Current mood:
mellow So nothing out of the ordinary right now just the same old shit, different day.
lets see... I have final tabled the last 3 tourneys I have played but for little cash. one 9th one 5th and one 7th. I am actually somewhat new to these multi table tournaments and am becoming more and more happy with the results and my ability to go deep in them every day. It seems that if I am in the proper mindset that nothing can stop me from gong deep in these. Also the final table i made last night also had a member of +1 at the table (hailme).. HELL YEAH!
He finished ahead of me when I flopped A106 and was holding aj. There was about 16k in the pot and i had 20k left in my stack. I decide to push thinking that a) I KNOW he(not my 1 guy but some other guy) has a weak ace and if he does call will be a dog and b) that if he folds i just padded my stack up to around 36k. well he calls, I have him covered by about 100 chips and he shows a6! A6! what more could i ask for? well the turn is a blank and the river cooled me with a 6 and i have about 100 chips left. It just sucks because i feel that i played good until the bitter end and he got me. I led the tourney from near the halfway point and this donkey got a hold of me. oh well, little you can do but put your money in with the best hand, 7th it will be. Next hand pokerstars did the overkill thing when i push my last 100 or so in with 43 off and the other guy completes is bullets to quads vs my flopped wheel draw. gotta love yelling DEUCE! at the final table.
Playing live tourneys is new to me. I have played over 100 billion FREE bar tournaments with prizes from the bars but that is usually just to cool down from a day of bad beats or for fun and relaxation. Yestrday was different. At my dealing school (poker dealer school) they have decided to resume thier 35 re-buys tuornament. its fun and drew a small crowd for its first week, 9 people. great. I was cruisin along picking up some pots, doubled up twice and after the re-buy period (i didn't re-buy) caught kings in the hole, two limpers at 100/200 blinds i bump it to 1000 trying to get it heads up and get one caller. My teachers daughter. Flop a king and she pushes all in in front of me. i call and double thrugh. I finished her with aces a few hands later. That felt good.
One hand got to me and i don't know how my decision was. I have kq of clubs in middle position with nobody limping in but guy in the seat behind me looks like he may be comin so i limp. he folds, it folds around to the button who min raises... WTF? small blind lets it go and me and the big blind call (blinds are at the opening level still of 25/50). flop is q74 I now have top pair with good kicker but have that fricken min raise to act be-hind me. The pot is at about 300 so i bet 250 at it to see what min bet guys does. He raises to 500. now you start with 1500 in chips, i am not in the re-buy mood (neither was my wallet) but i knew he wasn't either. I have already played one pot and lost leaving me with about 1000 chips whats in the middle. Did he min raise before the flop with a big hand? does he have aq? aa? kk? WTF is happening? my thoughts are that my best moves are to push or fold. why? my stack can't take much more. I look at the clock and blinds go up in 4 minutes and here i am playing a pot that could make me or break me. GREAT. Well first i asked him why he min raised and he just tried to shrug it off like i didn't say anything. I now think either he's real full of shit or has a real big hand. I look him over. college kid, probly a little push happy, but somehting tells me he has a big hand. I muck. I don't know if i was right but I am happy with my decision. Live to fight another day. The more I tihnk about it and after playing for him a while longer i am putting him on ak here. still don't know though. I go on to finish 4th (1st and 2nd pay) It was fun and there will probobly be double the players next week.
well thats it for today. cya later!
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