I won two dinner tickets.....yup, thats the extent of my Fall Poker Classic Week. I ended up only playing two events, was going to play four or five, but just wasnt feeling it and decided to spend those days hanging out with friends and family.
Onto the events, Event #11 was the first one I played and I lasted a grand total of 35 minutes, it was a very weird hand, and part of me is upset at how I played it and the other part of me believes I played it right because of how my opponent had been playing. Villain had been playing 70ish % of hands since the beginning of the tourney and was even trying to trap people with hands like Top Pair and an eight kicker or something weak on very wet boards. In other words, this player was not good....at all. So Villain raises from middle position and I look down at AQ offsuit and decide to three bet him. Normally early in tournaments i'll try to take a more small ball approach, but I wanted to inflate this pot early to take the lead and make it that much bigger for when I take the pot with a C bet. He calls ( which I knew he would, he hadnt folded to a three bet yet ) and we saw a flop. Flop was Q63 with two spades. Well this changed things for me, now I want him to call my c bet. He checked and I bet around 3/4 of the pot, and he called. I took a look at him and he looked very weak, I didnt notice any specific tells as of yet, just a general "I'm not comfortable" look in his posture. This actually really confused me, at first when he called I assumed it was something like QJ, QT, KQ, or a flush draw....but villain had shown that he thinks top pair is a very strong hand, so he shouldnt be uncomfortable about having any of those hands. Turn was a 3. Meh, probably a good card, but he could have A3 or something retarded, regardless I moved along as if this was a good card for my hand. He checked again and I bet 1/2 pot, than he min raises me....grrrr, this surprised me, and so did the tell I now saw from him.....normally a tell of strength. I'm cursing myself for betting this turn now, what the hell did I get myself into a big pot for this early in a tournament? lol....so after some deliberation, I decided that he could think his Qx is a huge hand is trying to trap me with it. I dont want to scare him off so I just call with the intention of snap calling any bet on the river from him ( which should put me all in )...river is a 6, good card for me, that can't possibly improve his hand. He felts me, I snap call and he tables AA....sigh. AA didn't even come into the realm of possibilities in his hand range in my mind, and it cost me dearly. I see a lot of players playing AA and KK like this and its very odd to play it as such. I worked perfectly for him here, but I think in the long term for him to play AA or KK like this is a very bad play. Trapping out of position is a very difficult thing to do and it generally costs you more equity than just barreling away with the hand. Seeing as now I had a lot of time to kill, I went and got drunk with my old man, haha.
Event #12....this event was, well rather droll. I didn't get anything going, I'd win some small pots, than lose a big one...rinse, repeat. I had 8500 at first break because I misplayed a hand against a good player. Went on a little mini heater and had it up to 20k which was somewhere around top 25 at the time, and than lost two races to shortstack all-ins and was back down to 9k. As per usual when I need the table to remain tight or need to pickup a hand, the table loosens up and i go completely card dead. I didnt play a hand for 1.5 hours and was down 6500 with blinds at 400/800 when it finally folded around to my button and I blind shoved. The small blind called with KJ and I tabled 84....damn, lol. Hit an 8 on the flop, but he went runner runner for a flush and that was that.
So I won two dinner tickets for my two events as I didnt make dinner break in either haha. Oh well, it was fun to play some live poker again and Canterbury's renovated room is very very nice. I'd rate it as one of the top five rooms in the country now....not even kidding, its gorgeous, spacious, comfortable, and the dealers/floorpersons are competent.
Later that night I went to dinner with Brook and Kat, two girls I hadnt seen in probably sixish months, maybe longer. It was good to see them, just sat around and bullshitted until like 1:30 am. I can bs with the guys for hours upon hours, but most girls I get bored talking to after 15 minutes and have to get drunk or something, but these girls keep me entertained and I can easily talk to them for hours and have fun doing it, so that was fun.
I still havent started grinding online again, really just having a hard time getting motivated to....I think I'm going to force myself to start up the 45 mans again this week. Try to set a schedule for it and stick to it, gonna have to cut back on the video games and porn heh.
