More GPP fun
Played the GPP last night and tonight as well and the fields are as large as ever. So in order to have any chance I really need to take the add-on going forward. I did so and last night ran decent and was in a pretty good chip position with around 30 left when I ran into this hand:
Tournament #2776604 - Level 16
Blinds 350/700 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/07 - 21:25:52
Table 3
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players: 7
Seat 2: ShowBackOn ( 3075 )
Seat 3: jtk1958 ( 10296 )
Seat 4: ExeterBil ( 15265 )
Seat 5: MrKing ( 10085 )
Seat 6: hero ( 7485 )
Seat 7: urwrstntmare ( 21218 )
Seat 8: RJDGoD17 ( 22797 )
ShowBackOn: posts ante [85]
jtk1958: posts ante [85]
ExeterBil: posts ante [85]
MrKing: posts ante [85]
hero: posts ante [85]
urwrstntmare: posts ante [85]
RJDGoD17: posts ante [85]
ShowBackOn: posts small blind [350]
jtk1958: posts big blind [700]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ A♣, 9♠ ]
ExeterBil folds
MrKing folds
hero raises [2100]
urwrstntmare folds
RJDGoD17 folds
ShowBackOn folds
jtk1958 calls [1400]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6♣, Q♠, Q♥ ]
jtk1958 checks
hero: bets [5300]
jtk1958 calls [5300]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5♠ ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7♠ ]
jtk1958 wins 15745 from main pot with three of a kind, queens [K♥, Q♦]
Gross. Felt sick over this one. Hate these spots where I have enough left after the flop to fire one bullet when I'm the PFR. Am I committed to shipping it in there, do I try and check it down, give up? These are not easy questions. So the bid to land back-to-back final tables was over but tonight I jumped in and gave it a shot again. Got off to an awesome start:
Tournament #2776605 - Level 7
Blinds 50/100 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 20:36:56
Table 4
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players: 9
Seat 1: 3Putt ( 2840 )
Seat 2: player989 ( 11304 )
Seat 3: hero ( 4480 )
Seat 4: keysersoze ( 4355 )
Seat 5: tommyla112 ( 6790 )
Seat 6: olddog6969 ( 6085 )
Seat 7: Madatu ( 1080 )
Seat 8: CallmeFloppy ( 1290 )
Seat 9: Dempster ( 5800 )
player989: posts ante [10]
hero: posts ante [10]
keysersoze: posts ante [10]
tommyla112: posts ante [10]
olddog6969: posts ante [10]
Madatu: posts ante [10]
CallmeFloppy: posts ante [10]
Dempster: posts ante [10]
player989: posts small blind [50]
hero: posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ Q♣, 8♣ ]
keysersoze folds
tommyla112 calls [100]
olddog6969 folds
Madatu folds
CallmeFloppy folds
Dempster folds
player989 calls [50]
hero checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ K♣, T♣, 7♣ ]
player989 checks
hero: bets [285]
tommyla112 calls [285]
player989 calls [285]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9♠ ]
player989 checks
hero: bets [617]
tommyla112 folds
player989 calls [617]
** Dealing River ** [ 8♦ ]
player989 checks
hero: bets [3468]
player989 calls [3468]
hero shows [ Q♣, 8♣] a flush, king high
player989 shows [ K♠, J♣ ] a straight, jack high
hero wins 9405 from main pot with a flush, king high
The river shove was about 1k over pot but I figured it was going to look like I was trying to steal it and expected to be called here, unless he had just the bare A♠ of course. But he flopped top pair, backed into a straight, and got taken to valuetown. This puts me at a little above 9k early on and I'm actually in the top 10 in chips despite max late regging with around 57 of the original 83 entrants left.
