{"id":147,"date":"2011-02-17T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T18:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2011-02-17T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T18:13:08","slug":"chopped-to-the-felt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Chopped to the Felt"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Full Tilt Step 3 Turbo<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was a match made in hell, or maybe it was limbo.<\/p>\n

One of the players was taken out in the first few hands, doubling up the guy two seats behind me, but I got Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> on hand 9, pushing off another player with a 500 chip bet after the 6<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop and picking up a profit of 375 to put me in second.<\/p>\n

Six hands later I get Q<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>. UTG min-raises to 120 and I make the same move I did with queens pre-flop before with a re-raise to 300. Everyone gets out of the way and UTG goes all-in. He’s got me covered but I call and he flips over Q<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>. The flop’s a rainbow, there’s no chance of a flush, and we make a big 45 chips each from the blinds.<\/p>\n

I have to fold a couple of suited ace hands, including a Mutant Jack A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> when the flops don’t look good, and fifteen minutes in I’m down to seventh place with only 1,170 chips.<\/p>\n

The blinds go through me, and have increased to 60\/120 by the twenty-minute mark. I’m down to 8.5BB, there are still eight players, and I decide to play a marginal A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>, after throwing away A6o<\/strong> the previous hand and eight hands earlier. I raise to 300 from UTG+1 and get a call from the big blind. The flop couldn’t be much better: K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>. The big blind checks and I go all-in, getting a call. He’s got 6<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>, so we chop the small blind’s money and get 30 each.<\/p>\n

The blinds are closing in on the next hand. I have 9<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> and raise to 300. The cutoff (the smallest stack) and big blind call. The flop is K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> and I try to bluff it with another all-in and the small stack calls. He’s got K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>. My nine pairs with 9<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn but the J<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> river card gives him a straight and me nothing but 60 chips which disappear in the big blind on the next hand.<\/p>\n

I won three showdowns in of 35 hands, had queens twice and three of a kind on the flop, but two of my three wins were essentially negated by draws. No ticket for this game. back to the bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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