First things first, I final tabled $7500 guar this week on Ultimatebet and managed to run AhQh into KK, gg me for 7th place finish. Only a few hundred, but it was nice to go deep and final table a tournament. I am still getting used to new tournament schedule on UB, however, hopefully they won't change everything again in five minutes, as that site has been known to do in the past.
Hand #1
Deep in the 50 50 in stars, I was in 4th place with 20 players left. First place 12k. Excited to make final table because I worked really hard and was very patient in building my stack. In any case, I pick up QQ utg, my tabe is playing 7 handed. Folds to the sm blind. He has 222k in stack. I have 235k. He re-raises to 48k. My table had been playing relatively tight. He could have aa or kk here, but i have third best hand in tournament, its 20 people left and we are short handed. Plus its $55 buy in on stars, so it will be hard for me to get away from this hand. That being said, other than those hands, the hands most likely holds are: 1. AK; 2. AQ (maybe); 3. QQ also; 4. JJ or 5. 10s. So given his range, if I shove, I do not think he is folding any of those hands except maybe AQ and 10s. So I decide to call and if no A or K comes, I can raise all in if he cont bets. Flop comes out K J 10 rainbow. Big dilemma for me. He bets 78k which means he is committed to my all in and the hand that makes the most sense now is AK. With AQ, I believe he bets a bit more for value, and he also could still have aa or kk. Sooo...against most hands, i have 10 outs twice, and against some 7-8 outs, and at worse, i have 3 outs. It was a very tough decision. However, I changed my pre-flop plan based upon the favorable flop, the enormous odds, and the fact that if I win this hand, I build all the way to 600k with a shot to win tourney. So I shove and he calls with his set of JJ. I don't hit and I am out the very next hand (bc im all in in bb with less than one bb). If I had re-raised pre, I don't think he folds and the only thing I could do differently is limp/reraise pre, or alternatively, fold to his flop bet (continuing with my pre flop plan). It was one of those yucky decisions. In any case, I finished 19th. GG me.
Hand #2
Today, I played a satellite at Borgata for the $2200 buy in tomorow. I won my entry. 450 entrants, 69 places get entry. We stopped play at 3k-6k with 1k ante. I had 9 ANTES in my stack, lol. Hilarious. In any case, at the very next table there are 75 people left. (keep in mind we are 6 away from entry with 8 tables left). Player utg raises to 6k (blinds 1k-2k). A big stack, immediately to his left with about 125k in chips, RE RAISES TO 100K. What hands is he doing this with? There is def an argument for him folding aces there. UTg had 40k behind and then the guy on the button with 60k thinks for a bit and CALLS ALL IN. The button shows KK and the RERAISER of utg who couldve coasted his way to entry turns up- A 10. Hello. What the hell are people doing. The punchline to this story is- A10 reraiser says (young punk kid player who thinks he mac daddy of poker): "I think you have to fold KK there." ????????? The truth is, with 60k, he can fold KK, however, that very logic dictates a must fold of A10. He is the fool that reraised to 100k (which is an insane reraise). He cannot be telling the guy with KK that he needs to fold pre, especially when this kid has showed a reraise with 25os earlier. Just thought that was an interesting story for you guys. The bottom line is that a good majority of players have very little concept of satellite strategy.
Ok guys, good money at the tables this weeekend. I will let you know what transpires with tomorrow's tourney. I really feel like I am in a zone and I am excited to do well. However if I do bust, I am happy to know that I satellited in, winning entry was victory in itself.
Good money and peace,
Lucky C and Ace.
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