50 Rebuy (Live)
50 Rebuy , 101 runners, PL HE
This tourney is very important, I had 2 good finishes before the other nights poor performance , I was hoping to make final table .Anyway, I am drew a table consisting of 3/4 strong players and 2/3 loose "gamblers."
I already know I am not gonna be involved in many pots here , I will wait till after rebuy to get involved (notice I get involved when they likely tighten up), anyway first hr and 1/2 there isnt too much to tell, I picked up A 10 os and passed to a raise, had 10 10 in sb early on and just over doubled up when I hit top set, and turned a full boat. But at the break I had non too impressive $6800, blinds would be $100/$200 when i get back though which isnt harmful to my stack....yet.
So , I come back from the break in good spirits , and begin raising a few pot, I find some very good hands too tho, 66 and hit a set, I felt I played them ok, but not great, I bet $1000 into pot of $3000 I beleive , got 2 callers and bet the turn harder $3000, board was 3 4 6 9.Eh, nice pot all same, then flopped a straight when I limped in late ish with 7d9d,really badly nice. So now I am hovering around $10,000-$12,000. Then it begins, I go on a really long dry spell of hands. Blinds get up to $300/$600 before I know it and I am now playing a short stack game kinda, I can raise a pot but if someone comes over top I am in really big trouble if i dont have a real hand.
Then I decide screw it im gonna raise this pot without even looking at my cards, I have around $7500 with blinds at $600/$1200 or something like that. I am in late and raise the pot up to around $4400 which commits me, the guy in sb who is something of a "pro" thinks for around 4o seconds and grudingly passes, I look at my cards laugh and show 82 os, He goes "nice balls, I had AJ",I am happy i steal blinds but its funny, even when I dont look i still get rags lol. Then I proceed to raise pre flop in late with him in blinds with hands like 33,A5,K8 and him and the guy to his right say " Im calling him blind next time" , I pick up Q Q...Would you beleive it? Finally a real hand, hmmm now waht to do , they know I been raising with very marginal or even weak holdings, should I limp? I decide doing my standard raise should do it, when the guy in sb announces all in , i call in a flash and he has J J. Maybe I would have got action anway, either way nice double up needed.
Now we are down to around 4 tables and I am playing an ok stack, another hand comes along that wasnt big but was encouraging for me, the guy on button raises the pot pre flop when the dealer says its $3800 and he didnt look too happy and said "not $3200" ....He doesnt want a caller, before I even look on my cards I decide to myself this guy isnt strong and if I have a King or Ace im putting him all in for the extra $900, I findKJos, and do so ,he calls obviously and is actually slight fav holding A 4os, but I trip Jacks and take him out.
Anyway, people die , people get moved and now we are down to 2 tables, thats 20 people from the original 100 so not bad , but I want that final table place. I dont get too active for an hour or so, and watch as we are shortly down to final 14 or so , playing 7 handed on both tables. I am one of the short stacks when we are down to 13 as I am sittin on a meagre $30,000 or so with blinds at $3000/$6000 , I was up to $55000 for about half hr our so , but when I raised pre flop from SB with 460s and got the bb playing back at me with QQ, what can u do but fold?
Anyway, somehow I make it to the final table , when a fellow short stack is all in with 99 vs KJ os and a King on turn and River send him out. So now i got a 15 min recess before the final table and im on $23000, lol ....$600,000 in play, and i draw the seat in BB for final table with antes $4000/$8000.Eh eh eh, I was happy to make final table.
Final table - Utg raises to $24000, I look down and see A s 10 s, I call obviously ( i was likely to call with anything here) and find him with QQ. I expect to walk out with my 300 pounds when I spike an Ace! Sit back down ! Then I am on $50,000 or so when I raise from the button with Ax , cool back in it.
