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Deep Run Into The Final Table (Video)
DIR By: Mudsill
Date: February 9, 2013, 11:21 am
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My wife
HTML https://twitter.com/AlyssaDurand
and I regularly play these
pocket change poker tournaments online. There are 3 of these
tournaments, all similar in structure with different buy-in
amounts that run nightly at 8:00PM ET on Aced Poker
HTML http://www.aced.com/_VXI8dnY2nN4Gu8t3BXHzdWNd7ZgqdRLk/1/.
Each
tournament starts you off with 1,500 in chips, allows for 1
rebuy for an additional 1,500 chips, and 1 add-on at the break
for an additional 1,500 chips. I always take the first rebuy as
soon as the game begins so I'm starting off with 3,000 in chips
and, as long as I survive to the first break, always take the
additional add-on at the break. The tournament buy-ins are
$0.50, $0.25, and $0.10 + a 10% entry fee.
On this particular night, I managed a deep run that brought me
to the Final Table. 2 players busted out on the bubble, leaving
an 8-handed Final Table. The blinds were at 750/1500 and I had
around 30,000 in chips when the FT began. Enjoy the video replay
of the Final Table below. Under the video, I also included a
play by play of my thought process throughout the game.
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSwdVeDMbAw
Hand 1: I was dealt T3o under the gun. Between the weak hand, my
weak table position, the new "unknown" players at the table, and
the fact that so often I see players go absolutely monkey-shit
as soon as they make final table, this was an easy fold. As it
turned out, someone indeed went monkey-shit with K4o, was called
by KJo and eliminated from the tournament, taking us down to 7
players.
Hand 2: How do you fold AK preflop?! It's easy. Hand 2 had me
waking up to AKo. Everyone folded around to the player behind
the cutoff, who shoved all in for over 20,000. In this situation
alone, I may sometimes make this call, based mainly on what I
know about the player, stack sizes, and the bad guy's position
at the table. In this instance, however, an even deeper stacked
player shoved all in over the top. The button player had not
played loose or overly aggressive in any of the hands I had seen
him in earlier in the game. I had no reason to believe that the
button player had anything less than AK. Best case scenario, I
was looking for a chop. I thought it more likely that with the
way the re-raiser had been playing that I was more likely
against JJ or QQ, and drawing slim, or KK or AA and drawing
virtually dead. I folded my AKo. The original all-in showed AT,
hogging one of my potential outs. The re-shover showed KK. The
flop came equipped with a K, AT guy was eliminated, and I lost
nothing but 1 Big Blind.
Hand 3: An easy fold from the SB with QJ. Under a completely
different set of circumstances, I might sometimes considered a
call with that, but there's no need to gamble my tourney life so
early with such a mediocre hand.
Hand 4: Sure I'm on the button and could go for the obligatory
button-steal, but I'm also a player who is cautious of a UTG
(under-the-gun) limper, and in this case, for great reason. As
it played out, since the player UTG opted to limp in with KK, he
allowed the small blind to sneak in for cheap and crack KK on
the flop. Even if a had tried the button steal and the SB
folded, I still would've been locking up a sizeable stack of
chips on a slim-to-no chance versus KK.
Hand 5: Easy fold.
Hand 6: Down to around 10 BBs behind the cutoff with AQ, I
shoved in all my chips and stole the blinds.
Hands 7-12: Just played some good old fashioned Texas Foldem
Poker.
Hand 13: The short-stack in the tournament directly to my right
made his move with KTo, and I made a pretty snap call with AdKd,
figuring even if he had me beat all the way to the river, I
would still have enough chips left in my stack to make one of my
patented amazing comebacks. AdKd held, and we were down to 6
players.
The tournament continued for a couple of trips around the table
while I played a tight game of Fold 'em and the field drop from
6 to 5 to the Final Four players.
Finally I woke up with 44 vs a UTG limper, and checked to see
the flop. The board came K 5 2. I checked, and to my surprise
the limper did, too. At this point I put him on a suited
connector that completely missed the flop. Turn came an 8. I
checked again, considering a call of a reasonable bet, but my
opponent also checked. Another 5 came on the river. I
immediately thought (a) my opponent obviously feels his hand is
weak, and (b) since I was in the big blind and got a free look
all the way to the river, I could easily be holding any hand,
including anything with a 5 in it. Since I felt he was looking
for an excuse to fold, I gave him a reason by throwing out a
bet, and he gratefully folded, winning me a small yet needed
pot.
A few hands later I crippled my stack getting a little excited
over a pair with a weak kicker, and paid off the guy with the
bigger kicker. The next hand, since I was down to around 5 BBs,
I shoved with A4o from the small blind, hoping the big blind
would think it was complete tilt and give me action with any
random hand. He made the call with QJo, and I won back all the
chips I lost on the hand before.
3 hands later came the biggest hand of the game. With 3 players
left, the button folded and I limped in with KJo from the small
blind. The big blind stuck out a raise, and I called. Flop lands
QT4 rainbow. I check my open-ended straight draw with 10K+
sitting in the pot to the raiser. He bets out about 8K. After
some thought, I make the call and catch the nut straight with an
Ace on the turn. I go all in, more than happy to take the 26K
already sitting in the pot, and hoping for a call for a big
double up. My opponent calls and shows AcTc. That's 4 outs for
the bad guy, and I'm doubling up well over 90% of the time and
moving into 2nd place with over 66,000 in chips... unless an Ace
or a 10 falls on the river, but we all know that's not gonna
happen.
10 on the river.
FML and all, but I'm still happy with a deep run and a solid 3rd
place finish. Taking down an ROI over 1,000% is nothing to cry
about, and I'll take every bankroll boost I can get my hands on.
I'll be writing another update here soon on the progress with my
challenge to buy a WSOP Bracelet with $21.02
HTML http://mudsilltomainstreampoker.blogspot.com/2012/12/challenge-to-buy-wsop-bracelet-with-2102.html,<br
/>so stay tuned.
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