Weekend Games
Another pretty good weekend for me results wise apart from Friday. Actually I had no business playing on Friday at all. Firstly I wasn`t in the mood, probably because I was tired and by the time I did start playing I`d had a few glasses of red wine and so wasn`t at my best concentration wise. Throw in the fact I was listening to Rounders Radio and chatting to someone at the same time and we have a recipe for disaster. I probably wouldn`t have played but I`d won entry into the K9 event at Vegas 24/7 and the Rounders freeroll was at Poker Stars where I`ve done pretty well the last two times I`ve played there. Anyway nothing special about either result, a mid field finish at Vegas and top third at Stars. It shows how tired I was at Stars when my aces were cracked and all I thought was good I can go to bed now.
Saturday I felt much more in the mood and first on the agenda was a Rounders freeroll at 3D poker, not my favourite site but I thought it would kill an hour whilst I waited for my 5th Street and TPFC qualifier games to start. I expected to be out at 3D by the time the other games started - I have a poor record there mainly because the blinds are killer. However for once I was doing prety well when both of my other games started.
So three different games on three different sites and me with a 15" monitor. Needless to say things were pretty hectic, so I was concentrating on 3D and 5th Street and just trying to hold my own in the TPFC game. At 3D I get As-Qs in the BB and UTG pushes all-in, it folds round to me. It cost me about 5k to call which left me with about 2,500. I almost layed it down but with blinds at 1k/2k and having already made the money I decided to call. My thoughts were that if I won the hand I had a great shot at winning and if I lost I could concentrate on my other games. Well my opponent had AA and I lost. A few hands later I`m out, immediately after I`m short-stacked at 5th Street with AK in the BB, two limpers so I push my remaining 800 chips in and Margie calls me with 66. The board fails to help me and I`m out of two tourneys in two hands.
On the bright side I`m still in the TPFC game, my stack is in decent shape and the field has thinned a little. We get to the final table and I`m trading the lead with Brad who is on a tequila inspired streak. I`ve enough chips that I can pretty much sit back and wait for the lesser stacks to get wiped out or until I hit a premium hand, which is exactly what I do until there are five of us left. With qualifying taken care of it`s now about finishing top 3 to pick up a little cash and of course winning the tourney. Shaggy the owner of K9 goes on an amazing streak and we`re down to three players with him having gone from short-stack to chip leader in a matter of a few hands. The tequila finally catches up with Brad, not to mention his KK running into AA and all of a sudden I`m heads-up with Shaggy.
We`ve been HU two times before but neither has been a long drawn out battle. On the first occasion the blinds were very high and it was pretty much a case of push with anything decent and hope it holds up. On the second I had so few chips it would have taken a miracle for me to get back into the game. So with the score at one all we finally had the chance for a real match. He had a decent chip lead about 17k to my 6-7k but the blinds were still relatively low and what developed was probably the toughest and best HU I`ve ever played.
The chip lead swung back and forth, everytime one of us seemed ready to finish the other off the right cards would come and the stacks would get back close to even. At one point after having him almost crushed, only to see him double up and pull back almost level I typed in "Just die" only to see his reply "I`m sat here saying the same thing lol". Well in the end I managed to pull it off and take down the win. I`ve got to say it`s a win I`m very proud of. I commented to a friend a while back that I held no fear for facing anyone HU and whilst I was a little nervous at times during this match I never felt overwhelmed.
Sunday night I played the 5th Street Leaderboard game but was denied the win when Ramster hit his king to beat my pocket fours. No complaints really, I limped with 4-4, he raised with Kc-9c (the irony eh)and I re-raised all-in. He had me covered by a little then flopped a four-flush giving him 15 outs twice. Shame though, it`s been a while since I won a 5th Street tourney and I fancied my chances.
