We sit down with 7500 in chips playing 25-50 6-handed (table will fill to 9 later).
We start on the button and throw our first few hands away - J2, Q4, J7, A6. No one is betting on anything. This seems so far (too early to tell) to be a very tight table.
In the bb we have K4. Seat 4 raises to 125 and gets calls from seat 5 and the sb. For 75 we call. Flop comes 223. Scary flop for people. We check and everyone checks. Turn comes 7. We bet 200 and they all fold. Tight.
Everyone fold to us in the sb and we limp with Q3s. Bb checks and flop comes 47T with one spade. We check. He checks and turn comes 2s. Okay, we have a flush draw so at least we can bluff. We bet 75 and he raises to 275. Hmmmm. Does he have a T? Would he have checked the flop then? 2 spades? Did the 2 help him? Does he think we bluffed last hand and are bluffing again, so he's rebuffing? We can afford to put some money in bc we have the Spades and a Q, so likely 12 outs. If we call the pot will be 650. We want him to have to put close to that in to call. We raise to 875. He folds. Great result.
We fold every hand around to our bb. Best starting hand we have had is 9T, and that was in seat 3. Now playing 7-handed.
Button raises to 125 and we call for 75 with Q2s. Flop comes an amazing J22. We check and he bets 225. We smooth call and the turn comes Th putting 2 hearts on the board. Not really worried about hearts but here's the deal. If he can't beat a T he likely won't bet again. If he can we want a big bet out of him. We bet 325 hoping he has a J and will raise. He folds. Oh well.
Seat 3 raises to 125 and we fold 95 in the sb.
Seat 5 limps and 6 limps. We are on the button with AJd and raise to 200. The blinds fold and 5 and 6 call. Flop comes 7KK with Kd. Not good. They check and we check. Turn comes Td giving us a gut shot straight draw and a flush draw as well as a royal flush draw. Seat 5 bets 300 and 6 folds. Hmmmm. If we hit the straight we could still lose to a full house (if he has QK), but let's not worry about that. For 300 we go fishing. We could semi bluff raise but we have a loose image and he's too likely to call. We call and the river comes 8c. He bets 450 and we fold.
In seat 3 we raise to 125 with AJc and the bb calls. Flop comes 57T. He checks and we bet 175. He folds.
Seat 4 raises to 125 and we call from seat 6 w KT. The blinds call and we see the flop 3TK with 2 hearts. Great flop! The seat 4 bets 150 and we just call we have been aggressively pushing people out after the turn; let's wait and hope no flush card comes so we can get aggressive and catch someone watching our patter. We call and the sb raises to 475. Giddey-up. Seat 4 folds. We have to raise enough to push out the flush. We raise to 1250 and sb calls. Turn comes Jh. Terrible card. He could have a flush or a straight. Unlikely but possible in light of how loose our image is. He could have KJ. He checks. Let's see if we river a boat before we bet and let him check raise us out. River comes Qc. One of the worst possible cards for us. The board is now 3TJQK. Any 9 or A has a straight. He bets 1600 and we fold.
After grinding slowly up we have 7075 in chips. Okay. Let's do it some more.
We fold to our bb and get 95. Seat 4 raises to 125 and sb calls. For 75 we call. Flop comes 36A all spades. We have the 9s. Sb checks, we check and seat 4 checks. Turn comes 9h giving us a pair. We can't beat anyone with an A but hopefully if they have an A their other card isn't a big spade. We bet 200 and they both fold.
Everyone folds to us on the button and we have our first premium hand. AQd. We bet 125 and the blinds call. Flop comes 36Q with 2 hearts. Great. They check and we bet 175. Sb folds and bb raises to 525? Hearts? Set of 3s or 6s? A Q? A pair and hoping we missed? We just call. Turn comes 3c. Not good but at least not a heart. He bets 600 and we call. Does he have a 3? River comes 9s and he bets 1800. No idea. He could have a Q or be bluffing. He could have a pocket pair. He could have us crushed. We call and he shows 66. He has a full house and crushes us.
We raise from seat 4 with TQ and get called by the button who just crushed us. Flop comes 89J with 2 clubs. We flipped a straight. We check and he bets 175. We call. Turn comes Kc. We still have a great straight and he is unlikely to have 2 clubs so we bet 375. Let's build a pot. He calls and the river comes 8c. Really? Wtf. We check and he bets 1200. We call and e shows Ac to take it down. He had a 5d with it. He literally needed runner runner clubs to win after the flop. Wtf. We are down to 2200 in chips. Heading home soon and we just entered the second round playing 50-100.
Seat 4 raises to 300 and gets calls from seats 5 and 6. We are in the bb with KQd and push all in for 2250. Seat 5 calls w JJ. It's a race. His jacks hold up and we are actually going home.
Wow. Nothing to learn from this one. Big hands were hitting top top against a set and hitting a straight agains someone who runner runnered clubs. His odds on that hand were about 5%. wtf. At least that's out of the way before July 5.
All the best,
Just pissed off
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Monday, June 29, 2015
Thursday, June 18, 2015
NLH 6-Handed Championship Rounds 9-10
Playing 400-800 with 100 antes.
Seat 5 raises to 1600. He has done this every time he is in a late seat with no raise before him. We call from Sb with TK. Bb calls and flop comes 23T. All diamonds. We bet 2300 and bb folds but seat 5 raises to 7200. We fold.
Seat 4 raises to 1800 and we call from the bb with JT. Flop comes AQJ. We check and he bets 3000. We call. Turn comes 6. We check he bets we fold.
We raise in the Sb with 67h to 2200 and the bb calls. Flop comes 679. Giddey up. We bet 2600 and he calls. Turn comes J. We bet 5200 and he calls. River comes Q. We bet 9200 and he raises to 21200. What? We call and he shows JQ. Runner runner for 2 pair. Wow.
