Patrick_Dillon wrote:
Cheers Garth,
how did you finish up yesterday?
Out around in 200th, I played six hands total for the tourney and started on a table of death (quality players a plenty) so I had to use my position and was certainly tightening my hand selection preflop from early and mid position.
I actually laid down AQ on the button to a four bet pre. There was a lot of three/four betting pre flop and polarising plays.
I then got move to another table with a loose witch to my right and a maniac two seats to my left which left me in a bad spot I managed to three barrel bluff in a BvB situation which helped my stack and found a double through the loose witch before the second break.
I then had reshipped for 12 BB's on J high dry board against a known villain. I had J9 suited and figured him for 88 - JJ and all AQ/AJ/AT and KQ/KJ suited combos (preflop raise was 3.5X so figured him for marginal holdings). He folds almost 60% of his range there and calls off the other 40% (20% of his calling range has me dominated but with outs).
He calls and rolls AQ of clubs, he has six outs on me (only one club on the rainbow board), until the K clubs peels on the turn giving him max outs with the nut flush, gutshot broadway and overpair outs; way to pick it up, from six outs to 18 outs!
River is the 8 of clubs to flush him up.
I love how poker can go from drawing to 25% on the flop to all of a sudden 40% on the turn.
I wasn't bitter about my elimination and actually it was a blessing, after grinding online for the past few weeks I found the pace of the game to be putting me on slight tilt (as much as they advertise it as deepstack it really is a turbo tourney) and the amount of tanking going on was driving me insane, I called time twice on players that were just taking too long to make up their mind.
Don't get me wrong, for your tournament life I will give you a world of time, but to tank for two minutes on whether to call a 4BB all in shove from a player for about 10% of your stack is just ridiculous.
And then this loose witch put me on life tilt when three hands in a row she would call down three streets to be faced with an all in on the river and then would tank for two to three minutes and fold. Everyone knew you were chasing a draw or calling down with mid pair hoping to improve, you didn't get there so fold. When she had two pair or made her hand and was faced with the all in it was "how much have you got?" {pause for ten seconds whilst dealer begins cutting down chips and counting} and then interrupts with "oh, ok, I call anyway!"
Sigh - liveaments FTW
To his defence he is a nit..... I mean was card dead!
