Super Tuesday Sweat & Moan Thread

[ilya]

2+2 majority at final table, come on.

[Tosh]

Lets go!

[jwvdcw]

I'm in.

[Grivan]

Damnit I missed the registration.

[bleu329]

i'm down

[LuckyEights8]

Im in, up to 1400, table 41.

AA Count: 1

[OPJayhawk]

I'm in PacmanKS table 71.

Took down a nice pot already at 1600

[fnord_too]

I'm in! Brilliant play has me down to 780 after 10 minutes!!

[bleu329]

i'm in your boat...0 for 14
my cards always suck at the beginning

[George Lind III]

2nd hand of the tourney, I get KQd about 3 from the button, folded to me, I make it 45 to go, a couple callers. Flop comes KQ4 with 2 spades. I bet 150 or so, I get raised to about 400, I go all in, he calls and shows 44, and I get no help. Well that was fun.

[OPJayhawk]

I flopped quad 4's playing with about 5 limpers.

One guy with about 700 chips who a few hands earlier told the table not to raise into him unless we wanted to play for his whole stack bet out 20. Everyone folded to me and I mini raised him trying to get him to push at me but he didnt bite.
He checked on 4th and so did I trying to trap him.
He checked the river and I pushed again trying to fake a bluff and he folded.

Opportunity missed.

PacmanKS

[jwvdcw]

Quickly down to T600...not my day so far.

[jwvdcw]

Doubled up vs maniac. 10-10 vs Q-2(????).

T1200 now.

[LuckyEights8]

Hanging in there with 1465, AA won a check-raised flop. 7-7 won with a board of 7-3-2-3-A. No action though /images/graemlins/mad.gif

What are your PartyPoker Names? I am LuckyEights8 on Table #41

[Tosh]

AA count: 1
Chip count: 1125

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (10 handed)

saw flop|<font color="C00000">saw showdown</font>

UTG+1 (t620)
Hero (t1020)
MP1 (t1185)
MP2 (t1000)
MP3 (t490)
<font color="C00000">CO (t1835)</font>
Button (t2095)
SB (t1270)
<font color="C00000">BB (t80)</font>
UTG (t1525)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with A/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
UTG calls t30, <font color="666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="CC3333">Hero raises to t120</font>, <font color="666666">3 folds</font>, CO calls t120, <font color="666666">2 folds</font>, BB calls t50 (All-In), UTG calls t90.

Flop: (t455) 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif, Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(4 players, 1 all-in)</font>
UTG checks, Hero checks, <font color="CC3333">CO bets t425</font>, UTG folds, Hero folds.

Turn: (t880) 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: (t880) 5/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t880
<font color="green">Main Pot: t335 (t335), between CO and BB.</font> &gt; <font color="white">Pot won by CO (t335).</font>
<font color="green">Pot 2: t120 (t120), won by CO.</font>
<font color="green">Pot 3: t425 (t425), returned to CO.</font>

Results in white below: <font color="white">
BB shows Jd 7s (one pair, queens).
CO shows Qc Ac (three of a kind, queens).
Outcome: CO wins t880. </font>

[fnord_too]

first break 725, not playing my best and not catching card, not the best combination /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Ian J]

Well, I managed to stay alive for 1 hour. One of my best Super Weekday tournaments to date /images/graemlins/smile.gif.

I'm at T955 and just grinding.

[ilya]

Lucky twice in the first hour, T2875 at first break.

mrzarembsky at Table 7.

[OPJayhawk]

1444 chips at table 50.

Some lag playing j4 sooted from mp cost me 400 chips when he rivered his straight with the 4.

PacmanKS

[LuckyEights8]

Very smart laydown, always heartbreakening (sp?) to see a paired QQ or KK flop with AA. Heres mine (minus fancy format)

Dealt to LuckyEights8 [ As Ac ]
milktea folds.
roby007 folds.
Kunkles27 folds.
dwdwd calls [15].
PokerPaul calls [15].
SOBEgirl calls [15].
aguilaelizab calls [15].
anttheowl calls [15].
skyline1025 folds.
LuckyEights8 raises [65].
dwdwd folds.
PokerPaul folds.
SOBEgirl folds.
aguilaelizab calls [65].
anttheowl folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, 7c, 7h ]
LuckyEights8 checks.
aguilaelizab bets [275].
LuckyEights8 is all-In.
aguilaelizab folds.

Too aggressive?

[fnord_too]

And out I go. Time to focus on the Prima tourney I'm in.

