Balance and Finishes

Showing posts with label 4th. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 4th. Show all posts

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Tournament #??

Notes:

GenghisKong is the first player I have encountered for a second time in this series

"GenghisKong likes to push all in out of position when I raise, it seems"

Do I need to find a way to play more hands when short stacked? Can't see myself raising 5 sb's, getting 3 callers, and watching over cards hit my flops..from short stack?

Place: 4th

(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Tournament #6

Tournament Number:

Notes:
Sort of a whim. Still want to follow Gordon's advice: never limp as the first to voluntarily enter a hand. Play tight in the beginning.

So I limped first hand but I WAS NOT THE FIRST so I feel ok even though I lost

Gildan calling all the way didn't showdown so i don't know what he had

Peirce betting with nothing (I knew cause i had something :)

Should have bet my set q's

pedro all in (from last place) w/6 4 suited & a 4 on the board

peirce calls w/o hesitation w/ 4 ace suited & flush draw -- wins w/flush and bye bye pedro

peirce makes a good bully

gildan is shaping up to be a calling station -- beware & be

nevermind, called all in w/q a off & lost (kong calls w/kk)

peirce plays out of position & check raises

trying something a little different -- limped (not first!) w/kk

Naturally ace on the board so I bet pot and got all folds.

peirce was REALLY thinking of raising...

man oh man peirce loves to check raise

didn't help with robin's quad 8's

llamarhar all in w/flush draw, lost to a higher flush draw

ha ha i check raised peirce and he folded

I must have some crazy table image nobody will call me



Peirce pushes w/pocket 2's AFTER THE FLOP and glenn calls he's down to 470



glenn pushes w/a high pre and loses to pocket 6's from robin

jess can't read me be careful but be aggressive

genghis likes to push out of position when I raise, it seems

jess bets the flop from sb and folds to my raise from the bb

jess calls all in w/ka suited & beats my ka off flops the flush

I don't think that hurt my table image any, anyway

Just won probably my last pure bluff for this tournament -- at least until I chip up a little

i'm in last place but not that far behind



durrr robin pushes when i raise big pre flop -- 2nd time she's done that to me got to remember

and just like that robin is down to 20 chips after going up against jess who had her dominated

i push with jj from 4th place naturally jess's 10 a holds up on the river

I think pushing was the play there.

3rd & 2nd both fell on the river, too, I observe...not to say that justifies my play, I don't think it really needs justification.


Place: 4th
(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)

Monday, May 17, 2010

Tournament #5

Tournament Number: 161082469

Notes: Feeling ok. A little cramped for time. Keep it slow.

Flyin15sec &ginohouben called twice pre

krebslein raised first time pre flop

both folded

redsox raised 2nd time

gino all in w/flush draw, redsox called with mid pair (pocket q's w/k on board)

mentor poker all in call w/flush draw (3 hearts on board, flyin had it)

whenman plays big w/high pair and loses

whenman not bad doubled up on pocket rockets

flyin pushes with 2 hearts on board, claims it wasn't a flush draw.

truth be told, I don't know what to make of most of these folks. I just play my hands, steal when I think I can, play it straight from the beginning and watch people fall.

whenman, ever in a hurry, pushes with kk and is dominated by krebslein's ka

massagem pushes with rags on the board after i raise him preflop

massagem calls my preflop raise, folds after i bet half my stack on flop. Guy just doesn't care about small bets i guess

remember that for when you have a hand

darkwizard seems to be a bit of a puss -- i will raise when he's in bb unless flyin limps

playing under phil gordon's rules seems to leave me not flying so high but doggone if i'm not doing badly at all. 4th out of 5 and stealing from wizard like a mf

durrrrrr...got into a pissing match with redsox who has like 3x my chips

got into short stack play and finally pushed when i shouldn't have -- didn't intend to call all in but wound up dominated. That was a definite tilt push. Even from short stack there was no reason to call that.

4th place



Place:
(1st = $4.50; 2nd = $2.70; 3rd = $1.80)