{"id":280,"date":"2011-09-11T22:04:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T05:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2011-09-11T22:06:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T05:06:34","slug":"98-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"98 Tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Played three tournaments yesterday(ish), which brings my total since 1 May to 98, including both live and online games.<\/p>\n

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I haven’t cashed in this tournament over six attempts. But at least I usually make it to the add-on break so that I can donate another $50 to the prize pool. Not last night. I picked up K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> as BB and hit a set on the flop. I was so busy hoping for the board to pair on the river that when a mid-position player who’d been calling my raises shoved, I snap-called and was easily beat by the Broadway straight I missed seeing. I just said “Not tonight” when the dealer asked me if I wanted to rebuy, but what I was thinking on my way out the door was “Not after a stupid call like that.”<\/p>\n

Twenty minutes. Didn’t even bother to check the entries or my position but I think I was first out among about 45 players although some likely showed up after I was KOd. -100% ROI.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I thought of variations on the theme of what I should have said as I drove across town to the Encore. I still had enough in my pocket for a buy-in in their Friday night 8pm freezeout, and I even managed to get a spot in their parking lot.<\/p>\n

Sometime about three months ago I stopped keeping notes on my live games. It seemed distracting, I wasn’t always finding time to post the results here (I’ve got several games from June and July I never got around to), and I felt I wasn’t able to concentrate on my game as much. On the other hand, I was cashing more often while I was keeping notes, so I decided to do it again for this game. Did it make a difference?<\/p>\n

Early on I lost 1,300 chips with Q<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I needed a 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> for a queen-high straight but folded on the turn bet and the other two players still in the hand chopped my contribution, as they were both holding A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and made a pair of tens.<\/p>\n

Hit a pair of queens with Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and took a small pot, then tossed J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> post-flop which would have made a jack-high straight on the turn. By 15 minutes into the game I was down to 8,600 chips.<\/p>\n

J<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> lost me 250 when I folded after an unpromising flop. I pushed 1,200 into the pot holding 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> in position after a limper who called but A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the flop and a bet from the limper made me throw it and he showed his A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Down to 7,575 at 33 minutes.<\/p>\n

Called a raise to 425 with Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> but tossed it after another ungood flop. Three-quarters of an hour in, I was down to 6,950.<\/p>\n

Finally, my flushing strategy worked with T<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I hit on the turn and pulled in enough to bring me back up over starting level, to 11,825.<\/p>\n

Overbet A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and lost 1,200 when I didn’t connect by the river heads-up and my opponent bet another 1,200. At the first break I was holding just over the starting stack: 10,125 chips; just a little below average with only one player out.<\/p>\n

I went card-dead for quite a while and slipped slowly to 9,100 after the return to play, then shoved from BB with J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> (the strong hand of the night) and was called by A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> (which was consistently losing last night). The woman who called me had me covered by only about 600 chips and the loss was crippling. On the other hand, I was up to 17,800 by the two-hour mark.<\/p>\n

I called an all-in with A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> and was outmatched by A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> but the board gave me a low straight and I knocked out a player, taking me up to 23,200 at 2:15 into the game. By break two that had increased to 25,800.<\/p>\n

With the blinds at 400\/800\/100 after the chip-up, I raised to 2,000 with Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> from UTG and managed to take the blinds down. With K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>, I raised from BTN to 2,400. There weren’t any hearts on the flop and BB won the pot hitting jacks over nines right off the bat.<\/p>\n

A player with 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> went all-in with 14,000 and I called with K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, which held up. A little more than three hours into the game, I was up to 33,800. I promptly slammed down again calling an all-in from a 5,000 chip short stack with J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. They tripled up.<\/p>\n

Clubs failed me again with A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> on BB. There weren’t any black cards on the board by the turn when another player bet out and I folded, losing 1,600 chips. Twenty minutes after being at neatly 34K I was down to 24,600. Another twenty minutes had me cut down to 20,600, just under the average stack.<\/p>\n

Two kings on the board by the turn forced me to fold A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and forfeit 1,600 more chips. The slide continued, down to 18,800 at the third break.<\/p>\n

Four hours into the game and it was an even 14,000. I took the blinds and antes with [kd tyd] but a pre-flop all-in with Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> got called by a big stack with A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I had an up-and-down straight draw from the flop, but nothing else materialized and I was gone.<\/p>\n

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\nFive hours. Finished eleventh of 44 entries. Six places paid, with $4,400 in the prize pool.<\/em><\/p>\n

