Enon
10-25-2004, 06:45 AM
Sunday night I played in and won a spot in the St. Maarten (an island in the Caribbean) Satellite on party. The tourney is a $200+20 buy-in, max 80 entrants, top 4 get $4000 prize package, which includes $1500 entry to a NL tourney, $1500 cash for travel expenses and I believe another 1k which goes towards 7 days accommodation at a beach resort.
On one of my tries last week, I came to the final table short stacked and remained patient until I made a tourney ending all-in with A7o after the chip leader limped. He showed JJ and I was out in 7th. I believe I had enough chips at the time to take one more lap before I would have so few chips that I wouldn't be able to steal. After the tourney I was incredibly mad at myself for getting impatient yet again in a tourney and vowed not to repeat this mistake (amongst other mistakes).
Tonight, I once again came to the final table short stacked and decided that I had enough time to play a conservative game and hope that someone would double me up when I got premium hand. In the first 6 rounds of the tourney I had amassed a nice chip position by slowplaying AA and doubling up against AJo and then calling a 400 bet from early position with 88 when I had 3000 in chips, only to flop a set and have the early raiser go all in on the flop with his pocket overpair, KK. From around that point, I tried a few successful and unsuccessful steal attempts but overall I didn’t get many decent hands to play and remained about the same in chips as when I doubled to 6000 with 88.
The starting chip positions at the start of the final table were:
Big Blind is t300
UTG+1 (t10546)
UTG+2 (t14554)
MP1 (t11442)
MP2 (t3627)
Enon (t5325)
CO (t7333)
Button (t5500)
SB (t4174)
BB (t10854)
UTG (t6645)
One of my first difficult decisions was to fold this hand against my opponent who had just gone all-in 3 separate times in the last 10 or so hands before this, including an open all-in raise on my BB the lap before this hand:
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (10 handed)
saw flop|<font color="C00000">saw showdown</font>
MP3 (t10096)
CO (t14104)
Button (t11142)
SB (t3327)
Enon (t5325)
UTG (t7333)
UTG+1 (t5950)
UTG+2 (t4624)
MP1 (t11604)
MP2 (t6495)
Preflop: Enon is BB with K/images/graemlins/spade.gif, Q/images/graemlins/club.gif.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO folds, Button folds, <font color="CC3333">SB raises to t3327 (All-In)</font>, Enon folds.
Final Pot: t3727
<font color="green">Main Pot: t800 (t800), won by SB.</font>
<font color="green">Pot 2: t2927 (t2927), returned to SB.</font>
Results in white below: <font color="white">
No showdown. SB wins t3727. </font>
Overall, the feel of this final table was ultra-tight as the big stacks just wanted to maintain their lead and coast into one of the top 4 spots and the short stacks were just waiting for hands to double up with, even though there was no runner up prizes for the 5-10th place.
During this time I was dealt a few more decent hands within a short period of time that I had to fold preflop: A9s to a fairly tight early raise to 4x the BB, KJo and ATo mucked in early position with no raiser behind me, 4100 in front and the blinds at 200/400. Also didn’t have the courage to try and steal the blinds (300/600) with A2o in the Co when I only had 3500 left.
Finally I decide to take a stand in the BB against the 2nd biggest chip stack who is starting to raise more liberally as his stack grows:
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (8 handed)
saw flop|<font color="C00000">saw showdown</font>
MP2 (t6096)
<font color="C00000">CO (t11104)</font>
Button (t11742)
SB (t6727)
<font color="C00000">Enon (t3525)</font>
UTG (t9457)
UTG+1 (t7845)
MP1 (t23504)
Preflop: Enon is BB with A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, <font color="CC3333">CO raises to t1200</font>, Button folds, SB folds, <font color="CC3333">Enon raises to t3525 (All-In)</font>, CO calls t2325.
Flop: (t7350) K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif, K/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
Turn: (t7350) A/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
River: (t7350) J/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
Final Pot: t7350
<font color="green">Main Pot: t7350 (t7350), between CO and Enon.</font> > <font color="white">Pot won by Enon (t7350).</font>
Results in white below: <font color="white">
Enon has Ad 8h (full house, kings full of aces).
CO has 4h 4c (full house, kings full of fours).
