A $.50/$1 players adventure into $10/$20 [Archive]

illunious

04-20-2004, 02:31 AM

This is the most fun I've ever had with $10.

On Saturday, I built the minimum buyin of a $1/2 game into the minimum buy-in for a $10/20 game. Here are some of the hands /images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Preflop: Illunious is BB with T/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
UTG folds, Button calls, SB completes, Illunious checks.

Flop: (3 SB) 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/spade.gif, T/images/graemlins/club.gif (3 players) 
SB checks, Illunious bets, Button folds, SB raises, Illunious calls.

Turn: (3.50 BB) 9/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players) 
SB bets, Illunious raises, SB calls.

River: (7.50 BB) 3/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players) 
SB checks, Illunious bets, SB calls.

Final Pot: 9.50 BB
Main Pot: 9.50 BB, between Illunious and SB. > Pot won by Illunious (9.50 BB).

Results in white below: 
Illunious shows Ts 9d (two pair, tens and nines).
SB shows Kh Jh (one pair, kings).
Outcome: Illunious wins 9.50 BB. 

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Preflop: Illunious is Button with Q/images/graemlins/club.gif, 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
UTG folds, Illunious raises, SB folds, BB calls.

Flop: (4.50 SB) J/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 3/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players) 
BB checks, Illunious checks.

Turn: (2.25 BB) 8/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players) 
BB bets, Illunious raises, BB calls.

River: (6.25 BB) 2/images/graemlins/heart.gif (2 players) 
BB checks, Illunious bets, BB folds.

Final Pot: 7.25 BB
Main Pot: 6.25 BB, won by Illunious.
Pot 2: 1 BB, overbet by Illunious.

Results in white below: 
Illunious shows Qc 7s (high card, ace).
Outcome: Illunious wins 7.25 BB. 

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Preflop: Illunious is UTG with T/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 8/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
Illunious raises, MP folds, Button folds, SB folds, BB calls.

Flop: (4.33 SB) 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif, T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players) 
BB checks, Illunious bets, BB raises, Illunious 3-bets, BB caps, Illunious calls.

Turn: (6.16 BB) 5/images/graemlins/heart.gif (2 players) 
BB bets, Illunious calls.

River: (8.16 BB) 7/images/graemlins/heart.gif (2 players) 
BB bets, Illunious calls.

Final Pot: 10.16 BB
Main Pot: 10.16 BB, between Illunious and BB. > Pot won by Illunious (10.16 BB).

Results in white below: 
Illunious shows Ts 8d (one pair, tens).
BB shows 7s 8s (one pair, sevens).
Outcome: Illunious wins 10.16 BB. 

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Preflop: Illunious is SB with 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
Button calls, Illunious raises, BB calls, Button calls.

Flop: (6 SB) K/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif, 7/images/graemlins/heart.gif (3 players) 
Illunious bets, BB calls, Button calls.

Turn: (4.50 BB) 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif (3 players) 
Illunious bets, BB raises, Button folds, Illunious calls.

River: (8.50 BB) 7/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players) 
Illunious checks, BB checks.

Final Pot: 8.50 BB
Main Pot: 8.50 BB, between Illunious and BB. > Pot won by Illunious (8.50 BB).

Results in white below: 
Illunious shows 2s Ad (two pair, aces and sevens).
BB shows 2c 9c (two pair, nines and sevens).
Outcome: Illunious wins 8.50 BB. 

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Preflop: Illunious is SB with 6/images/graemlins/club.gif, Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
Button calls, Illunious completes, BB checks.

Flop: (3 SB) 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 6/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif (3 players) 
Illunious bets, BB calls, Button raises, Illunious 3-bets, BB calls, Button calls.

Turn: (6 BB) Q/images/graemlins/club.gif (3 players) 
Illunious bets, BB folds, Button calls.

River: (8 BB) T/images/graemlins/spade.gif (2 players) 
Illunious bets, Button folds.

Final Pot: 9 BB
Main Pot: 8 BB, won by Illunious.
Pot 2: 1 BB, overbet by Illunious.

Results in white below: 
Illunious shows 6c Qs (two pair, queens and sixes).
Outcome: Illunious wins 9 BB. 

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Preflop: Illunious is BB with 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif, J/images/graemlins/spade.gif. Button posts a blind of $5.
Illunious calls, Button (poster) raises, Illunious calls.

Flop: (4 SB) 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 4/images/graemlins/spade.gif, T/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players) 
Illunious bets, Button raises, Illunious 3-bets, Button calls.

Turn: (5 BB) Q/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players) 
Illunious bets, Button raises, Illunious calls.

River: (9 BB) 6/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players) 
Illunious checks, Button bets, Illunious folds.

Final Pot: 10 BB
Main Pot: 9 BB, won by Button.
Pot 2: 1 BB, overbet by Button.

Results in white below: 
Button doesn't show.
Outcome: Button wins 10 BB. 

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Preflop: Illunious is BB with 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, J/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
Button raises, SB folds, Illunious calls.

Flop: (4.40 SB) Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/heart.gif (2 players) 
Illunious bets, Button raises, Illunious 3-bets, Button caps, Illunious calls.

Turn: (6.20 BB) 2/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players) 
Illunious bets, Button calls.

River: (8.20 BB) 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 players) 
Illunious bets, Button calls.

Final Pot: 10.20 BB
Main Pot: 10.20 BB, between Button and Illunious. > Pot won by Button (10.20 BB).

Results in white below: 
Button shows Qc Ad (two pair, aces and queens).
Illunious shows 5d Jh (high card, ace).
Outcome: Button wins 10.20 BB. 

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Preflop: Illunious is Button with T/images/graemlins/heart.gif, J/images/graemlins/club.gif.
UTG folds, MP folds, Illunious raises, SB 3-bets, BB calls, Illunious calls.

Flop: (9 SB) 5/images/graemlins/heart.gif, Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif (3 players) 
SB checks, BB checks, Illunious checks.

Turn: (4.50 BB) 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif (3 players) 
SB bets, BB folds, Illunious calls.

River: (6.50 BB) 6/images/graemlins/club.gif (2 players) 
SB bets, Illunious raises, SB folds.

Final Pot: 9.50 BB
Main Pot: 8.50 BB, won by Illunious.
Pot 2: 1 BB, overbet by Illunious.

Results in white below: 
Illunious shows Th Jc (one pair, sixes).
Outcome: Illunious wins 9.50 BB.

Ponks

04-20-2004, 02:54 AM

Sounds like a pretty fun idea. How'd you end up doing? Just losing it all at 10/20 cause you couldn't make it to 15/30? I may try this sometime and see what limit I can get to before I go bust.

Ponks

illunious

04-20-2004, 03:15 AM

I was up $400 at one point. I ended the night up $250.

sthief09

04-20-2004, 05:52 AM

I know this post is for fun and all, and I congratulate you, but you played really loose/aggressive in most of these hands. Aggression wins at 6-max tables, but you also have to pick your spots. Open-raising the button J5o and Q7o, and completing a 1/3 blind with Q6o don't apply. I haven't played the 10-20 6max but the 5-10 is way too loose to get away with such things. You also seem to push your draws when your opponent obviously likes his hand. A good player will trap you for this, like in the headsup hand where you had the flush draw.

Tosh

04-20-2004, 08:09 AM

Very true. You were trying to push opponents when clearly they weren't budging on occasions.

I do like the idea of having say 12BB at 0.5/1 and building through the limits each time you make 12BB for the next limit though. Maybe we should make it an open challenge one night.