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I didn't get a chance to play in the ME this year, so let me live through everyone else's painful bust outs.

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100/200/25. Weak-tight guy who limps a little too much but folds way too much limps. BB who likes to telegraph what he's doing is clearly uninterested. I make it 1k from the sb with T5o. bb folds, weak tight guy calls. I started with ~8500, he covers. Flop A55. I bet 1300, he moves in, I beat him into the pot. Table chuckles when I turn over T5o, he shows AK. Turn K. River K.

Steve

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sick

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100/200/25. Weak-tight guy who limps a little too much but folds way too much limps. BB who likes to telegraph what he's doing is clearly uninterested. I make it 1k from the sb with T5o. bb folds, weak tight guy calls. I started with ~8500, he covers. Flop A55. I bet 1300, he moves in, I beat him into the pot. Table chuckles when I turn over T5o, he shows AK. Turn K. River K.

Steve

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Only on Riverstars.You just been Fulltilted.Thanks Party.
And so on...live poker is so rigged,man [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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At 2am on day 1 I had about 8000. I got dealt JJ and was one off of the button. The two guys to my left were very aggressive and if it was raised 1200 to them they tended to treat it like a respectable hand and would fold but a raise of 1500 seemed like someone was trying to steal the blinds so I decided to make my stand and try and double up. I raised to 1500 and sure enough one of the guys reraised me to 3500 so I went all in. he called and had AQ. Flop looked good but a Q came on the turn and I was sent packing.

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I somehow managed to stay alive 11 1/2 hourse getting no cards and no flops. QQ (only my second big pair of the day) losing to a shortstack's JJ all-in crippled me. Went out 1/2 hour later when I pushed ATs with 8BBs and ran into QQ.

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Had 16K at dinner on Day 1. Lost AK to A3 for a couple thousand chips, then lost a few thousand more with 88 on a 732 board against a LAG (almost went with it, he was floating/raising 90% of c-bets), but read strength, mucked and he showed AA. Was down to 4625, raised to 625 with AhQh. 3 callers. Flop A94, 2 diamonds. Both blinds check to me, I jam, weak-tight button overjams (only about 1K more than me), I know I am effed, blinds fold, he shows A9, turn T, river not a T or Q.

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Disgustingly, I let my stack bleed away in order to make the money (I was in on a freeroll), so once we were ITM I only had 1-2M left. I stayed afloat for a while, then eventually with 2M UTG and KTo, I pushed. Folded to John Gale in the BB who called with AK.

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I got cooler'd, I think??

1C just after mid-night and I'm at about 9k. 1 limp from the 4th to act. I raise 4X BB from the button with AQs, both blinds fold and the limper calls. Flop comes 5AA

Check, check

Turn is 10 and makes 4 to the flush for me. Check, I bet 1/2 my stack and get called. River is a 3 not my suite. check, I push and get called by 55.

I really thought I was against an Ace that I out-kicked and villan couldn't fold.

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90 Minutes into Day 2B I have 9k after starting the day with 14k and gone completely card dead. EP raiser with 35k makes it 1600, flat called by John Smith (who has about 30k) in the CO. I have JJ on the button and jam, EP raiser thinks for quite a bit before folding what he later says is TT, Smith calls pretty quickly with AsQs.

Flop is a pretty sweet AhJsTd, but the turn is the 9s giving him 33% of the deck as outs, and out I am when the inevitable Kc is revealed on the river. The TT guy said he almost jammed to isolate which made me very sad....

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200/400 late 1C - Small stacked down to $9600 after losing 16K flopping a set of 9's to lose to a turned set of Q's when I pick up two vlack aces UTG. I make it 1200 - big stack in BB doubles it up to 2400 and I jam the rest of my pot in to see him turn over QQ.

Flop 9S - 10S - JD

Turn - KS - Giving him the straight but leaving me lots of outs for nut flush and straight

River - 7D - And CU-Lata GG me.