Outcome: Enon wins t7350. </font>
How do people feel about calling this preflop and then pushing on any flop when first to act, since I have next to no folding equity and I’m obviously not planning on sticking in about 1/3 of my stack and then folding the flop.
Now the same player who just doubled me up 2 hands ago, decides to double me up again with the most donkified hand, possibly because of my decision to type ALL IN in the chat box right before I pushed (note: same player amassed many of these chips late in the tourney by pushing all in with AJs with an above avg stack to a solid utg raise to 4x the BB and ended up sucking out on AKo).
His hilarious response right before calling: ‘wtf’
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (8 handed)
saw flop|<font color="C00000">saw showdown</font>
UTG+1 (t6096)
<font color="C00000">MP1 (t7579)</font>
MP2 (t11742)
CO (t6427)
<font color="C00000">Enon (t7050)</font>
SB (t9757)
BB (t7845)
UTG (t23504)
Preflop: Enon is Button with Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif, Q/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="CC3333">UTG raises to t1200</font>, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls t1200, MP2 folds, CO folds, <font color="CC3333">Enon raises to t7050 (All-In)</font>, SB folds, BB folds, UTG folds, MP1 calls t5850.
Flop: (t16200) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
Turn: (t16200) 2/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
River: (t16200) 9/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
Final Pot: t16200
<font color="green">Main Pot: t16200 (t16200), between MP1 and Enon.</font> > <font color="white">Pot won by Enon (t16200).</font>
Results in white below: <font color="white">
MP1 has Tc Kc (one pair, tens).
Enon has Qs Qc (one pair, queens).
Outcome: Enon wins t16200. </font>
After this hand, one the railbirds is loving this display of poker justice, as his friend who played in the tourney busted to this same guy’s suckout before the final table and would have taken the railbird along with him to the Caribbean if he had won.
From here on out, it was mostly smooth sailing as I became 3rd in chips and began bullying to maintain my lead. This is quite exciting for me as I’ve never played a live tourney bigger than the Tuesday Muckleshoot $110 NL with one $100 rebuy. I plan on writing a trip report (possibly including photos) after I get back from the tourney, which runs from Dec. 2nd - 3rd.
Lastly, if anyone from 2+2 has already qualified, please contact me through PM so we can arrange to meet up down there.
Thanks for reading.
-Enon
On one of my tries last week, I came to the final table short stacked and remained patient until I made a tourney ending all-in with A7o after the chip leader limped. He showed JJ and I was out in 7th. I believe I had enough chips at the time to take one more lap before I would have so few chips that I wouldn't be able to steal. After the tourney I was incredibly mad at myself for getting impatient yet again in a tourney and vowed not to repeat this mistake (amongst other mistakes).
Tonight, I once again came to the final table short stacked and decided that I had enough time to play a conservative game and hope that someone would double me up when I got premium hand. In the first 6 rounds of the tourney I had amassed a nice chip position by slowplaying AA and doubling up against AJo and then calling a 400 bet from early position with 88 when I had 3000 in chips, only to flop a set and have the early raiser go all in on the flop with his pocket overpair, KK. From around that point, I tried a few successful and unsuccessful steal attempts but overall I didn’t get many decent hands to play and remained about the same in chips as when I doubled to 6000 with 88.
The starting chip positions at the start of the final table were:
Big Blind is t300
UTG+1 (t10546)
UTG+2 (t14554)
MP1 (t11442)
MP2 (t3627)
Enon (t5325)
CO (t7333)
Button (t5500)
SB (t4174)
BB (t10854)
UTG (t6645)
One of my first difficult decisions was to fold this hand against my opponent who had just gone all-in 3 separate times in the last 10 or so hands before this, including an open all-in raise on my BB the lap before this hand:
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (10 handed)
saw flop|<font color="C00000">saw showdown</font>
MP3 (t10096)
CO (t14104)
Button (t11142)
SB (t3327)
Enon (t5325)
UTG (t7333)
UTG+1 (t5950)
UTG+2 (t4624)
MP1 (t11604)
MP2 (t6495)
Preflop: Enon is BB with K/images/graemlins/spade.gif, Q/images/graemlins/club.gif.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO folds, Button folds, <font color="CC3333">SB raises to t3327 (All-In)</font>, Enon folds.
