Freeroll Saturday

[Jezza]

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Jez

[GotaFancy?]

Out in 1073rd - never really got going and started getting bored.....

I see you're up to almost 6000 - good one.......

EDIT - you just won a hand - 6285

[Jezza]

UL mate...yep cheers are you observing the table?


Jez

[GotaFancy?]

Not really observing - I have it open and am looking from time to time.....

[GotaFancy?]

Jezza - looking good on 40k chips with 107 players left

Just for the record - as well as your all in AK straight that beat KK, I did see your all in A6s flush that beat QQ earlier

Have you played this before? With first cash prize (50th place - $50) getting a very decent sum (compared to 51st) - the tables get ridiculously tight - so with the stack you've got, you'll get some good opportunities

Anyway - I'm shattered - off to bed - post here how you do and I'll check in the morning (I expect to see you $1000 richer!!!)

Good Luck

[GotaFancy?]

Wow - nice 1 - QQ88 took out AKs - upto over 70K!!!

[GotaFancy?]

lol - this is hilarious m8 - you went there to have a laff - you're certainly doing that!!!!

I wanna go to bed - but I can't leave - it's riviting.........

Chip leader now.......

[Jezza]

lol check out all the time bank stallers mate

[GotaFancy?]

Yea - they're after their $50.... you've got 166K chips - 2nd is on 109K.....

[GotaFancy?]

Ok - You're on break - Great going - good luck - I really am going to bed - g'nite!!

[Jezza]

Yeah the Q8 hand which basically started off my mountain of chips..

I was doing pretty well, up to 40k in chips when it was my big blind. Someone in quite early pos raised it from 2k to 5.5k to go. He had about 38k behind him and the two of us were the biggest stacks at the table. It got folded around and I decided to defend my BB with the.>>>>>>&>>>>

Now this is not a hand sklansky would tell you to consider playing nor is it ever a hand I would call a raise with on a cash table but I decided to play it for a few reasons.

Firstly the guy has a lot of chips as do I - I play MTTs to win and possibly this is a chance to win a huge pot and propel me to the chip lead. Secondly although many good players make tiny raises with AA and KK trying to entice people into pots this guy has been not that good, I think he probably has two high cards at best (AQ is of course the hand I am most worried about) and if I do catch a flop I fancy my chances of winning a monster off him.

So I call and the flop comes....

<<<<<&<<<< ]]]]]]]]]] %%%%%%%%

This is a good flop for me. If he had two high cards as I thought I 100% have him now. Of course he could have a pocket pair, there is a fair (maybe 30%) chance that he does but I am going to go through with with my hand now. If he does have I will just take a gamble and try and outdraw him for a mountain of chips but I plan to put the pressure on and hope he folds.

I decide to go for a check-raise, its a bit of a risk but he will probably bite. I check he bets 7000 and I go all in for the 40 odd.

Now he has like I say the second biggest stack at the table and can easily get away here with dignity intact and in all honesty I would prefer him to fold however he CALLS ( I am perturbed at this and sigh thinking I must be behind but still I have a chance of course)...he turns over

££&££ &&&&&

WOAH I never expected him to call for all his chips with that! It is what we put him on but he is taking a big risk here.....nevertheless I go into a 76k pot as a big favourite

Turn....

$$$&$$



River...........

~#



Jez

(I have got pretty lucky in two hands since, I'll write them up later)

[Jezza]

Ended up 17/2500....60 dollars for my efforts

Party poker seems to go hand for hand in MTTs far more than it needs to, not only that the tournament clock is not stopped during the time tables are stalled. This means the blinds get to a ridiculous stage compared to the average stack. I lost most hands I played after the bubble broke, and then very quickly the average stack was 90k with the big blind 15k. Technically this means most people are short stacks and the action is very forced. I still had 100k however when I got JJ on the big blind, reraised a mid pos raiser all in and he called with AA That was me gone

Jez

[Jezza]

The hands I got lucky in....

With blinds at 300/600 I raised my stack of 4990 all in with A6s at the cut off. I was called by the button with QQ and I flushed him on the river

A guy raised UTG in another hand and I reraised him all in with AK.....he called with KK and I hit a straight (AKQJ10)....

Jez

[Jezza]

Oh yeah and a small pot by this time but nonetheless amusing......


Folded round to me in the small blind, I have 120k chips and just flat call with
!&!!!! -.-.-,

The big blind has about 20k and he checks, 4k in the pot preflop.

Flop :

<>? ££&££ ''''''''''

Not bad for me at all, I consider betting but instead decide to go for a check-raise. The BB is a bit of a mouthy **** who thinks he is the macdaddy and surely he will step up to the buffet if I check.

I check and straight off the BB goes all in for 20k!

Woah I think....calling an all in is very different to raising all in (which is what I had planned) so I took a step back to think a second.

The BB had about 10 big blinds left and there was just the two of us preflop. I really think if he had an ace he would have raised me preflop, infact I am sure of it. Normally this sort of bet would scream DRAW to me however there is no draw on this board apart from ridiculous inside straight draws (which he would have had cards he would have raised me preflop with to have). I can only guess that he doesnt really want called with this bet (I mean if he had slowplayed AA and hit top set with me checking to him he is hardly going all in is he?) and I must put him on a 7. I am a little worried he has a better king than me but I feel its 70% 7 20% king 10% Ace. After thinking this through I call his 20k all in bet cold, he turns over

[}} ££££££££££

OOPS....this time I have got my read wrong fair play to him. Nevertheless it is only about 1/6 of my stack and I could still outdraw him I suppose.

Turn :

$$$&$$



River :

]]]]]]]]]]



He goes out to my outdraw.

Cue a chat box explosion on how bad I am and how terrible a call it was . I tell him to stop whining and 20k is nothing to me anyway.....cue more frenzied explosive typing from mr mouth. I considering typing in the old rhyming classic "ace deuce.....no use" into the chat box but decide for the sake of any pets he might have to refrain.

Jez

[friskyfitz]

Originally Posted by Jezza

box but decide for the sake of any pets he might have to refrain.

Jez

[GotaFancy?]

Only 17th (out of 2500) m8? I'm disappointed in you ;<}

You had some great hands there!!! Still - I've been playing this quite a lot and have never got above 19th........

Just seen a post from you on another thread - have you been to bed yet? No wonder you slept in for the 7pm PL Freeroll.......

[dave]

Couldn't get on PL for most of yesterday, so couldn't post my progress (which is a good thing in most of these) but managed a 6th place out of 1000 in Betfred's $750 freeroll, earning a huge $20

I was actually confident of winning and had been 2nd for all of the final table until I got a phone call + once I got back to the table I'd lost focus and played myself out.