A little while later:
Tournament #2776605 - Level 13
Blinds 200/400 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 21:08:54
Table 4
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players: 9
Seat 1: JMilty ( 5625 )
Seat 2: player989 ( 4594 )
Seat 3: hero ( 8283 )
Seat 4: keysersoze ( 3007 )
Seat 5: tommyla112 ( 10705 )
Seat 6: WHYWORK ( 20113 )
Seat 7: CoolVinski ( 12145 )
Seat 8: CallmeFloppy ( 2950 )
Seat 9: Dempster ( 8290 )
JMilty: posts ante [50]
player989: posts ante [50]
hero: posts ante [50]
keysersoze: posts ante [50]
tommyla112: posts ante [50]
WHYWORK: posts ante [50]
CoolVinski: posts ante [50]
CallmeFloppy: posts ante [50]
Dempster: posts ante [50]
WHYWORK: posts small blind [200]
CoolVinski: posts big blind [400]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 2♥, A♥ ]
CallmeFloppy folds
Dempster folds
JMilty folds
player989 folds
hero raises [1233]
keysersoze folds
tommyla112 folds
WHYWORK calls [1033]
CoolVinski folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5♥, 8♠, 4♦ ]
WHYWORK checks
hero checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2♣ ]
WHYWORK: bets [400]
hero calls [400]
** Dealing River ** [ 7♣ ]
WHYWORK: bets [400]
hero calls [400]
WHYWORK shows [ Q♥, A♦ ] high card ace
hero shows [ 2♥, A♥ ] a pair of twos
hero wins 4916 from main pot with a pair of twos
Thought I was the one being taken to value town here but in fact he really just value owned himself for the minimum. Would have been happy to just check that one down. This pot put me at 11k. Ended up running it up to 19k or so. Nothing really exciting, got it in good vs. a player that was all-in and took down blinds/antes preflop. The escalating blinds were slowly eating away at my stack though as we got close to the money. Fortunately the bubble burst and we were down to 15 but my stack was under 10k. Gotta go for it here:
Tournament #2776605 - Level 23
Blinds 1250/2500 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:04:53
Table 2
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players: 7
Seat 1: AlphaWolf46 ( 8902 )
Seat 2: sharkey ( 2320 )
Seat 3: NorthernKing ( 47688 )
Seat 6: HonestWorld ( 19504 )
Seat 7: hero ( 9579 )
Seat 8: AceMan ( 27960 )
Seat 9: dflop ( 17325 )
AlphaWolf46: posts ante [310]
sharkey: posts ante [310]
NorthernKing: posts ante [310]
HonestWorld: posts ante [310]
hero: posts ante [310]
AceMan: posts ante [310]
dflop: posts ante [310]
AceMan: posts small blind [1250]
dflop: posts big blind [2500]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 6♦, T♣ ]
AlphaWolf46 folds
sharkey folds
NorthernKing folds
HonestWorld folds
hero raises [9269]
AceMan folds
dflop calls [6769]
** Dealing Flop ** [ K♣, 6♣, 9♠ ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2♥ ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4♣ ]
hero wins 21958 from main pot with a pair of sixes with kicker T
He called me with 6♥5♥ and I had him dominated, lol! Unbelievable hand.
A few hands later I'm in the BB and get a free play with T♠2♠ with 2 limpers and end up spiking a T and the hand checks through all 3 streets and what ends up being 3rd pair is good. So I take down another key pot and get to 27k, but then perhaps a blunder?
Tournament #2776605 - Level 24
Blinds 1500/3000 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:09:13
Table 2
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players: 6
Seat 1: AlphaWolf46 ( 17729 )
Seat 2: sharkey ( 8049 )
Seat 3: NorthernKing ( 41703 )
Seat 6: HonestWorld ( 18929 )
Seat 7: hero ( 25393 )
Seat 8: AceMan ( 21475 )
AlphaWolf46: posts ante [375]
sharkey: posts ante [375]
NorthernKing: posts ante [375]
HonestWorld: posts ante [375]
hero: posts ante [375]
AceMan: posts ante [375]
AceMan: posts small blind [1500]
AlphaWolf46: posts big blind [3000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 7♥, K♦ ]
sharkey folds
NorthernKing folds
HonestWorld folds
hero raises [6000]
AceMan folds
AlphaWolf46 calls [3000]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8♥, Q♣, T♣ ]
AlphaWolf46 checks
hero checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ A♣ ]
AlphaWolf46: bets [11354]
hero folds
AlphaWolf46 does not show cards
AlphaWolf46 wins 15750 from main pot
Sucks that I effectively gave up on the flop but I don't think he's ripping it in there without a hand. I could easily be checking this back with a flush draw to get a free card. Likely he had me beat. I did also only make the minimum raise but on this site a lot of players have the "check/fold" button already selected which I've noticed when I've raised in the past and gotten insta folds. Also if he's calling 6 he's calling 9 I think. Better to probably just cut my losses on a complete blind steal.