Anyway, thats all I guess, pretty boring entry if you dont know anything about poker so I apologize for that.
-Bakken
Onto the events, Event #11 was the first one I played and I lasted a grand total of 35 minutes, it was a very weird hand, and part of me is upset at how I played it and the other part of me believes I played it right because of how my opponent had been playing. Villain had been playing 70ish % of hands since the beginning of the tourney and was even trying to trap people with hands like Top Pair and an eight kicker or something weak on very wet boards. In other words, this player was not good....at all. So Villain raises from middle position and I look down at AQ offsuit and decide to three bet him. Normally early in tournaments i'll try to take a more small ball approach, but I wanted to inflate this pot early to take the lead and make it that much bigger for when I take the pot with a C bet. He calls ( which I knew he would, he hadnt folded to a three bet yet ) and we saw a flop. Flop was Q63 with two spades. Well this changed things for me, now I want him to call my c bet. He checked and I bet around 3/4 of the pot, and he called. I took a look at him and he looked very weak, I didnt notice any specific tells as of yet, just a general "I'm not comfortable" look in his posture. This actually really confused me, at first when he called I assumed it was something like QJ, QT, KQ, or a flush draw....but villain had shown that he thinks top pair is a very strong hand, so he shouldnt be uncomfortable about having any of those hands. Turn was a 3. Meh, probably a good card, but he could have A3 or something retarded, regardless I moved along as if this was a good card for my hand. He checked again and I bet 1/2 pot, than he min raises me....grrrr, this surprised me, and so did the tell I now saw from him.....normally a tell of strength. I'm cursing myself for betting this turn now, what the hell did I get myself into a big pot for this early in a tournament? lol....so after some deliberation, I decided that he could think his Qx is a huge hand is trying to trap me with it. I dont want to scare him off so I just call with the intention of snap calling any bet on the river from him ( which should put me all in )...river is a 6, good card for me, that can't possibly improve his hand. He felts me, I snap call and he tables AA....sigh. AA didn't even come into the realm of possibilities in his hand range in my mind, and it cost me dearly. I see a lot of players playing AA and KK like this and its very odd to play it as such. I worked perfectly for him here, but I think in the long term for him to play AA or KK like this is a very bad play. Trapping out of position is a very difficult thing to do and it generally costs you more equity than just barreling away with the hand. Seeing as now I had a lot of time to kill, I went and got drunk with my old man, haha.
Event #12....this event was, well rather droll. I didn't get anything going, I'd win some small pots, than lose a big one...rinse, repeat. I had 8500 at first break because I misplayed a hand against a good player. Went on a little mini heater and had it up to 20k which was somewhere around top 25 at the time, and than lost two races to shortstack all-ins and was back down to 9k. As per usual when I need the table to remain tight or need to pickup a hand, the table loosens up and i go completely card dead. I didnt play a hand for 1.5 hours and was down 6500 with blinds at 400/800 when it finally folded around to my button and I blind shoved. The small blind called with KJ and I tabled 84....damn, lol. Hit an 8 on the flop, but he went runner runner for a flush and that was that.
So I won two dinner tickets for my two events as I didnt make dinner break in either haha. Oh well, it was fun to play some live poker again and Canterbury's renovated room is very very nice. I'd rate it as one of the top five rooms in the country now....not even kidding, its gorgeous, spacious, comfortable, and the dealers/floorpersons are competent.
Later that night I went to dinner with Brook and Kat, two girls I hadnt seen in probably sixish months, maybe longer. It was good to see them, just sat around and bullshitted until like 1:30 am. I can bs with the guys for hours upon hours, but most girls I get bored talking to after 15 minutes and have to get drunk or something, but these girls keep me entertained and I can easily talk to them for hours and have fun doing it, so that was fun.
I still havent started grinding online again, really just having a hard time getting motivated to....I think I'm going to force myself to start up the 45 mans again this week. Try to set a schedule for it and stick to it, gonna have to cut back on the video games and porn heh.
Anyway, thats all I guess, pretty boring entry if you dont know anything about poker so I apologize for that.
-Bakken
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