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I have two pair. Can you beat it?
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By lakong
on 06/27/2007
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I apologize for running a bit behind on my tournament blogging, but I did write up a long post two nights ago only to have it vanish in the internet time-space continuum. My internet connection for Vegas was horrible and I needed to use my Treo 700wx as a modem. However, I haven’t figured out a way to get it to block calls, so whenever a call comes in, the connection is dropped. Oh… well. It only took me about an hour to write the post!
I’ll try again to get up to date, but rather than blogging about specific tournaments and results I thought I would give you a flavor of some of the players and type of plays I have seen at the WSOP.
I HAVE TWO PAIR, CAN YOU BEAT IT?
This happened on the 3rd hand of the 1500 NL event on Saturday. A MP player raises to 175 at the 25/50 level. The BB calls. The flop comes Q78. The MP player bets 500 and is called. The turn is an A and the MP player bets 1200. I sense that he is spooked by the A and is reluctant to bet, but does anyway. The BB calls. The river pairs the Q and both players check. The MP player asks the BB ‘what do you have?’ The BB responds ‘two pair, can you beat it?’ and the MP player mucks his cards only to see the BB turn over a pair of eights. ‘What,’ he says. You said you have two pair.’ ‘I did,’ responded the BB. It took a minute but the MP player finally understood. He claims he mucked KK and I believed him. This was for 2/3rds of his stack!
Kid Silence, Legend of the Mute
I played at a table for 4 hours with a young guy, about 20 or so. The guy kept both of his feet resting on his chair so he basically was leaning against his knees. This wasn’t the odd part. What was strange was that this guy never said a word. It’s not that he was quiet, rather he would not talk. Now I really don’t think there was anything wrong with him, because if there was I’m sure he would have explained to us using writing or some other means that he couldn’t speak. No… this was part of his shtick. I’m not sure what he was trying to gain by this, other than to piss everyone at the table off. Not only wouldn’t he talk, but he took 30 seconds to a minute to make most decisions and for the tough decisions he would manically shuffle his chips in silence. Someone finally called the clock on him (I was ready to do it myself) and he did speed up a bit, but still no words came out of his mouth. Pretty strange.
Drinking and Poker do not Mix
I was playing at a table with two loud gregarious sorts. They were both doing well and having a grand old time. After one big pot won by one of the guys, he asked his new buddy if he would join him for a shot of scotch and the other guy said yes. They asked the floorman to get them the drink and the guy was pretty offended and let him know that he was not a waiter. The guy then took out his wallet and asked if he would get them a drink for $100. The floorman smiled and said ‘absolutely.’ After several shots, one was down to the felt. They were raising blind, making crazy calls and plays, etc. The other guy actually did pretty well though, but I have to conclude that in most circumstance drinking and poker do not mix!
Do not call and turn over your cards until everyone has acted
I will save this story for my full tournament report, but will related here how I went all-in after a MP player had raised during a WSOP tournament only to have the initial raiser (Mr. shot of scotch #2) declare ‘I call’ and turn up his hand. However the BB had not yet acted and he had the MP player and me covered. There was lots of commotion (we happened to be pretty far into the tournament and about 3 minutes were left until the night was over and we would return for the next day – it was almost 3am!). The ruling was that the BB -- Mr shot of scotch #2 -- could call and the AK guy must call and could not raise. Of course the flop did not contain an A or K, the BB pushed and the MP player was forced to fold. More about this hand and my fate in the hand in a subsequent blog.
Marcel, you are a brake!
$1500 NL tournament. A woman at my table is playing extremely fast and loose. Within 30 minutes Mrs. Fast and Loose has tripled up. One of her victims happened to be Mlagoo from 2plus2 who won the pokerstars million the next day and took home $315k! He reraised her PF bet all-in with KQ and she called with 55. She was making lots of somewhat loose calls for significant chips. She was also raising PF from any position with virtually any hand.
Anyway, after about 30 mins Marcel Luske sits down at the table and comments on her chips and how she got them.
A few people told Marcel that he would soon see. Well he didn’t see for some time because she completely slowed down. She must have been scared of him or more likely in awe of him. Once it became apparent to me that she had changed her style I said to Marcel ‘Did you know that you are a brake?’ I explained to him what I meant and everyone laughed. I didn’t mean to criticize her play, although I didn’t think much of it. Actually, I wanted her to speed back up again so I could pick her off. I was seated two to her left and wanted her to play fast and loose again which she did.
Marcel, you are a brake! -- Part II, the slowroll
An hour or so went by and Mrs. Fast and Loose and I have a few tangles and I come out on top each time. On the last hand I actually had the goods and pushed over the top of her flop bet. She folded and I won quite a nice pot. I’ll go into it during a future trip report, but I will report here that Mrs. Fast and Loose took me out on the very next hand. There was one limper at the 150/300 level and she raised to 1000. I looked down at QQ and re-raised to 2500. She pushed and I tanked for a bit, but decided against this player I had to call. She had made moves like this before with a wide range of hands. Plus I knew that she felt that I was capable of making a play at her so her range was even wider than normal. Anyway, when I called and turned over my cards she feigned disgust. After pausing for a few seconds she smiled and turned over AA. I didn’t improve and was out. I ignored the slowroll, shook her hand and left.
Marcel, you are a brake! -- Part III, the come on
The next night I saw Mrs. Fast and Loose again. I walked up to her during a break in another event and asked her how far she made it the day before. She didn’t last too much longer (big surprise!), but complemented me on my play. I mentioned to her that she didn’t think much of me the day before and that she slowrolled me, but she claimed not to remember. She asked what I did and where I was from and when I told her she got all excited and put her hands around my back and arm and suggested that we get together. I quickly moved away, smiled and told her some other time.
The next night I was walking down the hall with a friend after dinner and we crossed paths again. She told me how great I looked and asked for my number. I just kept on walking.
That’s it for tonight. Tomorrow I’ll try to do some more tournament write-ups.
Good night!
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