Small Stakes vs. InternetTexasHoldem.com--the hour draws nigh

[Bob T.]

Thanks, in my opinion, everyone who was at the final table played great. Congratulations to you also.

I've been practicing playing fast, when the right situations occur, and this tournament was one of them. There weren't guys out there, who where going to coldcall with say A6 suited, or something like that, so the first raise in was going to win a lot of pots. The hard part, is finding the right raise size to win enough hands, while still being able to play postflop, and to not give up to much if people move in after your raise.

Anyway, it is kinda fun to be playing in a tournament doing my Minh the Master/Scotty Nguyen/Daniel Negreanu impersonation instead of my usual more disciplined ring game.

Once again, congratulations on your showing.

Good luck,
play well,

Bob T.

[subq]

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And this, for my first 2+2 post.


And a fine post it was, welcome to the forum.

If we were limp reraising with pocket Queens, I can see how we lost.

Good luck,
play well,

Bob T.

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Bob, why would you say we here? It is all fun but you have class, don't lump yourself in with people who tend to lack it. As I have stated, I read/post on both forums so...

At any rate, it was great fun and I look forward to the next one.

[Seadood228]

That definitely was some fast play... It didn't help that I had Tosh building a monster stack to my right.

Here's pretty much how that whole final table went for me. I look down and see a decent hand (KJ,A10,88,A9, etc.) and think "Sweet, I can finally play". Then boom, Tosh raises and I can't continue. He had only shown two hands down at the time, and one of them was KK.

I kept thinking about coming over the top of him with some of those hands, but couldn't drum up the heart to do so.. Next time maybe..

[Ruddiger]

You seemed to have the courage to come over the top of me [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Bob T.]

You are right, I don't know if he showed down any other hands, besides the AA, and KK, tha he showed me. I wish I had played with a little less courage against him [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img].

Good luck,
play well,

Bob T.

[ammbo]

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I limp UTG w/ QQ, intending to limp-reraise one of the ignorant ITH'ers at my original table.

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I bleieve you have lost the right to call us ignorant. Win one of these and then you can fire away. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Big congrats to all of the final tablers. As the short stack I felt put upon and way out of my league, but actually....... well, no. I was way out of my league. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

'grats, Tosh!

[Haupt_234]

Def. wish I could have played... stupid PSY test.

Let me know when the next one is....

Haupt_234

[The Bear]

Seadood and company,

I was just talking a little friendly trash with the "ignorant ITH'er" comment. Sorry if it offended anyone. If you look through all of my previous posts, you'll find that I have absolutely no history of bad-mouthing people or whining or any of that.

And yes, my early exit clearly didn't back up my previous smack-talk. But I don't live in a results-oriented world, so I will live to fight another day. I was happy with all of my tourney plays but one, and it wasn't the QQ limp-reraise, which was very clearly the correct choice at that point.

Anyway, again I'm sorry if I really offended anyone. That was not my intention.

Have a good one.

Justin

[Seadood228]

You must mean this play right here Bob... Check out the hand I folded. (Sorry I don't have the HH converter.)

PokerStars Game #405049309: Tournament #1355096, Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (300/600) -
2004/04/25 - 17:56:16 (ET)
Table '1355096 5' Seat #5 is the button
Seat 3: Humbert H. (14978 in chips)
Seat 5: Ruddiger (13100 in chips)
Seat 6: rjruler (5330 in chips)
Seat 7: Streakin (8285 in chips)
Seat 8: Tosh27o (6695 in chips)
Seat 9: seadood228 (8612 in chips)

Humbert H.: posts the ante 50
Ruddiger: posts the ante 50
rjruler: posts the ante 50
Streakin: posts the ante 50
Tosh27o: posts the ante 50
seadood228: posts the ante 50
rjruler: posts small blind 300
Streakin: posts big blind 600
*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to seadood228 [Js As] Look familiar???
Tosh27o: raises 1200 to 1800

seadood228: folds
Humbert H.: folds
Ruddiger: folds
rjruler: raises 3480 to 5280 and is all-in
Streakin: folds
bdk3clash [observer] said, "Next one out is bubble boy, eh?"
Tosh27o: calls 3480
*** FLOP *** [7h 2s 5d]
rjruler said, "gl tosh"
*** TURN *** [7h 2s 5d] [7c]
seadood228 said, "yes..."
*** RIVER *** [7h 2s 5d 7c] [Jd]
Ruddiger said, "gg"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
rjruler: shows [Jc Ad] (two pair, Jacks and Sevens)
Tosh27o: shows [Kh Kc] (two pair, Kings and Sevens)
rjruler said, "gg"
Tosh27o collected 11460 from pot
Humbert H. said, "gg rj"
Tosh27o said, "gg"
seadood228 said, "I folded AJ sooooted!!!"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 11460 | Rake 0
Board [7h 2s 5d 7c Jd]
Seat 3: Humbert H. folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Ruddiger (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: rjruler (small blind) showed [Jc Ad] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
Seat 7: Streakin (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: Tosh27o showed [Kh Kc] and won (11460) with two pair, Kings and Sevens
Seat 9: seadood228 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

That's one weak play I'm glad I made!! At that point I had a lot of respect for Tosh's raises. Of course that respect waned as the table got shorter and shorter..

[Bob T.]

Yep, that one, and the one that I won when he had AA.