We lose a couple small hands and look down at our dwindling chip stack. The swings happen but this has been harsh. We lost half our stack. We're down to 53000.
On the button we raise to 2100 with AQ and the Sb raises to 5600. We call. Flop comes JKK. He checks and we check. Turn comes 4. He bets 4500 and we fold.
Button raises to 2200 and we raise to 6500 in the Sb with AKc. He raises to 18500. Do we fold? That would leave us with 40000. We are a favorite over anything but KK or AA, which hopefully he doesn't have as we have one of each. Rather race than accept 40000. We push and he calls with AA. He takes it down. It's 2am. I actually feel physically ill. What a terrible hour.
All the best,
Eric Kurtzman
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Seat 5 raises to 1600. He has done this every time he is in a late seat with no raise before him. We call from Sb with TK. Bb calls and flop comes 23T. All diamonds. We bet 2300 and bb folds but seat 5 raises to 7200. We fold.
Seat 4 raises to 1800 and we call from the bb with JT. Flop comes AQJ. We check and he bets 3000. We call. Turn comes 6. We check he bets we fold.
We raise in the Sb with 67h to 2200 and the bb calls. Flop comes 679. Giddey up. We bet 2600 and he calls. Turn comes J. We bet 5200 and he calls. River comes Q. We bet 9200 and he raises to 21200. What? We call and he shows JQ. Runner runner for 2 pair. Wow.
We lose a couple small hands and look down at our dwindling chip stack. The swings happen but this has been harsh. We lost half our stack. We're down to 53000.
On the button we raise to 2100 with AQ and the Sb raises to 5600. We call. Flop comes JKK. He checks and we check. Turn comes 4. He bets 4500 and we fold.
Button raises to 2200 and we raise to 6500 in the Sb with AKc. He raises to 18500. Do we fold? That would leave us with 40000. We are a favorite over anything but KK or AA, which hopefully he doesn't have as we have one of each. Rather race than accept 40000. We push and he calls with AA. He takes it down. It's 2am. I actually feel physically ill. What a terrible hour.
All the best,
Eric Kurtzman
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NLH 6-Handed Championship Rounds 7-8
Playing 250-500 with 50 antes. 5 players right now so pre card pots of 1000.
Button raises to 1100 and we are in the Sb with KK. Cowboys again! Normally we would raise but the bb is short stacked with 7000 and hopefully will go all in when we call. That would allow us to raise the button with a 21000 pot in the backdrop (assuming he calls the bb all in). Sadly bb folds. Flop comes 45Q. We slow play and check. He checks. Damn burn comes 6. We bet 2500 and he calls. River pairs the Q. Unlikely he has a Q because he checked and then called, so not worried. We bet 5000 and he calls. He mucks when he sees the Cowboys.
We then go into a strange small pot losing streak. No one is betting large into us. It's like they're afraid, but we keep missing. Twice we flop flush draws that never hit, once an open ended straight draw that fails and once KQ that never finds a pair. It's a one way outward door for chips for a while that drains close to 20000. One of the problems is the short stack to our left has pushed all in for 8 or 9 thousand pushing us out. Time to narrow the playing hands?
Now playing 300-600 with 75 antes. 6-handed so 1350 in the pot before cards are dealt. We have about 95000 in chips.
Seat 3 bets 1400 and the button calls. We are in the bb being visited by a pair of aces. Hello boys. We raise to 3600 and they both call. Flop comes 24Q with 2 diamonds. We should check. If they got a Q they will bet. If they didn't and we bet they will fold. Sucks to be out of position here. We bet 6000 and they both fold.
Seat 5 limps and we are on the button with A9. The limp is strange as he hasn't done that in the last 7 hours and he only has 10000 in chips. He either has a monster pair awaiting or a drawing hand like suited connectors or a small pair. We bet 1700 and the blinds fold to him. He pushes all in and we call. He shows 22. It's a race. Flop comes AA8. Giddey up. Turn and river don't help him and we take it down.
We see a few flops and fold. Each flop has a sticker price of about 1500 so we can't do too much of this shopping.
Also, we are 5-handed now so playing so drawing hands are less valuable when they hit.
In a 3-handed pot button raises to 1600 and we re-raise in the bb to 3600 w KK. Third time! He calls and flop comes 8TQ with 2 hearts. We bet 3000 and he calls. Turn comes 6. We bet 10000 and he calls. River comes 6c and we go all in. He has about 40000 left. He folds.
We lose a handful of small pots and a couple mid size ones that I can't specifically recall and couldn't take notes on.
Last hand of the round seat 5 bets 1250 and we call from the bb with J5. Flop comes 678 with 2 clubs. We bet 1600 and he raises to 3600. We call with the open ended straight draw. Turn is a Td. We check and he checks. River is a 3d. We have nothing. We bet 4400 and he folds. Geat result.
We end round 8 with 109000 in chips. It's 1am and we have 2 hours to go. We are tired. Have to play in a calm state and avoid big mistakes and big bluffs.
All the best,
Steady Donkey
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Button raises to 1100 and we are in the Sb with KK. Cowboys again! Normally we would raise but the bb is short stacked with 7000 and hopefully will go all in when we call. That would allow us to raise the button with a 21000 pot in the backdrop (assuming he calls the bb all in). Sadly bb folds. Flop comes 45Q. We slow play and check. He checks. Damn burn comes 6. We bet 2500 and he calls. River pairs the Q. Unlikely he has a Q because he checked and then called, so not worried. We bet 5000 and he calls. He mucks when he sees the Cowboys.
We then go into a strange small pot losing streak. No one is betting large into us. It's like they're afraid, but we keep missing. Twice we flop flush draws that never hit, once an open ended straight draw that fails and once KQ that never finds a pair. It's a one way outward door for chips for a while that drains close to 20000. One of the problems is the short stack to our left has pushed all in for 8 or 9 thousand pushing us out. Time to narrow the playing hands?