I really didn't think he had a flush, I figured him for two overcards. Well, I was half right /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (10 handed)

UTG (t1620)
UTG+1 (t1540)
UTG+2 (t1285)
MP1 (t2970)
MP2 (t1790)
MP3 (t1310)
CO (t5565)
Button (t1400)
SB (t1850)
Hero (t675)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 4/images/graemlins/club.gif, K/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO calls t50, Button folds, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (t150) 4/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="blue">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="CC3333">Hero bets t150</font>, CO calls t150, SB folds.

Turn: (t450) 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="blue">(2 players)</font>
<font color="CC3333">Hero bets t475 (All-In)</font>, CO calls t475.

River: (t1400) J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t1400

Hero shows 4c Kh (one pair, fours).
CO shows 5c 5h (one pair, fives).
Outcome: CO wins t1400.

[Tosh]

Ace count: 2

I raise, they all fold, sweeeeeeeeeeeet.

[LuckyEights8]

1765 Chips, 1:30 in. Never been this far before, any advice for me?

[Tosh]

Yeah its probably a bit early to fold to the final table.

[LuckyEights8]

1700 chips, 50-100, 8-8, I raise to 300, BB goes allin for 610, i call, he has QK, I lose.

Then i get Kd-Jd, flop is Ad-J-8d, i get allin, lose to A.

[jwvdcw]

T450...getting killed.

[Tosh]

I'm out raise, 400 with AK, 2 callers. AQx on the flop push for 600 more 2 callers, turns out one of them had QQQ and rivered quads. /images/graemlins/mad.gif

[jwvdcw]

I go all in with 10s..A-8 calls and wins /images/graemlins/mad.gif

[Tosh]

Wow we all suck tonight. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[ilya]

suddenly down to T1070. co+1 minraises, i go all-in with AK on the button, blinds fold, raiser calls with KK, no Ace.
he had about T1800 and i had about T2900 when this happened. i'm feeling i should have just pot raised....


whoa, as i'm writing this, AK UTG, raise 300, UTG+1 all-in, all fold to me, i call 700, he has QQ, Ace on the flop. back up a bit to T2115 now.

[ilya]

Clawed my way back up to T2596 at second break. Still at table 7, come visit.

[Ian J]

I thought your SN on Party was Tosh1984. Don't see you under registered player list. What's the deal?

[Ian J]

I'm at T2550. Absolutely grinding.

[Tosh]

I changed it.

[ilya]

Sweet, I love putting bad beats on goot-playing foos. Up to T4111.

[OPJayhawk]

I'm at 2500 too. Havent seen any pairs above 10's yet or any Ak's.

Hopefully I'll start to get some cards soon.

PacManKS

[bleu329]

20 til $$ still chuggin with 10k on table 3

[Jason Strasser]

The person on my account who is doing quite well ATM is not me. I staked a friend from school, he posts on 2+2 as The Ocho, mostly in the PL/NL forums. So he wont know lame 72o jokes, but is definitely worth some sweat.

BTW he destroys me in the NL game at our school.

-Jason

[durron597]

Pushing on a flop with T7o vs. AA /images/graemlins/blush.gif is usually not considered a good play in my book, ilya. But I have yet to win a MTT, so feel free to ignore any and all advice from me. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[The Ocho]

that ain't saying much, 'cause you can't play with a stack with more than 20 BBs in it. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Then again, I can't play a stack with less than 20 BB in it, so I guess I'm screwed.

[Tosh]

Couldn't agree more, Jason is crap when he can't play all-in or fold. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Jason Strasser]

I love you too tosh,

xoxo,
Jason
/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[adanthar]

I'd have folded to the reraise preflop, but I didn't mind the push too much. You might get AK to fold on the monotone.

What you should really have done, though, was reraise all in with those fives. I was watching the table since you were the last 2+2'er left and I figured he'd try to pull the steal off after you laid down the previous time. If you reraised I think he'd have folded, but calling was the worst of the three.

Oh well. What do I know, I pushed with AK unimproved yesterday at the wrong time :P

[Jason Strasser]

For someone who hates online poker and is not a tourny player, it gets a lot worse than 21st / 800+ in a good tourny.

Nice job /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Maybe I'll have to stake u more often. Sitting on a couch with the gf winning 300 bucks aint bad.

[ilya]

Yeah that was dumb.

Still, I did have a flush draw, yeah!

