The Poker Thread

Just busted out of a $4,000 GTD tourney on WH first hand. I get it all in with QQ against a guy who has limped UTG with TT and he flops a set. FML.

That certainly seems to happen much more frequently than once every ten times, doesn't it? The last few times I've had the overpair it's happened to me and the last time I had the lower pair I sucked out to make a set. The laws of statistics are WRONG, I tell you!

Goldomov, Oblincense and Myrrhblomov wrote:That certainly seems to happen much more frequently than once every ten times, doesn't it? The last few times I've had the overpair it's happened to me and the last time I had the lower pair I sucked out to make a set. The laws of statistics are WRONG, I tell you!

Nope. It's just you only rush your chips in with overpairs. A lot more of the time when someone hits the set you have something like AQ, hit nothing, and fold. It only seems more frequent because you see the set itself. It's a very common way of being busted.

Nova wrote:

Goldomov, Oblincense and Myrrhblomov wrote:That certainly seems to happen much more frequently than once every ten times, doesn't it? The last few times I've had the overpair it's happened to me and the last time I had the lower pair I sucked out to make a set. The laws of statistics are WRONG, I tell you!

Nope. It's just you only rush your chips in with overpairs. A lot more of the time when someone hits the set you have something like AQ, hit nothing, and fold. It only seems more frequent because you see the set itself. It's a very common way of being busted.

Hm? I meant when two pocket pairs go up against each other.

Goldomov, Oblincense and Myrrhblomov wrote:

Nova wrote:

Goldomov, Oblincense and Myrrhblomov wrote:That certainly seems to happen much more frequently than once every ten times, doesn't it? The last few times I've had the overpair it's happened to me and the last time I had the lower pair I sucked out to make a set. The laws of statistics are WRONG, I tell you!

Nope. It's just you only rush your chips in with overpairs. A lot more of the time when someone hits the set you have something like AQ, hit nothing, and fold. It only seems more frequent because you see the set itself. It's a very common way of being busted.

Hm? I meant when two pocket pairs go up against each other.

Hmm, ok. Even then though, people fold most of the time, and you never see their lower pair. It's just when you lose to a set with AA, you just remember those more than when you take down a pot on the flop with AA (with lower pairs folding etc.).

There's a guy on one of my cash tab;es who's just pushing eveything so I'm trying to bust him but have lost about half my roll so far but I've got it in ahead alot.

Ecno wrote:There's a guy on one of my cash tab;es who's just pushing eveything so I'm trying to bust him but have lost about half my roll so far but I've got it in ahead alot.

Yeah you have to be careful chasing donks. I've lost a fair bit over time doing that.

Nova wrote:

Ecno wrote:There's a guy on one of my cash tab;es who's just pushing eveything so I'm trying to bust him but have lost about half my roll so far but I've got it in ahead alot.

Yeah you have to be careful chasing donks. I've lost a fair bit over time doing that.

Well he said he was giving away free money and shoving evey hand. I'm not sure if I should have tightened my calling range to reduce variance because it doesn't happen very often. And by every hand I mean every hand not most but every.

I was just at the shove-fold situation, shoved with A9c to be called by two people who both showed Jacks . I hit the Ace on the flop and turned two pair just to rub it in .

Watching your tournament, Sat. I can't rail as I don't have enough to buy in to the tournament .

Ecno wrote:

Nova wrote:

Ecno wrote:There's a guy on one of my cash tab;es who's just pushing eveything so I'm trying to bust him but have lost about half my roll so far but I've got it in ahead alot.

Yeah you have to be careful chasing donks. I've lost a fair bit over time doing that.

Well he said he was giving away free money and shoving evey hand. I'm not sure if I should have tightened my calling range to reduce variance because it doesn't happen very often. And by every hand I mean every hand not most but every.

That's fair enough then. Playing in a tourney on WH atm. Haven't rebought or anything, jus waiting for that period to end. I'll spec you guys now.

Goldomov, Oblincense and Myrrhblomov wrote:Watching your tournament, Sat. I can't rail as I don't have enough to buy in to the tournament .

