Straight Flush
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Dublin
Posts: 4,308
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Ah back to monday after a poker filled weekend.
Firstly I played for about an hour while gf watched big brother. I won $63 on party which I was very pleased. I recorded the session of 4 tbls at 50nl which I found very helpful for my focus and reasoning. I recommend if you only have an hour or so to actually record yourself.
Ok as well as that I finished 4th in a casino tourney, very poor turnout of about 35 ppl so the prizes were sucky. I went along with a friend from work who ended up chopping first and second place.
A real quick recap;
Very first hand im in BB and catch 33 in a big family pot. flop came KTx 2 spades. i bet bet bet and opp had KQo and i double up. Shortly after im in SB with AA and 3 limpers, i raise 25/50 blinds to 300. EP limper calls, LP limper shoves for 2650 (btw 3K starting stacks) i shove, EP folds. LP had 23s and cracks my AA on J4465 board. Ah well, honestly i was impressed this didnt phase me the slightist.
I didnt get much in premium hands and kinda floated around the same stack size for a good while, i cudnt splash around much as the table play was absolutly terrible. UNTIL i caught JJ UTG and shoved about 12-14BB allin, got called by AA and I sucked out a J on river, Yay i feel the karma. Immediately after that hand im in BB and pick up AKs, I very poor player who WAY WAY overvalue picture card hands open raises, SB calls (uber fish) and I shove allin (i cover both players well), poor player calls, SB folds, guy turns over QQ  , flop hits T98 2 hearts (ive AKh), A on turn wraps it up for me. Very next hand in SB was AQo, same poor player limps while SB raises to about 1600, i repop to iso to 5000, poor player folds and SB calls me allin (5000 covered his stack roughly), he had KQ or something. So in the space of 3 hands I went from about 3.4K to 23.5K in chips and im among the big players.
So them results coasted me to the FT and then into the top 6. only 5 get paid so its bubble time. Players were very very tight and i stole with junk as much as i could and they never picked up on it, only crap thing was some granny on my right was also stealing. Both of us were by far very atcive, my problem was that at that stage i cudnt 3 bet very light as if to say fuck off these are my blinds since stacks were just deep enough that 3bet+c/b was about 1/2-2/3 of my stack. anyway made it to final 4 when my mates called grannys MP raise in BB with 33, flops 37J and he slowplays, granny goes allin on blank turn, he calls and he covers, she bluffed with A6o lol. now my mate is chipleader!!!
I end up getting knocked out by my mate 4 handed. He opened on button for 9K with 1.5K/3K blinds, i pick up TT which im delighted to see since ive been generally very card dead at FT and i shove about 25K, he calls and turns over KK. GL GG NO T KTHX BYE.
Good fun for the day and nice to see my mate win his first tourney!
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