Watch me choke - Party $20+2 MTT #33775

[Saku]

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I'm at Table #4, name of Zer0Signal. Slightly below avg. stack. 38 players left out of 660, my best placement yet.

Critique/cheerleading/uproarious laughter welcome.

[Sam T.]

Go, dog, go!

I stumbled into 8th place in my 3rd ever MTT - it's a pretty cool feeling, eh?

Play aggressive, play to win. Make sure you would be proud to post every hand on this site.

[Saku]

Messed up chasing a low straight with pocket 6's (Villian had the higher one), but just doubled up on AQo v. ATo. Back in this thing.

[Sam T.]

Watching now. GL.

[AtlBrvs4Life]

I lost that tournament in 104th. I was in BB with T7. One limper who limped for 1/4 of his stack. /images/graemlins/confused.gif SB was also in. Flop is 10 7 3 for top two pair. I push all-in, limper calls, SB calls. Limper turns over 33 which he limped with for 1/4 of his stack and SB turns over A10. Next hand I get AKs go all-in get called by 99, he flops a 9 and I'm out.

[Sam T.]

Min-raise? What did you have?

You had to think turner would go all-in.

[Saku]

Half-assed blind steal with A9o. I've seen her hang on to the bitter end more than once, only to double-up on crap. You're right though, probably should have come stronger.

[Sam T.]

Stealing from short-stacks is tough, just because after they post, they're pretty much pot committed. You just want your bet to make sure the SB folds.

Now I see you're on Tilt from EP. Good luck!

[Saku]

I'm uh...teaching them respect? /images/graemlins/smile.gif

A8s, ATo, now A9o.

[Sam T.]

Should be TallThinWeakMan. Can't believe he folded.

You are on fire!

[Sam T.]

I love your position - nobody at the table can bust you.

[Saku]

Thanks for the support. I'm playing pretty much my best and haven't suffered a real bad beat since level 3 (jinx jinx jinx).

[Sam T.]

TT. Sweeeeeeet!!!

Gotta go. Good luck! Make sure you post the results!

[uw_madtown]

Go Saku Go!

Watching the almost-big stack. I think he owes us a full report if he makes the final table. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

- uwmadtown

[ethan]

(with 18 left) I'm amazed you got the big stack to lay down preflop with that min-raise to 20,000. What'd you have?

[Saku]

AKo is what I raised Shamrock with, just fyi.

[ethan]

raising 75K to win the 6K blinds might be a bit of overkill, but nice work so far /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[AtlBrvs4Life]

What did you just have that you reraised with and folded to a 1/10 of the pot bet?

[Piiop]

Why did you min-bet the flop on the hand that DKpker was all-in on preflop?

[Saku]

KTs. Asstastic play. I have to calm down and stop trying to bust the short stacks.

[AtlBrvs4Life]

What was that guy thinking? Put his massive stack all-in preflop with KQo?????????????? He called all-ins with practically any two.

Edit: I am really surprised at how bad the play is at this final table. It is a $20 tournament, but come on.

[ethan]

I'm not too fond of the min-reraises preflop. I've seen you do four of them so far, and two of those hands ended up costing you a lot of chips. If you're going to reraise, I like being a bit more aggressive about it. (As I typed this out, I saw you being more aggressive. Good work getting your stack back.)

[Piiop]

Nice AA hand. Don't you love that? Also, isn't it great when other people bust out before you?

Vnh AQ vs QJ. You're running great.

Quick question, why the frequent all-in preflop?

Looks like you've got a lock on at least 2nd.

[ethan]

This is one of the fastest final tables I've ever seen. It's ridiculous.

[uw_madtown]

Great job Saku! 2nd place, rock on man!

- uwmadtown

[Saku]

Oh well, thought I had the better kicker or that he was on a straight draw. Thanks all for the support /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Will do the trip report later tonight.

[ethan]

congrats on the finish man /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[AtlBrvs4Life]

Nice job. I'm looking forward to my first final table even more now.