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1a around 1:30 am. Frustrating, card dead day where I was never over 10K (I was constantly behind one of the empty chair chipstacks at two different tables I was moved to!) & much tougher opposition then I am used to in my small town 10/minute level tourneys. Anyhow, down to around 4500 with blinds 200/400 50 ante. Card dead most of the table so my M was around 4. Thrilled to find even an ace dealt to me I pushed with A-5. This megastack stared me down for like 2 minutes like it was the final table and finally called me with AJ.

Still I had a blast in vegas considering I invested less then $50 total on WSOP satellites this year and got in on a $5.50 qualifier.

Not surprisingly, the deck hit me over the head in the side games. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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100/200/25. Weak-tight guy who limps a little too much but folds way too much limps. BB who likes to telegraph what he's doing is clearly uninterested. I make it 1k from the sb with T5o. bb folds, weak tight guy calls. I started with ~8500, he covers. Flop A55. I bet 1300, he moves in, I beat him into the pot. Table chuckles when I turn over T5o, he shows AK. Turn K. River K.

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That's just f'n sick

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KK < 77

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100/200/25. Weak-tight guy who limps a little too much but folds way too much limps. BB who likes to telegraph what he's doing is clearly uninterested. I make it 1k from the sb with T5o. bb folds, weak tight guy calls. I started with ~8500, he covers. Flop A55. I bet 1300, he moves in, I beat him into the pot. Table chuckles when I turn over T5o, he shows AK. Turn K. River K.

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Since you were eliminated, did they still enforce the ten-minute penalty for stabbing the guy?

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Right before the dinner break on Day 4, my stack had just belly-flopped down from 720K (top 10 in chips) to around 100K by losing 3 straight rivered pots to the same guy.

Blinds at 3K/6K. 4 limpers to the SB who makes it 50K. I (stupidly) raise all-in with ATs. He calls with AKs. GG.

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Card dead for 7+ hours 1C. Got to 11K once I think. Down to 4500 100-200/25 Limp UTG with AQ looking to reraise push hoping to either take it down or race to double up. I got the race with 77 and missed. Meh.

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Had 16K at dinner on Day 1. Lost AK to A3 for a couple thousand chips, then lost a few thousand more with 88 on a 732 board against a LAG (almost went with it, he was floating/raising 90% of c-bets), but read strength, mucked and he showed AA. Was down to 4625, raised to 625 with AhQh. 3 callers. Flop A94, 2 diamonds. Both blinds check to me, I jam, weak-tight button overjams (only about 1K more than me), I know I am effed, blinds fold, he shows A9, turn T, river not a T or Q.

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That's funny, that is just like how a buddy of mine got sent out.

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Day 4. Blinds 3000/6000 1000ante. Card dead for 2 days. Have 300,000, avg stack is 340,000. EP limps. I'm in SB with 10 4 suited. I limp. BB checks. Flop 10 4 3. Check Check, EP bets 22,000, I raise to 75,000, BB folds, EP all-in. I insta-call (like an idiot) and lose to his set of 3's. Down to 25,000, out next hand with AJ suited losing to QQ in 3 way pot. Made $42,882.

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I open pushed for 27BB (M=9.5) UTG with 22. I got called by Jamie Gold with TT and then had my play mocked all over the internet, but am still happy with it. Maybe I'll post it in MTT.

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Had 16K at dinner on Day 1. Lost AK to A3 for a couple thousand chips, then lost a few thousand more with 88 on a 732 board against a LAG (almost went with it, he was floating/raising 90% of c-bets), but read strength, mucked and he showed AA. Was down to 4625, raised to 625 with AhQh. 3 callers. Flop A94, 2 diamonds. Both blinds check to me, I jam, weak-tight button overjams (only about 1K more than me), I know I am effed, blinds fold, he shows A9, turn T, river not a T or Q.

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That's funny, that is just like how a buddy of mine got sent out.

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O RLY? I bet he's a COMPLETE donk.

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14K with 1 hour to go in day 1D. Blinds 200-400a50. UTG limps, I'm next to act and make it 1600 [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] to go with my QQ. Only UTG calls after some deliberation. Flop 779 with two spades, 4300 or so in the pot. UTG check-pushes my bet of 3000, and I call immediately. He had 6d7d, no miracles for me.