Now playing 300-600 with 75 antes. 6-handed so 1350 in the pot before cards are dealt. We have about 95000 in chips.
Seat 3 bets 1400 and the button calls. We are in the bb being visited by a pair of aces. Hello boys. We raise to 3600 and they both call. Flop comes 24Q with 2 diamonds. We should check. If they got a Q they will bet. If they didn't and we bet they will fold. Sucks to be out of position here. We bet 6000 and they both fold.
Seat 5 limps and we are on the button with A9. The limp is strange as he hasn't done that in the last 7 hours and he only has 10000 in chips. He either has a monster pair awaiting or a drawing hand like suited connectors or a small pair. We bet 1700 and the blinds fold to him. He pushes all in and we call. He shows 22. It's a race. Flop comes AA8. Giddey up. Turn and river don't help him and we take it down.
We see a few flops and fold. Each flop has a sticker price of about 1500 so we can't do too much of this shopping.
Also, we are 5-handed now so playing so drawing hands are less valuable when they hit.
In a 3-handed pot button raises to 1600 and we re-raise in the bb to 3600 w KK. Third time! He calls and flop comes 8TQ with 2 hearts. We bet 3000 and he calls. Turn comes 6. We bet 10000 and he calls. River comes 6c and we go all in. He has about 40000 left. He folds.
We lose a handful of small pots and a couple mid size ones that I can't specifically recall and couldn't take notes on.
Last hand of the round seat 5 bets 1250 and we call from the bb with J5. Flop comes 678 with 2 clubs. We bet 1600 and he raises to 3600. We call with the open ended straight draw. Turn is a Td. We check and he checks. River is a 3d. We have nothing. We bet 4400 and he folds. Geat result.
We end round 8 with 109000 in chips. It's 1am and we have 2 hours to go. We are tired. Have to play in a calm state and avoid big mistakes and big bluffs.
All the best,
Steady Donkey
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
NLH 6-Handed Championship Rounds 5-6
Playing 150-300 with 25 antes.
Button raises to 650 and we call with J3s. Flop comes 9JQ with 2 clubs. We check and he bets 1000. We call and the turn comes 2h. We check and he checks. River comes Tc putting straights and flushes all over the board. We check and he bets 2700. We fold.
Seat 5, who we will refer to as 58, raises to 1000. We are in the bb with QQ. We want him pot committed pre flop and he has 8000. We raise to 3000 and he folds. Okay. Too bad, but we do hate watching flops with QQ.
We raise to 850 with 88 in seat 4 playing 5-handed. Seat 5 calls and the flop comes 667. Pretty good for us. We bet 1500 and he calls. The turn comes 9 giving us an open ended straight draw. We bet 2500 and he raises to 7000. Hmmm. We have a really good hand, but did he hit the 9? We would need a 5, 8, or T to win. We call and the river comes K. We check and he bets 12000. It's just too much to risk. We probably have him beat but we throw it away and maintain our 31000 stack for more confident wagers.
Playing 6-handed again. New guy just sat down who we recognize from yesterday. He finished 18th.
Seat 5 raises to 700 and we call from the Sb with K8h. New guy in bb raises to 3500. Seat 5 calls and we fold. They had AK (new guy) and TQ. TQ took it down.
We sit out about 15 hands. In seat 3 we raise to 700 with ATc. New guy raises in seat 4 to 2100 and gets called by the button. We call and the flop comes 4TJ with one club. We bet 2700. Seat 4 folds but the button calls. Turn comes As. No good. We check. He bets. We fold.
We play a few small hands and between the losses and the blinds and antes we are down to 22900 in chips.
Now playing 200-400 with 50 antes so 900 in the pot to start.
New guy bets 1000 from seat 3 and seat 4 raises to 2500. We are in the bb w KK. Go cowboys! We raise to 7000 and seat 4 calls. Flop comes 246 rainbow. Great flop. We check knowing he will bet. He's the guy who pushed our 88 out earlier. He doesn't know how to check. He bets 7000 and we go all in for 16500. The dealer then does something I've literally never seen. She turns to him holding the deck in her left hand and hits it with her right hand knocking half of it out of her hand and upsidedown. We can see several cards including an ace. The floor comes over and allows seat 4 to finish his action, which he acknowledges is unfair to me. Seat 4 calls and shows KQ. Then the dealer reshuffles the deck and deals out an ace and a 7. We double up!
Seat 3 raises to 800 and gets called by the button. We call from the Sb with 66 and the bb calls. We silently remind anyone who can hear our thoughts that we have yet to flop a set. However the flop comes 59K. We check and everyone checks. The turn comes 6! We bet 1300 and get called by the button. The river is a 4. We bet 3000 and he goes into the tank. Unfortunately he folds.
Seat 5 bets 800 and the button raises to 2100. We call from the bb with 67d and seat 5 calls. The flop comes 89Q. This gives us an open ended straight draw but if we hit the T anyone w a J has a bigger straight. We bet 2200 and seat 5 calls. The turn is a T! We check and he bets 2800. We min raise to 5600 to see if he has a J. there are two spades on the board, so he should raise if he does. He just calls. Probably no jack. River comes 3c. We push all in. He has about 15000 but folds.
Seat 3 bets 900 and we call from the button with 77. The bb pushes all in for 3200 and seat 3 (The guy with the 15,000) calls. We want to play this heads up. We push all in and seat three folds leaving his dead money in the pot. The bb shows AK. It's a race. Our sevens hold up and we take it down.
Seat three raises to 900 and everyone folds to us in the big blind with 46. Terrible hand but for 500 let's go bargain shopping. Flop comes 235 rainbow. Amazing. We have been slow playing our big hands a little and he's seen this so we bet out 1100 and he calls. The turn comes 9s putting a second spade on the board. We bet 2800 and he raises to 6000. He has another 12000 behind. Let's see if we can get him pot committed. We raise to 11000 and he goes into the tank for several minutes and then folds. Okay.
