{"id":452,"date":"2012-02-03T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2012-02-03T17:14:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T01:14:29","slug":"hogging-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"Hogging the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Players Club $250 Freeroll<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though I was starting to feel the effects of a cold, I felt like I needed to pop up out of the hole for a game before this weekend’s big $25K tournament, so I headed over for the morning action at PPC.<\/p>\n

Early on, I picked up J<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span> in late middle position. A bunch of players had limped in for what I believe was still just 50, and I popped it up to 225, getting a couple callers but dropping most of the field. The flop was a tantalizing J<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 7<\/span>\u2665<\/span><\/span> 4<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and I bet into it, followed by the player on my immediate left. Another heart on the turn slowed both of us down, but I made a large bet on the river and got a call, thinking I was probably beat, but he showed A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> A<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> and my two pair was good. The guy in seat nine\u2014who’d been in the hand through the flop\u2014was indignant, decrying my pre-flop raise with “junk.” I tried not to laugh, out of respect for the guy who’d just lost 1,500+ chips next to me and tried to point out the straight possibilities, the flush, etc., but he seemed to be more upset than the guy who’d had his aces cracked. I got moved to an expansion table not long after that. UPDATE: <\/strong>Suited jack-seven wins or ties 14.8% of the time in a 9-handed showdown; it’s the 51st-best hand with nine players. The 50th-best hand is a pair of sevens; it wins or ties 15.1%. Your chances of winning in a nine-handed showdown with suited jack-seven are better than with any pair of sixes or lower. Of course<\/em>\u00a0I’m going to raise with it. I’d raise with a pair of sevens.<\/p>\n

I did pretty well at the new table, knocking out one tight player with a full house over another full house. The I had just 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> T<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, the board ran out 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 3<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>, then put another 3<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the turn. The tight player had 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> 2<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> in his hand and hit his house on there, but he didn’t go all in until the 8<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span> on the river and I think he missed the possibility he was counterfeited by any eight or trey.<\/p>\n

I got cut down a bit in a race before we were moved back to my original table, where I was seated on the left of the player whose aces I’d cracked earlier, with DL on his right and the tight player on DL’s right. My last hand was K<\/span>x<\/span><\/span> J<\/span>x<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I tried to make a move, the tight player pushed, and if I’d given it some more thought I would have folded, knowing the hands he’d been playing, but I hoped I might have a couple over cards. No luck: A<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span> K<\/span>\u2660<\/span><\/span><\/span>. I was a card away from a straight by the river but I was still away.<\/p>\n

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Two hours and fifteen minutes. -100% ROI. 13th of 28 players.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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