As the dealer button moves on , I notice there are a few short stacks around now, I pick up KK in mid, nicest i seen yet and decide to rais an additional $13,000. A tramp moves in for like $14000 , so less then the bet and the chip leader calls as does a tramp in bb for like $2000 of the $13k raise. Flop - A c 10c 7d...He fires out $30k and i pass and show, he flips over 10s7s??? out of position too , nice flop eh? The short stacks turn over AQ and 56, the chip leader wins but i would have runnered nut flush :( . Happens.
I move all in hand after after a early pos raiser with AKos and he calls the change with 55, I am looking out again when the board is 10 Q 6 , 7 and river is a Jack! Phew, got ok stack now , like $65000 ish. Anyway, few guys die and we are down to 5 handed, I raise with As9s, in mid , bb thinks for ages and passes and shows ATos.....close one. Could have been out there really. 4 way, and they all had big hands JJ,QQ,KK,AKos over and over. And now after folding continously my 37os,29s, and 28os I find I have only $45,000 in chips with blinds $6k/$12k. I am in BB and have 47os when there is a raise and re raise, fucksake ! Anyway, I decide next hands im moving in with anything without looking,I accidentally string bet :( and have to wait for the flop to move in my extra $10,000 or so chips, he decides to call a shitty $10k with K6 os on a flop of Q 8 3, I look down and find 10h5h uh oh Turn 8 river 3, and im gone. But I take a nice 1110 quid for my efforts.
I was really happy with that 4th place,It was more so good cos when I started on final table I had so little, closest guy to me had still over $60,000 so to come in 4th is remarkable really. I had QQ ,KK,AKos in 7hrs play having to pass KK so did well really. Could have played one or 2 hands better but all in all a successfull mtt.
We'll see how I do next time , may be doing a gutshot tourney soon but think I am becoming way more of a natural "live " player as opposed to online poker guy.
Anyway , getting tired and probably rambling....to conclude- in poker tourneys, one thing perhaps better then quality of hands is discipline and timing, you get these right and u can make a make a final table or 2 like me :)....Tonights tourney result is proof of that, anyway im off, read back in about a week and you ll see how i faired in either 5o rebuy or 100 freezeout at gutshot.
Ciso
This tourney is very important, I had 2 good finishes before the other nights poor performance , I was hoping to make final table .Anyway, I am drew a table consisting of 3/4 strong players and 2/3 loose "gamblers."
I already know I am not gonna be involved in many pots here , I will wait till after rebuy to get involved (notice I get involved when they likely tighten up), anyway first hr and 1/2 there isnt too much to tell, I picked up A 10 os and passed to a raise, had 10 10 in sb early on and just over doubled up when I hit top set, and turned a full boat. But at the break I had non too impressive $6800, blinds would be $100/$200 when i get back though which isnt harmful to my stack....yet.
So , I come back from the break in good spirits , and begin raising a few pot, I find some very good hands too tho, 66 and hit a set, I felt I played them ok, but not great, I bet $1000 into pot of $3000 I beleive , got 2 callers and bet the turn harder $3000, board was 3 4 6 9.Eh, nice pot all same, then flopped a straight when I limped in late ish with 7d9d,really badly nice. So now I am hovering around $10,000-$12,000. Then it begins, I go on a really long dry spell of hands. Blinds get up to $300/$600 before I know it and I am now playing a short stack game kinda, I can raise a pot but if someone comes over top I am in really big trouble if i dont have a real hand.
Then I decide screw it im gonna raise this pot without even looking at my cards, I have around $7500 with blinds at $600/$1200 or something like that. I am in late and raise the pot up to around $4400 which commits me, the guy in sb who is something of a "pro" thinks for around 4o seconds and grudingly passes, I look at my cards laugh and show 82 os, He goes "nice balls, I had AJ",I am happy i steal blinds but its funny, even when I dont look i still get rags lol. Then I proceed to raise pre flop in late with him in blinds with hands like 33,A5,K8 and him and the guy to his right say " Im calling him blind next time" , I pick up Q Q...Would you beleive it? Finally a real hand, hmmm now waht to do , they know I been raising with very marginal or even weak holdings, should I limp? I decide doing my standard raise should do it, when the guy in sb announces all in , i call in a flash and he has J J. Maybe I would have got action anway, either way nice double up needed.