After that end up winning the blinds/antes on 3 occasions with legit hands but didn't get called any of the times. The 3rd time I had QQ and showed it when everyone folded. But that put me at 30k and the site decided it was going to give me another chance to play K7:
Tournament #2776605 - Level 25
Blinds 2000/4000 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:16:02
Table 2
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players: 5
Seat 1: AlphaWolf46 ( 23104 )
Seat 3: NorthernKing ( 42328 )
Seat 6: HonestWorld ( 20728 )
Seat 7: hero ( 28018 )
Seat 8: AceMan ( 19100 )
AlphaWolf46: posts ante [500]
NorthernKing: posts ante [500]
HonestWorld: posts ante [500]
hero: posts ante [500]
AceMan: posts ante [500]
AceMan: posts small blind [2000]
AlphaWolf46: posts big blind [4000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 7♦, K♦ ]
NorthernKing folds
HonestWorld folds
hero raises [12000]
AceMan folds
AlphaWolf46 calls [8000]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4♥, J♠, 8♠ ]
AlphaWolf46 checks
hero: bets [11638]
AlphaWolf46 folds
hero does not show cards
hero wins 28500 from main pot
This time I do c-bet and put him all-in. A little bit different spot here as I did check back before and I think it helps toward him giving me credit for a hand this time. Plus we had 11 left at this point and there's a slight pay jump at 10, he might not want to put himself at risk here. Thankfully I take it down. Ended up getting 3 busts all from the other table shortly after though, and we entered the final table with 8 players, which seems to be a common occurrence when I make the FTs in these. No complaints there of course.
Let's see if we can win it this time, shall we?
Tournament #2776605 - Level 26
Blinds 2500/5000 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:20:49
Table 1
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players: 8
Seat 1: AceMan ( 10725 )
Seat 2: JMilty ( 15006 )
Seat 3: AlphaWolf46 ( 23187 )
Seat 4: NorthernKing ( 42474 )
Seat 5: detroit12 ( 103880 )
Seat 6: HonestWorld ( 19353 )
Seat 7: thedqb ( 78732 )
Seat 9: hero ( 47143 )
AceMan: posts ante [625]
JMilty: posts ante [625]
AlphaWolf46: posts ante [625]
NorthernKing: posts ante [625]
detroit12: posts ante [625]
HonestWorld: posts ante [625]
thedqb: posts ante [625]
hero: posts ante [625]
NorthernKing: posts small blind [2500]
detroit12: posts big blind [5000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ T♣, A♣ ]
HonestWorld folds
thedqb calls [5000]
hero calls [5000]
AceMan folds
JMilty calls [5000]
AlphaWolf46 folds
NorthernKing calls [2500]
detroit12 checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3♠, J♦, Q♠ ]
NorthernKing checks
detroit12 checks
thedqb checks
hero checks
JMilty: bets [9381]
NorthernKing folds
detroit12 folds
thedqb folds
hero calls [9381]
** Dealing Turn ** [ K♣ ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3♥ ]
hero wins 48762 from main pot with a straight, ace high
This was a spot where I was closing the action and basically priced in to call. Turns out he had QJo so drawing to only 4 outs effectively (or unlikely runner runner two pair or trips). Spiked my miracle card on the turn but still had 19% equity even though he showed up near the top of his range here so definitely the right call. Down to 7 and now I'm in a really good chip position. We lose another player to get down to 6, then I eliminate the 6th place player when I raise OTB with 98o and he calls in the BB with only 4k behind. He has KJ and I manage to spike a 9 on the flop which holds up.
After the long 5 handed play the other night I get a chance to redeem myself. Will I pass the test???? Yes, I did. There were only 3 hands played until another bust and I wasn't involved in any of them. So we're down to 4 handed now.
