Posted Fri Aug 22, 2003 4:56 pm GMT by mrfloppy
blinds are up to 400-800...46 people left in the tourney...top 30 take some sort of money. $3 dollar rebuy tourney, with add-on at end of 1 hour. I took no rebuys nor did I buy the add-on, but over 2/3 of the field did. Anyhow I'm sitting at about 8k I see AKo. I call and button raises 2500...I raise all in. He turns up AJo
Long story short he hits the jack on the flop and a set on the river. That's the 1st time playing poker I ever wanted to smash something lol.
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Posted Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:01 pm GMT by TheMrLegendary
That has to hurt, and I am sorry to hear that happend. You made the right play and it will pay off for you in the long run.
Just to highlight hands like that, not to long ago in a tourny late like that, I see AQhearts and this little tight weak player behind is on the button. I raise preflop with about 1/5 of my chips which is about 1/3 of hers. I know this player very well and know if she plays back at me, I need to think about some kinda large or mid pair. She raise me about half of her total stack, I set her all in with a raise, she thinks for probably 90secs just before her timer runs out and calls. I flip up my decent AQ hearts and she has none other than JT of hearts. I am stunned. I am well over a 3 to 1 favorite on this hand. the flop something like J53 with a heart. So she hits the pair, no biggy to running hearts and she is packing up or AQ and she is packing up or heck a KT and she is going home. Then the worst happens, another Jack on the turn. I am now drawing dead and just stunned. One this ultra-tight player uses that hand, probably out of desperation of bad cards and being fairly short stacked. Though i drank that one off, and remembered that if she and I played that hand the same way 10 or 20 times, she is broke 80% of the time. So i shrugged that off.
I hope you did the same, and may the aces follow you in your next tournys.
Posted Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:37 pm GMT by mrfloppy
This was just really rough. I feel if I won that hand I'm in position to take the tournament. The chip leader had like 23000 at that point and I'd have had 18 had I won. I never played poker so well. I made the right calls every time and everything just seemed to work. That really crushed me.
For those new to tournaments(like myself) after playing in this 1 I really recommend the UB low entry fee rebuy tournaments. The prize money goes up substantially as all those players keep rebuying and taking the add-ons. Get off to a good start and you got a chance to win the money equivalent of those $10 entry fee tourneys for only $3. 1st place was $662 with only 220 entrants. Over 2k in prize money if I recall the figures.
Posted Sat Aug 23, 2003 7:16 pm GMT by Poker_Vendetta
I just typed this about 5 minutes ago but...all you can do is get your money in with the best hand. The rest is up to the poker gods, and up. Sorry that had to happen, but it will happen in the future as well, prepare yourself. And BTW, a set is when YOU hold a pair already and a card comes up that gives you three of a kind. A set IMO is better than trips (2 up on table, one in your hand), because it is much harder to pick up on. And the chance of a full-boat, quads at that second is impossible as well.
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