Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Bridesmaid

Pretty self-explanatory. I overplayed a pair headsup (I turned my hand into a bluff when the board came running aces on the turn and river as I could plausibly represent a lucky full house) vs. a flopped straight headsup and relinquished the chiplead. Then I was short-stacked and missed a freeroll to double up back up to a 3:2 disadvantage; we chopped. Then I got it in preflop with Ax in a 60/40 and villain turned a gutshot to bust me. I can't really fault villain for gambling with Kx with a 5:1 chip advantage, but it's not necessarily the spot I'd choose in his shoes with only 1 bet invested against my shove of 20 bets.

Fun times were had despite the disappointing finish, I think I only saw about 11% of flops all tournament, which is much tighter than I usually play. Of course, I was severely short-stacked in the early stages of the tournament, coming back from 200 chips with a quadruple up to become vaguely relevant, and patiently waited to double up back to a useably-sized stack. From there I kept my tight image and used it to pull off some big bluffs later on when I went card-dead. If I had won just one of five or six 60:40 weighted flips in my favour when we got down to the final five, I most likely would have had an insurmountable chiplead. Oh well. Sometimes you get unlucky.

2 comments:

Mike Heffner said...

yes, that would be the suck to finish up second there.... Lilkimmer77 loves to push thin edges, though.

Full Tilt Poker Game #8409329719: The Mookie (63227758), Table 1 - 60/120 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:15:39 ET - 2008/10/08
Seat 1: HighOnPoker (1,635)
Seat 2: -WYLDKARD- (6,655)
Seat 3: bayne_s (3,927)
Seat 4: Chippy McStacks (1,660)
Seat 5: DrewFours (1,030)
Seat 6: heffmike (6,880)
Seat 7: penner42 (8,170)
Seat 8: lilkimmer77 (2,508)
Seat 9: Joanne1111 (4,835)
penner42 posts the small blind of 60
lilkimmer77 posts the big blind of 120
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to heffmike [Jh Js]
Joanne1111 folds
bayne_s is feeling confused
HighOnPoker folds
-WYLDKARD- folds
bayne_s folds
Chippy McStacks folds
DrewFours folds
heffmike raises to 350
penner42 folds
lilkimmer77 raises to 2,508, and is all in
heffmike calls 2,158
lilkimmer77 shows [2d 2c]
heffmike shows [Jh Js]
*** FLOP *** [4c 9h 2s]
*** TURN *** [4c 9h 2s] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [4c 9h 2s 3c] [Ad]
Loretta8 (Observer): yawn
lilkimmer77 shows three of a kind, Twos
heffmike shows a pair of Jacks
lilkimmer77 wins the pot (5,076) with three of a kind, Twos
heffmike: ugh
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5,076 | Rake 0
Board: [4c 9h 2s 3c Ad]
Seat 1: HighOnPoker didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: -WYLDKARD- didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: bayne_s didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: Chippy McStacks didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: DrewFours didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: heffmike (button) showed [Jh Js] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 7: penner42 (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: lilkimmer77 (big blind) showed [2d 2c] and won (5,076) with three of a kind, Twos
Seat 9: Joanne1111 didn't bet (folded)

new home now, BTW.

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