2010 Email Poker Tourney

[heyelander]

Out. I was short stacked with a low M and went all in when I picked up AJ in late position, with a couple of limpers in front of me...

Hand over, current board is: As Qc Kd 5h 2d
! heyelander has: Jh Ac
! John Pearce has: Ah Qh
! Pot 1: uncalled $70000 returned to John Pearce ! Pot 4: John Pearce wins $78900 with Two Pair (A A Q Q K)

[senorsheep]

Out. I was short stacked with a low M and went all in when I picked up AJ in late position, with a couple of limpers in front of me...

Hand over, current board is: As Qc Kd 5h 2d
! heyelander has: Jh Ac
! John Pearce has: Ah Qh
! Pot 1: uncalled $70000 returned to John Pearce ! Pot 4: John Pearce wins $78900 with Two Pair (A A Q Q K)

I'll be right behind you. I'm card dead - I'm shoving with the best hand I get this round.

[GwynnInTheHall]

Got taken out by Mizrachi last night when his 88 held up to my AK suited, oh wait, this isn't about real poker

[joncarlos]

I'm still in but I lost 2 coin flips in a row (JK lost to AQ, 77 lost to KQ) and I'm down to 54th place.

[GwynnInTheHall]

I'm still in but I lost 2 coin flips in a row (JK lost to AQ, 77 lost to KQ) and I'm down to 54th place.

I have to ask, why are you not using end game stack protection? IE, Harrington 1 and 2?


Playing Big Stack aggressive poker makes your chip vulnerable-- you might not play much, but when you're in you should be at least 60/40 if not better.

but then there is the Gus Hansen, play til you win it all or lose it all strategy.

[senorsheep]

I'll be right behind you. I'm card dead - I'm shoving with the best hand I get this round.

Heh. Because I was bored and just didn't care anymore, I donkey-called the other short stack's pre-flop donkey shove (QJ offsuit) with 7c6c. I flopped open-ended, then rivered him with the 7 Of Spades.

So, still short-stacked at just under $60K, I've got Pocket 3's in the big blind. The other short stack, also at just under $60K, limped in with a $4K call under the gun. Strange move for a short stack with the blinds and antes totaling more than $15K - smells like the old limp-with-a-monster-and-pop-any-raise-all-in move. Or maybe he just doesn't know what he's doing. The big stack at the table just raised 3xBB. If it was just me and the big stack, I'd shove here, and take my chances in a coin flip. Probably not such a good idea against two hands, though.

In real poker news, I'm expanding outside of No Limit tournament play into No Limit cash games. I've been reading some books and blogs and doing some low-stakes experimenting online. I went up to Blackhawk yesterday for a test run and made $75 playing $1-$2. Definitely a different game than tournament Hold'em.

[heyelander]

In real poker news, I'm expanding outside of No Limit tournament play into No Limit cash games. I've been reading some books and blogs and doing some low-stakes experimenting online. I went up to Blackhawk yesterday for a test run and made $75 playing $1-$2. Definitely a different game than tournament Hold'em.

what books have you been reading? I was down at AC two weekends ago, but the buy ins for their March tournaments are higher than usual (some special thing going on) so I sat at a 1-1 table and lost a bunch of money. I was playing really stupid though and can fix a lot by just tightening up a bit. I actually lost $100 on one hand in a $1-$1 game where I knew I was beat. Just dumb stuff. I'm chalking it up to an expensive lesson.

[heyelander]

It's funny... the first time I played in AC I played at a $2-$4 limit table. Limit poker sucks, and I didn't like the feeling of actually losing money. I thought I would like tournaments better because then I would already have paid and I wouldn't feel like it was real money. After playing in about 10 tournaments, going back to a cash game I found that I was playing like it was all free since I knew I could buy in again if I lost everything. Definitely the wrong attitude to have.

[joncarlos]

Just doubled up (and then some) with A9o ... now I'm back in the middle of the pack at 160k after losing 3 straight coin-flips

[joncarlos]

I have to ask, why are you not using end game stack protection? IE, Harrington 1 and 2?

Playing Big Stack aggressive poker makes your chip vulnerable-- you might not play much, but when you're in you should be at least 60/40 if not better.

but then there is the Gus Hansen, play til you win it all or lose it all strategy.

Yeah, a bit too much Hansen. Part of the problem is that these guys have been playing crap for a while now and JK and 77 looked like they should be 60/40 against their weaksauce But fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, won't get fooled again.

[senorsheep]

It appears that juancarlos has tapped out. I don't recognize any Junkies in the remaining field - anyone else still alive?

[Piney Boy]

Yeah I noticed that too sheep. Shame.

[heyelander]

so who finished highest here?

Anyway, let me vent for a moment... did I do something wrong?

I go to a casino saturday night. I get a seat at a $1-$2 no limit table. Buy in is between $60-$300. I'm use to a $100 top end buy in (different casino than I usually go to), so that's all I had planned to buy in for, so that's all I got. I sit down and the table is crazy. I think they are basically ignoring the blinds because the average pre-flop opening raise is between $10 and $20. From there the money jumps a ton (as it should.) In retrospect, writing this now I realize my mistake was the $300 buy in... oh well.

Anyway, I decide that I am going to play very tight. I don't want to play anything that will force me to make an iffy decision after the flop for what is going to immediately amount to half my stack. I fold a couple of low Aces, King-Jack and everything else that comes my way. I see a couple of cheap flops when everyone limps, but after an hour I've only played 2 hands. Finally I get pocket 8s. First guy to act bets $10, it folds around to me at 9. I call. $10 to see if I hit an 8, if not I'm out. button calls as well. Three to the flop. I figure first to act has two over cards and the button can have anything, just hoping the flop misses and they can take the pot. Flop comes 6-8-9 rainbow. I'm pretty damn tickled. Yeah, there's a straight out there, but I figure the guy I'm worried about has two over cards, and probably not the 10-J, although it's possible. He seemed like a bully. I wonder if I should check if he checks, hoping he hits something. He makes it easy for me and bets $20. I figure that's plenty of profit for me, $20+$30+$3 will let me play tight for another couple of hours! So I raise to $60. The button, out of the blue goes all in for $100. After thinking for a while, the first guy folds, and since all I've got left in front of me is $15ish, I call. I show my 8's and she shows her 7-10. *sigh*

Did I **** anything up here aside from sitting at a table I maybe shouldn't have been at?

[GwynnInTheHall]

Passive play at an aggressive table is always a recipe for disaster. If you pop the 88 to about 40 the 7-10 might not have called-- hell I'd even shove with 88 at table like that-- you might get beat, but you'll leave earlier and have time for something else. I watch this every night-- guys play tight hoping to catch a hand while the more aggressive guys steal pots, blinds and suck out on you. It's very hard to hit the perfect flop playing short stacked and tight, it happens-- but not as often as you'd think it would.

In the future-- never play a game short stacked and always be the aggressor if you can.