Posted Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:12 pm GMT by ErinJeff
This is my first post but I've been reading the forum for a while.
My wife and I played in a MTT of 6 tables last night at a local bar. The format was a little strange but I made it to the final table and up to 6th place on horrible cards. I played 1 hand the first hour and a half that wasn't a bb limp. I wanted to share my last couple of hands for comment.
Let me set the stage first. The tourney chip leader was a drunk idiot who made more river hands than I have ever seen. After taking down 3 opponents at the second to last table (he called 3 previous allin bettors with 8Ts) he was a huge chip leader. I was shortstacked with about 3x bb in chips left just before the consolidation to the final table. Chip leader had at least 50x bb. On the previous 4 hands he would announce to the table that he was raising without looking at his cards and proceeded to do just that.
I folded a string of crappy cards until I saw AQs on the button. Dipshit was in the bb. I raised to allin and got two callers, including the chip leader. He reraised to 10x without looking at his cards and was called. The flop came with 2 spades and KJx. The other caller went allin and dipshit called, still without seeing his cards. The call was about 5x the bb so he did have (self-made) pot odds for most anything. We all turned over and I made the nut flush on the turn. Dipshit had K4o and the other caller KQo. Chip leader finished off the side pot and paired his 4 on the river.
I picked up a couple of blind steals while the chip leader was getting a beer. A few hands later I down to maybe 10-15x bb as I lost blinds that I couldn't call against the chip leader when he would raise the blind bigger than my stack. I was always holding a gem like 24o or 74s. At this point my table was 3 players.
At this point we consolidated tables. The next deal put me with a pp of 5s and two limpers ahead. They both had about 3x my chips but less than 1/3 of the chip leader. I decided it was now or never as the blinds were increasing and I would be forced allin on the next round or two. I was pretty sure that I could get another limper before the chip leader raised blind so I didn't raise. As expected he went 3x bb (blind again), both intermediary limpers folded and I raised to 10xbb. The other limper folded and dipshit raised again to 12x. At this point I was confident I had him beat so I pushed allin. With a call and win I would be in position to challenge for the win. Chip leader called (blind) and we flipped cards. He had A7o so it was pretty much even odds.
The flop was no help to either of us and contained 2 spades. The turn was a 5 of spades, giving me trips and him the flush draw with the 7. Of course the final card was the Q of spades and he took me down.
Needless to say I was disappointed but I felt I had played well and with an opponent raising completely blind it came down to luck. Any suggestions for dealing with a chip leader like this when you are ss would be appreciated.
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Posted Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:31 pm GMT by ballbp
People that play like that usually aren't much of a factor because their luck runs out pretty quickly and they're heading home or watching in no time. With him getting extremely lucky over and over there's not much you can do though. Hope to meet up with him again and see how well his raising blind goes. There's just no way playing like that is profitable in the long run.
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