Tough luck in the satellite, 7500 starting chips and it's a turbo format so blinds get real high relative to starting stack within like an hour.
112 entrants, 90 or so left, average stack is just under 10k. I have 19k and am leading my table.
Last hand before the break I'm UTG. I'm needing a cigarette so I look at my cards with every intent to fold and look down at JJ. Blinds are 400/800, I raise to 2400. Folds around to one of the shorter stacks on the button who shoves 5500 more. I call and he has J7o. Flop comes 456, turn 8. River jack just as some cruel poker god joke I guess.
So I'm down to about 12k, we go on break, come back and blinds are at 500/1k. I fold the big and small so I now have about 10k, so 10 big blinds. I'm on the button and that same fuck that called me with J7 opened the pot to 3k from 2nd position. Folds to me, I look down at AK and shove, he calls and flips up K5 of spades. 2 spades on the flop and then he hits a 5 on the turn, I'm out the door.
Will try again one more time same time tomorrow night. These Latinos are fuckin crazy, I know I can do well here I just need my hands to hold up.
112 entrants, 90 or so left, average stack is just under 10k. I have 19k and am leading my table.
Last hand before the break I'm UTG. I'm needing a cigarette so I look at my cards with every intent to fold and look down at JJ. Blinds are 400/800, I raise to 2400. Folds around to one of the shorter stacks on the button who shoves 5500 more. I call and he has J7o. Flop comes 456, turn 8. River jack just as some cruel poker god joke I guess.
So I'm down to about 12k, we go on break, come back and blinds are at 500/1k. I fold the big and small so I now have about 10k, so 10 big blinds. I'm on the button and that same fuck that called me with J7 opened the pot to 3k from 2nd position. Folds to me, I look down at AK and shove, he calls and flips up K5 of spades. 2 spades on the flop and then he hits a 5 on the turn, I'm out the door.
Will try again one more time same time tomorrow night. These Latinos are fuckin crazy, I know I can do well here I just need my hands to hold up.
PS everyone was wrong I had the AQ and missed my draw.
The way the hand played out I kinda felt forced into shoving even though I hate doing that on a draw.
Table maniac is to my right which has been working out well for me most of the day. You start with 15k in chips, I was up to about 22k at one point but now down to 16k after the shortstacked maniac called my shove on a 998 flop when I had TT and he had 8 6, and it came turn 7 river 5.
Anyway I'm on button and he is in cutoff and he raises 4xbb pre, which he did pretty much every fucking hand. I 3bet on the button with AQ diamonds. This girl in the big blind, who was a decent player, min 4 bet it. Her range was narrow at this point, QQ KK or AK (IMO based on the way she was playing she is the type of player that raises AA higher and flats with jacks on down to see a flop). I knew I was probably in pretty rough shape but the maniac called and I decided to flat it on the button getting ridiculous pot odds. My plan was to play any diamond draw strong hoping to pick up the pot, and see what happened if I flopped an ace (fold to a large bet from the chick cause that means AK, bet if checked to, try to make a read on her and probably min raise a smaller bet on an ace flop cause to me that means KK, if I get re-raised let it go). I had no idea what the maniac had at this point he literally could have 89o and it wouldn't surprise me, but I was guessing some kind of broadway hand. The whole reason I was in the hand was because I had a good read on this girl and I really felt I could take the rest of maniacs chips if we both hit the flop but I hit it harder. Early in the tourney I saw him call off half his stack with one pair AJo on an ace-high 3-diamond board. I felt pretty strongly that this chick had QQ or KK so was hoping he had some kind of AT, A9 hand and I could flop an ace to bust him, if not let it go.
Anyway the pot is at about 6k at this point and I have 14k behind. Flop comes J53 2 diamonds and chick shoves. At this point I am positive she has QQ or KK (I actually thought KK but it's pretty inconsequential, QQ is better cause that means she definitely isn't holding one of my diamond outs if I decide to chase). If maniac folds I probably let it go but he snap calls. At this point I am guessing he has JQ. Ruled out JK because I thought she was holding kings. I don't know why I didn't figure him for AJ, I just didn't. Knowing him I guess I figured he'd get it in pre with a hand that "premium".
