need quick answer

[Vehn]

PPM semi

72 players left

29 get the boat

blinds 1500/3000 coming out of the break

average 50k

highest 152k

I have 69k

am I good or do I have to play another hand?

[La Brujita]

There are better tourney players then me out there (although I am solid) but I don't think you are good yet. Play extremely tight and don't put your chips at risk.

[CrackerZack]

probably not yet, but you don't need much more to get there. care to give your username so we can sweat you?

[Vehn]

I may regret this /images/graemlins/tongue.gif but genj23. Come laugh at me.

[CrackerZack]

Got it if you want to edit/erase

[Vehn]

Nah sok who cares.

[wacamasta]

everyones gonna be playin that way.... play MORE aggressive... steal the blinds... if you run into a big raise let em go.

[Vehn]

This is limit, sorry should have said so.

[Vehn]

dude with 20k open limps in cut off I raise from BB with AK he limp reraises I call and check fold flop ugh.

62 left 58k average I have 54k

I may be in trouble.

[La Brujita]

I am watching and am nervous for you.

[CrackerZack]

moved into the blinds...ugh.... gonna need to win one.

[Vehn]

yup

[Vehn]

Folded to SB who calls I check BB with Q9o.

Flop K J x SB bets I raise SB folds.

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[CrackerZack]

nice win from the BB

[Vehn]

I steal blinds with KK :P

55 left I have 58k

[Vehn]

Looking better. Win blinds with AQs.

[AwesomeAli]

I would chear for you at the table if i could Vehn, but im barred at party and not able to log in (only watch). So I will have to wish you luck on here.

I am watching you tho - good luck

Ali

[Inthacup]

You're not in autofold range, but you can be very selective with your hands(duh).

Never underestimate the stupidity of your opponents. Most of these guys will shoot themselves in the foot.

22 players left! GL.



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[CrackerZack]

your new seat sucks. Hope many get eliminated and hruby moves.

[Vehn]

these ppl who have enough to chips to post/fold to victory but raise every hand baffle me.

[LondonBroil]

Nice AA split pot. I was sweating with you.

[Sleepy Weasel]

Wow, crazy AA hand, sweating.

[Vehn]

rofl god. Woulda done it too.

[Cubswin]

I agree....that guy to your right is case and point

[CrackerZack]

This guy is definitely a retard.

[La Brujita]

that was awful poker

[richie]

Good luck to you, Vehn. It would be quite amusing to see hruby bust him/herself out /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Inthacup]

these ppl who have enough to chips to post/fold to victory but raise every hand baffle me.



I saw a guy 2 nights ago that took a nose dive from over 100k to go out just out of the money. If he would have put it on autopost, he would have coasted in easily. For the most part, these people suck.



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[skaboomizzy]

[Inthacup]

nice pot.

[Vehn]

TT there wheeeeeeeee

[La Brujita]

Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!! AQ?

[CrackerZack]

I missed it, what happened? You should be home free now.

[Vehn]

hruby open raised in MP I 3 bet with TT flop Q 8 x, check bet call turn Q check bet call river 8 check bet fold.

[Vehn]

rofl someone limps in EP and I fold pocket 8s on the button.

[BottlesOf]

[CrackerZack]

and i thought hruby was a curse, he's a blessing as he's a moron but tries to bust people and will give up his chips. go vehn

[David]

I bet hruby doesn't make it, lol!

[vehns_woman]

You people think you are sweating it??? I've been bringing him drinks, calling out his hands when he needs to AFK, entertaining the cat, mowing the lawn, re-doing the wallpaper ... okay, maybe not those last two, but you get my point.
Nothing nicer than walking in to work tomorrow and announcing I need PDO to take a cruise with my personal poker dude!

[Vehn]

zzzzz!

I need a beer /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Vehn]

shiiiiiiiiit in big trouble now.

[La Brujita]

stay calm, you may need to win a hand or two

[Inthacup]

44k is a LOT of chips. If you got blinded down, you still have 70 or so hands to play before you'll go all in.

