{"id":226,"date":"2011-05-08T22:02:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T05:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2011-11-02T09:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T16:17:28","slug":"roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Portland Players Club $1,000 Guarantee Freeroll<\/span> (4,000 chips)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hadn’t been in PPC since the middle of last May, preferring the comfier chairs of Aces, but a Facebook<\/span> invite\u00a0from their new owner and the potential for nearly-free money lured me in. The format allowed for re-buys during the first hour and an add-on, all for 4K in chips.\u00a0About 70 players started.<\/span><\/p>\n

I caught a big break early on in a four-way all-in holding J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Two players had drawing hands but the guy in seat 1 had A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. The board had other ideas, however, and drew out to a jack-high straight, giving me a pot of about 17K. By the time of the first break I was at 19K.<\/span><\/p>\n

Playing J<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0and the board turned up some more diamonds. A king-high flush gave me another win that put me up to 30K. At the 140-minute mark, I was up to 40K.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought I’d lost a big stack with Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> when an all-in matched the cards in his hand for two pair, but a pair of twos on the board gave me a second pair, as the dealer pointed out. He got a good tip later. That hand put me up to 75K and I was starting to dominate the table. I took a look around during the second break and I’m pretty sure I had the biggest stack in the room.<\/span><\/p>\n

An hour after I was at 40K I hit the 100K mark. We’d started with eight tables; by the time it was consolidated to two I had 101K.<\/p>\n

The blinds were getting up there and several of my hands failed to connect, with me just letting my raises go rather than trying bluffs, but at the four-hour mark I was down to 89K and there were a couple of other stacks at my table that were close to or possibly even larger. I lost another 6K to the woman on my left when I tried to play bottom pair on the flop from K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n

At the third break, I was down to 83K, but still one of the larger stacks. Not dominating any longer. The first hand after the break, though, I picked up A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and managed to bust out two smaller stacks, boosting me up to 110K.<\/span><\/p>\n

Got into it with the big stack on my left with 5<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> that double-paired on the turn. The woman on my left was all-in, I had called and had 30K in the pot and was ahead of her 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> until she made a set on the river and took it down. Even so, with some more wins I was sitting on 170K when we redrew seats for the final table four hours and forty-five minutes into the match.<\/p>\n

The woman who’d doubled up through me earlier had been seated directly on my right for the final table and had a healthy stack. She went all-in with about 70K and I called her with J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. She flipped over 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, I made a set on the flop and I was up to 247K.<\/span><\/p>\n

I caught another player all-in with 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> while I was holding T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, then took out the second-largest stack at the table when he shoved with A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and I had A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> in the big blind. Incredibly good luck.<\/span><\/p>\n

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By the fourth break I had about 475K in chips. The blinds were 4,000\/8,000, we were down to three players, and I was raising every hand I could with opening bets of 25K, which was over half the stack sizes of either of the the other two players. Barring a double-up, they had only a few hands each left before they were blinded out, and they proposed a chop that left me first place with them splitting second and third. I had no problems with that.<\/p>\n

After paying the door fee, an add-on, and a tip for the dealer (plus a couple of Diet Cokes) my ROI was +450%.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Portland Players Club Shootout<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since I’d already paid my door fee for the day, I figured I’d go back over to PPC for the last tournament, but while their 7pm game was going strong, I was only the second person signed up for the 9pm turbo when I got there at 8:45. It wasn’t promising and I waited around for one of the shootouts to start, playing <\/span>Tonk<\/span><\/span><\/a> with the owner and a couple of the dealers.<\/p>\n

Supposedly, you buy into the shootouts for 25-50BB but it seemed as if some of the players re-loaded above the top level after the game had been going for a while. Just sayin’. I bought in for 30BB. The game was set to play for 90 minutes.<\/p>\n

Took a massive hit on my first hand holding 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> in the BB. Hit a set on the flop, got into a bidding war with a 50BB stack at the end of the table and he beat me holding 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> when his set made it on the river. I lost about two-thirds of my stack right there.<\/p>\n

Not too long afterward, though, I played 7<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>, went all-in after making middle pair with the nine, made a set on the turn, and got back up to 20BB.<\/p>\n

Another suited gapper<\/span> (6<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>) made two pair for me but another player’s pocket Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> tripped on the flop and cut me back down to less than 8BB.<\/span><\/p>\n

I slow-played J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on a flop of J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and managed to get two callers for a triple-up on my full house.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> doubled me up against a two-paired A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> when I hit a Broadway straight.<\/span><\/p>\n

My hand of the night was J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> but it beat me when someone else played it against my A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I lost 20BB but was still had over 25BB in my stack after the previous windfalls. Lost another 5BB on A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> when I missed the flop completely and utterly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three spades on the flop and K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> in my hand meant I was all-in against a big stack. He called, the A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> hit on the turn and I was way ahead for the night, with a half hour to go on the timer I had nearly 90BB, triple my buy-in. I should probably have just sat on it, paid my blinds, and waited for the buzzer.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was sort of intending to do that, and dumped A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> with two all-ins ahead of me. Pocket 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> took it down, but there was a K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the flop and I could have made more. That’s probably what got me antsy.<\/span><\/p>\n

I called a 30BB all-in holding Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, they showed A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, pulled an ace, and I was still ahead of where I’d begun but not as much.<\/span><\/p>\n

Time ended soon after. I’d paid my door fee earlier, after a tip to the dealer and a Diet Coke I had +85% ROI.<\/p>\n

Overall for the day: +262% ROI.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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