Your Poker Biography

[McDonk]

Enlighten us oh great one......

[Garth Kay]

Enlighten us oh great one......

When I have time.

Paul Bell Inskip was there to witness the event.

LOL.

[AceLosesKing]

Enlighten us oh great one......

When I have time.

Paul Bell Inskip was there to witness the event.

LOL.

Find some damn time, then!

[Garth Kay]

I did plan to write up my biography at some stage, which I will get around too.
Ok very quickly;

Moved to a new table with blinds at 1000/2000. I have roughly 20BB's. Player in mid pos raises to 5,500. Folds to me in the BB. I look down at AJ and decide to call.

Flop falls, 8,8,2.

I check, opponent tanks for 10 seconds and then checks.

Turn brings a 7. Rainbow board.

I decide that now is the time to win this pot, if he had anything strong he would have fired the flop for something.

I bet out 8,000. My opponent tanks for a bit (about a minute) I am sitting dead still, face covered staring at the board. He looks calm and his body language is now starting to give me confidence, he is unsure but still likes the board. My hand range is now limited to under pairs in the whole or a strong Ace.

He announces raise, cuts down his chips, in the three seconds he takes to do this I decide I am risking my stack here and throwing a bluff out. I
decide then and there to take this pot down with an all in raise. Risking almost 50% more of my stack, thirty spots from the money.

As soon as he slides out his raise to 22,000 I announce all in. My opponent flinches, sighs and then throws in his hand without even asking for a count.

I roll my AJ unsuited, he taps the table and says nice hand.

I must add that this is the first time I have ever put my whole stack in on a bluff of this nature so deep in a tournament. And it was my first ever all in bluff so deep.

Apparently my opponent had 66.

I know it's not that awesome of a bluff, but gees it felt good to take down a 40K pot at that stage of the tourney on a bluff. Semi bluff. Whatever.

Now that I have written it, it sounds lame.

[AceLosesKing]

I did plan to write up my biography at some stage, which I will get around too.

Looking forward to that.

I must add that this is the first time I have ever put my whole stack in on a bluff of this nature so deep in a tournament. And it was my first ever all in bluff so deep.

Apparently my opponent had 66.

I know it's not that awesome of a bluff, but gees it felt good to take down a 40K pot at that stage of the tourney on a bluff. Semi bluff. Whatever.

Now that I have written it, it sounds lame.

It does sound lame, in text. But still, there's a first time for everything and I'm sure, at the time it was totally awesome. As I was reading the hand I said to myself "he's so jamming on him" Good bluff!

[bennymacca]

bluffs are ultra standard unless you know the context and buildup behind them, which is pretty hard to write on paper.

your comments about it being the biggest bluff you have ever run though are interesting. makes me think that i try to bluff WAAAY too often (which i know already)

[Garth Kay]

bluffs are ultra standard unless you know the context and buildup behind them, which is pretty hard to write on paper.

your comments about it being the biggest bluff you have ever run though are interesting. makes me think that i try to bluff WAAAY too often (which i know already)

In a live tournament starting ranges really tighten up and the general play is tight. I can bluff like this online all day, but to do it in the live arena to this magnatude was something different for me.

I am quite willing to re raise on the come or complete bluff but not for my tournament life.

And it was also sick (to me) because it was a blind read, I had no past history on this opponent just decided that his generic body language was worth the shove.

[AceLosesKing]

bluffs are ultra standard unless you know the context and buildup behind them, which is pretty hard to write on paper.

This is what I'm trying to say!

your comments about it being the biggest bluff you have ever run though are interesting. makes me think that i try to bluff WAAAY too often (which i know already)

Nah, I get what he's trying to say by that. It'd be like us buying into the $65 tourny at the cas and running a big bluff on A high on the money bubble. In terms of like, buy in, nature of the tournament etc.

[bennymacca]

you are right about the live/online thing

in the limited live experience i have had, i dont think i would run these bluff. online i do it all the time, too much as i have explained before.

[Brett Kay]

I did plan to write up my biography at some stage, which I will get around too.

Its all my fault world, Sorry.