We end round 6 with 89700. Seems like a few minutes ago we wee under 5000!
All the best,
Crushing everything in our path (or close enough to reach) Donkey
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Button raises to 650 and we call with J3s. Flop comes 9JQ with 2 clubs. We check and he bets 1000. We call and the turn comes 2h. We check and he checks. River comes Tc putting straights and flushes all over the board. We check and he bets 2700. We fold.
Seat 5, who we will refer to as 58, raises to 1000. We are in the bb with QQ. We want him pot committed pre flop and he has 8000. We raise to 3000 and he folds. Okay. Too bad, but we do hate watching flops with QQ.
We raise to 850 with 88 in seat 4 playing 5-handed. Seat 5 calls and the flop comes 667. Pretty good for us. We bet 1500 and he calls. The turn comes 9 giving us an open ended straight draw. We bet 2500 and he raises to 7000. Hmmm. We have a really good hand, but did he hit the 9? We would need a 5, 8, or T to win. We call and the river comes K. We check and he bets 12000. It's just too much to risk. We probably have him beat but we throw it away and maintain our 31000 stack for more confident wagers.
Playing 6-handed again. New guy just sat down who we recognize from yesterday. He finished 18th.
Seat 5 raises to 700 and we call from the Sb with K8h. New guy in bb raises to 3500. Seat 5 calls and we fold. They had AK (new guy) and TQ. TQ took it down.
We sit out about 15 hands. In seat 3 we raise to 700 with ATc. New guy raises in seat 4 to 2100 and gets called by the button. We call and the flop comes 4TJ with one club. We bet 2700. Seat 4 folds but the button calls. Turn comes As. No good. We check. He bets. We fold.
We play a few small hands and between the losses and the blinds and antes we are down to 22900 in chips.
Now playing 200-400 with 50 antes so 900 in the pot to start.
New guy bets 1000 from seat 3 and seat 4 raises to 2500. We are in the bb w KK. Go cowboys! We raise to 7000 and seat 4 calls. Flop comes 246 rainbow. Great flop. We check knowing he will bet. He's the guy who pushed our 88 out earlier. He doesn't know how to check. He bets 7000 and we go all in for 16500. The dealer then does something I've literally never seen. She turns to him holding the deck in her left hand and hits it with her right hand knocking half of it out of her hand and upsidedown. We can see several cards including an ace. The floor comes over and allows seat 4 to finish his action, which he acknowledges is unfair to me. Seat 4 calls and shows KQ. Then the dealer reshuffles the deck and deals out an ace and a 7. We double up!
Seat 3 raises to 800 and gets called by the button. We call from the Sb with 66 and the bb calls. We silently remind anyone who can hear our thoughts that we have yet to flop a set. However the flop comes 59K. We check and everyone checks. The turn comes 6! We bet 1300 and get called by the button. The river is a 4. We bet 3000 and he goes into the tank. Unfortunately he folds.
Seat 5 bets 800 and the button raises to 2100. We call from the bb with 67d and seat 5 calls. The flop comes 89Q. This gives us an open ended straight draw but if we hit the T anyone w a J has a bigger straight. We bet 2200 and seat 5 calls. The turn is a T! We check and he bets 2800. We min raise to 5600 to see if he has a J. there are two spades on the board, so he should raise if he does. He just calls. Probably no jack. River comes 3c. We push all in. He has about 15000 but folds.
Seat 3 bets 900 and we call from the button with 77. The bb pushes all in for 3200 and seat 3 (The guy with the 15,000) calls. We want to play this heads up. We push all in and seat three folds leaving his dead money in the pot. The bb shows AK. It's a race. Our sevens hold up and we take it down.
Seat three raises to 900 and everyone folds to us in the big blind with 46. Terrible hand but for 500 let's go bargain shopping. Flop comes 235 rainbow. Amazing. We have been slow playing our big hands a little and he's seen this so we bet out 1100 and he calls. The turn comes 9s putting a second spade on the board. We bet 2800 and he raises to 6000. He has another 12000 behind. Let's see if we can get him pot committed. We raise to 11000 and he goes into the tank for several minutes and then folds. Okay.
We end round 6 with 89700. Seems like a few minutes ago we wee under 5000!
All the best,
Crushing everything in our path (or close enough to reach) Donkey
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NLH 6-Handed Championship Rounds 3-4
Playing 100-200.
AB gets randomly removed from our table to balance out 4 lucky guys somewhere else. We are 5-handed now.
Seat 3 raises to 600 and we have 66 in the Sb. We want to take this down pre flop if we can. We raise to 2500. He tanks and calls. Okay, unlikely to have AQ suited or better. Flop comes 49Q. Did the Q hit him? We bet 5000 hoping he will fold. He tanks and then calls. The turn comes another 9. That likely doesn't help him. If we don't push he will bet and we will fold regardless of what he has. We push all in with about 10000. He folds. Great result. Happy to not let him fish on the river.
We play a couple small pots and fold and count our chips. Just over 24000 now.
Seat 3 bets 500 and we call from seat 4 with KT. Seat 5 calls and the flop comes 468 all spades. We Have the Ks. Seat 3 checks and we bet 750. Seat 5 calls and the turn comes Ad. Not good. We check and he bets 2300. We fold.
Hand after hand we are in for the flop and miss entirely. Very frustrating.
In seat 4 we raise to 550 with ATh and get calls from seat 5 and the bb. Flop comes 248 with 2 hearts. Bb checks and we bet 1100. Let's take it down now if we can. Seat 5 calls. Turn comes Td. Wanted a heart, but top pair works. We bet 1800 and he calls. River comes 7d. We check top top and he bets 2600. We call and he shows 8T to take it down.
