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wordsofwisdom
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 Posted - 10/13/2008 : 3:16:14 PM
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Spent last week in AC and I donated a lot in the poker room. I entered three $65 tourneys and blew through $200 in a cash game. Here are the gorry details in no paticular order.
First the cash game. I sat at 1/2 NL for about 3 hours while my wife was still in a 7:00 PM tourney. I am a total fish in NL cash and I know it. I just don't have the cash game feel. I just did not play patiently at all and gave away my $s. If I had it to do over I would have sat with $100 and played a lot tighter. I still think that the Boat is a great place to learn cash. The players are nice and you can get on a table in like 10 minutes.
So on to the tourneys. Me and the wife played 7 total. Whenever I start playing a new "type" of tourney, it takes me a while to get the feel. I need to see how people play early and late. The first two were not too good for me. Monday 7 PM I only lasted about one hour. Opened AKs up for 3x under the gun. I get flat called by a LAG in middle position and a late position. The LAG played about 60% of the hands in the first few levels, the few that he showed down were decent hands. K-J-x flop, about 3200 in the pot. I cbet 2600 and get min-re-raised by the LAG. I'm looking at about 5600 left so I ship the rest. A set of Jacks sends me home. The wife sticks arround till two tables and gets sent home by a bad beat.
The next one was pretty similar. I have QQ in middle postition and open for 5x to try and weed out 2 limpers. Flatted by the button and one of the limpers comes along. Flop is all small cards 7-5-4 (i think). I fire about 2600 again, and you know the rest of the story. A flopped set of 5s sends me home. I have finaly leared a lesson. Beware of committing yourself with a continuation bet in this tourney. If I had to do it again I would make a smaller standard raise (and of coarse be able to lay down an over pair). My wife sticks arround till 2 tabes again, and gets sent home with a bad beat.
So I talk to the wife about what she is doing differently. She explains that she is making smaller continuation bets of about 1/3 to 1/4 the pot post flop. She is also raising to 3x wether there are limpers or not. She plays her third tourney on Wednesday and gets sent home arround 2 tables again. A-J shove called by Q-7 (but they were suited). She is mad.
So the last one we played was the 7:00 PM on Thursday night. I got 6th in this one for $170. I sticked to my smaller raises and got lucky when an agressive big stack sit to my right. I kept re-steal shoving his opens and holding up with the best hand. One of the stranger hands I've been involved with came up at about 3 tables left....
An early position small stack shoves, and middle position ginormous stack insta-re-raises all in. No read on either because they just got to the table. So super tight late position ships all in as well. So Im a medium-small stack in the big blind and I look at pocket jacks. I stand up and say "oh man this is gross." I wasn't worried about the shorty or the big stack as much as the super tight late position. I fold and its 44(early) vs AA(mid) vs KK(late). I feel smart. So the board is insane laying out A-K-x-4-x for set over set over set. The gigantic stack gets bigger. I keep re-steal shoving and holding up.
We get to the final table and I play bad. I would shove to get to a medium stack, then start calling raises trying to hit a miracle. Just dumb play. Well I get 6th for $170 once my any two shove gets called blind vs blind.
I was half asleep and pretty disapointed when I collected my $170. I didn't leave anything for the dealers which was a mistake on my part. It was 12:30 AM and I had to go to the middle of the casino cashier and sign some stuff. By the time I was done I just forgot. I will make it up to them next time wether I cash or not.
Good times were had by me. The wife, not so much. She had 4 tourneys and 4 bad beat storries. The beats affect her more than me so she may be staying away in the future.
It was kind of like a bad round of golf with that one good shot (the laydown hand). I would have felt good wether I cashed in that last one or not.
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