Finally!
Well I`ve just finished playing the K9 International Tour buy-in at GNUF Poker. This tour has been my personal nemesis, I`ve rarely managed a decent finish and I`ve certainly never even come close to winning one. Well today we had only four players, a better chance was unlikely to arise and if I could win I`d not only claim my seat in the finals but I`d take my tally of wins to five and claim the coveted shark award on the K9 wall.
When the game started we actually only had three active players, two I would classify as tight aggressive and me. I decided straight away to try and take control of the table and loosened up my play massively. As both players know me very well this tactic worked a treat and I was building my stack nicely until the fourth player finally sat down. This immediately changed the momentum considerably as I`d consider him a loose aggressive player. The chip stacks leveled out at one point but I finally managed to gain a considerable lead and was playing my big stack aggressively, from the button I raised with K-8 and British pushed back all-in, it was too cheap to lay down so I called and was pleasantly surprised to see his hand J-9. Unfortunately the board hit him hard and he doubled up. A pretty awful play as far as I was concerned, whilst as he said I was bullying his hand wasn`t a great choice to make a stand with.
To say I was annoyed would be an understatement but it didn`t tilt me it just fired up my determination all the more to win the game. By the time the two of us were heads-up he had a slight chip lead but during the break I gave myself a stiff talking to and decided that against such an aggressive player my best shot was to wait to hit a flop hard and trap and the tactic payed off perfectly. With 9-10 suited I put in a small raise from the SB, he re-raised and I called. The flop came x-9-10 and I checked hoping he would fire out a bet. Fire he did with an all-in raise, my call was instantaneous and he turned over QQ. Turn and river brought him no help and 2 hands later I`d wiped out his remaing few hundred chips.
This was one of those wins that I really felt I deserved. I had a definite strategy at every point of the game, I took the pots that no-one wanted, I stole blinds and I avoided falling into any big traps. The mistakes I did make were very small, all-in-all a very satisfying game.
When the game started we actually only had three active players, two I would classify as tight aggressive and me. I decided straight away to try and take control of the table and loosened up my play massively. As both players know me very well this tactic worked a treat and I was building my stack nicely until the fourth player finally sat down. This immediately changed the momentum considerably as I`d consider him a loose aggressive player. The chip stacks leveled out at one point but I finally managed to gain a considerable lead and was playing my big stack aggressively, from the button I raised with K-8 and British pushed back all-in, it was too cheap to lay down so I called and was pleasantly surprised to see his hand J-9. Unfortunately the board hit him hard and he doubled up. A pretty awful play as far as I was concerned, whilst as he said I was bullying his hand wasn`t a great choice to make a stand with.
To say I was annoyed would be an understatement but it didn`t tilt me it just fired up my determination all the more to win the game. By the time the two of us were heads-up he had a slight chip lead but during the break I gave myself a stiff talking to and decided that against such an aggressive player my best shot was to wait to hit a flop hard and trap and the tactic payed off perfectly. With 9-10 suited I put in a small raise from the SB, he re-raised and I called. The flop came x-9-10 and I checked hoping he would fire out a bet. Fire he did with an all-in raise, my call was instantaneous and he turned over QQ. Turn and river brought him no help and 2 hands later I`d wiped out his remaing few hundred chips.
This was one of those wins that I really felt I deserved. I had a definite strategy at every point of the game, I took the pots that no-one wanted, I stole blinds and I avoided falling into any big traps. The mistakes I did make were very small, all-in-all a very satisfying game.
posted by DangerMouse at 10:35 PM
1 Comments:
Nice win Mouse, I always forget to check the international results.
The Mouse is officially a "shark".
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