THE LokaPokah (2/2)
Finally... The main event! So here comes...
LokaPokah 1000 + 50€ No Limit Freezeout 21.10.2006
If I thought that there were some poker sharks in the Super Satellite then this was looking like a meeting of Jaws headliners. Ok. Now this is starting to get interesting. There are 70 players starting the tournament and everybody had 10 000 chips to start with. Blinds starts from 25/50 and they rise every 40 minutes.
First of all... Let me get one thing straight. I hate it when I get good cards right at the start of the tournament. This time I got AQ of spades and I had only one guy left on the table to act after me. All the others had folded. I decided that I just call so that if I get some nice play I will milk some chips out of him. The flop was x Q 5 and I was doing a little high five inside when the opponent raised to 100. I called and decided to wait until next round to push him a little bit. The turn card was some crappy card that really was something I was hoping for no draws to anything possible. I raised 200 after he checked and he silently called my raise. The turn card was 5 and I had a feeling I was trouble. He raised to 300 and I was about to re-raise but decided just to call since I had a bad feeling. Thank God I didn't start to attack since after I just called the 300 he turned over Q5. Huh. Lost less than one thousand so no real harm done.
I was sitting in a table with quite a few young players and as usual all of them seemed to play quite aggressively. I didn't really get any good cards and if I tried to limb in to see the flop it was almost sure that someone raised over the top after that. One drunken guy particularly seemed to mess up the whole tables game by raising almost every hand picking up some blinds and few lucky showdowns. I lost a couple of thousand after some unlucky flops but nothing out of the ordinary. After first break (2 hours) I managed to get on decend hand (KK) and decided to bet a bit. I think I raised to 1000 (blinds were 100/200) and two guys called. The flop had some crap together with K so I decided to slow a little bit. Another one of the guys in the pot raised 2500 and I stalled for a while and called reluctantly. The other guy folded. Turn was another crappy card but the problem was that it enabled a flush and a straight draw. At that point I felt I had to act and pushed all-in (maybe about 3,5k - 4k) and after a long thought he folded. A good fold. I know the player since he seems to live in the Casino and I know that he had a good hand because he wouldn't have raised that much with crap.
After 3 hours of playing I seemed to be more or less at the starting point (about 10k of chips) and so far I really had not been able to play that many hands because I was getting hand full of crap all the time and I was not able to play mediocre hands because our tables own drunk made it too expensive all the time. Luckily since there was only 50 players left in the tournament our table was broken and I moved to another table.
Changing the table really didn't help since it seemed that I was not getting anything better and I was starting to wait for the lunch break already. It seemed that the blinds (500/1000) were starting to do their job since players started to drop out like flies. Soon there was less than 40 players and I finally got something worth playing. I had AK and raised to 3000 from UTG (Under The Gun). All others faded away but the short stacked BB went all in with about 3000 or so. Anyway. He had 10 9 offsuit and the flop was something like J x K and the turn was 7. There was a gut shot straight draw for him which he didn't even notice. He got up and was ready to leave the table and started to shake my hand when I said that 'please sit down - you won'. Needles to say that the river was 8 (of course) and he shook my hand and said 'sorry' and sat down. Well... That's poker. I've been on the other end of the stick more than once.
Now I was in deep sh**. I had only 3600 left and I had to pay BB (1000) . I decided that if I get anything half decend I'll go all-in. I didn't check my cards and all others but the small blind folded. I checked first card... 4 ...crap... another... J. I just checked. The flop was 9 5 2 and we both checked. Turn was A and I though that if the river is 4 or J I'll go all-in. The river was 4 and my opponent raised to 1000. I pushed all my chips to the center without thinking that there was a straight draw with 3 and guess what he had? Yes... You guessed right he had offsuit 7 3. I was out! Damn! If that is not a Tilt then I'd like to know what is. Stupid way to end the day.
At least I got a little bit of joy to see that the drunk who was messing our game at the start of the tournament was just all-in and went out at same time with me :) And the "Omaha Kid" Ilari Sahamies dropped out just a little bit earlier. Sweet!
Anyway. I dropped out at about 35th position or so just before the lunch break... At least now I had plenty of time to go to lunch :) And even though I didn't get to go further it was still a kick ass experience and I know I will kick their ass sometime in the future.