[Vehn]

ya but gotta pick up some hands or the blinds a few times for sure.

[Vehn]

hoox take the blinds.

[BottlesOf]

[vehns_woman]

I don't think I can take this stress.

[Vehn]

ah well. good $25 investment.

[Cyndie]

Sorry, saw you were there, then you were gone...Better luck next time.

[CrackerZack]

Sorry. Top pair, nut flush draw, huge hand. Sorry again. Me and the woman were watching and wishing, alas.

[Ulysses]

I sweat JA Sucker in a $200 SNG this afternoon and he goes from near dead to win. I sweat Vehn for one hand and that's it for him. Ugh. I guess I used up all my sweater luck this afternoon. I was sure I could find a club for you, Vehn.

[Sleepy Weasel]

Tough break. Great showing though!

[CrackerZack]

AN ADMISSION!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vehn]

*sigh* oh well. Here is final hand:

***** Hand History for Game 316899320 *****
5000/10000 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (Limit) (Tournament 1783830) - Sun Jan 04 23:03:07 EST 2004
Table Semi-final 5 Day 3(7263) Table 2 (Real Money) -- Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: spiro55 (98566)
Seat 2: teebags (86405)
Seat 3: Dragon_12 (105400)
Seat 4: hruby69 (96083)
Seat 5: genj23 (51651)
Seat 6: iahkid (92392)
Seat 7: JHJMugsy (71980)
Seat 8: waldoe (22070)
Seat 9: TJB17 (163768)
Seat 10: kadaver (115731)
spiro55 posts small blind (2500)
teebags posts big blind (5000)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to genj23 [ Qd, Ac ]
Dragon_12 folds.
hruby69 folds.
genj23 raises (10000) to 10000
iahkid folds.
JHJMugsy folds.
waldoe folds.
TJB17 calls (10000)
kadaver folds.
spiro55 folds.
teebags raises (10000) to 15000
genj23 calls (5000)
TJB17 calls (5000)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Qc, 8c, 6c ]
teebags bets (5000)
genj23 calls (5000)
TJB17 calls (5000)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Kd ]
teebags bets (10000)
genj23 raises (20000) to 20000
TJB17 calls (20000)
akshawnd: Yo genj! i am here w/ good luck 4 u!
Martin_572: !!
teebags raises (20000) to 30000
hardside: go go drago
Inthacup: gl
genj23 bets (11651)
genj23 calls all-In.
TJB17 calls (11651)
teebags calls (1651)
Creating Main Pot with $157453 with genj23
** Dealing River ** : [ 2h ]
samdam: gl gen
teebags bets (10000)
DetroitAl: GO SPIRO
TJB17 calls (10000)
** Summary **
Main Pot: 157453 | Side Pot 1: 20000
Board: [ Qc 8c 6c Kd 2h ]
spiro55 balance 96066, lost 2500 (folded)
teebags balance 202207, bet 61651, collected 177453, net +115802 [ Ks Kh ] [ three of a kind, kings -- Ks,Kh,Kd,Qc,8c ]
Dragon_12 balance 105400, didn't bet (folded)
hruby69 balance 96083, didn't bet (folded)
genj23 balance 0, lost 51651 [ Qd Ac ] [ a pair of queens -- Ac,Kd,Qd,Qc,8c ]
iahkid balance 92392, didn't bet (folded)
JHJMugsy balance 71980, didn't bet (folded)
waldoe balance 22070, didn't bet (folded)
TJB17 balance 102117, lost 61651 [ Kc As ] [ a pair of kings -- As,Kc,Kd,Qc,8c ]
kadaver balance 115731, didn't bet (folded)
spiro55: ty

thanks for watching/cheering everyone, I appreciate it.

/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Vehn]

I bust out 40th btw. Twodimes says I'm a slight dog to KK on the flop. Meh.

[jasonHoldEm]

Nice aggressive move, sorry it didn't work out.

Take it easy,
Jason

[Inthacup]

Great game Vehn. Not much you can do about that.



