Full House Poker Tour
What's that, you ask? It's a free Finland wide poker tournament provided by Pokeri Lehti (Finnish version of Card Player Magazine) and ParBet that takes place in different cities and restaurants around the poker playing nation. Anyway. To cut the long story a bit shorter I participated the tournaments qualifying heat with my friend last monday in Hesari Club, Helsinki.
The tournament was organized so that there was three 10 player sit & go tables and each table was played three times plus there was one extra table played at the end of the night. The players for the qualifying heats where randomly selected so that about 100 players was eventually able to participate the tournament.
First it was looking a bit unlikely that we would be able to get to the table since the players to the tables were selected one table at the time and none of us (there was 4 of us) made it to the first three tables. After all we all managed to get to the tables after all and here's a description of how did the tournament go from my point of view.
All players had 1500 chips at the start of the tourney and the blinds started from 25/50 and doubled every 15 minutes. The tournament started slow for me and I think I had most of the possible deuce + some other crappy card combination you can think of. After a while I had a pair of nines but had to throw them away after the flop came AJ7 all suited. Sigh! You just hope to flop a set with these cards...
I was able to take my first pot after I paid 100 to see the flop with A3s and managed to get a suckers straight from the turn. I had to bet the pot (300) to see that no-one would be drawing me to a split pot or worse. everyone folded and I was happy to take the pot. Someone else would've slow played but I think I made the right choice after all.
After about a 45 minutes of play I was in UTG position and managed to get the bullets. The blinds were 100/200 and I decided to come out blazing and raised to 600 after little friendly conversation with the gentleman in the big blind. And what happens... The guy next to me raises to 1200 leaving other players no options but to fold. I checked my cards and pushed all my chips to the middle (about 1400 or so). The guy next to me calls with all he has left already guessing that he's up against the nuts and turns around QQ. I double my stack, shake his hand and get a bit more comfortable in my seat. You gotta love the bullets ;)
Next hand the blinds get up to 400 and I had to fold some crappy hand when some others go to battle. And what happens next? Yes. I'm on the small blind and get the bullets AGAIN! Sweet! Now... How should I play? The guy in big blind is already almost allin so I'm really hoping for someone else to call or raise. Damn... Everybody seems to be folding. The guy on the button limbs in and I decide that I just double the big blind to keep him in the game. Both the big blind and button makes the call and we are of to see the flop. K Q 7 - I check, the BB checks and the guy in the button bets 800. Excellent! Now he's pot committed and I can force him to go all-in by pushing all my chips to the middle. The big blind is all-in and the button follows and turns around a weak K5 of spades and says that he has only the top pair. Sweet!
I didn't really pay attention that what the big blind had but the most important thing is that I beat them both! Yesh! Whose next! I have about half of the chips from the table making me the clear chip leader. I decided that now I really don't have to take any risks and joined the game next time when I was on big blind (800) and a guy on the UTG position had gone all-in with about 1300 chips and everybody else had folded. I make a quick calculation 1300 + 400 + 800 = 2500 and I don't even have to look at my cards to make the decision. I pay the 500 and he turns around TT and turn around A7. ...not bad. At least I have a chance of catching an overpair ;)
Boy was I wrong... I didn't even come close to catching a pair. Instead I got a miracle STRAIGHT from 9 to 5 from the river!!! Wow! I guess sometimes you just get lucky no matter what you do :D
Rest of the tournament was basically just defending my blinds and waiting for other players starve away because of the blinds. Two players got through to the semi finals that will be held 5th of March on the same place and I was the other one from our table. Good for me!
What about the others? Well... All four of us made it to the tables and two of us went to the semi finals. Not all that bad result after all I think ;)
The tournament was organized so that there was three 10 player sit & go tables and each table was played three times plus there was one extra table played at the end of the night. The players for the qualifying heats where randomly selected so that about 100 players was eventually able to participate the tournament.
First it was looking a bit unlikely that we would be able to get to the table since the players to the tables were selected one table at the time and none of us (there was 4 of us) made it to the first three tables. After all we all managed to get to the tables after all and here's a description of how did the tournament go from my point of view.
All players had 1500 chips at the start of the tourney and the blinds started from 25/50 and doubled every 15 minutes. The tournament started slow for me and I think I had most of the possible deuce + some other crappy card combination you can think of. After a while I had a pair of nines but had to throw them away after the flop came AJ7 all suited. Sigh! You just hope to flop a set with these cards...
I was able to take my first pot after I paid 100 to see the flop with A3s and managed to get a suckers straight from the turn. I had to bet the pot (300) to see that no-one would be drawing me to a split pot or worse. everyone folded and I was happy to take the pot. Someone else would've slow played but I think I made the right choice after all.
After about a 45 minutes of play I was in UTG position and managed to get the bullets. The blinds were 100/200 and I decided to come out blazing and raised to 600 after little friendly conversation with the gentleman in the big blind. And what happens... The guy next to me raises to 1200 leaving other players no options but to fold. I checked my cards and pushed all my chips to the middle (about 1400 or so). The guy next to me calls with all he has left already guessing that he's up against the nuts and turns around QQ. I double my stack, shake his hand and get a bit more comfortable in my seat. You gotta love the bullets ;)
Next hand the blinds get up to 400 and I had to fold some crappy hand when some others go to battle. And what happens next? Yes. I'm on the small blind and get the bullets AGAIN! Sweet! Now... How should I play? The guy in big blind is already almost allin so I'm really hoping for someone else to call or raise. Damn... Everybody seems to be folding. The guy on the button limbs in and I decide that I just double the big blind to keep him in the game. Both the big blind and button makes the call and we are of to see the flop. K Q 7 - I check, the BB checks and the guy in the button bets 800. Excellent! Now he's pot committed and I can force him to go all-in by pushing all my chips to the middle. The big blind is all-in and the button follows and turns around a weak K5 of spades and says that he has only the top pair. Sweet!
I didn't really pay attention that what the big blind had but the most important thing is that I beat them both! Yesh! Whose next! I have about half of the chips from the table making me the clear chip leader. I decided that now I really don't have to take any risks and joined the game next time when I was on big blind (800) and a guy on the UTG position had gone all-in with about 1300 chips and everybody else had folded. I make a quick calculation 1300 + 400 + 800 = 2500 and I don't even have to look at my cards to make the decision. I pay the 500 and he turns around TT and turn around A7. ...not bad. At least I have a chance of catching an overpair ;)
Boy was I wrong... I didn't even come close to catching a pair. Instead I got a miracle STRAIGHT from 9 to 5 from the river!!! Wow! I guess sometimes you just get lucky no matter what you do :D
Rest of the tournament was basically just defending my blinds and waiting for other players starve away because of the blinds. Two players got through to the semi finals that will be held 5th of March on the same place and I was the other one from our table. Good for me!
What about the others? Well... All four of us made it to the tables and two of us went to the semi finals. Not all that bad result after all I think ;)
posted by M_ace_T at 19:40
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