Should've raised more preflop.

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I open pushed for 27BB (M=9.5) UTG with 22. I got called by Jamie Gold with TT and then had my play mocked all over the internet, but am still happy with it. Maybe I'll post it in MTT.

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thats a pretty gross play, but as long as your happy with it

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Right before dinner on Day 1: AK < 77 busted me, but I was crippled a half hour before when my AA < Q9s.

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Day 2, blinds 400/800, I only have about 12k after posting big blind. EP limps, humongous stack limps on button, SB completes, I check with T4o. Flop T62r, EP limper bets 2k into a 4200 pot (looks to me like a feeler bet with a low-mid pp) big stack calls on button (he could pretty much have anything), I decide there's a good chance I have the best hand and push for another 10k to take it down. First guy agonizes for quite awhile and folds. Big stack thinks forever and finally calls with JT. Ace on turn actually gave me a few outs to split it but river blanked.

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I open pushed for 27BB (M=9.5) UTG with 22. I got called by Jamie Gold with TT and then had my play mocked all over the internet, but am still happy with it. Maybe I'll post it in MTT.

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Since most of my posts are from MTT, I'll just offer my opinion that I don't think 22 is playable UTG with that stack size. With a significantly smaller or larger stack, yes.

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I open pushed for 27BB (M=9.5) UTG with 22. I got called by Jamie Gold with TT and then had my play mocked all over the internet, but am still happy with it. Maybe I'll post it in MTT.

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Since most of my posts are from MTT, I'll just offer my opinion that I don't think 22 is playable UTG with that stack size. With a significantly smaller or larger stack, yes.

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It is certainly playable UTG with 27xBB, but for a limp or maybe a small raise. Folding is OK too. It depends on your style and the table. I would probably limp and not mind too much if I got pushed off the hand for 1xBB. I might even limpriase allin with it if the conditions were right.

The push is of course terrible and suicidal. There was some fish who pushed UTG for 27xBB with A8s with 2 or 3 table left. I don't understand why people make plays like that. I suppose that you steal the blinds a lot because people think you must have AK or JJ or something. Some people don't know how to play postflop and maybe have a hard time folding a decent hand in early position.

Incidently, pushing 22 for 27xBB M of 9 or whatever is cEV+ from CO or later. You might even be able to push from one position earlier. From late position, open pushing is not a terrible way to play 22, but you could also raise or limp.

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steve,

things are a lot more fun when you're making quads with underpairs, eh?

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day 3, I have 115k or so, over average, 950 left.

Sabyl raises to 4 or 5k in the cutoff for the third strait time, I call out of bb with 98s. Flop QJT, i check, she bets 8k, I make it 24k, she calls. Turn 5 which gives me flush draw, I shove, she calls with AK, I don't catch up. Down to 15k. Get all in with A5 vs 67 and go out 907th. bunch of work for nothing

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Miscalculated my M by 1.2 to turn what would have been a marginal push into an awful one with Ace-rag in MP. Called and busted by TT in the SB. Gonna make these moves a bit more slowly in the future [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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Key hand: I have ~25K in the 250/500/50 level. Folded to me, I raise to $1700 in CO w/ QQ. BB only caller. Flop AQ8. He checks, I bet 3K, he checkraises to I don't remember how much, I push, he calls with no-[censored]-way AA. I cover him by 2000 chips.

Bust hand: 300/600/75 level, I push A2o in the CO with 10K (M=6). SB calls with AK and holds.

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Key hand: I have ~25K in the 250/500/50 level. Folded to me, I raise to $1700 in CO w/ QQ. BB only caller. Flop AQ8. He checks, I bet 3K, he checkraises to I don't remember how much, I push, he calls with no-[censored]-way AA. I cover him by 2000 chips.

Bust hand: 300/600/75 level, I push A2o in the CO with 10K (M=6). SB calls with AK and holds.

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Don't like the A2o push for 17xBB even with the ante.

