Yesterday afternoon, I called Jon and asked him if he wanted to go to the Club last tonight- I was in the mood for a live tourney. He was ecstatic. Usually, its him trying to persuade me to go. =) Anyway, we got to the Club and the tournament was a $50 rebuy. I am so good at rebuys, I love them. I decided to buy in for a double and do the add-on. I did not have to rebuy. There were 19 or 20 people in it.
The rebuy started out very slow for me. I ended up only playing 3 or 4 hands during the rebuy period, but I raked huge pots, building my stack to 20k before the add on. One hand I look down at 4 7 os. Blinds are 50-100. The only other woman in the tournament, and the most transparent, bad player, raises to 300. So I put her on 99 or 1010. If she had qq, kk or aa, she raises to like, 1000. So, one person calls, I call, tryinig to get involved in a big pot, knowing that if I get a good flop/she gets a bad flop, I can take the pot away from her. Flop is 4 4 6. Beautiful. She bets out 600. Folds to me, I raise to 2200. She insta-calls. Turn is Qd, putting 3 diam out there. Now, I know if she has a flush draw, she is betting into me. Predictably, she checks her cards to see if she has a diamond, and proceeds to check. I bet out 3000. She only had 1600 in front of her after she called my raise, so I believed I would get called. But, like many bad players, she called 1/2 her stack and then folded. One important lesson I learned from playing against this woman- if I raise and she is the only caller preflop, unless she hits the flop, she check-folds. Against that type of player, there is no point in betting according to pot size. It makes sense to bet small, because 90% of the time, if you read the situation correctly, she is folding. So why put more at risk if there is a chance she will call 10% of the time? It is cheaper and wiser, I think, to play it that way.
After the rebuy period was over, I raised position often, and took pots away from people when they missed the flop. I built up to 38k. We combine to final table. I raised a few hands and took some pots down. I was chip leader. Then the donkey (definitely one of the worst players in the tourney) who I have played against before ( I think he is mentally off, the elevator def does not got to the top floor), scooped a huge pot with AK v. set of jj, when he hit his flush on the river. I was looking forward to playing heads up against him. Then I won a huge pot. I have KQ hh in middle pos. I raise 4x the blind. The chic (who got so lucky to make it to final table) has about 18k in front of her, calls my 6k raise. In my head I was like, oh jesus this is crazy, please give me a q hi flop. Everyone else folds, flop is QJx. I just push for 30k. She insta calls with Ak. Another power play with AK. To her credit, she just doesnt know how to play strategy at all, at all. So miraculously, she does not hit an Ace or a ten and I scope a huge pot. I won another huge pot when I had AA v. KK, against a player who was being aggressive, and I was actually shocked that he had KK.
We get down to 3 players, and of course donkey has a ton of chips. He then picks up AA v. QQ three-way to knock a guy out in 3rd. HAHA. How does that happen? We played hu for a long long time. I had a monster chiplead on him after a while, and then he hit a two outer by calling my all in with second pair and I had top pair. 8 on the turn- why are two outers the nuts against me I ask? Anyway, he doubled up, evening our stacks. Then he hit two full houses against me when I had two pair. So that sucked. I ended up in 2nd. But if I won that hand when I had top pair against his two outer, I wouldve taken first. Oh well. I cashed for 550$, which is not so good considering I invested 150$, but not that bad either. This is the hysterical part. I offered the donkey a deal when he had a few more chips than me. There is 1580 in prize pool. I said, lets take 600$ each and play out for $380. In a very donkey-like fashion, he refusted. I don't know why he wouldn't take that. It seemed so fair. Only a difference of $70 to second, but it gives us incentive to continue hu play. He said no. I think its because he can't do math.
The good news is I am in top 5 on leaderboard at the Club which is awesome, I have never played the freeroll there.
On another note, JB_Dog took down the Poker Stars Million on Sunday. JB_Dog is a good acquaintance of mine from Connecticut. Last year, he, average-joe (another UB player) and I used to chat-conference in aim chat forums to discuss plays, hands and various strategies. JB and average really gave me the insight to playing Omaha tourneys. In Oct, JB kind of dropped off the face of the earth. I didnt hear from him for months, with the exception of a brief conversation in Dec. It was very strange though, that he just completely stopped playing all together. And then, BAM! I am looking at the lobby of the PS Million on Sun and I see he his in top 10 with 100 people left I forgot about it because I was concentrating on my tourney and he ended up in First. So sick. Don't get me wrong, Dog is a very good player, but that is a sick pay day. However, he is a really nice guy- he was a cool poker friend because loans were given without questions asked, percentages were exchanged, and we overall, had a great poker relationship. So congratulations to Dog, he deserves it.
Ok, back to work for me. I can't believe its only Tuesday, ew. =)
Good luck and peace,
Lucky C.
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