Tournament #2776605 - Level 27
Blinds 3000/6000 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:27:38
Table 1
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players: 4
Seat 1: AceMan ( 38800 )
Seat 5: detroit12 ( 110335 )
Seat 7: thedqb ( 125004 )
Seat 9: hero ( 66361 )
AceMan: posts ante [750]
detroit12: posts ante [750]
thedqb: posts ante [750]
hero: posts ante [750]
hero: posts small blind [3000]
AceMan: posts big blind [6000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 8♣, K♥ ]
detroit12 folds
thedqb folds
hero raises [18000]
AceMan raises [32050]
hero calls [17050]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8♠ , T♦, 8♦ ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6♦ ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2♦ ]
AceMan wins 79100 from main pot with a flush, ace high [ A♦, K♠ ]
Shitty spot here. I just felt like I couldn't find the fold button here. I figure I'm probably not in bad shape against a lot of hands he could be doing this with and stuck it in. Almost put a sick beat on him but I honestly felt bad and was going to apologize in the chat when he went runner runner flush to take it down. I deserved to get beat there. A few hands later it's time to just stick the rest in:
Tournament #2776605 - Level 28
Blinds 3500/7000 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:28:27
Table 1
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players: 4
Seat 1: AceMan ( 75350 )
Seat 5: detroit12 ( 102835 )
Seat 7: thedqb ( 135504 )
Seat 9: hero ( 26811 )
AceMan: posts ante [875]
detroit12: posts ante [875]
thedqb: posts ante [875]
hero: posts ante [875]
detroit12: posts small blind [3500]
thedqb: posts big blind [7000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ Q♥, 3♦ ]
hero raises [25936]
AceMan folds
detroit12 folds
thedqb calls [18936]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9♠, T♠, 7♥ ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3♥ ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7♠ ]
thedqb wins 58872 from main pot with a flush, ace high [ A♠, 5♠ ]
Hoping to get this one through preflop obviously with the BB coming around next hand, but I'll take a call against a hand where my cards are live. Crappy flop though but did get some hope with the 3 on the turn. In comes the flush on the river and GG me.
So a 5th and a 4th in a 3 day span with I believe 75 entries the first time and 83 tonight. Collected $4.62 for my efforts tonight. Will certainly take it but the overall tournament win still eludes me. Never expected when I got back into this to make this many final tables though. And I especially thought I was done once these fields got larger, but I'm still there.
Tournament #2776604 - Level 16
Blinds 350/700 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/07 - 21:25:52
Table 3
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players: 7
Seat 2: ShowBackOn ( 3075 )
Seat 3: jtk1958 ( 10296 )
Seat 4: ExeterBil ( 15265 )
Seat 5: MrKing ( 10085 )
Seat 6: hero ( 7485 )
Seat 7: urwrstntmare ( 21218 )
Seat 8: RJDGoD17 ( 22797 )
ShowBackOn: posts ante [85]
jtk1958: posts ante [85]
ExeterBil: posts ante [85]
MrKing: posts ante [85]
hero: posts ante [85]
urwrstntmare: posts ante [85]
RJDGoD17: posts ante [85]
ShowBackOn: posts small blind [350]
jtk1958: posts big blind [700]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ A♣, 9♠ ]
ExeterBil folds
MrKing folds
hero raises [2100]
urwrstntmare folds
RJDGoD17 folds
ShowBackOn folds
jtk1958 calls [1400]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6♣, Q♠, Q♥ ]
jtk1958 checks
hero: bets [5300]
jtk1958 calls [5300]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5♠ ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7♠ ]
jtk1958 wins 15745 from main pot with three of a kind, queens [K♥, Q♦]
Gross. Felt sick over this one. Hate these spots where I have enough left after the flop to fire one bullet when I'm the PFR. Am I committed to shipping it in there, do I try and check it down, give up? These are not easy questions. So the bid to land back-to-back final tables was over but tonight I jumped in and gave it a shot again. Got off to an awesome start:
Tournament #2776605 - Level 7
Blinds 50/100 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 20:36:56
Table 4
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players: 9
Seat 1: 3Putt ( 2840 )
Seat 2: player989 ( 11304 )
Seat 3: hero ( 4480 )
Seat 4: keysersoze ( 4355 )