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Busted about 3 hours in. David Singer is at my table, seeing plenty of flops and making life miserable on all of us (Steve I really needed to hunt you down during the break to see how you handled him).

At 50/100, after being as high as 12K, I'm at 9600 after losing a 2K pot to Singer. A couple guys limped including Singer, and the SB, an Asian kid from Australia who seemed pretty weak/solid made it 700 to go. I call with 9 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] figuring that if the limpers fold, it should be an easy hand to play in position. The limpers do fold. To the flop.

Q [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] BB overbets the pot with 2600, I think his bet screams big pair and call.

Turn is 4 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], he bets 3500 and I push. After ten seconds he calls and shows A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. I stand up and say "No Spade" but the K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] sent me packing. Oh well, 76% to win, but who's counting.

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With blinds 3k-6k and a 1k anti with the average stack at 350k, JAMIE GOLD raised my bb to 25k from the button. Flop was 3-6-9 rainbow. I push my last 120k with 8-8 and he insta calls and turns over 6-3 of hearts, turn is Ace, and river Jack. gimme my 42k im headed home.

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About an hour after the bubble burst I am in the hijack with about 25k in chips, blinds are 1k/2k/300.

Folds to me, I push with AJo. SB calls with AK, BB repushes with AK, SB Calls. I dont get there and I don't think it was the best play.

But the silver lining was that since our table was way in the middle of the room, I was standing up for a while after busting and by the time the escort got to me I was given 774th place, the first spot in a slighly higher payout.

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About an hour after the bubble burst I am in the hijack with about 25k in chips, blinds are 1k/2k/300.

Folds to me, I push with AJo. SB calls with AK, BB repushes with AK, SB Calls. I dont get there and I don't think it was the best play.

But the silver lining was that since our table was way in the middle of the room, I was standing up for a while after busting and by the time the escort got to me I was given 774th place, the first spot in a slighly higher payout.

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I like this push. Given your late position, if you make a small raise, you would probably be right to call a reraise. In this case, with action from two players, you probably could fold.

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Mine was pretty donkish. Day 1D. 50-100 blinds. I have about 12K. 2 limpers in front of me so I call with QTo in the hijack. Button calls too, so 6 of us see the QT3 rainbow flop. Checks around to me, I bet 500. Button (who barely has me covered) makes it 1500. The player is good enough that he could be raising me with any pair or a draw since it probably looked like I was betting in position. I make it 3500 to go. He pushes and I think about it for about 30 secs (shoulda taken longer) and call. He shows me ......33 of course, which I knew before he even turned it over. The whole point of deep stacks is so you can get away from hands like this, and this was the one player at my table who I respected the most too. Playing 1000 turbo SNGs a month warps your idea of what a good hand is regardless of stacks hehe. Maybe next year. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Halo7

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~1000 people left on Day 3
Blinds at 800/1600, 200 ante
I have ~30k in the BB after posting

Folds around to active big stack in the SB who raises to 5 or 5.5k (don't remember exactly). I look down at Ad9d, which is certainly ahead of his raising range, which I assume could be rather large or even all-encompassing. I move all-in and he calls easily with AJo. 5 bricks and I'm gone.

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Last level of day1a, 200/400+50 blinds. About 1h15m left of the day.

I had lost a few pretty big pots in the last hour (had 41K to the dinner break, top was about 55K), and I was at about 38K (not 100% sure about the exact count, about close ballpark figure)

Loose and tricky player utg makes it 3xBB to 1200, folded to utg+3 who makes it 3K. I'm next, and make it 10K with AsAh. It's folded around to utg+3 who instantly throws the all-in button in the pot, and I make the obvious call.

utg+3 shows JJ, and the doorcard is one of this two outs. Yey. Board 4 flushes clubs, but I was missing the Ac [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Had about 5K left after that pot, and after folding a few hands, I push the same orbit utg with Ah8h, get called by KK, and the flopped flushdraw gets me nowhere.

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Sounds like that should've been a pretty easy fold for JJ. Oh well, no justice in poker I guess.