Published June 29, 2011So that was the final tournament of my series of 18 deepstack tournaments at Pokerstars. I didn’t cash in my last one, another very deep one of $8+,80, so my total prize money in the series came down to $67,41. As you know, I started with $66, so that makes a total profit of exactly $1,41 
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Let’s get to the story of the final tournament. Of course my confidence was sky high, as I finished 4th and 9th in my previous two tournaments. So I was convinced I could make another deep run in this one and in that way make my series profitable. But the start was a bit disappointing: I didn’t flop a lot in the early minutes with a couple of raising and calling starting hands. So I drained some chips, but I made up for it with a nice pot with A9 (flopped top pair with the 9) which gave me some chips again.
But then it all went wrong on one hand which couldn’t be played otherwise. Have a look:
What can I do? I get all my money in as a 73% favorite but the guy catches two Aces… Pity it has to end like that, but overall I’m satisfied with my result in my series of deepstack tournaments. I learned some extra things which I will keep posting here. For now, I’m going to play some deepstack cashgames on Pokerstars, see how that works out. Cheers!
Published July 26, 2009I just had a pretty short, but nevertheless very exciting tournament. I played the $8+.8 deepstack sit ‘n go with 90 players but it didn’t really last as long as I prepared for.
So I sat down behind my screen with a bag of chips and a couple of drinks. The tournament started and I was on fire right from the beginning. I got some big hands like AK and AQ and was able to win some rather small pots with them. Then I got an even better hand, pocket cowboys:
So everything worked out perfect, with an opponent having JJ and the flop being covered with all low cards. Especially in a deepstack tournament like this, a double-up is enormous. But then I lost a big pot with those same Kings:
Now at first, I was very mad and screamed things about cold deck to myself but in fact I should have figured he can almost only have QQ or JJ in that spot, flatcalling a reraise preflop. I lost another big pot a few moments later, basically because of tilting a little after this pot (bad plan). Then I got eliminated in the following hand:
I’m quiete convinced that the player on the cut-off is making a move in late position but my stack has become too small to reraise without being committed on the flop, so I shove all-in. I indeed happen to be a huge favorite but the King flops… So I finish in 76th place after an exciting start of the tournament.
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