*Official* Party Friday Special

[Kevin123]

A VERY short night as my Queens get all-in preflop against aces. After raising him allin, he takes about 10-15 seconds to think about it before calling. Guess it was a real tough decision.

[TomCollins]

Why risk it that early in a tournament when you are a coinflip? If you are a better player you may want to wait for bigger advantages.

[jgunnip]

Even if he calls preflop, unless an ace or a king fall on the flop I think he'd have a very hard time getting away from his hand.

[Che]

Table 3, LuckyBadPlyr

It would be nice if everyone that posts an "I'm in" would include their SN if different from their 2+2 nick. Just a thought...

Later,
Che

[Kevin123]

[ QUOTE ]
Why risk it that early in a tournament when you are a coinflip? If you are a better player you may want to wait for bigger advantages.

[/ QUOTE ]

I guess I'm not good enough to fold queens preflop...especially early. See way too many people putting in big raises and calling allins with MUCH less in the first hour. I'm down to two hands, a coinflip with one. Also, I really didn't put the guy on aces the way he played it. Does any rational person put in a raise like that with aces? Obviously it worked, but I think I only reraise this with 3 hands and he was fortunate enough for me to have one of them.

***** Hand History for Game 2294983677 *****
15/30 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 13574832) - Fri Jul 01 22:11:21 EDT 2005
Table Friday Special(374377) Table 33 (Real Money) -- Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: aamro (3030)
Seat 2: Buzzer1404 (1050)
Seat 3: real101 (1245)
Seat 4: willieboy8 (770)
Seat 5: kreinha1 (935)
Seat 6: shashahutch (945)
Seat 8: DonnaJenson (1940)
Seat 9: girgy44 (1085)
Seat 10: KSB123 (970)
girgy44 posts small blind (10)
KSB123 posts big blind (15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to KSB123 [ Qd, Qc ]
aamro folds.
Buzzer1404 folds.
real101 folds.
willieboy8 raises (30) to 30
kreinha1 folds.
shashahutch folds.
DonnaJenson raises (500) to 500
girgy44 folds.
KSB123 raises (955) to 970
KSB123 is all-In.
willieboy8 folds.
DonnaJenson calls (470)
Creating Main Pot with $1980 with KSB123
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 3h, 4d, 5h ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Td ]
** Dealing River ** : [ Jc ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 1980 |
Board: [ 3h 4d 5h Td Jc ]
aamro balance 3030, didn't bet (folded)
Buzzer1404 balance 1050, didn't bet (folded)
real101 balance 1245, didn't bet (folded)
willieboy8 balance 740, lost 30 (folded)
kreinha1 balance 935, didn't bet (folded)
shashahutch balance 945, didn't bet (folded)
mahalkita1 balance 975, sits out
DonnaJenson balance 2950, bet 970, collected 1980, net +1010 [ Ac As ] [ a pair of aces -- Ac,As,Jc,Td,5h ]
girgy44 balance 1075, lost 10 (folded)
KSB123 balance 0, lost 970 [ Qd Qc ] [ a pair of queens -- Qd,Qc,Jc,Td,5h ]

Don't mean to sound sarcastic with that "I guess I'm not good enough to fold queens" line. I'm mainly a SNG player still working on my MTT game. I really don't think I have enough of an edge later to give up these kinds of hands early.

[ChrisCo]

I'm at table 23 under the name Wrxtasy_03.

No notable hands yet. Just been blinded down to about 850.

[billyjex]

kevin, for what it's worth, i play it the same. the donks in these tournaments make that raise w/ much less than AA or KK.

anyways, i'm already up to 4400, AA and KK have been very good to me.

[Che]

Folding QQ in this situation is very, very bad IMHO.

Later,
Che

[LesJ]

Out 544 and kinda sick now as I went out when I made a set of 9s on the flop. Saw a straight possibility and maybe should have laid the hand down when the villian went all in.
JJ . .should I have laid that down?
Les

[TomCollins]

First break at 1132. Had 2800, but decided to semi-bluff my flush draw overcards and got instacalled by aces.

In first in the $10 rebuy on party though.