[ilya]

I think you're right that pushing was better than calling, but I was fairly sure he would call since he had clearly noticed my super lagginess. I'm thinking perhaps folding those fives and waiting a bit for a good hand would have been best. Trap the guy into thinking I'm stealing again. On the other hand I couldn't afford to wait more than one, at most two, orbits.

[The Ocho]

Before I start sorry to anybody who was sweating and thought i was jason, I probably didn't say hi/respond to comments because I either had my chat off or forgot I was named jason for the night.

I don't normally play online because I go on insta-tilt at the slightest hint of a bad beat. In live games I'm very patient, but online I go sorta nuts for some reason.

One funny hand early in tourney:
Called a smallish raise out of BB with KJo against some 2+2er (forgot the name) that the real strassa had been talking to earlier in the hcat box. Flop comes down A-8-3 or something like that. I check-raise all-in. He thinks for a long time, then as he is mucking says: "If you were Jason I'd call." Hee hee hee.

Sucked out once around the bubble with ATs vs. AK. I raised my smallish stack all in preflop and managed to flop the nut flush. I'm the man.

Another suck out: I raise it to 4000 with AKs and get called by the BB who only has about 3500 left after the call. Flop is Q-T-x. BB goes all in. I figure I've got 7 outs and a will to gamble so I call, he shows AT. I spike a K on the river. Sweet.

I never really got going in this tourney, and never really built my stack much above average. The whole time I felt off balance and pressured from the blinds. Couldn't get into any pots without completely committing preflop. Frustrating to say the least.

In the end, I just couldn't find a hand and spot to take a stand with, and resigned myself to calling all-in blind from the BB. It was 23o (thanks Party Poker) and I lose to the SB who had KQo and turned the nut straight.

Finished 21 out of 800+ or whatever. Not bad for a freeroll.

[Tosh]

Jus' kidding. /images/graemlins/cool.gif /images/graemlins/crazy.gif /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Congrats to Jason's friend for a solid finish.

[cferejohn]

[ QUOTE ]
One funny hand early in tourney:
Called a smallish raise out of BB with KJo against some 2+2er (forgot the name) that the real strassa had been talking to earlier in the hcat box. Flop comes down A-8-3 or something like that. I check-raise all-in. He thinks for a long time, then as he is mucking says: "If you were Jason I'd call." Hee hee hee.


[/ QUOTE ]

That was me. I was just blowing smoke. I don't recall what I had now, but I didn't have a pair, so you were probably ahead. Nice play.

I went out a frustrating 113th. I had a nice stack and lost a good deal of it with my QQ v. AK all-in preflop. No regrets there. Actually doubled up with 55 vs. the same player's AJ a little later.

Last hand: Blinds 200/400. I have ~4000 chips. A4 of diamonds in the BB. Unknown player who hadn't played too many hands min-raised in LP (he has ~5500 chips). I call. Flop is something like 4 6 9 with one diamond. I check, he bets the pot (1800). I figure that AA or KK would have bet less to try to induce me to come over the top, so I put him on big cards and push. He calls with KK. Oops. Dumb. Sigh.

[MWC]

[ QUOTE ]
Unknown player who hadn't played too many hands min-raised in LP (he has ~5500 chips). I call. Flop is something like 4 6 9 with one diamond. I check, he bets the pot (1800). I figure that AA or KK would have bet less to try to induce me to come over the top, so I put him on big cards and push. He calls with KK. Oops. Dumb. Sigh.

[/ QUOTE ]
I did enjoy your hand from earlier that I thought of as "Applied Implied Odds 101" when UTG minraised w KK and you flopped trips with T8 (?) from the BB to knock him out. Sorry to hear 'bout the early exit - you were looking good when I stopped lurking with ~130 left.

- MWC

[cferejohn]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
Unknown player who hadn't played too many hands min-raised in LP (he has ~5500 chips). I call. Flop is something like 4 6 9 with one diamond. I check, he bets the pot (1800). I figure that AA or KK would have bet less to try to induce me to come over the top, so I put him on big cards and push. He calls with KK. Oops. Dumb. Sigh.

[/ QUOTE ]
I did enjoy your hand from earlier that I thought of as "Applied Implied Odds 101" when UTG minraised w KK and you flopped trips with T8 (?) from the BB to knock him out. Sorry to hear 'bout the early exit - you were looking good when I stopped lurking with ~130 left.

- MWC

[/ QUOTE ]

Yes, it was T8. Flop came 88x and I just checked called all the way and he put me all in. I should have taken the lesson to heart. Call min raise, flop 2 pair or better (pair plus a good draw also acceptable), or get out.