After the ‘big’ deepstack game I returned to the 90 players sng with a $2+.2 buy-in. I did pretty good, but wasn’t able to reach the money, finishing in 18th place.

However, I’m not thát disappointed because I enjoyed playing this tournament. The key hands I selected for you exactly show the interesting aspects of playing deep stack. With the first hand I took down a nice pot in an early phase:

I limp and even call a raise because the blinds are still low and I know exactly what I’m looking for with such a hand. I get a free card which gives me a very good draw. When my opponent makes a very weak bet I raise of course, maybe I can already take the pot right here. Of course when he reraises, my read completely changes: he slowplayed a big hand (hitting my straight might not be good enough anymore). On the river I know my flush is good and make a value bet. A few hands later:

A typical deepstack play: two people want to limp cheaply in late position so I raise. On the flop it’s not difficult to win the pot: whether you hit your hand or the flop comes high cards which you can represent. Then followed a period with a lot of eliminations and I was constantly just below the bubble. I eliminated a guy who went all-in with 33 holding AK myself but then I was eliminated myself with a little bad beat:

This is were deepstack poker backfires: the button is really deepstack and decides to see a flop with Q9 suited. He also knows where he’s looking for and finds it on the flop…