Official Empire $50,000 Guarantee tournament thread...

[MicroBob]

ouch.

[Garland]

Blinds were escalating, and I had gotten unlucky a few times. I have T855 (T100-T50 blinds) in LP with AK diamonds and push. CO dares to calls with JJ. The nerve of some people... [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] JQx Q...flop and turn and I'm done.

Good luck all,

Garland

[MicroBob]

I'm out....down to 1200 and I tried to steal with 33 (3x BB raise).
BB defends with T6s.
Flop comes 2 spades, he checks, I try to push him out (I'm down to 900 afterall) and he calls and hits his flush.


Maybe I should have let my stack dwindle down more before stealing with crap.....but you can't wait forever....and my initial read was correct that he was defending with garbage.

[Garland]

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I'm out....down to 1200 and I tried to steal with 33 (3x BB raise).
BB defends with T6s.
Flop comes 2 spades, he checks, I try to push him out (I'm down to 900 afterall) and he calls and hits his flush.

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I might just push with 33 preflop and only 12x the BB, but it's close. It's not exactly stealing when you have a pair. And absent any activity and other callers/reads, I'd raise any pair with your stack. It's really hard to get good confident hands preflop and you need to somehow build your stack up.

Garland

[Che]

Was crippled by guy with 77 who called two big semibluffs by me with a J on the flop (I had overcards + flush draw and missed).

Then pushed my last 265 into the 50/100 blinds and my JJ ran into QQ. Oh well.

Despite busting far from the money in my first effort at Empire, I can assure you that I will be playing this one regularly.

Huge overlay + players who probably couldn't cut it at Party = AWESOME!!! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

Later,
Che

[ThrillFactor]

n/m

[ThrillFactor]

my first time in a buy-in this large!

Yippie!!

[ThrillFactor]

25K!