We have just over 15000 and we are again playing 6-handed.
Button limps and Sb raises to 700. We call from Sb with TJ. Button calls and flop comes 4QQ. We exit. Repeat this hand over and over. We play with KQs, AJ, 99, etc and fold after every flop. We are down to 11500. It's level 3 and we're headed toward push territory!
From the button we raise to 550 with A5d. Not a great hand but from the button we like it. Bb calls and flop comes A47 with 2 hearts. We finally hit a flop. He checks and we bet 700. He raises to 1500. Hmmmm, does he have a set? 2 pair? A bigger ace than ours? Hearts? We call and see the turn. Jh. Not good. He bets 2600 and we fold. We have less than 10000.
Seat 3 bets 550 and seat 4 raises to 1100. We are on the button with 55. If we flop a set for the first time in 3 days of this game we will easily get 8x our bet, so we call. Flop comes 38T. Seat 3 checks and 4 bets 1000. We call to see the turn. Seat 3 Cal's and the turn comes K. We fold to seat 4s next bet.
We are under 5000. Seat 3 bets 600 and we call from the bb with 8T. Flop comes 66T. Wow, we hit one. We check and he bets 1500. We push all in for about 4000 and he folds.
We win another small hand and build the stack to over 8000.
Seat 5 raises to 550 and we call from the button with 9Th. Flop comes 99J with 2 spades. Wow. The flop tide is turning. He bets 800 and we call. The turn comes 6c putting 2 clubs on the board. He bets 1500 and we push all in for 7000. He calls and shows KK. We are about 95%. River comes 7d and we double up! Deep breath. We can play cards.
Seat 3 raises to 600 and seat 4 calls. We are in the bb with AQ. Slow play? No - we're out of position. We raise to 1900 and they both call. Flop comes 7TT. We bet 2000. We have already advertised big hand and they have to interpret that as two big cards, likely paired. If they didn't hit the T they should fold. They do. Great result.
We have breached 20000.
Quick note on a hand we didn't play. We folded 27h on the button and then watched the board come Ah 9h 7d 2s Qh. Monster for us that we missed.
We raise from seat 3 to 600 with 58c. Kind of weak but gimme a break - closest thing to the 27h we could find. The button raises to 1600 and the bb calls. Pot odds are great - we call. 5000 in the pot and the flop comes 37T. ALL CLUBS! Could it get better? Why yes, glad you asked. The button bets 2000 into us. We can't let him see another club fall so we raise to 7000 as that should get rid of the club draws. The button calls! Bb folds and the two of us see the turn - anything red please. 6d comes. The pot is 20000 so we push all in for 12000 and he calls showing QQ with the Qc. Any non club wins it for us. River comes 3s. Our heart skipped a beat when we saw a black card but we take it down.
In seat 4 we raise to 600 with TQc. Clubs have been good to us. The button raises to 1500. The bb calls and we call. Flop comes AQT with 2 hearts. The BB bets 4000 and has another 11000 behind. What does he have that could beat us? AA or QQ would have raised pre flop. TT is possible but would require him to have both outstanding Ts. Unlikely. This is also a problem for QQ. AT or QT are possible and big problems, as is JK. He could also have Ax (likely with a J or K straight draw) or two hearts. Of all these possibilities, I suspect 2 hearts to be most likely. Do we call and let him fish for a heart or a straight. If he misses and bets are we ever folding? No, we are never folding. So we may as well try to push out the flush draw and straight draw and hope that's what he has. We raise him all in and he calls showing AQ. Ouch. Terrible. His AQ holds up.
Well, we could have folded, but that was not going to happen. As it played out, our push didn't matter. The turn was a 7d. He likely would have bet at least 5000 and we would have called. And he would have put his last 6000 in on the river. Uggggghhhh.
Last hand of the round we are in seat 3 with 58c again. Oh the memories! We bet 600 and the button raises to 1600. Bb calls and see call flop comes 234 with 2 clubs. Wow! We bet 1500 and they both call. The turn comes Ac giving us a flush. Would have preferred a different ace for the straight, but still elated. We bet 3000 and the button (the guy we last crushed with 58c) calls. The river comes Ks. Perfect. We hem and haw and finally bet 7200. He calls and shows A8. Crazy call. We take it down.
We finish round 4 with 38900 in chips. In light of where we were, pretty damn happy with that.
All the best,
Still on 4-hooves Donkey
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AB gets randomly removed from our table to balance out 4 lucky guys somewhere else. We are 5-handed now.
Seat 3 raises to 600 and we have 66 in the Sb. We want to take this down pre flop if we can. We raise to 2500. He tanks and calls. Okay, unlikely to have AQ suited or better. Flop comes 49Q. Did the Q hit him? We bet 5000 hoping he will fold. He tanks and then calls. The turn comes another 9. That likely doesn't help him. If we don't push he will bet and we will fold regardless of what he has. We push all in with about 10000. He folds. Great result. Happy to not let him fish on the river.
We play a couple small pots and fold and count our chips. Just over 24000 now.
Seat 3 bets 500 and we call from seat 4 with KT. Seat 5 calls and the flop comes 468 all spades. We Have the Ks. Seat 3 checks and we bet 750. Seat 5 calls and the turn comes Ad. Not good. We check and he bets 2300. We fold.
Hand after hand we are in for the flop and miss entirely. Very frustrating.
In seat 4 we raise to 550 with ATh and get calls from seat 5 and the bb. Flop comes 248 with 2 hearts. Bb checks and we bet 1100. Let's take it down now if we can. Seat 5 calls. Turn comes Td. Wanted a heart, but top pair works. We bet 1800 and he calls. River comes 7d. We check top top and he bets 2600. We call and he shows 8T to take it down.
