The Poker Thread

My note on the guy was "massive rebuy donk" and this was a rebuy hence my min raises. Prizes for correct hand guess.

Rex McGee wrote:N1 sniffington. Mixed game pr0 now.

Just a little bit of information for everyone..
As it stands we are at 179 for Wednesday, 121 for Thursday and 329 for Friday. There are 30 online players yet to confirm days, as well as approximately 35 from D4 events and red hot poker which hopefully will have their days allocated after the weekend.. Just under the 700 mark so starting to speed up!

Taken from Goliath facebook page. Still somewhat undecided. Deffo can't play Thursday though.

Friday. Do it.

I'll guess QJo.

A3hh imo.

KK

92o

No. Lesser strength pre and on that board.

Just realised today that I can have HEM display my stack in BB. Pretty damn useful. No more mental calculations!

Everything went wrong today. I finished $100 below EV. Every single time I flopped top two, someone else had flopped a set. Every time I flop a set, someone else had a gut shot and chased it to the river and hit.

So I was on tilt from runing bad on another table and decided to play aggessively against this player:



I know I played it bad but everything about this hand is so tilting. From his stupidly small re-raise pre, his min re-raise on the flop with just a gutshot, then calling an all-in on turn still with just a gutshot, and then he kept his last $0.08c until the river.

satriales wrote:Everything went wrong today. I finished $100 below EV. Every single time I flopped top two, someone else had flopped a set. Every time I flop a set, someone else had a gut shot and chased it to the river and hit.

So I was on tilt from runing bad on another table and decided to play aggessively against this player:

Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $25.00
Hero (SB): $25.00
BB: $18.22
UTG: $29.83
MP: $29.58
CO: $12.09

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is SB with Q 2
4 folds, Hero raises to $1, BB raises to $1.75, Hero calls $0.75

Flop: ($3.50) 3 T 8 (2 players)
Hero bets $2.25, BB raises to $4.50, Hero calls $2.25

Turn: ($12.50) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $11.89, BB calls $11.89

River: ($36.28) 8 (2 players)
Hero bets $0.25, BB calls $0.08 all in

Final Pot: $36.44
Hero shows Q 2 (a pair of Eights)
BB shows 9 Q (a pair of Eights - Queen+Ten+Nine kicker)
BB wins $34.66
(Rake: $1.78)

I know I played it bad but everything about this hand is so tilting. From his stupidly small re-raise pre, his min re-raise on the flop with just a gutshot, then calling an all-in on turn still with just a gutshot, and then he kept his last $0.08c until the river.

You probably played that hand worse than he did.

I know I should have just mucked pre flop, but as played, if you look at it from his perspective he has 3 outs and even then another spade might come and make his straight useless. I just don't see how he can call a pot size bet for all his stack with 3 outs and no spade.

satriales wrote::lol:

I know I should have just mucked pre flop, but as played, if you look at it from his perspective he has 3 outs and even then another spade might come and make his straight useless. I just don't see how he can call a pot size bet for all his stack with 3 outs and no spade.

He played the flop and pre flop better you played by virtue of his terribad call not your awesome bet the turn better.

He wins 2-1.

Ran deep live for the first time in ages. 5/68 in the end for £215.

Having fostered an average stack for the first 6 levels, I ran pretty well for two circuits, picking up big Aces in last position and three-betting to take 15bb pots down pre. I pulled this off around 4 times and doubled my stack to just over average by the next break.

At this point there are around 35 runners left. Big hands that stick out for me include hitting a backdoor flush against a woman who flopped the nut straight and checked it all the way down Johnny Chan style . She proceeded to call my all-in of course. I knock her out about three hands later when my 4s flop a set against her AJ high.

I had to laydown top pair for a quater of my chips soon after. I had KJ on my BB. It had been raised 2.5x and called by two people, so I came along. Flop came out J98 rainbow. I stuck in a half pot bet and got jammed on, so had to let it go.