Anyway if my reads are correct and she has KK and he has JQ, I've got 12 outs and almost 50% equity in a 34k pot and only 14k to call. Worst case scenario she has JJ and my ace is dead and she has redraw outs on my flush if I make it,. Next worst is she has AA/JJ and this guy has some sort of 78d hand and I'm looking at 7 outs not 12. I stuck with my gut and called, I did in fact have my reads pretty much dead on as she had QQ and this guy had JTo (wtf??).
Sickest part about the hand is that he rivered a 10 and knocked us both out. Of course I regret shoving my chips in with a draw, but only cause I missed. I contend I'd probably make the same play again in the same situation, it's that type of pot you pretty much have to win to go deep in these things. If I have any regrets it's not really my play on the flop, or my 3 bet pre, but I probably should have let it go when I got 4 bet preflop by a solid player. Then again I'd feel so nitty throwing away AQs on the button in a tournament with a fast-moving structure where we were 2 hours in and I was still stuck with a starting stack.
That's the story of the knock-out hand, I have more hands to post like when I got AA the third hand of the tournament.
The way the hand played out I kinda felt forced into shoving even though I hate doing that on a draw.
Table maniac is to my right which has been working out well for me most of the day. You start with 15k in chips, I was up to about 22k at one point but now down to 16k after the shortstacked maniac called my shove on a 998 flop when I had TT and he had 8 6, and it came turn 7 river 5.
Anyway I'm on button and he is in cutoff and he raises 4xbb pre, which he did pretty much every fucking hand. I 3bet on the button with AQ diamonds. This girl in the big blind, who was a decent player, min 4 bet it. Her range was narrow at this point, QQ KK or AK (IMO based on the way she was playing she is the type of player that raises AA higher and flats with jacks on down to see a flop). I knew I was probably in pretty rough shape but the maniac called and I decided to flat it on the button getting ridiculous pot odds. My plan was to play any diamond draw strong hoping to pick up the pot, and see what happened if I flopped an ace (fold to a large bet from the chick cause that means AK, bet if checked to, try to make a read on her and probably min raise a smaller bet on an ace flop cause to me that means KK, if I get re-raised let it go). I had no idea what the maniac had at this point he literally could have 89o and it wouldn't surprise me, but I was guessing some kind of broadway hand. The whole reason I was in the hand was because I had a good read on this girl and I really felt I could take the rest of maniacs chips if we both hit the flop but I hit it harder. Early in the tourney I saw him call off half his stack with one pair AJo on an ace-high 3-diamond board. I felt pretty strongly that this chick had QQ or KK so was hoping he had some kind of AT, A9 hand and I could flop an ace to bust him, if not let it go.
Anyway the pot is at about 6k at this point and I have 14k behind. Flop comes J53 2 diamonds and chick shoves. At this point I am positive she has QQ or KK (I actually thought KK but it's pretty inconsequential, QQ is better cause that means she definitely isn't holding one of my diamond outs if I decide to chase). If maniac folds I probably let it go but he snap calls. At this point I am guessing he has JQ. Ruled out JK because I thought she was holding kings. I don't know why I didn't figure him for AJ, I just didn't. Knowing him I guess I figured he'd get it in pre with a hand that "premium".
Anyway if my reads are correct and she has KK and he has JQ, I've got 12 outs and almost 50% equity in a 34k pot and only 14k to call. Worst case scenario she has JJ and my ace is dead and she has redraw outs on my flush if I make it,. Next worst is she has AA/JJ and this guy has some sort of 78d hand and I'm looking at 7 outs not 12. I stuck with my gut and called, I did in fact have my reads pretty much dead on as she had QQ and this guy had JTo (wtf??).
Sickest part about the hand is that he rivered a 10 and knocked us both out. Of course I regret shoving my chips in with a draw, but only cause I missed. I contend I'd probably make the same play again in the same situation, it's that type of pot you pretty much have to win to go deep in these things. If I have any regrets it's not really my play on the flop, or my 3 bet pre, but I probably should have let it go when I got 4 bet preflop by a solid player. Then again I'd feel so nitty throwing away AQs on the button in a tournament with a fast-moving structure where we were 2 hours in and I was still stuck with a starting stack.