Final Pot: t3727
<font color="green">Main Pot: t800 (t800), won by SB.</font>
<font color="green">Pot 2: t2927 (t2927), returned to SB.</font>
Results in white below: <font color="white">
No showdown. SB wins t3727. </font>
Overall, the feel of this final table was ultra-tight as the big stacks just wanted to maintain their lead and coast into one of the top 4 spots and the short stacks were just waiting for hands to double up with, even though there was no runner up prizes for the 5-10th place.
During this time I was dealt a few more decent hands within a short period of time that I had to fold preflop: A9s to a fairly tight early raise to 4x the BB, KJo and ATo mucked in early position with no raiser behind me, 4100 in front and the blinds at 200/400. Also didn’t have the courage to try and steal the blinds (300/600) with A2o in the Co when I only had 3500 left.
Finally I decide to take a stand in the BB against the 2nd biggest chip stack who is starting to raise more liberally as his stack grows:
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (8 handed)
saw flop|<font color="C00000">saw showdown</font>
MP2 (t6096)
<font color="C00000">CO (t11104)</font>
Button (t11742)
SB (t6727)
<font color="C00000">Enon (t3525)</font>
UTG (t9457)
UTG+1 (t7845)
MP1 (t23504)
Preflop: Enon is BB with A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, <font color="CC3333">CO raises to t1200</font>, Button folds, SB folds, <font color="CC3333">Enon raises to t3525 (All-In)</font>, CO calls t2325.
Flop: (t7350) K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif, K/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
Turn: (t7350) A/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
River: (t7350) J/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
Final Pot: t7350
<font color="green">Main Pot: t7350 (t7350), between CO and Enon.</font> > <font color="white">Pot won by Enon (t7350).</font>
Results in white below: <font color="white">
Enon has Ad 8h (full house, kings full of aces).
CO has 4h 4c (full house, kings full of fours).
Outcome: Enon wins t7350. </font>
How do people feel about calling this preflop and then pushing on any flop when first to act, since I have next to no folding equity and I’m obviously not planning on sticking in about 1/3 of my stack and then folding the flop.
Now the same player who just doubled me up 2 hands ago, decides to double me up again with the most donkified hand, possibly because of my decision to type ALL IN in the chat box right before I pushed (note: same player amassed many of these chips late in the tourney by pushing all in with AJs with an above avg stack to a solid utg raise to 4x the BB and ended up sucking out on AKo).
His hilarious response right before calling: ‘wtf’
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (8 handed)
saw flop|<font color="C00000">saw showdown</font>
UTG+1 (t6096)
<font color="C00000">MP1 (t7579)</font>
MP2 (t11742)
CO (t6427)
<font color="C00000">Enon (t7050)</font>
SB (t9757)
BB (t7845)
UTG (t23504)
Preflop: Enon is Button with Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif, Q/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="CC3333">UTG raises to t1200</font>, UTG+1 folds, MP1 calls t1200, MP2 folds, CO folds, <font color="CC3333">Enon raises to t7050 (All-In)</font>, SB folds, BB folds, UTG folds, MP1 calls t5850.
Flop: (t16200) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
Turn: (t16200) 2/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
River: (t16200) 9/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="blue">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>
Final Pot: t16200
<font color="green">Main Pot: t16200 (t16200), between MP1 and Enon.</font> > <font color="white">Pot won by Enon (t16200).</font>
Results in white below: <font color="white">
MP1 has Tc Kc (one pair, tens).
Enon has Qs Qc (one pair, queens).
Outcome: Enon wins t16200. </font>
After this hand, one the railbirds is loving this display of poker justice, as his friend who played in the tourney busted to this same guy’s suckout before the final table and would have taken the railbird along with him to the Caribbean if he had won.
From here on out, it was mostly smooth sailing as I became 3rd in chips and began bullying to maintain my lead. This is quite exciting for me as I’ve never played a live tourney bigger than the Tuesday Muckleshoot $110 NL with one $100 rebuy. I plan on writing a trip report (possibly including photos) after I get back from the tourney, which runs from Dec. 2nd - 3rd.
Lastly, if anyone from 2+2 has already qualified, please contact me through PM so we can arrange to meet up down there.
Thanks for reading.
-Enon