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Well, we're down to the last five and seating and chip stacks are as follows - young aggressive northy kid in seat two on 400k, rock with some moves in seat four on 280k, Knuckles, the chip leader, on 1.4 million, me in seat nine on 700k and old rock with 250k. Knuckles is using his big stack to get chips and I want to get some soon before it's too late.
Unnecessary move
Blinds are 6/12k with 1k antes. I am in the bb. Folded to the button, who makes it 48k to go. I reckon he has a hand but he's worried about taking a flop with it. So I am putting him on ax/kj/kq or a small to medium pocket pair.
Knuckles folds in the sb and I find a2 in the bb. In general, this is usually a no-brainer for me. Shove 280k to win 70k uncontested. If I do get called and run into anything but aa, I am going to be about 28%. Given his bet size, aa is out of the question.
I think about shoving but this makes it easy to call off with a10 aj etc. Given he is a bit of a rock and as all rocks do, probably suffers from the 'there's a monster under the bed syndrome', I decide to min it 100k.
Once I decide to play the hand I may as well play it this way rather than just jamming it. He thinks for a second and sticks me all in. I am now calling 180k into 400k, which I do. He turns over jj and I fail to suck out.
I hate my decision to pull a move here so much. There's really no need for it. Also, I have gone way too light. A2 isn't worse than 28% against his range, but it's also not going to be much higher. At least if I go with a8/a9 I am a flip against some low pocket pairs. However, given my initial horrific decision and given the table and the info available to me, I quite like they way I played it.
The killer blow
Blinds are now 8/16k with 1.5k antes. It's now four handed after Knuckles removed seat four (the person I just doubled up). Folded to me on the button and I find k10 suited and I open to 40k. Sb folds while young northy kid takes forever and calls.
I am putting him on a hand. He has called many of my 2x button raises with any two cards. He has always done this fairly quickly, so this dwelling means he must have been contemplating a rr.
In general I have continuation betted and took down the pots. Flop comes k76 rainbow. He checks and I check behind. Given that he has folded a lot to my c-bets, I don't wanna lose him and if he has hit he's probably ahead of me.
Turn comes off an eight of hearts bringing a heart draw. He checks again so I bet out 40k into the 92k trying to induce a move. He shoves for 300k odd. It's always a tricky spot when you under rep a medium strong hand and then your opponent forces the issue. You have tried to look weak but then again there are a lot of hands you trail to.
Would he really check kx twice? Unlikely, would he over shove a set? No. His hand stinks of some kinda draw. There are straight and flush draws out there. I call; he has aj of hearts and rivers a heart. Really happy with how I played this hand. This crippled me leaving me with 100k odd chips.
Week so far
Doing fairly rubbish this week and not playing great. Went $10k ahead twice and literally gave it back. I am getting owned by Tycoon on Boyles. He made the sickest call ever on me. He called turn and river bets, both pot size bets with the river one being $630 with 6677 on a 44332 board, obviously his 7744 hand was good.
Cashed in the stud WCOOP, only a min cash though. Doing great in the tournaments I am playing for the first time - don't have a bananas what's going on. The problem seems to be in tournaments I think I know what I am doing. Going to play golf for the next two days and scale down the poker and try to recharge the batteries.
Got my 8km time down to 36 minutes today so showing some real progress there.
Comments (3)
john youre probably a nice guy but you talk some amount of shit