Tag Archive for 'Final-Table'
Well today I actually fired up FTP today to play a little bit of poker. Early in the morning I decided to play a little $5+.50 Omaha/8 Sit N Go. I by no means am an excellent Omatard player but boy did I feel dominating in this thing! It was typical in that mostly everybody at the table had no regard for their starting cards. With me only being in the hand with huge draws or near-nuts, it was actually very easy and I coasted to the win.
Later on, I decided to hop in one of the $10+1 donkaments that started at 4pm. There were 303 runners in this one, which is a field size that I enjoy. Just a shade over 4 hours later, here was the result:
Bayne was yet again the steamroller last night in a BBT event. This one being a MATH event. When one of the Penner boys stated in IRC that he was coming to rail me at the final table I knew it was about to get bad. 4 hands and 3 people being busted by Bayne, to include myself, did nothing to dissuade me of this. I went out in 4th. After watching Bayne have a few big hands in a row and bust two people, I pushed over the top of his raise UTG with AT thinking that there's no way he's going something good enough to call me. At this point I was 2nd in chips and had at least half his stack. Boy was I wrong. He had AK and busted me.
Columbo was gone after just another hand or two when he flopped middle pair on a low, non-threatening board and figured Bayne was trying to push him around. Nope. Bayne had flopped two pair I believe and Columbo goes to the rail bemoaning his fate of being the latest victim of Baynes' horshoe in a dark place.
Oh well. It was my first cash in a MATH tourney. That's always a good thing because #1, I don't play very many of them and #2, I normally play like a complete donkey in blogger gatherings. For some reason I just totally play like the field of a $1 rebuy in these things most of the time. I've done well in them when I actually put my mind to it as I won the WWDN twice, won the blogger bracelet race (don't get me started again about my WSOP dream), and have now final tabled and cashed the MATH. I really don't play these things all that often although I'm probably ahead in them if you take them all into account.
At the same time last night I secure another cash, this one being the $3 rebuy. Not much to note here, I just got unlucky with QQ against KK against one of two people that had me outchipped. Once you're in the money though and before the final table, there's no way I'm laying the bitches down in something like this. Too many times you're ahead and the money at that point ain't worth a damn anyway. So I went out 60-something and took home like $15.
I also played the $20 rebuy. I tried the pushmonkey, build-a-stack tactic early on and threw too many rebuys in. I still felt like I had an edge on the field though so I kept at it and just tighted up a bit. I had a huge stack actually by the end of the 2nd hour, being 14th out of like 90. This one was not meant to be as I got distracted by the better half and made a huge donk move of pushing over the top of a big stack with AT. Not her fault that I'm a dummy and couldn't do two things at once. It was simply me being impatient when I'm in great shape late in a tourney. That's the biggest leak of my game and one that I'm starting to get plugged. Not this time however and I went out like 30 or 40 from the money.
Finally broke through with my first final table or significant cash since the FTOPs Main Event. Speaking of which you do realize that FullTilt has already announced the schedule for the next one right?
Anyway, the 11k guarantee on FullTilt started with over 500 runners at 6pm EST last night for a little over 13k in the prize pool. I've stated this in the past but I think that 500-700 people in the field is optimal for me and this tournament did nothing to disuade of me of that line of thinking.
I played very solid the whole way, one once in the first 3 hours being all-in against a bigger stack and ahead every time. Until there were about 40 left, I had seen only 4 showdowns, winning 3 of those. With 20 left I had my first two suckouts of the tourney and they were both pretty huge. Neither was for more than half my stack, but hitting my gutshot with KQ after flopping that and top pair against a badly played (but still had me trapped) AA and then also pushing with an over and OESD when my opponent held TPTK and my over hitting the turn were both finally signs that I would have to mess this up myself and variance would not be taking me down this evening.
In the end, I laid down suited connectors that I fell I should have pushed when 3 handed and then pushed with J9 from the BB against a button raise when I did not have fold equity. AT took me out and IGH in 3rd place less than 6 hours in for a $1,500 payday. Not bad and certainly felt good after the run I had been having lately. Either I played well and was getting kicked in the junk or I was playing like every other donkey in the field. Nothing had been working for a few weeks. It also puts my ROI back to a more healthy state which is always a good thing too!
Anyway, the 11k guarantee on FullTilt started with over 500 runners at 6pm EST last night for a little over 13k in the prize pool. I've stated this in the past but I think that 500-700 people in the field is optimal for me and this tournament did nothing to disuade of me of that line of thinking.
I played very solid the whole way, one once in the first 3 hours being all-in against a bigger stack and ahead every time. Until there were about 40 left, I had seen only 4 showdowns, winning 3 of those. With 20 left I had my first two suckouts of the tourney and they were both pretty huge. Neither was for more than half my stack, but hitting my gutshot with KQ after flopping that and top pair against a badly played (but still had me trapped) AA and then also pushing with an over and OESD when my opponent held TPTK and my over hitting the turn were both finally signs that I would have to mess this up myself and variance would not be taking me down this evening.
In the end, I laid down suited connectors that I fell I should have pushed when 3 handed and then pushed with J9 from the BB against a button raise when I did not have fold equity. AT took me out and IGH in 3rd place less than 6 hours in for a $1,500 payday. Not bad and certainly felt good after the run I had been having lately. Either I played well and was getting kicked in the junk or I was playing like every other donkey in the field. Nothing had been working for a few weeks. It also puts my ROI back to a more healthy state which is always a good thing too!