LokaPokah 1000 + 50€ No Limit Freezeout 21.10.2006
If I thought that there were some poker sharks in the Super Satellite then this was looking like a meeting of Jaws headliners. Ok. Now this is starting to get interesting. There are 70 players starting the tournament and everybody had 10 000 chips to start with. Blinds starts from 25/50 and they rise every 40 minutes.
First of all... Let me get one thing straight. I hate it when I get good cards right at the start of the tournament. This time I got AQ of spades and I had only one guy left on the table to act after me. All the others had folded. I decided that I just call so that if I get some nice play I will milk some chips out of him. The flop was x Q 5 and I was doing a little high five inside when the opponent raised to 100. I called and decided to wait until next round to push him a little bit. The turn card was some crappy card that really was something I was hoping for no draws to anything possible. I raised 200 after he checked and he silently called my raise. The turn card was 5 and I had a feeling I was trouble. He raised to 300 and I was about to re-raise but decided just to call since I had a bad feeling. Thank God I didn't start to attack since after I just called the 300 he turned over Q5. Huh. Lost less than one thousand so no real harm done.
I was sitting in a table with quite a few young players and as usual all of them seemed to play quite aggressively. I didn't really get any good cards and if I tried to limb in to see the flop it was almost sure that someone raised over the top after that. One drunken guy particularly seemed to mess up the whole tables game by raising almost every hand picking up some blinds and few lucky showdowns. I lost a couple of thousand after some unlucky flops but nothing out of the ordinary. After first break (2 hours) I managed to get on decend hand (KK) and decided to bet a bit. I think I raised to 1000 (blinds were 100/200) and two guys called. The flop had some crap together with K so I decided to slow a little bit. Another one of the guys in the pot raised 2500 and I stalled for a while and called reluctantly. The other guy folded. Turn was another crappy card but the problem was that it enabled a flush and a straight draw. At that point I felt I had to act and pushed all-in (maybe about 3,5k - 4k) and after a long thought he folded. A good fold. I know the player since he seems to live in the Casino and I know that he had a good hand because he wouldn't have raised that much with crap.
After 3 hours of playing I seemed to be more or less at the starting point (about 10k of chips) and so far I really had not been able to play that many hands because I was getting hand full of crap all the time and I was not able to play mediocre hands because our tables own drunk made it too expensive all the time. Luckily since there was only 50 players left in the tournament our table was broken and I moved to another table.
Changing the table really didn't help since it seemed that I was not getting anything better and I was starting to wait for the lunch break already. It seemed that the blinds (500/1000) were starting to do their job since players started to drop out like flies. Soon there was less than 40 players and I finally got something worth playing. I had AK and raised to 3000 from UTG (Under The Gun). All others faded away but the short stacked BB went all in with about 3000 or so. Anyway. He had 10 9 offsuit and the flop was something like J x K and the turn was 7. There was a gut shot straight draw for him which he didn't even notice. He got up and was ready to leave the table and started to shake my hand when I said that 'please sit down - you won'. Needles to say that the river was 8 (of course) and he shook my hand and said 'sorry' and sat down. Well... That's poker. I've been on the other end of the stick more than once.
Now I was in deep sh**. I had only 3600 left and I had to pay BB (1000) . I decided that if I get anything half decend I'll go all-in. I didn't check my cards and all others but the small blind folded. I checked first card... 4 ...crap... another... J. I just checked. The flop was 9 5 2 and we both checked. Turn was A and I though that if the river is 4 or J I'll go all-in. The river was 4 and my opponent raised to 1000. I pushed all my chips to the center without thinking that there was a straight draw with 3 and guess what he had? Yes... You guessed right he had offsuit 7 3. I was out! Damn! If that is not a Tilt then I'd like to know what is. Stupid way to end the day.
At least I got a little bit of joy to see that the drunk who was messing our game at the start of the tournament was just all-in and went out at same time with me :) And the "Omaha Kid" Ilari Sahamies dropped out just a little bit earlier. Sweet!
Anyway. I dropped out at about 35th position or so just before the lunch break... At least now I had plenty of time to go to lunch :) And even though I didn't get to go further it was still a kick ass experience and I know I will kick their ass sometime in the future.
posted by M_ace_T at 18:01
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