So how did you bust out?

[PairTheBoard]

3 hours into the Tournament. 8500 chips. 50-100 blinds. 1 hour sleep the night before. Digesting sandwich eaten on first break. Raise to 400 with AK in early position. One caller behind me. Flop Q64 all hearts. I bet 600. He raises 2000. I can't remember if I have a heart. I double check the cards on the flop since I should have gotten a new pair of glasses before the Tournament. I'm pretty sure they are all hearts. I look at my hole cards and say to myself that if I don't have a heart it's an easy laydown. I have the Ace of hearts. Someone's hand reaches for my chips and plops them into the middle of the table while I hear myself say, "All in". My opponent asks for a count, the dealer says it's 5000 more to him, he thinks for a couple of beats and says, "oh hell I call", turning over AQ both spades. Turn and River bring no Heart no King.

As it turned out I was getting 1.28-1 odds on my 7500 chip push and I was a 1.28-1 dog on the draw. I'm not too unhappy with that. He didn't have me covered by much and could have folded to the raise - although I don't think there was much folding equity with his hand.

PairTheBoard

[mlagoo]

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That's the way to go out, as a solid favorite on the second hand

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I agree. Arguments against said the field was so bad, the stacks so deep and levels so long that it was better to wait it out for less risk.

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mehhh

youd be crazy to pass up a 65/35

[scottc25]

Last hand of Level 4, Day 1D ($100/$200 $25)

I have $9,800, Villan has me covered with $16,000. I get k,k one off of the button. EP villan raises to $1025. This was a huge raise for him as before he was raising 3.5x the bb.

To me this screams of a middle pair. I re-raise him to $2800 and he immediately pushes all-in. I think for a minute to make sure I caught everything right and call.

He flips over q,q. First card off of the deck..... q. Done.

[MafiaPrince]

I think you wrote this hand wrong...seeing as how if you had what you said you had you flopped a straight flush...thus beating the A-high flush..

[DonT77]

Not really enough for a full trip report, so I'll post this here-


I started Day 1B with 10,000 chips. For the first 6 hours I had very few playable hands and when I did play a hand I usually missed the flop. I won a pot or two on resteals from LP vs a suspect MP raises to keep me afloat for a while, but my stack eventually melted down to 4900 before I won a decent pot (I bluffed with 55 on an Ace high flop) to get back to 7500. Then I got KK and won 3000 chips from a guy who went all-in with 76s on a short stack. My stack peaked at 12700 after winning with another bluff (I open-raised in LP with KJs and bluffed all-in on an Ace high flop having the 2nd nut flush draw), but that would be the last nice pot I'd win.

In the last 4 hours I didn't play more than a hand or two. My cards were garbage and I just didn't see many opportunities for moves. One time, with 8500 chips left and blinds at 150/300/25a I had 99 (which was one of the best hands I'd seen all day), and some guy who had only played one hand (which was AA) in the last few hours open-raised to 1000 from early position and another guy who had only played one hand in the last few hour re-raised to 2500. I had to fold 99. Of course, a 9 flopped.

My bustout hand was also disappointing-
I had KQs with 5600 chips (I was losing all of my chips to blinds an antes which were now 200/400/50a - so each round was costing me 1100 chips) and I raised to 1500 from middle position expecting to win the blinds on image alone. A very wild player in the big blind put me all-in, and it was 4100 to call to win (1100+1500+5200) so I called. The big blind had 22 (!?). I flopped a King and was in good shape until a 2 came on the river ending my WSOPME dreams for 2006.

I played for 11.5 hours, almost making it through the first day (busted at 2:30AM). The cards just weren't there for me. In 11.5 hours I never had more than Top Pair after the flop (no sets, no trips, no 2 pair, no straights, no straight draws, no flushes, etc.) and I only had better than 99 for a starting hand twice. I made a few plays when I sensed weakness to be able to survive as long as I did. I'm not sure if I could have done much more. I was disappointed with my results obviously, but didn't regret any plays that I made (I just wonder if there were some opportunities to use my bad cards/tight image that I missed).

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That's the way to go out, as a solid favorite on the second hand

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I agree. Arguments against said the field was so bad, the stacks so deep and levels so long that it was better to wait it out for less risk.

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mehhh

youd be crazy to pass up a 65/35

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Not only that, but he had fold equity too... you'd have to be crazy not to push that.

First hour of the WSOP, you have AA, flop comes 765 with 2 of a suit... are you prepared to go broke on that flop? I suspect most good players would not be.

[Assani Fisher]

Guy in EP raises to 3000, I re raise to 10,000 with AK from MP. He puts me all in for 19,000 total. I call of course, He has TT and wins. I think it was a pretty weak play since hes either a huge dog or slight favorite, but oh well.

[MrFizzbin]

I had Shannon Elizabeth at my table (not relevant just a shameless brag...)

2nd hand after the dinner break w 7700 left in stack. 100-200 and 25. I get KK. make it 800 to go. BB makes it 1600, I go to 3200 he smooth calls. Flop comes J-8-5. he checks, I bet all in, he calls AA. I should have known better I got what I deserved. Oh well [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Did finish 9th in one of the Bellagio cup events though so the trip wasnt a total loss....

[pirateboy]

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Final Table Heads Up: I hold JcKc in the small blind and limp heads up against Johnny Chan. Flop comes Qc10c9c. I bet the pot, Chan thinks for a second and flat calls. I move all in on the turn despite a small pot with a ton of chips left for both of us (I have 1 more chip than him (don't ask how that happened it just did). Chan smiles wearing his weird ass designer shirt and says, I think your on a draw. I smile and say "you call and it'll be all over baby" Chan calls and flips over the Ac7c for the nut flush.
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Um, lies? In this hand, you would have had a straight flush.