FT sweat - party $50+5 MTT

[jedinite]

Party $50+5 MTT, #510701. 430 entrants, entered the final table as second in chips... AA first hand to double up to the chiplead.

Short running log of key hands posted on my blog (performify.com) of what got me here... i've been keeping some other notes, will try to do a more in-depth writeup after the fact.

"performify" on AIM, "jedinite_m3" on yahoo. ICQ in profile...

Watching. Keep up the good work.

Watching, if you get first can i have a dollar?

Good stuff. Keep pounding.

Yow. that was a lot of chips to leave out there on that KQxx board.

ugh, that 66 hand was just terrible..

ouch man, you deserved that 5k, oh well still great payout and great job.

Nuts. Good effort. Nice $3225.

[jedinite]

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ugh, that 66 hand was just terrible..

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Yeah, that was the game. For those not following along, I had a split pair of eights and got all the money in the middle (having him covered) as a 91%-9% favorite against a pocket pair of sixes. Would have been the game, except he caught a six on the river. He caught another suckout on the river a few hands later which really crippled me and it was pretty much downhill from there.

Still a nice second place finish. Thanks for the sweat...

***** Hand History for Game 3027022051 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:17357041 Level:19 Blinds (5000/10000) - Saturday, November 12, 22:01:38 EDT 2005
Table Multi-Table(510701) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 2: duece248 ( $106492 )
Seat 9: Performify ( $323508 )
Trny:17357041 Level:19
Blinds (5000/10000)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Performify [ 8s 7h ]
duece248 raises [15000].
Performify calls [10000].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, 8h, Jc ]
Performify bets [40000].
duece248 is all-In.
Performify calls [46492].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6d ]
Performify shows [ 8s, 7h ] a pair of eights.
duece248 shows [ 6c, 6h ] three of a kind, sixes.
duece248 wins 212984 chips from the main pot with three of a kind, sixes.

[jedinite]

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Good stuff. Keep pounding.

Yow. that was a lot of chips to leave out there on that KQxx board.

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Probably my biggest mistake heads up.

I had AJo and had a good feel my hand was the best, but overbet the turn. A smaller bet would have let me find out where I was at without putting all my chips at risk, and I didn't feel I could call the turn push with seven outs at best.

The way he was playing, my AJo might have still been best. When he raised preflop and called my re-raise I put him on a hand range that's either including an ace or a king, or TT+. With his turn push I really put him on a King or Queen, but with his later play it could have been a much wider range.

Probably should have pushed the turn, if anything.


Edit: found the HH, reviewing my heads up play:

***** Hand History for Game 3026982084 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:17357041 Level:18 Blinds (4000/8000) - Saturday, November 12, 21:53:31 EDT 2005
Table Multi-Table(510701) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 2: duece248 ( $149746 )
Seat 9: Performify ( $280254 )
Trny:17357041 Level:18
Blinds (4000/8000)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Performify [ Jd Ah ]
duece248 raises [12000].
Performify raises [28300].
duece248 calls [20300].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, Qd, Kd ]
Performify bets [26800].
duece248 calls [26800].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
Performify bets [41200].
duece248 is all-In.
Your time bank will be activated in 5 secs. If you do not want it to be used, please act now.
Performify folds.
duece248 does not show cards.
duece248 wins 254046 chips