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What better to cleanse the palate of five hours of play, only to bust out short of the money, than some mixed-game online action? I joined the game with only four other players at one of two tables, playing Pot Limit Hold’em. I lost a couple of early pots, laid down a K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> after missing the flop that would have cleaned up on the fifth hand, then finally turned A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> into enough to get me back up over starting stack on hand 8.<\/p>\n

The very next hand, I paired my ace in A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the flop to win a small pot, then lost a little back. We lost a player on hand 10, then the tables consolidated on hand 14. The sixteenth hand was the beginning of our switch to Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo.<\/p>\n

Hand 21 was a turning point. I picked up K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Seemingly not a particularly good hand, but with low possibilities if there’s an ace on the board. I raised to 90 (from 15\/30) UTG, was re-raised by UTG3 to 315, and called after BTN called. The 7<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop gave me a heart draw and top pair; I bet the pot: 990. UTG3 went all-in and I was all-in to call. He had 7<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> for two pair as it stood; we were 40\/60 with me on the short end. But I made the flush on the 5<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> turn and his only hope was to catch7<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>, 7<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>, or K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the river. I went from 2,295 to 4,920 and a more than 1,000 chip lead.<\/p>\n

I didn’t win anything through the next round of PLHE, actually managing to lose the 1,000 margin I’d had. By the start of hand 40 I was down to 3,285. That hand, I got 3<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> in SB and called the 60 chips of the big blind. The Q<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop gave me a gut-shot Broadway draw; I had a backdoor nut flush. I checked it and BB checked. K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn gave me the nuts: Broadway. I checked, BB bet 225, I pot-raised to 1,425 and he called. A pointless 7<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> showed on the river. I checked, BB tossed in his remaining 515 chips and I called. He just had kings and threes. He was KOd, I was up to 5,945.<\/p>\n

Hitting trip nines on the next hand (the last of that round of Omaha) put me over 6,000 chips.\u00a0A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> on hand 47 dragged in another nearly 4,000 chips. At nearly 8,500 chips, my nearest competitor was 2K below me. I lost a bit on a few hands, but a split high pot (2<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the board and two of us with aces) on hand 54 (PLHE) got me up to 8,088.<\/p>\n

My nearest competitor and I went head-to-head in hand 56 (PLO8) with me taking the low and earning a couple hundred in early bets and calls.<\/p>\n

The next hand, I picked up 6<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> in HJ at 75\/150. Action folded to me, I raised to 450 and got called by BTN and SB. The flop of 9<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> missed me completely and got checked all around. 2<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn didn’t do me any good, either, but when SB checked to me I bet 750 and both the others folded. I was up to 9,288 and I was invincible with a nearly 3,000 chip lead.<\/p>\n

I lost 825 speculating with one of those unrecommended hand that I nevertheless enjoy in PLO8: 9<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>. SO good if you manage to hit a bunch of mid-range cards on the flop for a straight, not so good when it’s 5<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 5<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> and someone bets 1,330. I folded and watched nothing that would have improved my hand show up.<\/p>\n

I speculated with a couple of more hands, dropping down to just over 6,000 chips by hand 63. Then I picked up 5<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> and everything went to hell. A player starting with just under 5,000 raised to 425 from UTG1, and I re-raised to 850 for some reason. SB folded, BB called, then UTG1 raised to 3,475. My hand wasn’t strong\u2014even if a low came along I could be easily counterfeited\u2014 but I called anyway. The K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the flop gave me nothing, but I still called an all-in bet of 1,450. My opponent flipped over A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> for a pretty good two pair. The K<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn sealed my fate. With no possibility of a low and a full house in his hand, I was drawing dead for a pot of 10,775 chips. I started the first hand of a round of PLHE with just 1,101.<\/p>\n

My last hand (at 100\/200), I potted pre-flop from UTG to 700 with J<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. BTN re-raised to 1,200, then BB pushed to 4,400. I called with my remaining 401 chips and BTN folded. BB flipped over K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span><\/span>. He had over cards and both my suits, but I still had about a 35% chance. That dwindled to 22% when we both paired on the T<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> flop. Neither the turn or river cards improved my lot, and my implosion was complete. Top to bottom in five hands.<\/p>\n

67 minutes. 67 hands. Finished seventh of 10 players. Three places paid; $190 prize pool.<\/em><\/p>\n

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