It's been fairly uneventful so far, I've just been slowly building up my stack without getting into too many tough spots. I folded AQs pre-flop early on after raising it and then getting reraised by a tight player but other than that I can't think of many interesting hands. It seems to be going ok though, not too far from the money now.

Also, I didn't buy-in direct I played a satellite so it only cost me $22 instead of $55. So even if I just reach the min-cash of $80 that will do very nicely.

For some reason I seem to play really badly on other sites than Pokerstars I'm not really supposed to be playing until after my exams, so maybe I'm rushing it a bit.

What did you have in that pot where you reraised pre Sat?

Poker Stars $50+$5 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t150/t300 Blinds + t25 - 9 players - View hand 452456
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

SB: t7443 M = 11.03
BB: t8346 M = 12.36
UTG: t8940 M = 13.24
UTG+1: t9779 M = 14.49
UTG+2: t5923 M = 8.77
MP1: t16567 M = 24.54
MP2: t6987 M = 10.35
CO: t25280 M = 37.45
Hero (BTN): t9901 M = 14.67

Pre Flop: (t675) Hero is BTN with A K
5 folds, CO raises to t900, Hero raises to t2600, 2 folds, CO calls t1700

Flop: (t5875) K 7 4 (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets t3000, CO folds

Final Pot: t5875
Hero wins t5875

I was tempted to just check the flop but I don't think he would have bet the turn anyway.

That's what I had you on I made a pretty loud 'phew' sound when the K hit the board

What did you have when you just check-raised? The only thing I can imagine is that you were slow-playing bullets or you flopped a straight.

Goldomov, Oblincense and Myrrhblomov wrote:What did you have when you just check-raised? The only thing I can imagine is that you were slow-playing bullets or you flopped a straight.

Poker Stars $50+$5 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t200/t400 Blinds + t50 - 9 players - View hand 452476
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Sama2607 (UTG+2): t7668 M = 7.30
Mr Brizza (MP1): t7221 M = 6.88
morbo1 (MP2): t7440 M = 7.09
nireben (CO): t6629 M = 6.31
Crunk_Ninja (BTN): t16986 M = 16.18
parachuting (SB): t7170 M = 6.83
Ray1284 (BB): t8116 M = 7.73
KKrazy-KKris (UTG): t24030 M = 22.89
Hero (UTG+1): t13906 M = 13.24

Pre Flop: (t1050) Hero is UTG+1 with 3 3
1 fold, Hero calls t400, 4 folds, Crunk_Ninja raises to t1200, 1 fold, Ray1284 calls t800, Hero calls t800

Flop: (t4250) 3 5 4 (3 players)
Ray1284 checks, Hero checks, Crunk_Ninja bets t2250, Ray1284 folds, Hero raises to t5600, Crunk_Ninja folds

Final Pot: t8750
Hero wins t8750

Ohh. I think I need to get more adventurous with the hands I play.

Poker Stars $50+$5 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t300/t600 Blinds + t50 - 9 players - View hand 452479
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Sama2607 (MP2): t5518 M = 4.09
Mr Brizza (CO): t10366 M = 7.68
morbo1 (BTN): t8740 M = 6.47
nireben (SB): t6929 M = 5.13
Crunk_Ninja (BB): t12171 M = 9.02
parachuting (UTG): t7670 M = 5.68
Ray1284 (UTG+1): t8451 M = 6.26
KKrazy-KKris (UTG+2): t21065 M = 15.60
Hero (MP1): t18256 M = 13.52

Pre Flop: (t1350) Hero is MP1 with 8 8
1 fold, Ray1284 raises to t1800, 1 fold, Hero calls t1800, 5 folds

Flop: (t4950) A A T (2 players)
Ray1284 bets t6601 all in, Hero calls t6601

Turn: (t18152) A (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: (t18152) 5 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: t18152
Ray1284 shows Q 6 (three of a kind, Aces)
Hero shows 8 8 (a full house, Aces full of Eights)
Hero wins t18152

Guy was a donk, playing 80% of hands and raising 50% of them. He had no idea about position and I was just waiting for the right time to take all of his chips

He was UTG+1 and he raised with Q6o? What the hell is he doing playing $55 tournaments?!