Re: The Poker Thread - DML wins Challenge Cup!
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:35 pm
Yeah so Rex and I just took down a little freeroll tournament for €150!
Aaron (Rocketman) couldn't play so he asked Rex to play in his place. He played through the first hour and got down to two tables with around fifteen big blinds and then his internet died. So he phoned me with the login details.
Anyway with eleven or twelve big blinds (nobody really had any more than twenty I'd say) I logged in. I then started the biggest heater of my life. It started when I sucked out with tens against kings. It seemed like each time I limped a small blind I wound up flopping top two pair and we got up to around 6k before a sick pot. I limped in a three way pot from the small blind with J9o. The flop comes J94 rainbow. I check-raised a guy who then re-raised, I obviously called and he shows 99. No jacks for me sees me back at about 2k and ten big blinds. Things stayed like that until we got down to ten and the final table. With a stack of 1800 and blinds of 300/600 I elected to get in with K8, and were called by a guy with A9, the board came 988KA so we doubled up to around 4k as there was a limper or two before my push.
The very next hand I get jacks. Still with only eight big blinds I again push - the SAME guy calls and this time he only has Q4dd and I now find myself in second place. I started to bully a little and worked my way up to chip leader. I can't remember some of the hands, but one which sticks out was when I min raised with Q9 on the button, the small blind pushed all in for an extra 500 and shows AQ. The 9 hits the flop and he is gone. I know there was another knockout, something like A5 vs A9 and I flopped a 5. By the break I was absolutely destroying this tourament. Blinds were 400/800. I was sitting on near enough 20k, the biggest of the other three was 8.5k.
Anyway, I handed back over to Rex at that point and he did the rest at four handed. The final hand was his KK vs the other guy's QQ, and this guy had worked his way back up to almost an even stack. His kings held and we took it down.
There was also the small matter of making another 45-man final table. I managed to avoid bubbling and went out in 7th. AKhh in the small blind with about eight big blinds left, the big stack calls the BB as does the button, I go all in for my remaining 3.4k, big stack calls and shows ATo. Again I ran badly at a crucial time as he hit four diamonds to knock me out.
Aaron (Rocketman) couldn't play so he asked Rex to play in his place. He played through the first hour and got down to two tables with around fifteen big blinds and then his internet died. So he phoned me with the login details.
Anyway with eleven or twelve big blinds (nobody really had any more than twenty I'd say) I logged in. I then started the biggest heater of my life. It started when I sucked out with tens against kings. It seemed like each time I limped a small blind I wound up flopping top two pair and we got up to around 6k before a sick pot. I limped in a three way pot from the small blind with J9o. The flop comes J94 rainbow. I check-raised a guy who then re-raised, I obviously called and he shows 99. No jacks for me sees me back at about 2k and ten big blinds. Things stayed like that until we got down to ten and the final table. With a stack of 1800 and blinds of 300/600 I elected to get in with K8, and were called by a guy with A9, the board came 988KA so we doubled up to around 4k as there was a limper or two before my push.
The very next hand I get jacks. Still with only eight big blinds I again push - the SAME guy calls and this time he only has Q4dd and I now find myself in second place. I started to bully a little and worked my way up to chip leader. I can't remember some of the hands, but one which sticks out was when I min raised with Q9 on the button, the small blind pushed all in for an extra 500 and shows AQ. The 9 hits the flop and he is gone. I know there was another knockout, something like A5 vs A9 and I flopped a 5. By the break I was absolutely destroying this tourament. Blinds were 400/800. I was sitting on near enough 20k, the biggest of the other three was 8.5k.
Anyway, I handed back over to Rex at that point and he did the rest at four handed. The final hand was his KK vs the other guy's QQ, and this guy had worked his way back up to almost an even stack. His kings held and we took it down.
There was also the small matter of making another 45-man final table. I managed to avoid bubbling and went out in 7th. AKhh in the small blind with about eight big blinds left, the big stack calls the BB as does the button, I go all in for my remaining 3.4k, big stack calls and shows ATo. Again I ran badly at a crucial time as he hit four diamonds to knock me out.