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villagenut

07-01-2009, 01:21 PM Post subject: Live Poker newbie trip report

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Join Date: Aug 2006

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Went to tunica over the weekend and played at Gold Strike in 3 of their freezeout tourney's. Around 40 people in each event. Paid 5 places in first tourney and....I went out 6th. With 7 left i was 2nd short stack and shoved pre with 77. A big stack called and the short stack shoved behind. Short stack showed QQ and big stack showed A8 and spiked an A.

Second tourney i built a pretty good stack early and went completely card dead. managed to steal a few blinds but ended up busting out 1 from the final table.

Third tourney I played really well. Managed to pull off a couple of bluffs. (favorite hand was when I got a guy to fold trip jacks because he thought he had a bad kicker, he showed me his kicker and he had me beat) Made it to final table and blinds were about 600/1200. i was on the button with AJ. I had about 15,000 stack. Two very big stacks at table. Big stack was in cut off and limped, he had been playing a lot of crap and i had about zero fold equity. I raise to 5,000 with AcJc. Flop came 8TQ with one club. Big stack put me all in. I tanked and went through some of the thought processes that i learned here on FTR. I called and he shows KJ. His open ended straight draw catches a 9 on the river so i bubble out of this one also.

All n all i had a great time and for only my second attempted at live poker i thought it went pretty well. Any advice on how to bust the bubble.

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donkbee

07-01-2009, 06:55 PM

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You just got steal like crazy on the bubble. Take advantage of this time when everyone is afraid of busting.

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villagenut

07-01-2009, 07:42 PM

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I figured the blind stealing was it but i had crappy position. The biggest stack acted right before me and the second biggest stack was two to my left so i would be stealing his blinds and any steal attempt would have almost certainly been called. THAT's ok, I definitely had a TAGG rep in each tourney and I had a couple of reg's talk to me afterwards and compliment me on a few hands. Made me feel pretty good.

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