Seat 5: tommyla112 ( 6790 )
Seat 6: olddog6969 ( 6085 )
Seat 7: Madatu ( 1080 )
Seat 8: CallmeFloppy ( 1290 )
Seat 9: Dempster ( 5800 )
player989: posts ante [10]
hero: posts ante [10]
keysersoze: posts ante [10]
tommyla112: posts ante [10]
olddog6969: posts ante [10]
Madatu: posts ante [10]
CallmeFloppy: posts ante [10]
Dempster: posts ante [10]
player989: posts small blind [50]
hero: posts big blind [100]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ Q♣, 8♣ ]
keysersoze folds
tommyla112 calls [100]
olddog6969 folds
Madatu folds
CallmeFloppy folds
Dempster folds
player989 calls [50]
hero checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ K♣, T♣, 7♣ ]
player989 checks
hero: bets [285]
tommyla112 calls [285]
player989 calls [285]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9♠ ]
player989 checks
hero: bets [617]
tommyla112 folds
player989 calls [617]
** Dealing River ** [ 8♦ ]
player989 checks
hero: bets [3468]
player989 calls [3468]
hero shows [ Q♣, 8♣] a flush, king high
player989 shows [ K♠, J♣ ] a straight, jack high
hero wins 9405 from main pot with a flush, king high
The river shove was about 1k over pot but I figured it was going to look like I was trying to steal it and expected to be called here, unless he had just the bare A♠ of course. But he flopped top pair, backed into a straight, and got taken to valuetown. This puts me at a little above 9k early on and I'm actually in the top 10 in chips despite max late regging with around 57 of the original 83 entrants left.
A little while later:
Tournament #2776605 - Level 13
Blinds 200/400 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 21:08:54
Table 4
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players: 9
Seat 1: JMilty ( 5625 )
Seat 2: player989 ( 4594 )
Seat 3: hero ( 8283 )
Seat 4: keysersoze ( 3007 )
Seat 5: tommyla112 ( 10705 )
Seat 6: WHYWORK ( 20113 )
Seat 7: CoolVinski ( 12145 )
Seat 8: CallmeFloppy ( 2950 )
Seat 9: Dempster ( 8290 )
JMilty: posts ante [50]
player989: posts ante [50]
hero: posts ante [50]
keysersoze: posts ante [50]
tommyla112: posts ante [50]
WHYWORK: posts ante [50]
CoolVinski: posts ante [50]
CallmeFloppy: posts ante [50]
Dempster: posts ante [50]
WHYWORK: posts small blind [200]
CoolVinski: posts big blind [400]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 2♥, A♥ ]
CallmeFloppy folds
Dempster folds
JMilty folds
player989 folds
hero raises [1233]
keysersoze folds
tommyla112 folds
WHYWORK calls [1033]
CoolVinski folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5♥, 8♠, 4♦ ]
WHYWORK checks
hero checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2♣ ]
WHYWORK: bets [400]
hero calls [400]
** Dealing River ** [ 7♣ ]
WHYWORK: bets [400]
hero calls [400]
WHYWORK shows [ Q♥, A♦ ] high card ace
hero shows [ 2♥, A♥ ] a pair of twos
hero wins 4916 from main pot with a pair of twos
Thought I was the one being taken to value town here but in fact he really just value owned himself for the minimum. Would have been happy to just check that one down. This pot put me at 11k. Ended up running it up to 19k or so. Nothing really exciting, got it in good vs. a player that was all-in and took down blinds/antes preflop. The escalating blinds were slowly eating away at my stack though as we got close to the money. Fortunately the bubble burst and we were down to 15 but my stack was under 10k. Gotta go for it here:
Tournament #2776605 - Level 23
Blinds 1250/2500 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:04:53
Table 2
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players: 7
Seat 1: AlphaWolf46 ( 8902 )
Seat 2: sharkey ( 2320 )
Seat 3: NorthernKing ( 47688 )
Seat 6: HonestWorld ( 19504 )
Seat 7: hero ( 9579 )
Seat 8: AceMan ( 27960 )
Seat 9: dflop ( 17325 )
AlphaWolf46: posts ante [310]
sharkey: posts ante [310]
NorthernKing: posts ante [310]
HonestWorld: posts ante [310]
hero: posts ante [310]
AceMan: posts ante [310]
dflop: posts ante [310]
AceMan: posts small blind [1250]
dflop: posts big blind [2500]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 6♦, T♣ ]
AlphaWolf46 folds
sharkey folds
NorthernKing folds
HonestWorld folds
hero raises [9269]
AceMan folds
dflop calls [6769]
** Dealing Flop ** [ K♣, 6♣, 9♠ ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2♥ ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4♣ ]
hero wins 21958 from main pot with a pair of sixes with kicker T
He called me with 6♥5♥ and I had him dominated, lol! Unbelievable hand.
