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: A few hands from ATLARGE...
The overall level of play at ATLARGE was amazingly bad. I don't remember it being like this in the past. But perhaps I've just improved a lot and the field has remained, well, the field.
NLH tournament, 15-25 blinds. Stacks are like 3000.
I raise to 60 in cutoff+1 with Jc9c. Small blind calls, all others fold.
Flop comes Td 6c 5d. He bets 50, I call.
Turn is 5c. Check-check.
River is 8c. He checks, I bet 125, he calls. I show my flush, he shows KK.
Stud tournament. It's the 200-400 limit, I have a few chips. New player with a reasonable stack comes to the table. I complete with (98)A from steal+2. He reraises with a six. I shrug and say "I was just kidding," and fold. He says "So was I," and flips up his (QJ)6. Ok fine. Now he says "Some of us kids know how to play stud a little." I say nothing.
Fast forward a limit or two.
Llew to my right completes with a jack. "Us kids" reraises with another jack. Llew calls.
On 4th, Llew catches a suited 7, so does UK. Llew checks, UK bets, Llew raises, UK reraises, Llew caps, he calls.
On 5th and 6th streets, UK catches blanks while Llew catches the AQ of UK's suit. Llew bets each street, UK calls. On the river, Llew bets again, UK thinks for a long time and calls. Llew sighs and says "I just have jacks." UK says "that's good."
Then UK tries puts in the third raise on 3rd street with (24)2, trying to "isolate" one of the two small stacks who had raised. Instead he ends up against two overpairs.
Finally I bust him with my aces against his small pair when he is nearly all in.
What is it that draws people to taunt exactly the wrong people?
NLH tournament: Blinds are 100-300. Guy with about 7000 makes it 800 in the small blind. Big blind moves all in for a total of 2100. In addition to the 2100, he puts a black chip in the pot which is some sort of bounty. So the guy who raised in the small blind has to call 1300 tournament chips to win 2900 and $100. You know how the story ends.
I busted out of the tournament because of that hand, too. I made it 1100 at 200-400 blinds from the cutoff+1 with A9o and got called by that guy in the small blind. Flop came 8 high, it went check-check. Turn was another 8; he bet 1100, I jammed 4000 more. He thinks for a long time and calls with 77. I'm like, "ok you win." This might be a hoser play, but how can you make those two plays in the space of a half-hour? :)
Anyway, I got third in the stud event, which is the third year in a row I've made the final table of that tournament (1,7,3). I think that puts me in good shape for the ARG BAAP thing, but I might have to win something at BARGE.
Thanks to Goldie for putting this together; thanks to Bill for an A+ meal at Tomatoe's; thanks to Sabyl and Steve for an A- meal at Dynasty...see everyone at BARGE.
The overall level of play at ATLARGE was amazingly bad. I don't remember it being like this in the past. But perhaps I've just improved a lot and the field has remained, well, the field.
NLH tournament, 15-25 blinds. Stacks are like 3000.
I raise to 60 in cutoff+1 with Jc9c. Small blind calls, all others fold.
Flop comes Td 6c 5d. He bets 50, I call.
Turn is 5c. Check-check.
River is 8c. He checks, I bet 125, he calls. I show my flush, he shows KK.
Stud tournament. It's the 200-400 limit, I have a few chips. New player with a reasonable stack comes to the table. I complete with (98)A from steal+2. He reraises with a six. I shrug and say "I was just kidding," and fold. He says "So was I," and flips up his (QJ)6. Ok fine. Now he says "Some of us kids know how to play stud a little." I say nothing.
Fast forward a limit or two.
Llew to my right completes with a jack. "Us kids" reraises with another jack. Llew calls.
On 4th, Llew catches a suited 7, so does UK. Llew checks, UK bets, Llew raises, UK reraises, Llew caps, he calls.
On 5th and 6th streets, UK catches blanks while Llew catches the AQ of UK's suit. Llew bets each street, UK calls. On the river, Llew bets again, UK thinks for a long time and calls. Llew sighs and says "I just have jacks." UK says "that's good."
Then UK tries puts in the third raise on 3rd street with (24)2, trying to "isolate" one of the two small stacks who had raised. Instead he ends up against two overpairs.
Finally I bust him with my aces against his small pair when he is nearly all in.
What is it that draws people to taunt exactly the wrong people?
NLH tournament: Blinds are 100-300. Guy with about 7000 makes it 800 in the small blind. Big blind moves all in for a total of 2100. In addition to the 2100, he puts a black chip in the pot which is some sort of bounty. So the guy who raised in the small blind has to call 1300 tournament chips to win 2900 and $100. You know how the story ends.
I busted out of the tournament because of that hand, too. I made it 1100 at 200-400 blinds from the cutoff+1 with A9o and got called by that guy in the small blind. Flop came 8 high, it went check-check. Turn was another 8; he bet 1100, I jammed 4000 more. He thinks for a long time and calls with 77. I'm like, "ok you win." This might be a hoser play, but how can you make those two plays in the space of a half-hour? :)
Anyway, I got third in the stud event, which is the third year in a row I've made the final table of that tournament (1,7,3). I think that puts me in good shape for the ARG BAAP thing, but I might have to win something at BARGE.
Thanks to Goldie for putting this together; thanks to Bill for an A+ meal at Tomatoe's; thanks to Sabyl and Steve for an A- meal at Dynasty...see everyone at BARGE.