We have just over 15000 and we are again playing 6-handed.
Button limps and Sb raises to 700. We call from Sb with TJ. Button calls and flop comes 4QQ. We exit. Repeat this hand over and over. We play with KQs, AJ, 99, etc and fold after every flop. We are down to 11500. It's level 3 and we're headed toward push territory!
From the button we raise to 550 with A5d. Not a great hand but from the button we like it. Bb calls and flop comes A47 with 2 hearts. We finally hit a flop. He checks and we bet 700. He raises to 1500. Hmmmm, does he have a set? 2 pair? A bigger ace than ours? Hearts? We call and see the turn. Jh. Not good. He bets 2600 and we fold. We have less than 10000.
Seat 3 bets 550 and seat 4 raises to 1100. We are on the button with 55. If we flop a set for the first time in 3 days of this game we will easily get 8x our bet, so we call. Flop comes 38T. Seat 3 checks and 4 bets 1000. We call to see the turn. Seat 3 Cal's and the turn comes K. We fold to seat 4s next bet.
We are under 5000. Seat 3 bets 600 and we call from the bb with 8T. Flop comes 66T. Wow, we hit one. We check and he bets 1500. We push all in for about 4000 and he folds.
We win another small hand and build the stack to over 8000.
Seat 5 raises to 550 and we call from the button with 9Th. Flop comes 99J with 2 spades. Wow. The flop tide is turning. He bets 800 and we call. The turn comes 6c putting 2 clubs on the board. He bets 1500 and we push all in for 7000. He calls and shows KK. We are about 95%. River comes 7d and we double up! Deep breath. We can play cards.
Seat 3 raises to 600 and seat 4 calls. We are in the bb with AQ. Slow play? No - we're out of position. We raise to 1900 and they both call. Flop comes 7TT. We bet 2000. We have already advertised big hand and they have to interpret that as two big cards, likely paired. If they didn't hit the T they should fold. They do. Great result.
We have breached 20000.
Quick note on a hand we didn't play. We folded 27h on the button and then watched the board come Ah 9h 7d 2s Qh. Monster for us that we missed.
We raise from seat 3 to 600 with 58c. Kind of weak but gimme a break - closest thing to the 27h we could find. The button raises to 1600 and the bb calls. Pot odds are great - we call. 5000 in the pot and the flop comes 37T. ALL CLUBS! Could it get better? Why yes, glad you asked. The button bets 2000 into us. We can't let him see another club fall so we raise to 7000 as that should get rid of the club draws. The button calls! Bb folds and the two of us see the turn - anything red please. 6d comes. The pot is 20000 so we push all in for 12000 and he calls showing QQ with the Qc. Any non club wins it for us. River comes 3s. Our heart skipped a beat when we saw a black card but we take it down.
In seat 4 we raise to 600 with TQc. Clubs have been good to us. The button raises to 1500. The bb calls and we call. Flop comes AQT with 2 hearts. The BB bets 4000 and has another 11000 behind. What does he have that could beat us? AA or QQ would have raised pre flop. TT is possible but would require him to have both outstanding Ts. Unlikely. This is also a problem for QQ. AT or QT are possible and big problems, as is JK. He could also have Ax (likely with a J or K straight draw) or two hearts. Of all these possibilities, I suspect 2 hearts to be most likely. Do we call and let him fish for a heart or a straight. If he misses and bets are we ever folding? No, we are never folding. So we may as well try to push out the flush draw and straight draw and hope that's what he has. We raise him all in and he calls showing AQ. Ouch. Terrible. His AQ holds up.
Well, we could have folded, but that was not going to happen. As it played out, our push didn't matter. The turn was a 7d. He likely would have bet at least 5000 and we would have called. And he would have put his last 6000 in on the river. Uggggghhhh.
Last hand of the round we are in seat 3 with 58c again. Oh the memories! We bet 600 and the button raises to 1600. Bb calls and see call flop comes 234 with 2 clubs. Wow! We bet 1500 and they both call. The turn comes Ac giving us a flush. Would have preferred a different ace for the straight, but still elated. We bet 3000 and the button (the guy we last crushed with 58c) calls. The river comes Ks. Perfect. We hem and haw and finally bet 7200. He calls and shows A8. Crazy call. We take it down.
We finish round 4 with 38900 in chips. In light of where we were, pretty damn happy with that.
All the best,
Still on 4-hooves Donkey
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NLH 6-Handed Championship Rounds 1-2
We can't help ourselves. There are only 2 6-handed no limit tournaments this year. The one we just placed in, and the one that starts today at 4 o'clock, the championship. We saddle up to the table to play in the championship.
We start with 30,000 in chips, playing 50–100.
Playing 3-handed for a bit. Button raises to 300 and Sb calls. We call from the bb with Q8s. Flop comes 345 with 2 spades. Sb checks. We bet 450 and button raises to 1100. We call. Turn comes 2c. We wanted a spade but the 2 will slow him down unless he has an A. We check and he checks. River comes 9s. We bet 1200 and he calls. He mucks when he sees our flush.
Button raises to 300 and we raise to 900 with 55 from the Sb. Bb calls and button folds. Flop comes 4QK. We check and he bets 1200. We fold.
Fourth player joins.
Sb limps and we check from the bb with T4o. Flop comes 349. He checks and we bet 150. He calls. Jack turns and he checks. We bet 300 and he raises to 800. We fold.
Seat 3 is already down to 7000. Very aggressive and not a good player. He bets 250 so we call from the button just to play with him. We have J8. Sb folds and bb calls. Flop comes 59T. We have an open ended straight draw. They both check. We check and see the turn. It's a Q! They both check and we bet 350. Bb folds and seat 3 raises to 1300. Giddey up! The only hand that beats us is JK and we can't be so afraid of that that we don't try to get all in here. The Q did put 2 clubs on the board, but raising the flush draw would be overly aggressive even for him. We raise to 3300 and he pushes all in. We happily call. He shows JK. Amazing. Seriously. Wtf? Okay, if he had had a full stack we would be going home with second nut. Happy to still have a good stack of chips. 24300. Head up.
