The Poker Thread

There's a $109 NLHE tourney Sat to the UKCOOP $320 event with 1 seat GTD. With one person in it. 9 mins until it starts.

Some added value there if anyone wants it.

Oops Just qualified for the Sunday Million in a Hyper-turbo. Forgot I couldn't unregister

Specced!

Flopped set of kings in the tourney today only to get called in on the turn by aces for him to river an ace.

Sat down with £20 at the 50p cash table walked away with £120.

They turnedd the team game into a singles game.

I'm not giving you my online name because I don't want to be 'scoped. Will be starting a new account over Christmas.

EDIT: Watched my friend, Eddie [online name - Tedson] win 8k odd yesterday though. 'scope him if you want.

Clarkman wrote:I'm not giving you my online name because I don't want to be 'scoped. Will be starting a new account over Christmas.

EDIT: Watched my friend, Eddie [online name - Tedson] win 8k odd yesterday though. 'scope him if you want.

Doesn't matter if you're in profit or not, just thought it would be nice to know so I could watch you play when you're on You know you can't have double accounts on the same site, right?

Anyway, still hanging around in the Sunday Mil, in about 800th out of 2400 ish.

Still in around 800th of 1321. Shorties being very tight now, as min payout is at 1260.

I'm not an idiot, I'm just going to wait until the cash and then open up properly. No point trying to crush bubble when a 1/5 of my BR is at risk.

EDIT - Mincashed. Now to win

It can only improve your game to play alongside us! Join the darkside. We make collaboratively 10s of thousands a years. (99% attributed to satriales)

Out in 920th. Crippled when I called a shortie with 2:1 pot odds and 9To, then shoved AT into JJ, which held. Either way, nice $357 cash

Took down £100 in Cardiff. Wasn't all at poker though ...

Big stack final four of a $44 FO on PP. 26 runners so only 3 get paid $520 going to the winner. One guy on 15 blinds.

Final 3: $504, $312, $208

34k (me)
24k
20k

HUP i have 2:1 chip lead

Could ya hug that radiator any harder at the moment?

TID.

Player im against is a huge donk button raises 7 x!

EZ mode hopefully !

DML wrote:Took down £100 in Cardiff. Wasn't all at poker though ...

Well done Ben

Chris, you are so sick. Keep slamming those donks, man

Theo wrote:Could ya hug that radiator any harder at the moment?

TID.

Indeed. But I suppose in many ways he's basically just playing pretty high stakes SnGs on PP, really. a $504 cash seems huge to us, but it's a $44 game anyway, so like 12 BIs if he wins.

IF that makes any sense at all.

Snowva wrote:

DML wrote:Took down £100 in Cardiff. Wasn't all at poker though ...

Well done Ben

Chris, you are so sick. Keep slamming those donks, man

Came 27th out of 100. Got into a big hand where we both had second pair, and I couldnt get him to fold his slightly better kicker.

Had 10% in a guy who came sixth though. Then went to the cash table and had two guys stacking off to me when I had A-Kh on a three heart board on the turn.

A7 < JK headsup im out in 2nd. How piss annoying

Get my $600+ cash up there Drumster

DML wrote:Came 27th out of 100. Got into a big hand where we both had second pair, and I couldnt get him to fold his slightly better kicker.

Did you think you had the best hand?

Theo wrote:

DML wrote:Came 27th out of 100. Got into a big hand where we both had second pair, and I couldnt get him to fold his slightly better kicker.

Did you think you had the best hand?

It was a wierd hand. The standard was weak, but I mistakenly thought this guy was quite good.

He had 16k and I had 22k following a big double up.

I did a button raise with Q-9o and he called.

The flop came A-Q-4 and he bet out 2/3 the pot. I opt to call, there are no flush draws.

The turn comes a 6 and he checks. It again is rainbow. I decide to be enough to commit him to the hand if he pushes over the top. My thought here is he knows that I will call if he goes all in, and he cannot just call. I had raised, called the flop and commited him on the turn, I figured he would fold any Queens - and his demeanour and defend of my blind told me he didn't have an Ace. (At best he could maybe has an A-2, but I was convinced he would bet the turn - as value betting was the aim of the game.) He shoved, leaving me totally confused, but commited to call. He flipped Q-J and the river blanked and I lost a load.

I felt annoyed for getting tangled in a spot where I didn't need to, but at least my reads were correct. I don't think I could have played the hand stronger - I just couldn't see him calling with a Queen unless it was two pair. He looked weak, he was weak, but somehow he called.

DML wrote:

Theo wrote:

DML wrote:Came 27th out of 100. Got into a big hand where we both had second pair, and I couldnt get him to fold his slightly better kicker.

Did you think you had the best hand?

It was a wierd hand. The standard was weak, but I mistakenly thought this guy was quite good.

He had 16k and I had 22k following a big double up.

I did a button raise with Q-9o and he called.

The flop came A-Q-4 and he bet out 2/3 the pot. I opt to call, there are no flush draws.

The turn comes a 6 and he checks. It again is rainbow. I decide to be enough to commit him to the hand if he pushes over the top. My thought here is he knows that I will call if he goes all in, and he cannot just call. I had raised, called the flop and commited him on the turn, I figured he would fold any Queens - and his demeanour and defend of my blind told me he didn't have an Ace. (At best he could maybe has an A-2, but I was convinced he would bet the turn - as value betting was the aim of the game.) He shoved, leaving me totally confused, but commited to call. He flipped Q-J and the river blanked and I lost a load.

I felt annoyed for getting tangled in a spot where I didn't need to, but at least my reads were correct. I don't think I could have played the hand stronger - I just couldn't see him calling with a Queen unless it was two pair. He looked weak, he was weak, but somehow he called.

It makes sense, but a donk bet hardly ever means an ace on that flop, and as he bet the flop he's hardly going to check fold the turn if you've shown no flop aggression. With that said, I would raise then fold to shove, to be honest. You were the preflop aggressor, and you are representing the Ace. Move in on him and make him make the awkward decision - you're Q9 basically beats nothing on the turn, unfortunately

What was the blind level? What were the bet sizings?