A few hands later I'm in the BB and get a free play with T♠2♠ with 2 limpers and end up spiking a T and the hand checks through all 3 streets and what ends up being 3rd pair is good. So I take down another key pot and get to 27k, but then perhaps a blunder?
Tournament #2776605 - Level 24
Blinds 1500/3000 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:09:13
Table 2
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players: 6
Seat 1: AlphaWolf46 ( 17729 )
Seat 2: sharkey ( 8049 )
Seat 3: NorthernKing ( 41703 )
Seat 6: HonestWorld ( 18929 )
Seat 7: hero ( 25393 )
Seat 8: AceMan ( 21475 )
AlphaWolf46: posts ante [375]
sharkey: posts ante [375]
NorthernKing: posts ante [375]
HonestWorld: posts ante [375]
hero: posts ante [375]
AceMan: posts ante [375]
AceMan: posts small blind [1500]
AlphaWolf46: posts big blind [3000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 7♥, K♦ ]
sharkey folds
NorthernKing folds
HonestWorld folds
hero raises [6000]
AceMan folds
AlphaWolf46 calls [3000]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8♥, Q♣, T♣ ]
AlphaWolf46 checks
hero checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ A♣ ]
AlphaWolf46: bets [11354]
hero folds
AlphaWolf46 does not show cards
AlphaWolf46 wins 15750 from main pot
Sucks that I effectively gave up on the flop but I don't think he's ripping it in there without a hand. I could easily be checking this back with a flush draw to get a free card. Likely he had me beat. I did also only make the minimum raise but on this site a lot of players have the "check/fold" button already selected which I've noticed when I've raised in the past and gotten insta folds. Also if he's calling 6 he's calling 9 I think. Better to probably just cut my losses on a complete blind steal.
After that end up winning the blinds/antes on 3 occasions with legit hands but didn't get called any of the times. The 3rd time I had QQ and showed it when everyone folded. But that put me at 30k and the site decided it was going to give me another chance to play K7:
Tournament #2776605 - Level 25
Blinds 2000/4000 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:16:02
Table 2
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players: 5
Seat 1: AlphaWolf46 ( 23104 )
Seat 3: NorthernKing ( 42328 )
Seat 6: HonestWorld ( 20728 )
Seat 7: hero ( 28018 )
Seat 8: AceMan ( 19100 )
AlphaWolf46: posts ante [500]
NorthernKing: posts ante [500]
HonestWorld: posts ante [500]
hero: posts ante [500]
AceMan: posts ante [500]
AceMan: posts small blind [2000]
AlphaWolf46: posts big blind [4000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 7♦, K♦ ]
NorthernKing folds
HonestWorld folds
hero raises [12000]
AceMan folds
AlphaWolf46 calls [8000]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4♥, J♠, 8♠ ]
AlphaWolf46 checks
hero: bets [11638]
AlphaWolf46 folds
hero does not show cards
hero wins 28500 from main pot
This time I do c-bet and put him all-in. A little bit different spot here as I did check back before and I think it helps toward him giving me credit for a hand this time. Plus we had 11 left at this point and there's a slight pay jump at 10, he might not want to put himself at risk here. Thankfully I take it down. Ended up getting 3 busts all from the other table shortly after though, and we entered the final table with 8 players, which seems to be a common occurrence when I make the FTs in these. No complaints there of course.
Let's see if we can win it this time, shall we?