Playing 5-handed now. Room is filling.
Seat 3 raises to 300 and the button calls. We call from the Sb with 8Q. Bb calls. Flop comes JKA with AJd. Flush draw and gut shot straight draw. We bet 450 and bb calls. Turn comes 7s. We bet 950 and he raises to 2250. Hmmm. We call. River comes Q. We check and he bets 2500. Our pair of queens is not going to be good. We fold.
Aggressive boy on the button raises to 300 and we call from the Sb with 88. Would love to his a set on this guy! Flop comes AA5 with 2 spades. He bets 400 and we call. Let's see what he does on the turn. Turn comes 9s. He checks. Hmmm, we lose to a big pocket pair, an ace, a 9 or 2 spades. We bet 1000 and he calls. He would have raised if he had any of the above better than a 9. River comes 2h. He bets 1500. Makes no sense. The only hand that really would help is if he's playing 22. We should raise, but if he reraises it we won't know what to do. We call and he shows K5h. We take it down.
Playing 75-150 seat 3 raises to 450 and aggressive boy on the button calls. We are in the Sb with 99 and raise to 1750. Seat 3 calls (sign of weakness) and aggressive boy pushes all in for about 6000. With 99 we want to be heads up against him, particularly if we can get seat 3's 1750 as dead money. We push all in and seat 3 folds. Aggressive boy shows A4c. We are about a 70% favorite. Flop comes A56 with 2 spades. Turns a Js to give us a flush draw. River is Qd. Wow. Painful bad beat.
Overall by the way we're doing well. We have 18000 in chips left despite getting hammered unexpectedly twice by all in aggressive boy or AB.
Now playing 6-handed. Someone sat between us and AB. AB raises to 300 from seat 3. Seat 4 calls and we call from seat 5 with 46s. Button calls and Sb raises to 1200. AB calls and seat 4 calls. Wow. We have to call. Button folds. Big pot! Flop comes JKK no spades. Hmmm. We fold as soon as possible.
From seat 3 we raise to 450 with AK and get calls from 4, 5 and bb. We are 5-handed again and everyone but AB is in the pot. Flop comes JJ9. Everyone checks to seat 5 who bets 1000. Bb folds. A steal? We call. We see the turn heads up. It's an A. We check and he bets 1500. We call. River comes 7. We check and he checks. We show AK and he shows A9. We take it down.
Seat 3 raises to 450 and AB calls from seat 4. We call from the Button with 77. I know I have the seats a little wrong on this one, but that's the best I can piece the action together so please excuse the oddity if you caught it. Flop comes 235 with 2 hearts. Great flop. They check and we bet 700 and seat 3 raises to 2100. Wow. AB calls. Wow. Does seat 3 have hearts? An overpair? On a semi bluff with 2 big cards? We can call and hope for a 7, but there are only 2 in the deck and one of them is a heart. Hmmm, we call. Turn comes 4s putting a 2345 on the board. They both check. Anyone with an A has a straight. They probably don't have it and if they are on over cards or have paired the board once, we are in the lead. We bet 2200 and they both fold.
Back to 22400. Good.
Playing 6-handed again.
I sit here painfully watching AB slowly lose what were once our chips to everyone else at the table.
We play half a dozen hands to see the flop but never hit anything. We take one opportunity to launch a failed semi bluff and finish the round with just over 18000 in chips. All things considered, not bad.
All the best,
Still on four hooves Donkey
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We start with 30,000 in chips, playing 50–100.
Playing 3-handed for a bit. Button raises to 300 and Sb calls. We call from the bb with Q8s. Flop comes 345 with 2 spades. Sb checks. We bet 450 and button raises to 1100. We call. Turn comes 2c. We wanted a spade but the 2 will slow him down unless he has an A. We check and he checks. River comes 9s. We bet 1200 and he calls. He mucks when he sees our flush.
Button raises to 300 and we raise to 900 with 55 from the Sb. Bb calls and button folds. Flop comes 4QK. We check and he bets 1200. We fold.
Fourth player joins.
Sb limps and we check from the bb with T4o. Flop comes 349. He checks and we bet 150. He calls. Jack turns and he checks. We bet 300 and he raises to 800. We fold.
Seat 3 is already down to 7000. Very aggressive and not a good player. He bets 250 so we call from the button just to play with him. We have J8. Sb folds and bb calls. Flop comes 59T. We have an open ended straight draw. They both check. We check and see the turn. It's a Q! They both check and we bet 350. Bb folds and seat 3 raises to 1300. Giddey up! The only hand that beats us is JK and we can't be so afraid of that that we don't try to get all in here. The Q did put 2 clubs on the board, but raising the flush draw would be overly aggressive even for him. We raise to 3300 and he pushes all in. We happily call. He shows JK. Amazing. Seriously. Wtf? Okay, if he had had a full stack we would be going home with second nut. Happy to still have a good stack of chips. 24300. Head up.
Playing 5-handed now. Room is filling.
Seat 3 raises to 300 and the button calls. We call from the Sb with 8Q. Bb calls. Flop comes JKA with AJd. Flush draw and gut shot straight draw. We bet 450 and bb calls. Turn comes 7s. We bet 950 and he raises to 2250. Hmmm. We call. River comes Q. We check and he bets 2500. Our pair of queens is not going to be good. We fold.
