2+2 SNGs: STARS 8PM GMT/3PM EST TUESDAY & 9:30PM EST WEDNESDAY

[DrPhysic]

Here's your 2+2 SNG game schedule for this week,

2+2 SnG $10+1 NLHE on STARS 8PM GMT/3PM EST (TUESDAY Feb 17)
Look for t_perkin or Stone_Eyes signon.


2+2 SNG $10+1 NLHE on STARS 9:30PM EST (WEDNESDAY Feb 18)
Look for DrPhysic or VinnyTheFish signon.


Games for 2+2 posters. Not sponsored by Two Plus Two Publishing.


Doc

[PrayingMantis]

Hey doc,

Thanks for organizing it again, but beware, I'm going to be there!

BTW, people said something about coming with titles for these events? It could be nice, stupid but nice.

I suggest: zero flops open.

Any better ideas? (My English is not my first language, so I might have a bit of a problem coming with something *really* smart).


PrayingMantis

[skaboomizzy]

How about the WD-40 Open?

"When it's so tight that it squeaks, think WD-40!"

[DrPhysic]

I am certainly amenable in a whole bunch of really stupid suggestions for tournament names. You guys think 'em up, we'll use 'em!

Doc

[Sheriff Fatman]

On a similar theme, how about the 'Friday Night in Glasgow' Tournament.

Not only do you encounter many tight people on such a night out, but are also likely to be subjected to a great deal of aggression!

Sheriff

[t_perkin]

I like it - definately one for the Euro-time game. This is the official title for this evening´s SnG.

Tim

[TylerD]

Great idea having a European time zone game. Is it 1 or 2 table tournaments?

[Stoneii]

Tyler

2 table on stars. Look for t_perkins 2+2 to sit down at 1st free 18 player $10+1 table after 8pm GMT.

Catch you later hopefully

stoneii

[DrPhysic]

[DrPhysic]

[alekhine8]

Is tonight's at 9:30 SNG a two-tabler as well? Thanks and Im in!

[La Brujita]

As a name I like the wife swappers club tournament. I believe that came out of the first or second one we played.

[DrPhysic]

We have two 2table sng's in the evening. look for me on the first one, VinnyTheFish starts the second one. be quick, they both fill in under a minute.

Doc

[DrPhysic]

Report for game one, note on game 2 below:

SubTitle for tonight's game was:

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DRAWOUT!!!

Congrats to sbastid (Mosch) on winning!

1: sbastid (Del Mar), $72.00 (40%)
2: Stagemusic (Taylorville), $54.00 (30%)
3: DrPhysic (San Antonio), $36.00 (20%)
4: colgin (New York), $18.00 (10%)
5: XlgJoe (lindley),
6: heyrocker (Chicago),
7: pvl000 (Troy),
8: KURN (Cranston),
9: ClaudioReyna (Webster),
10: MobyDick (København),
11: Bluff1 (Salem),
12: alekhine8 (Land O Lakes),
13: SteelBallsD (kerrville),
14: galawyer (Marietta),
15: SimonDiamond (Redditch),
16: ClemsonAce (Lexington),
17: jwp22 (Gaithersburg),
18: Zorac (Memphis),

Post your good hands, great suckouts, and unreal drawouts (should be a bunch of those) guys.

Game 2: At last report Cris Brown was leader of remaining 2.

Good game guys, see you next week.

Doc /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[VinnyTheFish]

PokerStars Tournament #1023333, No Limit Hold'em
Total Prize Pool: $180.00
Tournament started - 2004/02/18 - 21:33:29 (ET)
Tournament finished - 2004/02/18 - 23:22:14 (ET)
1: CrisBrown (Wesley Chapel), $72.00 (40%)
2: Paracelsus (Oxford), $54.00 (30%)
3: kshnur (Chandler), $36.00 (20%)
4: ZMAN1964 (Knoxville), $18.00 (10%)
5: jpg777 (Ballston Spa),
6: Lachyg (Melbourne),
7: VinnyTheFish (Mine Hill),
8: ohKanada (Leander),
9: rd2121 (dallas),
10: alekhine8 (Land O Lakes),
11: DaGrifter (Milford),
12: superleeds (Fairfield),
13: Hawkeeeye (Altoona),
14: sbastid (Del Mar),
15: Dan Arno (Amsterdam),
16: lntimidator3 (Pittsburg),
17: #19 Wins (Warrenton),
18: HighRoller24 (uniontown),

[VinnyTheFish]

DR Phys. is on a well deserved roll!

here's my bad beat ... I am still scracthing my balding head!

