{"id":283,"date":"2011-09-12T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T22:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2011-09-12T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T22:07:23","slug":"not-so-much-card-dead-as-card-comatose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Not So Much Card Dead As Card Comatose"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aces Players Club Back-to-School Special (12,000 chips)<\/strong><\/p>\n

DV and I both played this game, in which the house added $1,000 to the pot for first prize just to make it extra juicy. I ended up at table 1, seat 8, and spent the afternoon next to R, the gent who beat me out of a first-place finish in a freezeout<\/a> a few months back. DV ended up out in the hinterlands.<\/p>\n

My first move of any sort was as BB with A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. By the turn, there were two kings on the board and when a bet of 400 opened, I folded.<\/p>\n

On SB with 8<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> 9<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span>, I caught top pair on the flop with my nine. The K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn, two clubs on the flop and a bet of 400 from the same guy (seat 1) as the hand before and I folded.<\/p>\n

Shortly thereafter, I picked up A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> and raised to 350, getting four callers. The king paired on a pretty dry flop, I bet 1,000 and took the pot. Twenty-five minutes into the game, I was 625 chips ahead of starting stack.<\/p>\n

Three players were in for 350 when I picked up A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> as BB. I raised pre-flop to 2,000 and only one stayed in. The flop was jack-high, I bet another 2,000 and my opponent folded. R told me he folded jacks to my raise. That put me up to 15,225 by the 35 minute mark.<\/p>\n

Called 225 with K<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>\u2666<\/span><\/span><\/span> and whiffed the board, then folded to a river bet, then blew another 300 playing A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> (althought that wasn’t my worst play in this tournament with that hand). I lost about 1,000 chips over twenty minutes.<\/p>\n

Dumped another 750 chips raising to 350 with A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I had a wheel draw on the turn but missed. Just after an hour of play I was back down to 13,400.<\/p>\n

Set-mining with 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> as SB is dangerous work! Don’t call 600 pre-flop with it. It isn’t worth it. 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> as BTN, on the other hand, proved profitable when I re-raised to 1,100, made my set on the flop, then won with a 2,200 opening bet post-flop. Twenty minutes after the hour I was up to 13,975.<\/p>\n

With A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> I raised to 2,000 pre-flop, getting two callers. There were two spades on the jack-high flop and I opened for 1,300. I was min-raised, then action came to a halt when the player to my right went all-in for more than 14,000. I thought about it briefly and laid down my hand; everyone else did so as well. The winner showed J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> for top set and took in a big pot. I, on the other hand, was down to 10,400 at the beginning of the first break, so I almost doubled my stack by buying the 8,000 chip add-on.<\/p>\n

Set-mining with 7<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> is dangerous work (see above). 1,500 chips worth of dangerous. Speculating with K<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> is 500 dangerous. From 20,000 chips (12,000 starting stack plus 8,000 add-on) at the two hour mark, I was down to 16,300.<\/p>\n

Things looked up a bit when I called 1,200 holding A<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 6<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> and the flop was all clubs. Heads-up after the flop, I bet 1,200 after my opponent checked and took the pot. At two-and-a-half hours I held 17,400 chips.<\/p>\n

R remarked that I wasn’t holding onto many hands, which is when I coined the title for this post. Then I lost 2,400 with J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, which is usually a good performer for me.<\/p>\n

Last hand of the game was a highly speculative A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>. The flop made me straight possibilities: Q<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>. \u00a0The only other player in the hand was pushing hard, and I pushed back, eventually going all-in. Then the turn improved me to a flush draw: 9<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Then I connected to my flush with 4<\/span>\u2663<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the river. Unfortunately, what the other guy was connecting to with that card was a more powerful full house because he had Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> Q<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> in his pocket. R said he thought I was getting frustrated. I don’t know. I didn’t feel frustrated, I just thought I had an opportunity with that hand to do something before my stack got so small from blind attrition that I’d always get called. If my opponent had a pair instead of a set, he might not have called the all-in.<\/p>\n

DV lasted a couple hours longer than I did. I swung back by the club to see if there was anything I could get him about an hour after the last I’d heard from him, but he was out by then. R was there but wasn’t in the tournament any more.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Three hours. Placed seventy-first of 93 entries. Fourteen places paid, with $15,000 in the prize pool.<\/em><\/p>\n

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