*Official* Stars 350k Guarenteed Sunday

[TheTimeIsUp]

Gl all, lets get a brown trout or 2 to the final table

[binions]

Table 212, Seat 5

Good luck all

[TheTimeIsUp]

Table 224

[TheTimeIsUp]

i have the loosest table ever, I love it, already doubled up.

I have AQo in the cutoff, 2 limpers ahead of me, I raise to 120 witht he blinds at 10/20. 1 caller.
Flop is 3JQ, all spades, and I have the Ace of spades. he checks, I bet 150, and he insta-pushes. This looks fishy to me. I have the nut draw, and possible could be ahead already. I call, and he flips over 44. Nothing, no 4 for him, and I dub up.

[TheTimeIsUp]

Damn, just took a pretty bad hit. Get reraised pf with AK, flop comes Axx, i check, hhe bets, i put him all in, and he calls with AA. Back down to 2600.

[augie00]

I'm in.

[TheTimeIsUp]

About 3k.

[augie00]

3925 at the break. Playing well. Won a pretty big pot with KK on an A high flop. Read that boon like a book.

[partygirluk]

DO you have the HH. I'd quite like to see that.

[Toro]

I'm out early, JJ vs AQ, all-in preflop and he popped the Ace on the flop. But here's an interesting hand that i would be curious how much you all would bet on the River to extract max value. Here's the hand.

PokerStars Game #1057978822: Tournament #4179460, Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2005/01/09 - 16:46:05 (ET)
Table '4179460 71' Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: soho kid 11 (2470 in chips)
Seat 2: BigDaddyR (2480 in chips)
Seat 3: Toro85 (3030 in chips)
Seat 4: booksei (2550 in chips)
Seat 5: smalldog (2500 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 6: Mr. Buckey (1980 in chips)
Seat 7: rompas (2550 in chips)
Seat 8: Berkshire (2500 in chips)
Seat 9: elrobobo (2280 in chips)
booksei: posts small blind 10
smalldog: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Toro85 [Ac As]
Mr. Buckey: folds
Toro85 is connected
rompas: folds
Berkshire: folds
elrobobo: calls 20
soho kid 11 has timed out
soho kid 11: folds
soho kid 11 is sitting out
BigDaddyR: folds
Toro85: raises 80 to 100
booksei: folds
smalldog: folds
elrobobo: calls 80
*** FLOP *** [Ah 8d 2c]
elrobobo: checks
Toro85: bets 120
elrobobo: calls 120
*** TURN *** [Ah 8d 2c] [Th]
elrobobo: checks
Toro85: checks
*** RIVER *** [Ah 8d 2c Th] [4c]
elrobobo: bets 200
Toro85: raises ???

What hand do you put villian on here? I figured he either had Aces with a bad kicker or two pair. How much do you raise here?

[binions]

I have 3860
Tourney avg is 3634
I am 533 out of 1523

My dear friend Pharlap pulled out a huge suckout when a guy plays too weakly. She limps 100 UTG with 77. It's raised to 400, and reraised to 700 by the button, who has KK. She calls. Original raiser calls.

553 flop. She checks. Original raiser checks. Button with KK bets 400. Pharlap raises to 800. Original raiser folds. KK calls.

5533 turn. Pharlap bets 600. KK calls.

River is a 7, giving Pharlap 77755. She goes all in for 1800 more, and KK calls.

Phar now has 9000 chips and is 47th.

She later says she read him for AK with the weak flop bet. I knew he had a big pair when we minreraised from the button preflop.

[ejess]

Woo, survived to first break. Heh, I've always wanted to do this... for the past few weeks at least /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Anyway, I'm at a little over 6k at first. Hit two sets that held already, life is a-ok!

[TheTimeIsUp]

Man, I had 3k, reraised a 2k stack all in with AK, he calls with AJ, and hits a J on the flop. SO depressing.

[augie00]

Lame. I got someone all in with their AK to my KK. You can guess what came on the river.

[binions]

Raise 3XBB with AK (no spades) from UTG+1

Button calls.

Flop KQ4, 2 spades

I bet 600, he raises 1200.

Should have folded, but he doubles thru me with KQ offsuit (no spades).

Personally, I don't call early raises with KQ offsuit. Despite my loss today, thank god there are people who do.

[augie00]

beat after beat...this time my KK against loose, idiotic, BB's A5

[augie00]

out in brutal fashion, my QQ against AQo.

Just wasn't my day I guess, cause there were plenty of donks at my table for the taking. they just kept getting lucky...

[Chief911]

Sittin with around 11k at the second break. We'll see whethere I can advance.

Nick

[UMTerp]

Eh, 2nd break, and I'm still alive, so I guess I can't complain. Not in great shape though - 6380 chips, 367th of 640 remaining. Won a smallish pot (~2400) the hand before the break with KK.

[ejess]

At ~10k and still alive. Feel like I've made a few mistakes here and there and cards have been a lot colder in the second period than they were in the first, been moved around a lot more than I'm used too so it's been a bit of a struggle.

Good luck to everybody still in it!

[Chief911]

I'm out.

Was very patient after having a top 30 stack, and just couldn't get anything going after that. Finally pushed with AQ with around 5k left. Called by AJ. Flop KT6, turn a Q, river a brick, and I'm out.

Good luck to any/all who are still in.

Nick

[Matt24]

I'm at 2677, got $52 in this thing.

[Matt24]

Not in this one

[ejess]

Bubbletime at third-break, 227 still in it and money is at 225. Im a bit above average with 35k. Still waiting for the monsters but stealingopportunities have been plentyful...

[UMTerp]

Welp, looks like I'll make the money for the first time in a while in this thing... Was treading water for forever, then with about 7 minutes to go in the 1K-2K level, big stack who had been bullying the table open-minraises UTG, I push with my 13K stack in MP with AQ and close my eyes, and when the cards came out, it held up against his AT. Healthy yet precariouis stack of 30754 at the 3rd break, which is right around average. 63rd place of 227 remaining. I've only had to show down three hands the whole tournament, the very first hand when I flopped trips, once from the BB when I was priced into a call with any two, and my AQ vs. AT hand. 1500-3000 blinds when we come back.

[ejess]

Out just inside the bubble, lost with AJs to JJ.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted...

[UMTerp]

Blegh, 91st ($664), and I'm kicking myself. Pushed from the CO with K4s with a stack of about 8BB into what had been some tight blinds. Got called by the BB with KQs (I pushed because I thought he'd lay down a hand like that, and was crippled to a point from which I couldn't come back. Shoulda waited. Oh well.