. . . and taketh away

Level XII (1000/2000)


Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: ICECRM (7430 in chips)
Seat 2: Topflex (18295 in chips)
Seat 3: IFCopper (14439 in chips)
Seat 5: KiD[ReD] (10980 in chips)
Seat 6: mary_all_in (5108 in chips)
Seat 7: murraygoals (4761 in chips)
Seat 8: kensmoe8 (6487 in chips)
ICECRM: posts the ante 100
Topflex: posts the ante 100
IFCopper: posts the ante 100
KiD[ReD]: posts the ante 100
mary_all_in: posts the ante 100
murraygoals: posts the ante 100
kensmoe8: posts the ante 100
ICECRM: posts small blind 1000
Topflex: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to IFCopper [Jh Jc]

Nice. This table has been nothing but pansies, every raise = folds around to the raiser. Not to mention the antes and blinds just went up.

A solid raise should take this down. Not to mention that the blinds just went up.

IFCopper: raises 4000 to 6000
KiD[ReD]: calls 6000
mary_all_in: folds
murraygoals: folds
kensmoe8: folds
ICECRM: folds
Topflex: folds

Interesting. I've got kid red pegged as a bit of a loose wire.


*** FLOP *** [Js 4d Qc]
IFCopper: checks

Woof. A monster hand. let's check to the loose wire - who only has 4980 in chips left.


KiD[ReD]: bets 2000

Pause a little bit to reel him in. Act like I'm thinking about it, then call.

IFCopper: calls 2000


*** TURN *** [Js 4d Qc] [4h]

Bam. Full house. He's only got 2880 left, so he's pot committed, might as well put him all in.


IFCopper: bets 4000
KiD[ReD]: calls 2880 and is all-in


He takes the bait.

KiD[ReD]: shows [Ks Qs]

So, he's got two pair, Q's over 4's, and I've got a full house. Only 2 cards in the deck beat me. Queen of diamonds and the Queen of Hearts.

That's a 4.26% chance of beating me. Or, taken another way, I've made the correct play and forced a player all in on a hand that I win 96% of the time.


*** RIVER *** [Js 4d Qc 4h] [Qd]

Yeah. That's poker.


*** SHOW DOWN ***
IFCopper: shows [Jh Jc] (a full house, Jacks full of Queens)
KiD[ReD]: shows [Ks Qs] (a full house, Queens full of Fours)
KiD[ReD] collected 25460 from pot

Look at that. I've just created a new chip leader. Dammit.

Cash - $120.36 - Twenty to one odds giveth

Yes,

Astute followers of the blog will note that I did, in fact, actually place in the money in this tournament. Go me.

I delivered a nasty beat on the river to get there, and took a nasty beat on the river to end my chances.

The story of the first beat:

Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (600/1200)

Seat #8 is the button

Seat 1: ICECRM (8555 in chips)
Seat 2: Topflex (24285 in chips)
Seat 3: IFCopper (3888 in chips)
Seat 5: KiD[ReD] (6330 in chips)
Seat 6: mary_all_in (7265 in chips)
Seat 7: murraygoals (8965 in chips)
Seat 8: kensmoe8 (8212 in chips)


Seventh place is the money - final table, I'm about to get hit for 1950 in chips by the blind and big blind (and antes).


ICECRM: posts the ante 75
Topflex: posts the ante 75
IFCopper: posts the ante 75
KiD[ReD]: posts the ante 75
mary_all_in: posts the ante 75
murraygoals: posts the ante 75
kensmoe8: posts the ante 75
ICECRM: posts small blind 600
Topflex: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to IFCopper [5d Kc]

So, I might as well try and buy the blinds with my shitty king high.


IFCopper: raises 2613 to 3813 and is all-in
KiD[ReD]: folds
mary_all_in: calls 3813
murraygoals: folds
kensmoe8: folds
ICECRM: folds
Topflex: raises 4587 to 8400
mary_all_in: calls 3377 and is all-in

Oh jesus, not one, but two people call me. Looks like trouble.

Topflex: shows [Qd 9c]
mary_all_in: shows [4c 4h]

Losing from the start to the 4's


*** FLOP *** [7d 2h 8c]

Nothing

*** TURN *** [7d 2h 8c] [Td]

Oh jesus, now top flex has an open ended straight draw. I lose with anything but a K or a 5

*** RIVER *** [7d 2h 8c Td] [Kh]

*** SHOW DOWN ***
Topflex: shows [Qd 9c] (high card King)
mary_all_in: shows [4c 4h] (a pair of Fours)
mary_all_in collected 6754 from side pot
IFCopper: shows [5d Kc] (a pair of Kings)
IFCopper collected 12564 from main pot

I LIVE!!!

Cash - $117.99 - Play money 404,917

I'm just getting bad cards lately. Really ;)

In all seriousness, though, I'm getting some time for feeding the poker bug - and I'm sneaking in about one tournament a night - so I'll probably be updating a bit over the X-mas holidays.

(And I'm getting close to the money - my 'gut feel' is that I'll start winning again soon)