Within the space of the next 9 hands I had to be really nitty, folding 9s to a 3 bet and letting ATd go on the button after the cutoff had 3x-ed it.

By now there are about 25 left. I pick up KK [first premium pair I've seen], 3x it and get a call from a monster stack. Flop comes out Qs7s4d. I jam it in for about 9bbs more, and he calls me with A8c . I double back to just over average.

With two tables left, I ante and blind down for two circuits. I'm just over half of average. I pick up AQ, jam and get tripled by AT and 88 when the board comes AKA43. Happy days.

By the time I make it to final, I'm playing about 70k, 15bbs. I make some nit folds, letting A9s go in the HighJack and TT go to a 3 bet by the chip leader. I pick up KJc and 3x it. The monster stack in the BB jams and I go into the tank. He'd been doing the same play a lot, but he'd also been showing down big hands. I fold and he shows 77. Next had I double AQ against AT again, so I felt my fold got rewarded.

Busted on Level 18, shoving 11bbs on the button with 77, only for the BB to wake up with JJ.

O well. I think I played well.

Well done Clarkman.

Played my first LPPL Area Final in a good eight months or so yesterday. Came 15th out of 47. Dind't really see the big hands all day, but won a funny hand against a mega-short stack who was commited all in from the BB. I shoved all in under the gun with 7-7, he calls having not looked at his cards.....flips over Q-Q!



Flop K-7-7.



That sent me to the final two tables with a slightly below average stack, but it was basically bingo at this point. Hand one hand I'd like opinions on.

Blinds were 1,500/3,000. There are 2 stacks of 30,000 - 40,000 but most people are on around 15,000 - 22,000. I am on the dealer button having gone through the blinds and I've been utterly card-dead. The UTG player shoves for 15k - and everyone folds round to me and I look down at 3-3 with the same size stack. I feel that although hes going to be shoving wide, he WILL have a semblence of a hand, and I reluctantly folded. Was this a mistake?

Next hand - I shoved 6-5s from the hijack, got called by the same player in the BB...with Aces. Bah.

DML wrote:Well done Clarkman.

Played my first LPPL Area Final in a good eight months or so yesterday. Came 15th out of 47. Dind't really see the big hands all day, but won a funny hand against a mega-short stack who was commited all in from the BB. I shoved all in under the gun with 7-7, he calls having not looked at his cards.....flips over Q-Q!



Flop K-7-7.



That sent me to the final two tables with a slightly below average stack, but it was basically bingo at this point. Hand one hand I'd like opinions on.

Blinds were 1,500/3,000. There are 2 stacks of 30,000 - 40,000 but most people are on around 15,000 - 22,000. I am on the dealer button having gone through the blinds and I've been utterly card-dead. The UTG player shoves for 15k - and everyone folds round to me and I look down at 3-3 with the same size stack. I feel that although hes going to be shoving wide, he WILL have a semblence of a hand, and I reluctantly folded. Was this a mistake?

Next hand - I shoved 6-5s from the hijack, got called by the same player in the BB...with Aces. Bah.

3-3 is a shoving hand, not a calling hand in that spot. Pretty easy fold for me, IMO. Hand you went out with is obviously fine

Final tabled the 2pm again today, but bubbled 7/41.

88 < AQ.

Been playing well though. Made two calls I was really pleased with. Playing a deepstack starting at 8.30 tonight.

Clarkman wrote:Final tabled the 2pm again today, but bubbled 7/41.

Playing a deepstack starting at 8.30 tonight.

Where?

Played the deepstack at Mint Casino in Kensington. Came 15/62. So annoying to run deep three times in a row and not quite get there.

So who's in for the Goliath then?

PsychicSykes wrote:So who's in for the Goliath then?

Yes. Should be really good if we can get a group together.

Two results in the rebuys this week for a total of about $210 - 7th and a 4th going out with A-Q < Q-7 and A-8 < K-Q.

Its annoying because fourth is just too small to cash out, but its a huge boost to the bankroll - but I want more 'cashing out' money for holiday...