Table '1023333 2' Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: CrisBrown (5850 in chips)
Seat 2: Paracelsus (8995 in chips)
Seat 3: jpg777 (1725 in chips)
Seat 4: VinnyTheFish (415 in chips)
Seat 5: ZMAN1964 (5350 in chips)
Seat 6: Lachyg (1105 in chips)
Seat 8: kshnur (3560 in chips)
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to VinnyTheFish [Kc Ah]
VinnyTheFish: calls 390 and is all-in
CrisBrown said, "A2 isn't really dominated there, Kurn ... A8 has no straight outs"
Lachyg: calls 200
kshnur: checks
*** FLOP *** [Ts Kd Jh]
Lachyg: bets 400
KURN [observer] said, "true, but he didn't hit the str8"
kshnur: calls 400
*** TURN *** [Ts Kd Jh] [8d]
CrisBrown said, "*nods*"
Lachyg: bets 280 and is all-in
kshnur: calls 280
*** RIVER *** [Ts Kd Jh 8d] [4h]
KURN [observer] said, "he flopped A23"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Lachyg: shows [4d Th] (two pair, Tens and Fours) <--- WHAT???? I MEAN ... WHAT???
kshnur: shows [2h Qd] (high card King)
Lachyg collected 1380 from side pot
VinnyTheFish: shows [Kc Ah] (a pair of Kings)
VinnyTheFish said, "oh my"
Lachyg collected 1345 from main pot
VinnyTheFish [observer] said, "nh"

[TheGrifter]

lachyg knocked me out when my cowboys got beat by A-10 (all in preflop), not really too bad of a beat, yours is better.

[Stagemusic]

OK. Wow Vinny, that was awful. Our night of the Suckout was pretty amazing but we at least could justify the plays because most of them happened with decent hands going in. This is just amazing. Any comments afterword on why he decided to call an all in bet with T4o??? Just curious. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[VinnyTheFish]

LOL, no comments at all. He/She never said if they were a T
2+2'er.

I can only assume that he was a short stack. or ready to go to bed. I am offically 0 of 2+2 SNG! But it is always worth my donation.

Even better: I should have went to bed, but decided to sit a t 2/4 Hold'em Ring with $100. My last hand of the night (worth about minus $50).

UTG calls the $2.
UTG+4 Calls.
SB calls.
BB (me) calls with 45s.

FLOP: 565

UTG bets 2,
other 2 fold.
I raise to 4.
UTG calls.

TURN: 3

I bet $4.
He raises $4.
I re-raise, he calls.

The river hits 8. (Here I should have never re-raised, just called)

We bet/reraise to the 3rd cap.

My set is beaten by 7,9o. Why did I not just goto bed? Ladies and gents, that is how you turn a +50 night into a -60 night in an hour.

I set out ... I watched the table for about 10 minutes wanting to play more, because the entire table was making play like that. This was PStars (which has become a super tight site). The $2/4 - 3/6 tables have 30% of less seeing the flop!

I believe I am currently the Stars FISH!

See ya all tonight.

[DarkKnight]

Here's a hand I was wondering about...
we're down to about 15 players.
Blinds are 100/200 and I've got T4500 (big stack at the table)
I'm dealt 55 on the Button fold to me and I open raise 600 to 800.
SB folds BB (T2735) Raises all in

Two questions:
1) What do you do here?
2) sbastid - what did you have?

DK

[t_perkin]

I think your raise is too big. 55 is not a strong hand, you are effectively on a steal. It is too early in the tournament for this sort of tom-foolery /images/graemlins/smile.gif

You have to fold to the allin, at best you are a coin flip, at worst you are a big dog.


I would say raising to 600 or even min raise 400 is probably the right thing to do PF. You will either get reraised, in which case you have to fold (which you have to do anyway) or get to see the flop and quite probably the turn.

Of course as always it depends if you think you can get away with a steal only with a T800 raise then do so. But it is early in the tournament and not the time to be making too many dangerous moves.


Tim

[ohkanada]

"I would say raising to 600 or even min raise 400 is probably the right thing to do PF."

Only doubling the blinds is wrong. This isn't limit! With 55, you would like to steal the blinds. 600-800 is the correct amount.

Ken Poklitar

[CrisBrown]

Hiya Vinny,

Yeah, that was beyond brutal.

