I'm pot committed with 900 left. He has KK first raiser AQ. Flop A....J!!!...A...I sweat two blanks and treble up.
I get AA...raise into 4 limpers, all pass. Next hand AA again and same happens all pass. I get AT and raise. One caller Flop T98 He goes allin for 3000. I have 20000 and call. He turns over QJ. Oops! Turn A river A and i fill up....
I get up to 20000+ and get AJ in bb...one limper and button raises. I call with limper...25000 in pot. I see flop J4x Go allin. Limper has A4 and calls 12000 allin. Raiser has AK and passes. Turn K...good bet! and I am on 55000. I get AA next hand. AK man raises I reraise and he says I'm nicking and passes. I am now on 62000, 370000 chips in play 19 left in and I've a "final table " stack. How can I mess this up?
Well....I get 99 and call two allin guys. Initial raiser has QQ and other AJ. JJ on flop and I lose both pots. We are now 13 left with 6 on our table. I have 30000 with 2K/4K blinds. I lose 18K in blinds with seriously bad cards. We get 11 handed. It is offered to take £100 off top for 11th. 10th pays £150. I'm not keen but agree. I then get QJ in sb. All pass I raise 6000. BB reraises allin. I pass after long think. He shows KQ.
I get to 10000 after posting bb. QT suited and button raises. He has me covered. I call as I'm dying a death by ante. He has QJ flop AAQ no miracle to save me and I'm out.
Took the £100 into the cash game and managed to spin it up. My stats for live play in 2005 are now -£300 tournies plus £500 cash games in 4 visits. Maybe I should go to the cardroom at midnight when the cash games start :)
How I got to 60000. £20 PLHE event. 82 runners. £7700+ pool. 1000 starting chips.
Had no joy in rebuys and never won a hand until freezeout. Even then I was down to 700 with 50/100 blinds. Get 77 and raise and have to call allin after bb reraises. 4 to flop A73 A on turn. Amazingly bb KK and I am back in the hunt. Get 33 and limp in. Flop A35 and bb has A7 and doubles me up.
Antes up to 200/400 and I get JJ. Guy on right raises pot I reraise, foe on myleft reraises but I'm pot committed with 900 left. He has KK first raiser AQ. Flop A....J!!!...A...I sweat two blanks and treble up.
I get AA...raise into 4 limpers, all pass. Next hand AA again and same happens all pass. I get AT and raise. One caller Flop T98 He goes allin for 3000. I have 20000 and call. He turns over QJ. Oops! Turn A river A and i fill up....
I get up to 20000+ and get AJ in bb...one limper and button raises. I call with limper...25000 in pot. I see flop J4x Go allin. Limper has A4 and calls 12000 allin. Raiser has AK and passes. Turn K...good bet! and I am on 55000. I get AA next hand. AK man raises I reraise and he says I'm nicking and passes. I am now on 62000, 370000 chips in play 19 left in and I've a "final table " stack. How can I mess this up?
Well....I get 99 and call two allin guys. Initial raiser has QQ and other AJ. JJ on flop and I lose both pots. We are now 13 left with 6 on our table. I have 30000 with 2K/4K blinds. I lose 18K in blinds with seriously bad cards. We get 11 handed. It is offered to take £100 off top for 11th. 10th pays £150. I'm not keen but agree. I then get QJ in sb. All pass I raise 6000. BB reraises allin. I pass after long think. He shows KQ.
I get to 10000 after posting bb. QT suited and button raises. He has me covered. I call as I'm dying a death by ante. He has QJ flop AAQ no miracle to save me and I'm out.
Took the £100 into the cash game and managed to spin it up. My stats for live play in 2005 are now -£300 tournies plus £500 cash games in 4 visits. Maybe I should go to the cardroom at midnight when the cash games start :)
# posted by redsimon @ 5:43 AM 
