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Possibly too level-headed
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More Turning Stone
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By Adanthar
on 08/14/2007
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Short update:
I wound up not playing Event 3 (the bounty tournament) for sleep reasons, either. I did play the 6 max this morning (and the 1K 6max FTOPS event last night), but didn't last long.
I did play a couple of interesting hands from those two events. From the 1K FTOPS, with 3K starting stacks:
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Adar [Ad Ah]
Adar raises to 60 (UTG)
doheme calls 60 (Button)
*** FLOP *** [8d Td 7d]
Adar checks
doheme bets 80
Adar calls 80
*** TURN *** [8d Td 7d] [7h]
Adar checks
doheme bets 260
Adar calls 260
*** RIVER *** [8d Td 7d 7h] [Qh]
Adar checks
doheme bets 380
Adar calls 380
*** SHOW DOWN ***
doheme shows [9c 7c] three of a kind, Sevens
Adar mucks
Even in 6 max, this flop is ugly enough (particularly because of the increased range that your opponents have) to play it slower, especially when you have the A and don't fear the main draw. (If my aces were black, I'd probably do something like check/call, bet.) Once the turn pairs the bottom card on the board, I'm committed to a showdown but still don't want to invest too much - too bad that it turned out to be his gin card. BTW, betting out here is fine too; the main problem is that if raised, a 3 bet doesn't get you anywhere except into a 300 BB pot with the worst hand. Anyway, I wound up losing the minimum here, then going broke with AT to 55 that limp/called a big raise on a T522 board with a flush draw. No biggie.
Today, I didn't really have a decision to make anywhere except 'cbet, then fold'. In 6 max MTT's, with escalating blinds and ramped up aggression, you have to hit flops, and I didn't, so busto came quickly (although AQ < AJ AIPF for a 50 BB pot to actually bust me didn't help - oh well.) I'm mildly unhappy with one hand that I did play, so I'll talk about it now:
At 50/75, with all my raises getting picked off by the guys to my left, I was forced to make a third straight raise UTG with A T (I say 'forced' because it's generally too good of a hand to open fold in that spot, but under the circumstances it might've even been better.) The player to my left, who probably had me pegged as weak tight because I'd had a habit of winding up with 8 high at showdown, called my raise and then called my cbet on a K 9 2 board. Now the turn came the 5 , and I had 2500 behind with 1200 in the pot. After thinking about how much to bet here, I wound up checking, planning to CR AI to anything resembling a 600-800 chip value bet, but to my annoyance, he bet 1100, instead. Now I had very little fold equity and ace high. "Oops".
In retrospect, I should either check/fold the flop (my image was probably so weak that this cbet simply wouldn't get him to fold anything) or be prepared to double barrel that turn. Really, the major issue there is the bad bet size/stack size ratio (if I bet 700 and I'm raised, all my options suck) and [before I check the turn] how often he has a king, vs. something like J9 or a flush draw I can blow him off of. If I felt he was going to full pot the turn when checked to with any frequency, clearly, I should just bet myself. Meh.
On the bright side, I got enough sleep to be ready for the tournaments in the next couple of days. Oh, and gobboboy chopped the 325+40 bountyment for 22.5K/nath won a decent $50 freezeout on Stars for 11K last night. Good track records.
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