24o wins NLHE tourney

Just wanted to share a fun little time I had last night in a no-limit hold-em tournament.


I cross posted this to RGP so don't flame me to bad for that...


We had played down to the final two. I had 1/4 of the stack of my

opponent. I strapped on my tight aggressive belt and loosened it a

notch or two. We played for almost 30 minutes trading blinds and pots.

We were both playing tight. It showed.

I got to about 1/2 the stack of the other player and thought that my

tight aggressive play was getting too obvious. I needed an edge. So I

said to myself…"Self, the next trash hand you get… play it out or at

least see the flop"


Be careful what you wish for…. I am the SB.

Here comes 2 4 off…. What a pocket muck-it hand, yes? Oh no. Not me,

not here, not now…. I call the BB and he (thank goodness) checks to the

flop. This tells me a lot about what he now has. He would raise any

pocket pairs or big suited pictures. I put him on Face/Rag on or off.


The flop…

A MIRACLE FLOP!!!! ------- 2 2 4 rainbow


Wow, 2's full… what a time to play trash. I smell a trap… the good

kind… the kind YOU lay.

I check the "Obvious" trash flop and the BB puts in 1 big bet worth…. I

"reluctantly" call. Yes deception is the key…


The Turn…

A MIRACLE TURN!!!! ------ rainbow K


My x-ray vision can just see a cowboy lurking in this guy's pocket. I

check again.. I really want this guy to go all-in to my nut house right

now… I check… He bets about 4 Big bets worth…. I "reluctantly" call.

(Yes, I could have raised him on the turn…. But what I really wanted was

to trap him into the Full Monty…


The River…

A MIRACLE RIVER!!!! ------ rag


I know I got him. My checks and previous tournament play have him

"knowing" he has the nut hand. I check my poor dead hand… He puts in

about a quarter of his stack. I raise him all-in.


He calls… He cry's… We have swapped stacks.


Did he go on tilt that I could play such trash pre-flop… not at all. I

told him that I just had to take a chance and play "out of context" and

he agreed it was a good play to try. He knew that I was playing a good

tight game to that point and respected the move and deception. I then

put back on the tight aggressive belt and strapped it in a bit. I went

on to win the tournament.


Did I do the right thing? Gotta think the outcome was everything I

wanted… maybe that makes it a rhetorical question?


--

Absolute Nuts

"Always scratch your nose before you bluff"

"I smell a trap… the good

kind… the kind YOU lay."


ROFLMAO


MS Sunshine