STARS $150 - Page 2

ChewyMint · #11 07-18-2005, 11:59 PM

LMAO!

Dealer: moneyg8tr has three of a kind, Aces
Dealer: BigE1132 has two pair, Aces and Jacks
Dealer: Game #2135846937: moneyg8tr wins pot (19934) with three of a kind, Aces
cferejohn: me next me next!

cferejohn · #12 07-19-2005, 12:02 AM

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The chipleader on your left tilting off all his chips.

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...would have been nicer if i could have picked up a damned hand while he was doing it...

Jurollo · #13 07-19-2005, 12:12 AM

Man it seems like every pokerstars tourney has increased its' field exponentially in the last week or so, 3000+ runners in the sunday now around 450 on the monday $150... both have to be records.
~Justin

cferejohn · #14 07-19-2005, 12:14 AM

Blinds 1K/2K (a100). 16K left. I've got 9To in the SB. Folded to me. Having just read the short-stack play section in Harrington's book, I think this is absolute no brainer of a push (my M is ~4).

Get called by A8. He flops 2 pair, but I have a flush draw. It doesn't come.

durron597 · #15 07-19-2005, 12:14 AM

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Man it seems like every pokerstars tourney has increased its' field exponentially in the last week or so, 3000+ runners in the sunday now around 450 on the monday $150... both have to be records.
~Justin

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That is why PokerStars makes so much money off the WSOP, not rake off the satellites. Though really it was too much for them to hope to have the WSOP champion 3 years in a row.

On a more important note, sucks when you steal and the blinds wake up with a hand cfere. Tough spot.

TheTimeIsUp · #16 07-19-2005, 12:18 AM

Even though it is happening, I do not see how it is logical that all the sudden PokerStars got a big boom. Most people aren't aware of the results of the WSOP until it is aired on ESPN.

durron597 · #17 07-19-2005, 12:41 AM

It was in the New York Times every day for like 4 days in a row.

TheTimeIsUp · #18 07-19-2005, 12:42 AM

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It was in the New York Times every day for like 4 days in a row.

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How does this affect PokerStars, though?

cferejohn · #19 07-19-2005, 01:35 AM

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Shortly after I made the last post.

I'm in the SB with 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 10[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Blinds 300/600 a50. Full table (9 players).

Player who I had noted as weak-tight (T8800) open limps from CO-2. I complete (T13,500). BB checks. Pot is 2250.

Flop is 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. I bet 1500. BB folds. Limper calls.

Turn is 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] giving me a gutshot to go with my top pair. I bet 2K. Limper raises 2800 to 4800 total (leaving him with less than 2000 back).

What do you do?

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I folded. This sure looked like a set of 3s or 6s to me. He said later he had a "high pair." Not sure if I believed him. Seems odd to limp a high pair after 3 have already folded, but as I said he did seem a bit weak-tight.

If I thought that all my outs were good (3 9s, 2 10s, 4 8s) it's possible I should have called, but really the problem is that if I don't improve, there's no way I can fold my pair on the river when he'll bet ~2K into a pot with ~14K, so really I have to think of his whole stack when considering the odds, I think. And like I said, I thought it was definitely possible that i needed to hit the straight to win.