Lock Poker $750 Guarantee Deepstack Turbo (T5,000)
I can really screw things up for myself. I hadn’t played much online lately, but dropped some money into the Lock box and played a couple of games, including this one where I totally screw myself at the end. Follow along and see!
Hand 1. A
I open-raise from 10/20 to 65, getting calls from HJ and CO. The flop is an unsatisfactory 8
Hand 2. 3
Fold.
Hand 3. 8
Folded. Blinds 15/30.
Hand 4. K
Open-raise 75; CO calls. 6
Hand 5. 8
Fold.
Hand 6. Q
Fold.
Hand 7. T
Fold.
Hand 8. 2
Fold. Blinds 25/50.
Hand 9. 6
Lower than my preferred range for 9-handed. Fold. As it ended up, two players hit two pair: jacks and queens beating jacks and nines on the river.
Hand 10. 8
Fold.
Hand 11. 6
Fold to SB raise of 300. Blinds 50/100.
Hand 12. T
UTG and UTG1 limp in, I raise to 275. BB folds, UTG and UTG1 call. Flop is Q
Hand 13. 9
UTG1 min-raises to 200, CO min-raises to 300, and I call. BB and UTG1 call. Flop is 7
Hand 14. 3
Fold.
Hand 15. A
Fold. Blinds at 75/150.
Hand 16. K
Fold.
Hand 17. 8
Fold.
Hand 18. Q
Fold.
Hand 19. 9
Fold.
Hand 20. A
UTG1 calls and everyone else folds. I raise to 450; UTG1 calls. The flop is A
Hand 21. 7
Folded.
Hand 22. Q
Folded. Blinds at 100/200.
Hand 23. 4
Fold.
Hand 24. 3
Fold.
Hand 25. 5
I get a walk.
Hand 26. 3
Fold.
Hand 27. A
Blinds are 125/250/20. UTG2—with 30K the only other player at the table with more than 7,000 chips—limps and I fold.
Hand 28. 3
Fold.
Hand 27. A
I’m the biggest stack at the new table, with about 2.5K more than anyone else. I’m in seat 9, there are three stacks between 9K and 10K in seats 4, 6, and 8, a 6K stack in seat 3, and the other have less than 5K. UTG opens with a min-raise to 500 and I announce my presence at the new digs with a three-bet to 1,250. Everyone folds but UTG, he calls. The flop is 2
Hand 28. A
Fold.
Hand 29. A
Blinds are 150/300/30. UTG raises to 600, BTN goes all-in for 3,220, and I fold. UTG calls with K
Hand 30. 8
Fold.
Hand 31. Q
Everyone ahead of me folds and I raise to 700. SB folds, BB shoves for 2,775. I call against 4s 3h] and he makes a pair of treys on the turn.
Hand 32. 7
Fold.
Hand 33. 3
Fold.
Hand 34. 8
Fold.
Hand 35. Q
Blinds at 200/400/40. Fold.
Hand 36. 4
Fold.
Hand 37. J
Folded to 6,650 all-in from SB.
Hand 38. 8
UTG min-raises to 800, which I would have called, but BTN goes all-in (second hand in a row) for 7,330. I fold and UTG calls, with 8,343 behind. It’s HU with K
Hand 39. 3
Fold. I drop below T10,000.
Hand 40. 5
Fold.
Hand 41. T
Fold.
Hand 42. K
Blinds are 250/500/50. UTG, with the largest stack at the table (18K), min-raises to 1,000, I fold, BB calls. They raise after the 5
Hand 43. K
Fold.
Hand 44. T
UTG is all-in for just 1,202 but nobody else calls. When he opens up, he has 3
Hand 45. 8
Fold.
Hand 46. T
No SB, since the player was knocked out the hand before. CO raises to 1,050 and I call, BB comes along. CO’s smaller than me by 1,500, BB has a 5,000 chip advantage. THe flop is 7
Hand 47. 2
Blinds are 300/600/60. Fold.
Hand 48. 7
Fold.
Hand 49. 2
Fold.
Hand 50. T
I raise to 2,000 and everyone folds.
Hand 51. 2
Fold.
Hand 52. 4
Fold to a min-raise and call.
Hand 53. 4
Blinds are 400/800/75. Fold.
Hand 54. 9
UTG min-raises and I call the 1,600. Both blinds come along. The flop is 6
Hand 55. 2
Fold.
Hand 56. 7
Fold.
Hand 57. T
Fold.
Hand 58. K
Fold.
Hand 59. Q
Blinds are 500/1,000/100. I open with a min-raise to 2,000 and everyone folds.
Hand 60. 8
Fold.
Hand 61. 5
BTN opens with a min-raise from a stack of 24K and I fold my big blind, leaving me just 9,275.
Hand 62. K
The hand I’ve been waiting for. Action folds around to BTN (with 15.25K), who shoves. I’m behind and at rise, but go all-in to call. BB (with a stack smaller than mine) folds. BTN shows J
Hand 63. 3
Fold.
Hand 64. K
Hearts again. The big blind has a third of his chips in the pot already. Action folds around to HJ, the player I beat with jacks two hands earlier. He raises to 3,000, leaving less than that behind. I call, BTN and SB fold, then BB goes all-in for just another 50 chips. Both HJ and I call. The flop is 7
Hand 65. 4
Blinds are now 600/1,200/120. Fold.
Hand 66. 2
Fold.
Hand 67. 8
Fold.
Hand 68. J
Action folded all the way to SB, who tried to steal my big blind and ante with a raise to 2,400. We were relatively evenly-matched in chips, with me about 3K ahead. I re-raised him to 5,000 and he called. There was almost 11K in the pot with a flop of 7
I’d figured out that with 15 places paying, at T5,000 and 131 entries, the chip average at the time we hit the money bubble was going to be 43.7K. All I needed to do was maintain, stay around that number, and I was going to be make it into the cash. We wstill had a way to go, with about 40 players left, but I had almost 9% of the chips in play. Blinds were moving up fairly aggressively, however, so I wouldn’t be able to just glide.
Hand 69. 7
Fold.
Hand 70. K
Where else do you want this hand? Big blind? Could I not play it just so there was no chance of losing chips? HJ went all-in with a raise of more than 10x: 13,015, about 23% f my stack. I was an overwhelming favorite against all but one card combination. I re-raised all-in over the top; the blinds had less than 2,000 between them. BB pushed in the last 345 in a desperation move and turned over 4
Hand 71. K
This got folded.
Hand 72. J
Only one other stack at the table had me out-chipped and that was by less than 1K. Everyone left was fairly healthy, however, with between 19K and 33.5K. The big stack was in SB. A low-20s stack in UTG1 min-plus-raised to 2,555 and I called. SB three-bet to 5,995. UTG1 folded, but I called to see a flop of 7
Hand 73. J
Fold.
Hand 74. K
Tangled again with the big stack. I opened to 4,000, big stack CO three-bet to 9,995, and BTN went all-in for 2,766. I called the three-bet, then we saw a flop of 4
Hand 75. 8
We picked up a couple of new players—with roughly the same stack as I had—between me and the big stack (now 76.5K). I raised with my eights to 4,000 and was re-raised all-in. I sort of felt I was beat when it came my turn to call, and boy was I ever right: K
VPIP for the session was 25%. Six pairs in the hole. I won eleven hands, including six showdowns.
Seventy-five minutes, 75 hands. 26th of 131 players.