I had sour luck hitting hands, and even getting decent holdings. I was down to 2500, with average stack 14000, blinds 200/400. All-in mode worked for me. Stole two sets of blinds, and then doubled up. I was at around 11k, with average stack 16.7k. Then I made a few mistakes. I was button with 67s, facing a min raise from the cut-off. I call, flop comes 6Q8, none in my suit. It's checked to me. I shove, he snap-calls with QQ.
A few problems here:
1) I called a raise with mediocre holdings to be taken (likely) heads-up.
2) I did not connect firmly with flop, yet over-committed with very few draws.
3) I lost my whole stack with one pair, and a weak one at that.
The night before, at Golden Nugget, I played perfectly, but lost on the river twice when I was about a 9-to-1 favorite on the turn. Guy landed two pair one time, and the other time the guy landed trips. Second time I had some well-disguised aces, head's up, and he had top pair with QT. Went to the cash game and made back about 150$.
Will hit another tourney this evening, hopefully I can play it more solidly.
--G
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Pain Spiral
Reverse Order:
Binions:
Just got home after bombing out of the tournament when blinds were 300/600 and I had 3.2k left. Action was weak to me in the cutoff, I had K9 spades, shoved. The two players after me happened to have hands that counterfeited me. One blocked my spade draw with AT, the other had KQ. Board did not help. I had made a few "bad" calls earlier that put me on a crippled stack. Raised to 700 earlier with AJs, re-raised to 2500, I called. King on flop, had to fold. Had AA UTG, raised to 700 when blinds were 200, and it was folded all the way around.
Golden Nugget:
Could not catch a hand, was batting about 3%. When I did make a hand, I was coolered. Flop came 9K9 when I had A9. Someone had K9. Doubled them up. Never made a set...
Bellagio:
Was playing pretty damn well, but the cards were abusing me at the 1/2 table. AQ was my kryptonite, could not win with it, and could not beat it. Was taking it from both ends.
key hand AQ:
I bet pre-flop, someone across from me snap raised. Flop came AQ4. I bet, they called. Turn came another rag. All my money went in, and they beat me to the pot with a set of Queens. Now, I could have gotten away from this because, based on the player, I had a strong feeling he had a pocket pair pre-flop, and a good one at that. So if he had AA, KK, or QQ, 2/3 of these hands gave him a set on the flop. I should have gone with my suspicions and kept myself from losing another 400$ on that hand.
Sat down at the 5/10 game with 400 or 500. Worked it up to 2300 and then had a pivotal hand that I was bluffed off of. I had AA, made a solid pre-flop bet, got called. Flop was 682, made a big bet, called. Checked turn of 7, he made a big bet, called. River was 9, putting four to a straight on the board. I made a tiny bet, hoping to provoke a show-down. He raised 300$, I folded AA face up. He showed 33, OUCH. I was tearing myself up trying to figure out why that hand bothered me so much, and I think the issue was that he had a mountain of chips, but when he raised me, he used 100$ bills. I should have felt suspicion. Also, the pot was so huge, that 300$ may not have been too much. I proceeded to tilt off more than I care to admit.
Rough night. And my girl seems upset about some things, but won't share...
682 7 9
Binions:
Just got home after bombing out of the tournament when blinds were 300/600 and I had 3.2k left. Action was weak to me in the cutoff, I had K9 spades, shoved. The two players after me happened to have hands that counterfeited me. One blocked my spade draw with AT, the other had KQ. Board did not help. I had made a few "bad" calls earlier that put me on a crippled stack. Raised to 700 earlier with AJs, re-raised to 2500, I called. King on flop, had to fold. Had AA UTG, raised to 700 when blinds were 200, and it was folded all the way around.
Golden Nugget:
Could not catch a hand, was batting about 3%. When I did make a hand, I was coolered. Flop came 9K9 when I had A9. Someone had K9. Doubled them up. Never made a set...
Bellagio:
Was playing pretty damn well, but the cards were abusing me at the 1/2 table. AQ was my kryptonite, could not win with it, and could not beat it. Was taking it from both ends.
key hand AQ:
I bet pre-flop, someone across from me snap raised. Flop came AQ4. I bet, they called. Turn came another rag. All my money went in, and they beat me to the pot with a set of Queens. Now, I could have gotten away from this because, based on the player, I had a strong feeling he had a pocket pair pre-flop, and a good one at that. So if he had AA, KK, or QQ, 2/3 of these hands gave him a set on the flop. I should have gone with my suspicions and kept myself from losing another 400$ on that hand.
Sat down at the 5/10 game with 400 or 500. Worked it up to 2300 and then had a pivotal hand that I was bluffed off of. I had AA, made a solid pre-flop bet, got called. Flop was 682, made a big bet, called. Checked turn of 7, he made a big bet, called. River was 9, putting four to a straight on the board. I made a tiny bet, hoping to provoke a show-down. He raised 300$, I folded AA face up. He showed 33, OUCH. I was tearing myself up trying to figure out why that hand bothered me so much, and I think the issue was that he had a mountain of chips, but when he raised me, he used 100$ bills. I should have felt suspicion. Also, the pot was so huge, that 300$ may not have been too much. I proceeded to tilt off more than I care to admit.
Rough night. And my girl seems upset about some things, but won't share...
682 7 9
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Golden Nugget, Wynn
So, a few good stories over the intervening days.
Blew quite a bit at the Wynn classic, mostly on satellites, also bombed out of the two expensive tourneys.
But, a summary...
Wynn:
Bought into 5/10 with minimum buy-in of 500. AQ, raised, flop came QQ4, River 5, Turn 6, ended up tripling up. As I was racking up to run, I got AA, had one caller, bet 150$ on flop, 150$ on turn, double-checked on river, I won hand. Left.
Two nights ago, I got broadway on the turn, thought it would be a chop, shoved for 500$ or so on the river. He had two pair.
Last night, I had 8T suited, got a straight on the turn, river came 8, putting a straight on the board. Other player grinned at me, went all in. I tanked for about 15 seconds, realized his betting patterns were too strange for JT, when I had the flush T, so I called. He had A8, and was playing the board straight, he thought we were chopping. I had 700$ behind me and there was another 250$ in the pot.
Good times. My tournaments have been dry though.
Blew quite a bit at the Wynn classic, mostly on satellites, also bombed out of the two expensive tourneys.
But, a summary...
Wynn:
Bought into 5/10 with minimum buy-in of 500. AQ, raised, flop came QQ4, River 5, Turn 6, ended up tripling up. As I was racking up to run, I got AA, had one caller, bet 150$ on flop, 150$ on turn, double-checked on river, I won hand. Left.
Two nights ago, I got broadway on the turn, thought it would be a chop, shoved for 500$ or so on the river. He had two pair.
Last night, I had 8T suited, got a straight on the turn, river came 8, putting a straight on the board. Other player grinned at me, went all in. I tanked for about 15 seconds, realized his betting patterns were too strange for JT, when I had the flush T, so I called. He had A8, and was playing the board straight, he thought we were chopping. I had 700$ behind me and there was another 250$ in the pot.
Good times. My tournaments have been dry though.
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