Aggressive boy on the button raises to 300 and we call from the Sb with 88. Would love to his a set on this guy! Flop comes AA5 with 2 spades. He bets 400 and we call. Let's see what he does on the turn. Turn comes 9s. He checks. Hmmm, we lose to a big pocket pair, an ace, a 9 or 2 spades. We bet 1000 and he calls. He would have raised if he had any of the above better than a 9. River comes 2h. He bets 1500. Makes no sense. The only hand that really would help is if he's playing 22. We should raise, but if he reraises it we won't know what to do. We call and he shows K5h. We take it down.
Playing 75-150 seat 3 raises to 450 and aggressive boy on the button calls. We are in the Sb with 99 and raise to 1750. Seat 3 calls (sign of weakness) and aggressive boy pushes all in for about 6000. With 99 we want to be heads up against him, particularly if we can get seat 3's 1750 as dead money. We push all in and seat 3 folds. Aggressive boy shows A4c. We are about a 70% favorite. Flop comes A56 with 2 spades. Turns a Js to give us a flush draw. River is Qd. Wow. Painful bad beat.
Overall by the way we're doing well. We have 18000 in chips left despite getting hammered unexpectedly twice by all in aggressive boy or AB.
Now playing 6-handed. Someone sat between us and AB. AB raises to 300 from seat 3. Seat 4 calls and we call from seat 5 with 46s. Button calls and Sb raises to 1200. AB calls and seat 4 calls. Wow. We have to call. Button folds. Big pot! Flop comes JKK no spades. Hmmm. We fold as soon as possible.
From seat 3 we raise to 450 with AK and get calls from 4, 5 and bb. We are 5-handed again and everyone but AB is in the pot. Flop comes JJ9. Everyone checks to seat 5 who bets 1000. Bb folds. A steal? We call. We see the turn heads up. It's an A. We check and he bets 1500. We call. River comes 7. We check and he checks. We show AK and he shows A9. We take it down.
Seat 3 raises to 450 and AB calls from seat 4. We call from the Button with 77. I know I have the seats a little wrong on this one, but that's the best I can piece the action together so please excuse the oddity if you caught it. Flop comes 235 with 2 hearts. Great flop. They check and we bet 700 and seat 3 raises to 2100. Wow. AB calls. Wow. Does seat 3 have hearts? An overpair? On a semi bluff with 2 big cards? We can call and hope for a 7, but there are only 2 in the deck and one of them is a heart. Hmmm, we call. Turn comes 4s putting a 2345 on the board. They both check. Anyone with an A has a straight. They probably don't have it and if they are on over cards or have paired the board once, we are in the lead. We bet 2200 and they both fold.
Back to 22400. Good.
Playing 6-handed again.
I sit here painfully watching AB slowly lose what were once our chips to everyone else at the table.
We play half a dozen hands to see the flop but never hit anything. We take one opportunity to launch a failed semi bluff and finish the round with just over 18000 in chips. All things considered, not bad.
All the best,
Still on four hooves Donkey
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Nlh rounds 17-18
Hand to hand is incredibly boring. We fold our 66, then our 79. Why even look? Would we play AA? Mmmmm, yes. Economically it makes no sense, but we would do it. We fold and fold and fold. Seat 3 raises to 10000 and we fold the 9Th from the bb instead of chipping in 6000 to see if we hit a monster. Why? Because 60th place is so important. The inhumanity of it.
Finally someone busts. We are in the money and can play poker now, but we are down to 34000 in chips. Our only move is to push really.
First hand in the money someone at our table busts. A lot of people were playing uber tight as we were. Now it's like the ending of a terrible constipation. Yep, donkey has gone dark.
Seat 4 bets 9000 and we are in the bb with Q9s. We push all in. He folds. Great.
We push all in on the button with A8. The blinds fold. Great.
Next hand we push all in from seat 5 with AQ and everyone folds. Would have liked a call, but fine taking down a pot of 10000 as we are playing 2500-5000 with 500 antes.
Another player busts from our table and we are on hold waiting for a table to break. After it took an hour for one person to break, six broke in 11 minutes.
We have 93500.
Seat 4 raises to 11000 and the Sb calls. We have AT in the bb. We could call, but we are out of position. We push hoping they will fold but okay with a call. Seat 4 calls with AQ. We are a big dog. His Q holds up and we exit in 50th place.
Had some frustration this tournament. Still mad about finding the JQ. Maybe we would have gotten knocked out but more likely we would have had a big stack. Oh well - glad to finally cash this year!
Thanks for following along. Tomorrow is PLO so probably won't be blogging. May play the next nlh 6 handed tourney though - this one went well and tomorrow's starts at 4.
All the best,
Eric Kurtzman
All the best,
Eric Kurtzman
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Finally someone busts. We are in the money and can play poker now, but we are down to 34000 in chips. Our only move is to push really.
First hand in the money someone at our table busts. A lot of people were playing uber tight as we were. Now it's like the ending of a terrible constipation. Yep, donkey has gone dark.
Seat 4 bets 9000 and we are in the bb with Q9s. We push all in. He folds. Great.
We push all in on the button with A8. The blinds fold. Great.
Next hand we push all in from seat 5 with AQ and everyone folds. Would have liked a call, but fine taking down a pot of 10000 as we are playing 2500-5000 with 500 antes.
Another player busts from our table and we are on hold waiting for a table to break. After it took an hour for one person to break, six broke in 11 minutes.
We have 93500.
Seat 4 raises to 11000 and the Sb calls. We have AT in the bb. We could call, but we are out of position. We push hoping they will fold but okay with a call. Seat 4 calls with AQ. We are a big dog. His Q holds up and we exit in 50th place.
Had some frustration this tournament. Still mad about finding the JQ. Maybe we would have gotten knocked out but more likely we would have had a big stack. Oh well - glad to finally cash this year!
Thanks for following along. Tomorrow is PLO so probably won't be blogging. May play the next nlh 6 handed tourney though - this one went well and tomorrow's starts at 4.
All the best,
Eric Kurtzman
All the best,
Eric Kurtzman
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