Deepstack Poll

[Scotty]

How about:

A) KK, to call would be heads up.
B) QQ, to call would be heads up.
C) You're in the SB with JJ. Folded around to you, you raise, he raises, etc... he's eventually all in.

There's no way I'm putting my tournament on the line that early with average odds with QQ or JJ. The fold equity is there.

KK ... all in to call first hand? probably mucking that as well.

(This is predicated on the above being all in to call preflop)

[Ondie J]

You're all making me scared of getting any kind of hand first up. I want rubbish for the first blind level now.

I think that on a level head, that early, dropping them shouldn't be hard at all. There'll be other hands. No way I'm not going all in with KK pre-flop on the first hand. Hurts me most times.

[rcon]

What did I look down at first hand? AK like last states I played in, no. KK (would have been nice), no. It was AA. Oh the irony! Well not irony exactly, but it was amusing.

I'm in BB, there is a mid position raise, and a call from the button. I re-raise to 3x the initial raise (750 - 15xBB). 2 callers. WTF? Meh, I'll bet em out on the flop.

Flop comes down Q87, rainbow. Oh yeah. 2275 in the pot.

I check, mid position bets 250, call from late position, I re-raise to 1500.

Mid folds, call from late. Oh, this should be interesting - what is she chasing or has she hit QQQ?

Turn J

Hmmmm... check. check from late. Interesting.

5500 or so pot.

river 9

I check, late leads out for 1000.

I want to see how much they've chased so I pay it off. K10s!

They flopped NOTHING, no draw, 1 over card. Granted, I should have bet the turn, but I'm sure they would have called it (this suspicion was confirmed later). The 1000 I pay her off with came back in spades tho - I just loved being able to afford to pay her off tho. Whilst it probably wasn't strictly necessary, I was able to take down a few pots later, one with KJs high, another with J10s high.


Speaking with Scott at the break, he made a valid point that the 3x raise pre flop wasn't large enough and the 3x raise of the raise probably could have been a bit larger, and the 1500 on the flop should have also been a little later.


Anyway, I thought this had to be posted I don't think I played it well, neither do I think I played it particularly badly. I just couldn't understand her play - but greyhounds were everywhere with such large stacks!

[Ondie J]

Yes well. I'm not going to go into where I went wrong because it was colossal. Absolutely.

[AceLosesKing]

Haha, someone (we know, and someone we talked about getting AA first hand) actually got AA first hand. How crazy.

Rcon, I think you played that ok. It is a deepstack tournament, but if the player in late position is going to call 1250 on that flop, without hitting, with K10, like you said they're going to call any bet. And yes, you should've bet on the turn.

Talking about interesting hands, I folded quads second hand. Look down at 45 offsuit, muck it preflop (it was only 25!!!), and watch the board come down 5 K 5, 5, J.

Of course, one player had a J, so he was betting like crazy, and the other guy had a K, so he was RAISING like crazy... I would've stolen like 6k from both of them, and I think the guy with the K would've called all in.

[rcon]

I just thought it was rather funny - i kinda had this feeling all week like I'd get AA first hand after all the discussion on here.

Mid position guy was a B&G player, never got his name, but a youngish kid (early 20s) with a blue hat and some head phones. He was holding AK - If he could let go of his hand, what was she doing in there? HA!

[maccatak11]

This is how i went out of the deepstack.

Blinds were 1500/3000, my stack 21k, SB's stack 150k +

im BB holding

One caller around to the sb who also completes, and we see a flop


Flop comes


SB checks, i bet 6 grand. The caller folds.


SB, who is the big stack on the table, thinks about it for ages, and says umm yeah ill call - hints of massive weakness here (or a reverse tell - but i didn't think this player was capable of that).


Turn comes giving me the nut flush draw, straight draw.


I bet 8k this time, at which point the big blind puts me all in.


What the hell did he have?


I went into the tank. Thinking about this hand in more detail then i have ever though about a hand in my life.

The big stack was super aggressive, showing numerous bluffs, he could have air, he could have flopped a boat.

I put him on over cards. I believe my ace to be good as well - im certain he would have raised pre-flop with any ace. I figure that even if he has a pair ive still got heaps of outs.

I put my remaining 10 k (or there abouts) into the 40 something grand pot. Odds certainly on my side.


SB shows


He might have put me on the flush draw (great read if he did), but i was a little miffed that he called my 6k bet with a gut-shot.


Dammit, but i still had outs. Any ace and any spade still wins me the pot, a 4 will chop it.


NO luck, river comes and im out with 150 left.


I definately had odds to call the last bet, but i guess in hindsight i could have raised pre-flop or pushed the flop also. But there were still two in the hand at both of those stages and the caller could be easily holding AJ or something similar.

Oh well, i guess these things happen.


What an awesome event though, should be held every week

I will definately be back next year.

[bennymacca]

i was happy that i didn't get sucked out at all, although i got bluffed a couple of times from this same guy, and that sent me on the downhill path.

the only thing that i did wrong was not raise enough preflop. numerous times i picked up A10 or AJ suited, and i was only raising 2.5 to 3 BB, instead of more, which allowed the bigger stacks to call and bet into me later. other than that, i thought i played ok.

the best hand i saw, that put this one lady on massive tilt, involved rob (mr smooth 81)

chick in early position raises about 3BB, rob on the button re-raises to about 10BB (probably 1/3 of his stack), and gets 1 caller.


flop comes



massive pot already, rob decided to push all in for his remaining 10K or so straight away, and gets instacalled.

rob says "i have easily got you beat" or something along those lines

the lady turns over




WOW, flopped a boat, what could rob have, but..



LOL a flopped boat vs flopped quads.

the lady was so pissed off, that she told me and rob to shut up when we were talking about how lucky that was that she flopped a boat when he got quads! (but then she continued to talk about it later, but anyway thats another story)

[Scotty]

I kept getting chopped pots to prevent me from increasing my stack.

The last one was against Dave Galpin. UTG, he looks down, thinks for afew seconds, then pushed all in. Player to his right folds, and I look down at AdKd. I'm pretty short stacked myself (as Dave was), and throw in my last 15k or so. Had Dave covered by about 2k.

Folds all around, and we flip. Dave tables Ax10x. Neither of us have a spade.



Boards runs out with 5 spades. Chop it up.

[Bacon]

I had a hand that took a few minutes to count the chips before we showed, and we both had AT. No flushes, chop chop.

My fave hand was after being moved to Bob B's table.. about 4th hand in, bloke next to me goes all in for about 3.5K.. I had plenty of chips at this stage, and I look at AK, so I flat call, thinking no-one else is gonna call anyway... yet BB makes the call.

Flop goes KAK. Check, check... Turn Q. I'm hoping this guy had KQ or QJ, and so I check. He checks. Rag river... so I bet 3K, hoping to trap.. but no cigar. All-in had JT, he thought he was good.