FINAL TABLE

So I played an $8 2 rebuy and 1 add on tourney last night, 250 people with 315 rebuys and about 50 add ons, I didnt rebuy till break and I took the add on. I ended up taking down 7th place for $180. I was doing really good at the final table till we got back from break and my QQ raise got repushed by AK on the button and of course he hit the king... I went out a few hands later with k10, I raised early and the chip leader pushed over the top with a9 suited, we both missed I got knocked out.

Speaking of k10, I wanted to post a note on 2 k10 hands i played earlier in the tourney.

I had these k10 offsuites back to back hands.
The 1st one I was 3 to the left of the BB at an 8 handed table, blinds 400/800 100 ante. I raised to 2400, with a SUPER tight image, everyone folds. The very next hand I get k10 again, I get a feeling inside that someone is going to raise after me so I elect to fold. The button who has 56k and the tourney leader at this point makes it 2k to go so I am glad I chose to fold and not have to try and play a k10 outacked and out of position.

Interesting...

UTG+1 limps, folds around to me on the button, I raise it to $1, SB folds, BB folds and the limper calls.

FLOP 374 rainbow.

Limper fires $1.50, I call

TURN 10

Limper fires $2, at this point I think my hand is good so I push $17.05 in the middle.

He calls after maybe 5 seconds of thought.

RIVER 8

He shows 2d 7d, for a pair of 7s, I had KK

Not playing much

I havent been playing in the last week or so, no real reason why I am avoiding the tables. I have been working around the yard and playing lots of video games so that might have something to do with it.

Seeing red

.10/.25 $25 buy in cash game

Folded to me on the button I limp in, SB calls, BB checks.

FLOP 7h 8h 9s SB checksBB FIRES $4, I insta call, SB folds.

TURN 5h, BB bets $1.25, I think, call time, then smooth call.

RIVER 8d, BB fires out $6, but before he could bet I had typed "?" so that I would be ready when he did bet and when he did I hit enter, I then moved my bet slider to $18, a little more then he had left, I wait till time comes, then I fire it in.

BB had 99

I had 4h 6h

$42 pot

Crazy

Interesting hand I played last week... stakes were .25/.50, this was online I sat with $50 I think.

I am on the button, with 33, 3 players limp in front of me so I decide to limp in too, the sb folds, and the BB checks.
FLOP 8s 3c Ah, checks around.
TURN 2d... this is where it gets fun.
BB checks, next to act bets $1.50 into a $2.50 pot, cut off reraises to $5... ok my head is working overtime at this point...
I RE-reraise to $10.50, the BB pushes for $17.45 and I start thinking no way someone has 54...
original raiser folds, the cut-off thinks and think and thinks, and calls the $17.45.
I push all n for $63.55, cut off insta calls
RIVER 4d

BB has 54 off
Cut-off 22
I had 33

I scoop $92, bb scoops $53... super glad I repushed on the turn, I dont think the cut-off can call once that river makes 4 to a st8 on the board...

Later that night I played an $11 5k guarantee tourney... got 51st out of 872 for $21.80... blah, but I keep going deep in these larger field tournies...

Deep run in $27.50 80k guarantee

Well I finished 171st out of 2043 people. I busted myself, it was stupid, it really was... I had 55 late position, I told myself to fold so I limped in. Button then raises it to 3400ish. Why did I call his raise... I decided he had overs... he had been pushing me around a little before this... so the board was like 10 8 3, I push... He has AA... I win $61.29... I really had no reason to play 55 this deep in the tourney... lesson learned...

I am happy with my play besides that. I played tight and smart, got lucky a couple of times but thats how it goes... The tourney was 8k for 1st. BTW

Fun stuff

So last night I sit at my usual game and my 2nd hand I get AA, un suited, HA had to say it. Anyhow, guy in late pos makes it $1.50 to go, everyone folds to me in the SB, I make it $4 total, this guy reraises to $9 total, so I push my whole stack of about $25 in, thats what I sat with, INSTA CALL, so I am thinking he has KK right? No he has J10 OFF and flops 2 pair. This should be the end of the story, but its not, the guy starts talking alot of shit saying AA always gets crack, so I tell him no AA doesnt always get cracked morons who make bad plays get lucky and that he wouldnt last very long playing like that, at this point I have seen at least 4 or 5 hands from him, and have a clear idea of his pattern and how he is playing, not just based off the hand against me, but how he played the hands after... so he proceeds to lose half of what I gave him to someone else on a draw, then a couple hands later he doubles with AA... so what does he do? Leaves the table...

But I wasnt dont with the fool yet, so I did the fancy little search feature and found him, he had jumped up to .25/.50 so I sat, he moved to another table I followed, he sat with the $20 he took off me, I sat with $50 directly to his right. All I needed was 3 hands to get him back, I called a $1.50 raise with Ah Jh in the cut off, our villian here decides to make it $3 more to go, the other guy calls I call, flop Jc Qd Js, 1st guy checks I have auto check clicked and our donkey, oh sorry I mean villian pushes $16 in the middle, other guy folds I insta call, he has AK... I win.... I told him he wouldnt keep it long and that I would smash him... and I did, I saved his name and plan on making his poker life hell, cause really he is a horrible player and I have found easy $

$2 2k guarantee

BLAH... so I went out 123rd out of 2025... last hand, I have around 20k, blinds 500/1000 with 100 ante i think, I have around 20k I raise to 4k utg, button pushes all n, of course I call. Flop is all low cards, nice, turn K river K... he has AK... $5.34 for 123rd... so heres what I think... he should smooth call pre with ak and then fold post... he had a larger stack then me, but I had been ultra tight so my raise repped big hand, but eyes light up when they see AK, sucks he had to runner it like that... oh well I played good and made it deep. I keep that up and I will win one eventually....

I did miss a hand early, actually I played it wrong. Blinds were around 400/800 I limped with 9s, I had around 17k, guys pushes all n for 6kish, I was calln that, but the sb calls 1st so I fold... A2 against AK... flop yeah u guessed it, k 10 9, kicking myself at this point, then the turn is a 9... so yeah I would have raked a 30k pot if i call pre. Because ak is calln my push post flop more then likely. Personally I think him being the small blinds he raises post flop, him hitting the king and all then I would have pushed over course... oh well... maybe i should have called preflop with the sb calling cause of pot odds... but at the same point I dont want to risk almost half my stack on a small pair, do I?

How I played it bad was limping in, I think if I raise preflop in early pos, the A2 is gonna fold and then the AK i think just calls my raise, since he just called the A2's all n, in the actual hand. So we would see a flop, w/o the A2 and the AK would bet out hitting a flop of k 10 9, In this spot I will push 90% of the time, and I would have, he would have been commited at that point because of pot size and his king, then I would have had over 30k and maybe not had to play those queens. HA yeah right that hand was gonna happen regardless....

Till next time... man this was a long indepth report