Published June 4, 2009I played my first $5+.5 tournament and it went pretty well. Unfortunately I ended up as 14th, the top 12 being paid…
However, finishing in 14th place was quiete an accomplishment regarding my bad start. First I woke up with TT on the BB, where I raise it up and get called by the SB. Flop comes QJx and I make another bet, representing a strong hand obviously. I get called again and the turn comes an A: my opponent leads out, I give up the hand. Subsequently I get another premium pocket pair:
I give up my Queens because preflop I’m almost sure he has AK so on the flop I decide to stick with my read. So I’m kinda crippled after this hand but quickly after this I get a marvellous opportunity to recover from this:
The beautiful art of flopping a flush got me back on track and I was able to play some good poker after that. But then I was carddead while the tournament was heading towards the bubble and I decided to take my chances with pocket snowmen:
So eliminated after a coinflip, maybe I’m gonna wait it out next time because this is kinda frustrating…
Published May 27, 2009Another small deception in my third tournament ($2+.2). However, I had more fun playing this one than the previous one, where I was just carddead. This time I finished 35th.
I took a nice pot in the beginning with mediocre suited connectors:
This hand is just about representing everything: by minraising the flop I can represent a very strong hand like a queen as well as a flushdraw. Of course if you choose this tactic you better follow trough with it and it succeeded.
Subsequently I woke up with pocket sevens:
It’s important to know that the original raiser preflop just lost a big pot with a bad beat and I kinda expected him to steam so that’s why I just limp. So I wanted to be heads-up and I put in a big reraise, but the other player (who was playing fairly loose passive) calls anyway. We check towards the river and I know there’s no value in betting there.
What happens after this was really cruel: I went from deepstack to elimination in a rather short period. First I faced a bad beat with QQ against KT and then the following cold deck followed:
Now I should have figured he flopped a set after the minraise on the flop, it’s a standard move from most online players. So I guess my preflop raise was not bigh enough to get the deuces out of the way…After that it was pretty much over.
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