Last game of the weekend was an OPT freeroll. It`s the first freeroll of theirs I`ve played and the donkeys were out in force. I spent most of the first hour dodging all-in and folding a lot. Finally managed to triple up with 9-9 and never really looked back from there. Played solid A-B-C poker and ground my way to the final table with only one major piece of luck when my A-K ran into K-K and I turned an ace. Unlucky for the other player but no guilt on my part, I was short-stacked and in the BB there was no way I could lay the hand down. So a solid 8th place to round off the night and the weekend. All-in-all a satisfactory performance.
Saturday I felt much more in the mood and first on the agenda was a Rounders freeroll at 3D poker, not my favourite site but I thought it would kill an hour whilst I waited for my 5th Street and TPFC qualifier games to start. I expected to be out at 3D by the time the other games started - I have a poor record there mainly because the blinds are killer. However for once I was doing prety well when both of my other games started.
So three different games on three different sites and me with a 15" monitor. Needless to say things were pretty hectic, so I was concentrating on 3D and 5th Street and just trying to hold my own in the TPFC game. At 3D I get As-Qs in the BB and UTG pushes all-in, it folds round to me. It cost me about 5k to call which left me with about 2,500. I almost layed it down but with blinds at 1k/2k and having already made the money I decided to call. My thoughts were that if I won the hand I had a great shot at winning and if I lost I could concentrate on my other games. Well my opponent had AA and I lost. A few hands later I`m out, immediately after I`m short-stacked at 5th Street with AK in the BB, two limpers so I push my remaining 800 chips in and Margie calls me with 66. The board fails to help me and I`m out of two tourneys in two hands.
On the bright side I`m still in the TPFC game, my stack is in decent shape and the field has thinned a little. We get to the final table and I`m trading the lead with Brad who is on a tequila inspired streak. I`ve enough chips that I can pretty much sit back and wait for the lesser stacks to get wiped out or until I hit a premium hand, which is exactly what I do until there are five of us left. With qualifying taken care of it`s now about finishing top 3 to pick up a little cash and of course winning the tourney. Shaggy the owner of K9 goes on an amazing streak and we`re down to three players with him having gone from short-stack to chip leader in a matter of a few hands. The tequila finally catches up with Brad, not to mention his KK running into AA and all of a sudden I`m heads-up with Shaggy.
We`ve been HU two times before but neither has been a long drawn out battle. On the first occasion the blinds were very high and it was pretty much a case of push with anything decent and hope it holds up. On the second I had so few chips it would have taken a miracle for me to get back into the game. So with the score at one all we finally had the chance for a real match. He had a decent chip lead about 17k to my 6-7k but the blinds were still relatively low and what developed was probably the toughest and best HU I`ve ever played.
The chip lead swung back and forth, everytime one of us seemed ready to finish the other off the right cards would come and the stacks would get back close to even. At one point after having him almost crushed, only to see him double up and pull back almost level I typed in "Just die" only to see his reply "I`m sat here saying the same thing lol". Well in the end I managed to pull it off and take down the win. I`ve got to say it`s a win I`m very proud of. I commented to a friend a while back that I held no fear for facing anyone HU and whilst I was a little nervous at times during this match I never felt overwhelmed.
Sunday night I played the 5th Street Leaderboard game but was denied the win when Ramster hit his king to beat my pocket fours. No complaints really, I limped with 4-4, he raised with Kc-9c (the irony eh)and I re-raised all-in. He had me covered by a little then flopped a four-flush giving him 15 outs twice. Shame though, it`s been a while since I won a 5th Street tourney and I fancied my chances.
Last game of the weekend was an OPT freeroll. It`s the first freeroll of theirs I`ve played and the donkeys were out in force. I spent most of the first hour dodging all-in and folding a lot. Finally managed to triple up with 9-9 and never really looked back from there. Played solid A-B-C poker and ground my way to the final table with only one major piece of luck when my A-K ran into K-K and I turned an ace. Unlucky for the other player but no guilt on my part, I was short-stacked and in the BB there was no way I could lay the hand down. So a solid 8th place to round off the night and the weekend. All-in-all a satisfactory performance.
posted by DangerMouse at 10:22 AM
1 Comments:
Nice going Mouse!!! Good luck tonight at FSOP, lets win this thing.
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