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[Vehn]

Well I've thought about it some more of course and I'm not sure what else I could have done here towards the end. Clearly I had some terrible luck in several spots, such as moving into the blinds and to the immediate left of the tard hruby, going pretty card dead towards the end, and running into a big stack's pocket aces with my... pocket aces. But I think most of my choices were pretty good and the right ones. I of course am interested in hearing other's opinions.

I don't think I could have done anything else the few tough spots I was in - namely the open raising A4s on the button, short stacked SB calling with AT, flop coming ace high. I think the pocket 8's play was debatable as well - reasonable EP open limped, it was folded to me on the button, and I folded them also. I'm also thinking I MAY have folded on the final hand when I raised in EP w/ AQo, LP coldcalled, and the big blind 3-bet. I dunno, though. As it was I was drawing very thin preflop (and didn't get there anyways) vs AK and KK.

However there's two things here that I think were fairly obvious. One is that I underestimated how many chips I needed to make it. The other is that due to #1 there, I really needed to be more aggressive. I didn't go for any real steals with some junk like I should have a few times, and I gave away my SB a few times with some junky stuff that may have been successful in stealing too. Part of this is that I'm not particularly experienced in limit hold'em tournaments. While I enjoyed it, I certainly would have preferred NL as it would likely only take me 5 hours to bubble out instead of the 8 it did this time. Oh well.

Any more thoughts from anyone?

[Ulysses]

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Any more thoughts from anyone?

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Playing 8 hours and busting out just out of the money is a terrible strategy. In a tournament like this you should either bust out much earlier or make the money.

[Ulysses]

So, in the midst of writing my silly response to Vehn, I thought of something that's perhaps mildly interesting. Wouldn't it be interesting if you could sell your tournament entry in the middle of a tournament, chips and all? I'm going to make a post on the Tournaments forum about that.

[CrackerZack]

Oddly, I couldn't sleep last night probably due to teh fact I was getting up at 2 in the afternoon for the past week and a half while not working and found myself thinking about your tourney. I'm convinced I'm mentally unwell, but getting past that. A4 running into AT was just bad luck. I was saying to the screen after you raised PF and were coldcalled by a huge stack and reraised by an even huger stack, "Fold, save the chips, Fold." I've thought about it a bit more and still think its a fold there. Hruby, while nuts and constantly stealing, could be played back at and relieved of some chips. It really really sucks to be in a tourney like that, and have to 3-bet with AJo or 77 so close to the money but with him, you could've done it and hoped not to get unlucky and get some chips back. I agree about underestimating the chips needed to coast. When you had 84K you were looking good, but far from a lock as no one was going away easy. Did the tournament forum have any advice on this?

[Vehn]

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Did the tournament forum have any advice on this?

[/ QUOTE ]

Apparently (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=466120&page=1&view=collap sed&sb=5&o=14&fpart=1), no one thought much of it at all. Meh.

[J.A.Sucker]

Sucks that you busted out on the bubble. I played in the PPM semi a couple of years ago, IIRC (much smaller field), and they were giving out 8 seats to the boat. 9th place got something like 5K. I finished 10th, good for 100 bucks or something, which didn't even cover my entry. After 8 hours of looking at that damn comupter screen, I felt ill.

I went to bed, and my girlfriend asked me "How did you do?" I told her. She couldn't help but laugh. I did too. Then I didn't sleep all night. Just stared at the ceiling for 8 hours. The worst beat of all is that I got the flu the next day. Woo hoo!

I don't know why I'm sharing this story, but it makes me smile today.

[Wake up CALL]

Vehn has accused me of never posting in a poker related thread thread. In order to appease his thirst I am commenting on this tourney thread he initiated.

It really sucks to play all day in a tournament and bust out with no cash eh Vehn?

I hope this satifies your request Vehn. Anything else?

PS: If ever you feel down and out just mark this thread in your favorites and feel Vehn's anguish, it will work wonders.

[Vehn]

ROFL. Anguish, to place 40th out of 1300 people and it cost me less than my big blind at my B&M game? You really never have played poker in your life, have you? Why don't you head back to your little pet thread and answer the question I've asked twice now?