There were a few of those last night, though not as many as I'd seen lately. I did have to lay down KK when an Ace hit the flop and you bet strong, then later QQ when a K hit the flop and Para bet strong. He showed the AK. You didn't show, but if you bluffed me off my KK ... well ... great play. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

In all honesty, I got pretty lucky last night. I caught AA in the SB, and was fortunate enough to get action when UTG had TT and moved all-in over my raise. I made a couple of iffy calls vs. short stacked all-ins -- once with AQs, once with AJs -- and in both cases the short stack did in fact have a lower Ace. And of course on the last hand I outdrew a dominant hand, KQ to my K7s.

Anyway, it was fun, and I do hope Para will check us out here and become a contributor. He seemed like a nice guy.

Now if Vinny and I can just work out that date.... /images/graemlins/wink.gif

Cris

[ohkanada]

I was surprised that you said you had the KK and QQ. You played them both very passively pre-flop. If I remember the KK you limped UTG. On the QQ you were re-raised PF by a bigger stack but didn't re-raise.

Were you going for the limp-re-raise with the KK? For some reason I though it was raised later and you didnt reraise but my memory is likely wrong.

Congrats on the win!

Ken Poklitar

[CrisBrown]

Hiya Ken,

I limp-reraised with the KK, and Vinny called my reraise. At that point I put him on an Ace. An Ace hit the flop, I bet, he raised, and I mucked.

The QQ was at the final table. I raised in the SB, and Para called from the BB. A King hit the flop, I bet, he raised, and I mucked.

Cris

[CrisBrown]

Oh ... and thanks. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Cris

[ohkanada]

Ah, I did miss your re-raise with KK. I still like re-raising with QQ but thats me /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Ken Poklitar

[VinnyTheFish]

[ QUOTE ]

There were a few of those last night, though not as many as I'd seen lately. I did have to lay down KK when an Ace hit the flop and you bet strong, then later QQ when a K hit the flop and Para bet strong. He showed the AK. You didn't show, but if you bluffed me off my KK ... well ... great play. /images/graemlins/smile.gif


[/ QUOTE ]


*********** # 6 **************
Dealt to VinnyTheFish [Ac Jc]
VinnyTheFish: raises 60 to 80
CrisBrown: calls 80
*** FLOP *** [Jh 4d 4h]
VinnyTheFish: bets 320
CrisBrown: folds
VinnyTheFish: shows [Ac Jc] (two pair, Jacks and Fours)
CrisBrown said, "I was probably ahead there, but...."
=== This one (above) confused me? ===========

PokerStars Game #294513578:
Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2004/02/18 - 22:01:42 (ET)
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to VinnyTheFish [As Jd]
CrisBrown: calls 50
VinnyTheFish: raises 50 to 100
CrisBrown: raises 400 to 500
VinnyTheFish: calls 400
*** FLOP *** [6d 8h Ad]
CrisBrown: checks
VinnyTheFish: checks
*** TURN *** [6d 8h Ad] [8d]
CrisBrown: checks
VinnyTheFish: bets 500
CrisBrown said, "geez ... what to do"
CrisBrown: folds
CrisBrown said, "layin' down KK"
VinnyTheFish collected 1075 from pot
Board [6d 8h Ad 8d]

===== No (full) bluff here, just no 8! =====

Now for this date thing? My girlfriend of two years would not be too happy!

[CrisBrown]

Hi Ken,

[ QUOTE ]
Ah, I did miss your re-raise with KK. I still like re-raising with QQ but thats me.

[/ QUOTE ]

Well, I couldn't reraise preflop, as he simply called. At the flop, I had only second pair. I bet the flop -- to force him to declare his hand -- and when he raised I knew I was beaten. And he was kind enough to show me the AK.

I've adopted a rule -- temporarily at least -- of not calling raises on the flop when I have only one pair. If I bet one pair and get raised, I'm usually in trouble. Most of the time, I'm either outkicked, or he has a bigger pair, two pair, or better. Going to the river with only one pair is my #1 leak, according to PokerTracker, and I'm trying to plug that leak.

I realize I'll sometimes be giving up the best hand, but I'd rather give up one hand than the entire tournament. According to PokerTracker, on an admittedly small sample of only 51 tourneys, 50% of my money finishes are 1st place, and my 1st place finishes outnumber my 2nds by 7:1. So I'm thinking that I'm better off playing to reach the final four, then the final two, then letting my heads-up game pay dividends. If that means laying down some winners earlier, that's what I'll do.

Cris