Now we are down to around 4 tables and I am playing an ok stack, another hand comes along that wasnt big but was encouraging for me, the guy on button raises the pot pre flop when the dealer says its $3800 and he didnt look too happy and said "not $3200" ....He doesnt want a caller, before I even look on my cards I decide to myself this guy isnt strong and if I have a King or Ace im putting him all in for the extra $900, I findKJos, and do so ,he calls obviously and is actually slight fav holding A 4os, but I trip Jacks and take him out.
Anyway, people die , people get moved and now we are down to 2 tables, thats 20 people from the original 100 so not bad , but I want that final table place. I dont get too active for an hour or so, and watch as we are shortly down to final 14 or so , playing 7 handed on both tables. I am one of the short stacks when we are down to 13 as I am sittin on a meagre $30,000 or so with blinds at $3000/$6000 , I was up to $55000 for about half hr our so , but when I raised pre flop from SB with 460s and got the bb playing back at me with QQ, what can u do but fold?
Anyway, somehow I make it to the final table , when a fellow short stack is all in with 99 vs KJ os and a King on turn and River send him out. So now i got a 15 min recess before the final table and im on $23000, lol ....$600,000 in play, and i draw the seat in BB for final table with antes $4000/$8000.Eh eh eh, I was happy to make final table.
Final table - Utg raises to $24000, I look down and see A s 10 s, I call obviously ( i was likely to call with anything here) and find him with QQ. I expect to walk out with my 300 pounds when I spike an Ace! Sit back down ! Then I am on $50,000 or so when I raise from the button with Ax , cool back in it.
As the dealer button moves on , I notice there are a few short stacks around now, I pick up KK in mid, nicest i seen yet and decide to rais an additional $13,000. A tramp moves in for like $14000 , so less then the bet and the chip leader calls as does a tramp in bb for like $2000 of the $13k raise. Flop - A c 10c 7d...He fires out $30k and i pass and show, he flips over 10s7s??? out of position too , nice flop eh? The short stacks turn over AQ and 56, the chip leader wins but i would have runnered nut flush :( . Happens.
I move all in hand after after a early pos raiser with AKos and he calls the change with 55, I am looking out again when the board is 10 Q 6 , 7 and river is a Jack! Phew, got ok stack now , like $65000 ish. Anyway, few guys die and we are down to 5 handed, I raise with As9s, in mid , bb thinks for ages and passes and shows ATos.....close one. Could have been out there really. 4 way, and they all had big hands JJ,QQ,KK,AKos over and over. And now after folding continously my 37os,29s, and 28os I find I have only $45,000 in chips with blinds $6k/$12k. I am in BB and have 47os when there is a raise and re raise, fucksake ! Anyway, I decide next hands im moving in with anything without looking,I accidentally string bet :( and have to wait for the flop to move in my extra $10,000 or so chips, he decides to call a shitty $10k with K6 os on a flop of Q 8 3, I look down and find 10h5h uh oh Turn 8 river 3, and im gone. But I take a nice 1110 quid for my efforts.
I was really happy with that 4th place,It was more so good cos when I started on final table I had so little, closest guy to me had still over $60,000 so to come in 4th is remarkable really. I had QQ ,KK,AKos in 7hrs play having to pass KK so did well really. Could have played one or 2 hands better but all in all a successfull mtt.
We'll see how I do next time , may be doing a gutshot tourney soon but think I am becoming way more of a natural "live " player as opposed to online poker guy.
Anyway , getting tired and probably rambling....to conclude- in poker tourneys, one thing perhaps better then quality of hands is discipline and timing, you get these right and u can make a make a final table or 2 like me :)....Tonights tourney result is proof of that, anyway im off, read back in about a week and you ll see how i faired in either 5o rebuy or 100 freezeout at gutshot.
Ciso
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