So how did you bust out?

[THEOSU]

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Um, lies? In this hand, you would have had a straight flush.

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Wait, you mean the fact that he was heads up v Johnny Chan at the final table didn't tip you off first?

[Hotrod0823]

Had a roller coaster afternoon took my stack from 10k to 15k back down to 3k and then back to 18k at dinner.

Creeped up to 22k when I made stupid play with QQ vs KK and was knocked down to 12k. Dropped a few more when my raises were getting repopped by the guy to my left with my chips.

I was down to 7500 or so and we were half way into level five. A LAG with about 30k in chips raises to 1100 from UTG+1 a loose/passive caller with 25k just calls and I have TT in the SB and PUSH.

The BB (dude with all my chips from earlier hands) just looks at my chips in the middle and says " I'll call that" and points. Confused by the call/pointing the rest of the table folds and we are heads up and he has me covered.

He tables AKx and I have TT, flop rags, turn Q and the river is an A.

After arriving in Vegas at 12:00 that morning (3am Eastern time) to find out my start day had been changed to 1A from 1B and playing from 12 noon 'til midnight and losing a flip on a rivered A it was a tough day all around.

[mikeymer]

Okay I'll play this game.

2am, day 1C, im sitting at about 48k and make it 1200 with AKo. Dimitri Nobles, who I cover by 13k repops instantly, as he did so much to 6k. I think about my options, and folding is not one of them. I can call and check fold a missed flop - I hate that. I can reraise again without pushing, or I can overbet all in (Pot had almost 8k). I was ahead of his range, and I wanted to put the pressure on, so I pushed and he called with QQ and asked if I had KK. I flipped my AKo and he outraced me. BTW there was a hypothetical situation like this brought up in the MTT forum before the ME started.

Out early in the 2nd day AK v JJ.

GG mman_status.

[adios]

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Okay I'll play this game.

2am, day 1C, im sitting at about 48k and make it 1200 with AKo. Dimitri Nobles, who I cover by 13k repops instantly, as he did so much to 6k. I think about my options, and folding is not one of them. I can call and check fold a missed flop - I hate that. I can reraise again without pushing, or I can overbet all in (Pot had almost 8k). I was ahead of his range, and I wanted to put the pressure on, so I pushed and he called with QQ and asked if I had KK. I flipped my AKo and he outraced me. BTW there was a hypothetical situation like this brought up in the MTT forum before the ME started.

Out early in the 2nd day AK v JJ.

GG mman_status.

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FWIW I think you have to ask yourself if he'd re-pop 6K with AQ or AJ. I know that some players would btw but if not then I'd call. If a semi scary flop comes you may be able to move him off a pair.

I don't think the all in pre-flop is terrible though and I'd often play it the same way.

[gcDanno]

Last year, no cards period. This year, i had cards preflop. Postflop, i just couldn't connect. And when i did, i got rivered.

big hands...
first hand; hit a set of 2's; won about 1k;
few hands later; turned a str8; won about 2k;

got up to about 14k with 2 total bluffs when i flopped air; then the wheels fell off;

i had AA 6 times in 8 hours; only saw 1 flop;
i had KK twice; won both hands (blinds and a small pot)
QQ twice; won both times small pots
JJ twice; lost both;
first JJ 50/100; raised 3x (from button; BB calls); flop AAK; yuk; chk/chk; turn J; (woot); i bet .8 pot; called; river Ace! chk/chk; opp shows KT for rivered boat;

second JJ; raised limper; flop KQx; limper leads out pot size bed; i muck.

3rd hour; we have a very active agg player added to the table; he raises 3x utg (does so often with many cards). button calls; and i call in the SB with AJs; flop Axx; i chk expecting aggro player to bet so i can chk raise; it goes chk/chk; grrrrrrrr; turn Q; i fire an almost pot size bet; aggro player folds; button calls; river T; i bet out same bet as turn; button calls; shows QT; another river; this pot takes me down to near 4k

another big stack agg player is added; after about 20 hands with him, he makes it 800 in MP with blinds 100/200/25; LP calls; i push QQ from the BB; ALL fold! i was so hoping to dbl up, but a win is a win i guess.

NEXT HAND; i have AA in SB; now i'm up to close to 6k in chips; 4 limpers to me; i need chips; so instead of pushing; i raise it 6x to 1200; 2 callers; flop KQ9; being so short stacked; i pushed; first player calls with JT; turn 9 giving me hope; river bricks, and i'm done.

i guess i should have slowed down on that flop; so many hands are ahead of AA there. oh well. i see 1 flop in 6 with AA and the opp flops a str8.

gc

[bmxreed36]

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i had AA 6 times in 8 hours; only saw 1 flop;
i had KK twice; won both hands (blinds and a small pot)
QQ twice; won both times small pots
JJ twice; lost both;


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Wow. I was happy with how I played but I really coulda used some cards to go along. 7 1/2 levels of playing and I had AA once (double up), KK 0 times, QQ twice (won one, lost one), and JJ 0 times.

[gcDanno]

My table was so super tight in the early going that there just were no big pots that i was involved in with the good preflop cards.

I'm sure people thought i was looser than i really was. I made really only 1 mistake that cost me about 4k. I limped with 88 in EP, and pushed on the turn when i hit my set; unfortunatly, the small stack that i was playing against hit a str8 on my 8.

[beenben]

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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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stats - when the $$ went in 91.11 vs. 8.89, After the turn card, 97.73 vs. 2.27.

[JohnFR]

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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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stats - when the $$ went in 91.11 vs. 8.89, After the turn card, 97.73 vs. 2.27.

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I think you have those backwards, after the turn the guy has 4 outs out of 44 cards giving him 1/11 shot of winning or around 91 vs 9. Actually I think your numbers aer just flat out wrong

[JohnFR]

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i had AA 6 times in 8 hours; only saw 1 flop;
i had KK twice; won both hands (blinds and a small pot)
QQ twice; won both times small pots
JJ twice; lost both;


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Wow. I was happy with how I played but I really coulda used some cards to go along. 7 1/2 levels of playing and I had AA once (double up), KK 0 times, QQ twice (won one, lost one), and JJ 0 times.

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Heheh, 4.5 levels for me KK(won blinds yipee) - 1 time, no AA,QQ,JJ ugh