That's the story of the knock-out hand, I have more hands to post like when I got AA the third hand of the tournament.
I don't know what your deal is man but my "bankroll" is just fine, the tourney entry was paid for and I was up about 300 from blackjack and the cash game last night, so I'm still up ~200 with my gambling budget.
This thread is for telling stories about poker, sharing experiences from a pretty cool trip. Don't worry about my roll.
Your feelings seems to get hurt by mostly innocuous comments, this seems to happen a lot.
I was simply trying to say that you should do well against crowd as long as you can keep firing the bullets(ie bankroll)
Im sure you are loaded and money is not an issue for you, Ive been rooting for you from the get go and just having some fun with you.
Funny story from the satellite. Early on I am down to about 4k in chips which was <20 bbs at the time. I'm obviously looking for a good spot to shove cause blinds are going up again and I've gotta get my hands on some chips.
I had probably folded 25 hands in a row just looking for the right spot. Players were getting knocked out and switching tables pretty quick, and we had just gotten a new member, older Hispanic guy. Folds around to me on the button and I have KT off, not the kind of hand I want to shove with but I've gotta choose a spot and KT against 2 blinds seems reasonable (probably falls into all those push/fold charts that I never memorized).
Anyway small blind folds and big blind hadn't even looked at his cards yet, he stands up and starts YELLING in spanish. My spanish is so/so, not conversational by any means. All I could make out was something about how I'm trying to steal his blinds and he knows I have nothing and he should call me blind.
He SLAMS down the call in the middle of the table without even looking at his cards. He flips over 56o, and I kinda shrug and am like "okayyyyyyyyy" and flip up my KT. Everyone at the table is looking at me like they're scared for my safety, maybe this guy said some crazy death threat shit...but dealer didn't say anything so whatever.
Flop comes 579, gives him a pair and straight draw and puts me in awful shape. He starts laughing and looks at me and is like "see, this is what happens" in English. Turn is a king and river blank.
Guy went all in next hand and someone else knocked him out and he left quietly.
Anyway it was pretty crazy, never really had something like that happen in what seemed like such a pedestrian situation.
I had probably folded 25 hands in a row just looking for the right spot. Players were getting knocked out and switching tables pretty quick, and we had just gotten a new member, older Hispanic guy. Folds around to me on the button and I have KT off, not the kind of hand I want to shove with but I've gotta choose a spot and KT against 2 blinds seems reasonable (probably falls into all those push/fold charts that I never memorized).
Anyway small blind folds and big blind hadn't even looked at his cards yet, he stands up and starts YELLING in spanish. My spanish is so/so, not conversational by any means. All I could make out was something about how I'm trying to steal his blinds and he knows I have nothing and he should call me blind.
He SLAMS down the call in the middle of the table without even looking at his cards. He flips over 56o, and I kinda shrug and am like "okayyyyyyyyy" and flip up my KT. Everyone at the table is looking at me like they're scared for my safety, maybe this guy said some crazy death threat shit...but dealer didn't say anything so whatever.
Flop comes 579, gives him a pair and straight draw and puts me in awful shape. He starts laughing and looks at me and is like "see, this is what happens" in English. Turn is a king and river blank.
Guy went all in next hand and someone else knocked him out and he left quietly.
Anyway it was pretty crazy, never really had something like that happen in what seemed like such a pedestrian situation.
hno:Not at all man, life has taught me to grow a thick skin, especially at online forums lol.
I don't care if someone insults me or bullies me, or just kids with me or something I said, is all good. I do the same from time to time, and when I do it is mostly in good fun and rarely personal.
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friend of mine just started playing poker a year ago but he is decent (lucky to have a nice sized bankroll).....he has mastered the art of bad beating someone then following it up with "Sorry, but yeah, I'm super good at poker" as he rakes in the chips.
I find it hilarious because he does it with a straight face, but I imagine how much it must tilt the guy who took the bad beat
I find it hilarious because he does it with a straight face, but I imagine how much it must tilt the guy who took the bad beat
