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Bricks & Mortar. Wossat?
Apr. 24th, 2005 01:50 amTo Gutshot for one of my rare forays into the world of live poker - the £100 freezeout. Nice structure. 25 minute levels starting with 25-50 and 4000 chips. 48 runners. I came 16th (top nine paid), but wasn't disappointed. For a start, I played my own way, and got to near the money with virtually no cards and without being in a showdown. That in itself is pleasing. The one hand where I might have played it differently was when I finally picked up Aces in second position. Blinds were now 350-700 and I had 5300 chips (average by now was about 8,500). UTG (a serial limper) limped again, and I raised all-in. I'd done this a couple of times at the table, and thought that I was due a call.
As it happens, I suspect that if I limp, the player behind me raises. And the serial limper (who had made some amazing pre-flop calls before) thought for many minutes before deciding that his pair of deuces probably wasn't good enough. The 1750 I picked up took me over 7000, but the blinds whent up to 500-1000 next hand and I was quickly back to being in trouble.
There then followed that ghastly kind of 20 minutes where you are desperately looking for any hand with which to make a move, but it doesn't appear. Another SB and BB disappeared at blinds of 750-1500 and all of a sudden I was down to 3300 chips. I am on the button and well-stacked UTG limps. I have 77 and promptly put my chips all-in with as much flourish as possible. I'd even kept back a lot of 100s in an attempt to do a Julian Gardner and make the foe think that I had more than I did have. But after some humming and hawwing he worked out that putting 1800 more into a pot that was over 7000 chips in size was likely to be good value. He turned over Ace-Two of clubs and the board came 2xx one club. Turn brought another club, giving him 14 outs on the river. The Ace duly came and I was walking.
BUT, if I had won that hand, my first all-in shopwdown in three-and-a-half hours, I would have been up to 8,600 and well in the hunt. And I was a good favourite when all the money went in. If I get that kind of situation every time I turn up for a £100 tourney, I will be happy.
And I definitely wasn't outplayed. I reckon there were three or four players there who really knew what they were doing. And some of the players were startlingly weak.
Most pleasing hand of the night? I was getting short-stacked when the blinds were 250-500. Three people limped and I looked down on the button to find 9-9. All the money went in (the grand sum of 2,600, I think) went in before you could blink and, the next thing I knew, I was up to 4,850 without seeing a flop, let alone a showdown.
What was it? You don't win tournaments, you steal them?
As it happens, I suspect that if I limp, the player behind me raises. And the serial limper (who had made some amazing pre-flop calls before) thought for many minutes before deciding that his pair of deuces probably wasn't good enough. The 1750 I picked up took me over 7000, but the blinds whent up to 500-1000 next hand and I was quickly back to being in trouble.
There then followed that ghastly kind of 20 minutes where you are desperately looking for any hand with which to make a move, but it doesn't appear. Another SB and BB disappeared at blinds of 750-1500 and all of a sudden I was down to 3300 chips. I am on the button and well-stacked UTG limps. I have 77 and promptly put my chips all-in with as much flourish as possible. I'd even kept back a lot of 100s in an attempt to do a Julian Gardner and make the foe think that I had more than I did have. But after some humming and hawwing he worked out that putting 1800 more into a pot that was over 7000 chips in size was likely to be good value. He turned over Ace-Two of clubs and the board came 2xx one club. Turn brought another club, giving him 14 outs on the river. The Ace duly came and I was walking.
BUT, if I had won that hand, my first all-in shopwdown in three-and-a-half hours, I would have been up to 8,600 and well in the hunt. And I was a good favourite when all the money went in. If I get that kind of situation every time I turn up for a £100 tourney, I will be happy.
And I definitely wasn't outplayed. I reckon there were three or four players there who really knew what they were doing. And some of the players were startlingly weak.
Most pleasing hand of the night? I was getting short-stacked when the blinds were 250-500. Three people limped and I looked down on the button to find 9-9. All the money went in (the grand sum of 2,600, I think) went in before you could blink and, the next thing I knew, I was up to 4,850 without seeing a flop, let alone a showdown.
What was it? You don't win tournaments, you steal them?