Tournament #2776605 - Level 26
Blinds 2500/5000 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:20:49
Table 1
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players: 8
Seat 1: AceMan ( 10725 )
Seat 2: JMilty ( 15006 )
Seat 3: AlphaWolf46 ( 23187 )
Seat 4: NorthernKing ( 42474 )
Seat 5: detroit12 ( 103880 )
Seat 6: HonestWorld ( 19353 )
Seat 7: thedqb ( 78732 )
Seat 9: hero ( 47143 )
AceMan: posts ante [625]
JMilty: posts ante [625]
AlphaWolf46: posts ante [625]
NorthernKing: posts ante [625]
detroit12: posts ante [625]
HonestWorld: posts ante [625]
thedqb: posts ante [625]
hero: posts ante [625]
NorthernKing: posts small blind [2500]
detroit12: posts big blind [5000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ T♣, A♣ ]
HonestWorld folds
thedqb calls [5000]
hero calls [5000]
AceMan folds
JMilty calls [5000]
AlphaWolf46 folds
NorthernKing calls [2500]
detroit12 checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3♠, J♦, Q♠ ]
NorthernKing checks
detroit12 checks
thedqb checks
hero checks
JMilty: bets [9381]
NorthernKing folds
detroit12 folds
thedqb folds
hero calls [9381]
** Dealing Turn ** [ K♣ ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3♥ ]
hero wins 48762 from main pot with a straight, ace high
This was a spot where I was closing the action and basically priced in to call. Turns out he had QJo so drawing to only 4 outs effectively (or unlikely runner runner two pair or trips). Spiked my miracle card on the turn but still had 19% equity even though he showed up near the top of his range here so definitely the right call. Down to 7 and now I'm in a really good chip position. We lose another player to get down to 6, then I eliminate the 6th place player when I raise OTB with 98o and he calls in the BB with only 4k behind. He has KJ and I manage to spike a 9 on the flop which holds up.
After the long 5 handed play the other night I get a chance to redeem myself. Will I pass the test???? Yes, I did. There were only 3 hands played until another bust and I wasn't involved in any of them. So we're down to 4 handed now.
Tournament #2776605 - Level 27
Blinds 3000/6000 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:27:38
Table 1
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players: 4
Seat 1: AceMan ( 38800 )
Seat 5: detroit12 ( 110335 )
Seat 7: thedqb ( 125004 )
Seat 9: hero ( 66361 )
AceMan: posts ante [750]
detroit12: posts ante [750]
thedqb: posts ante [750]
hero: posts ante [750]
hero: posts small blind [3000]
AceMan: posts big blind [6000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ 8♣, K♥ ]
detroit12 folds
thedqb folds
hero raises [18000]
AceMan raises [32050]
hero calls [17050]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8♠ , T♦, 8♦ ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6♦ ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2♦ ]
AceMan wins 79100 from main pot with a flush, ace high [ A♦, K♠ ]
Shitty spot here. I just felt like I couldn't find the fold button here. I figure I'm probably not in bad shape against a lot of hands he could be doing this with and stuck it in. Almost put a sick beat on him but I honestly felt bad and was going to apologize in the chat when he went runner runner flush to take it down. I deserved to get beat there. A few hands later it's time to just stick the rest in:
Tournament #2776605 - Level 28
Blinds 3500/7000 NL Hold'em - 9 Max - 2019/08/08 - 22:28:27
Table 1
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players: 4
Seat 1: AceMan ( 75350 )
Seat 5: detroit12 ( 102835 )
Seat 7: thedqb ( 135504 )
Seat 9: hero ( 26811 )
AceMan: posts ante [875]
detroit12: posts ante [875]
thedqb: posts ante [875]
hero: posts ante [875]
detroit12: posts small blind [3500]
thedqb: posts big blind [7000]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ Q♥, 3♦ ]
hero raises [25936]
AceMan folds
detroit12 folds
thedqb calls [18936]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9♠, T♠, 7♥ ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3♥ ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7♠ ]
thedqb wins 58872 from main pot with a flush, ace high [ A♠, 5♠ ]
Hoping to get this one through preflop obviously with the BB coming around next hand, but I'll take a call against a hand where my cards are live. Crappy flop though but did get some hope with the 3 on the turn. In comes the flush on the river and GG me.
So a 5th and a 4th in a 3 day span with I believe 75 entries the first time and 83 tonight. Collected $4.62 for my efforts tonight. Will certainly take it but the overall tournament win still eludes me. Never expected when I got back into this to make this many final tables though. And I especially thought I was done once these fields got larger, but I'm still there.
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