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This post is a little late. Partly because I was too lazy to write it up at the time. And partly because as I write I have no internet connection. I woke up on Sunday and spent quite some time trying to log onto the wireless connection I`ve been using and finally found out that it had been locked. Bad timing for me but it has forced me to get reconnected which is a good thing.
Anyway enough of my internet problems and onto the poker. I played the Poker.com Affiliates tourney and found myself at a table with only one other player who was active. I had ood position on him that allowed me to claim the majority of the free blinds until I was moved. I would have rather had several active players because I hit a large number of excellent hands and only picked up the blinds with most of them. Once I moved tables the decent cards pretty much dried up and I was unable to advance my stack. Nonetheless I made it to the final table and played solid tight aggressive poker and watched as players fell to the wayside. I`d managed to win a few pots and I think we were down to 6 players when from UTG+1 I found myself with AA. The question was how was I going to get some value from the hand? I decided to bet about half my stack and hope someone would take the bait. My hopes and expectations were realised when the next player pushed over the top of me. Great I thought, I should double up with any luck. What I wasn`t expecting was for another player to also push all-in. I called and to go with my AA the first player had KK, and the second had AK. No unpleasant surprises hit the board and I tripled up and took the chip lead. After that we were down to the final three pretty quickly and things were looking very good for me. Unfortunately I bled off my lead trying to take one of the short-stacks out. A-2 vs his K-2 and of course he hit a set of kings to get back into the game. After that we ended up with the three of us pretty evenly stacked. I made it to HU still pretty much even but I wasn`t able to close the deal and ended up taking 2nd place. Disappointing not to take the win but it was an enjoyable game and I played very well on the final two tables.
Friday was the Poker.com Forum League game and it was scheduled for FL Om8b. One of my favourite games at the moment and I was really looking forward to it, as were quite a few other players. Unfortunately they`d cocked up the tournament and it was several hands in before we realised it was standard FL Omaha. I`m not used to playing omaha as a FL game and being annoyed about the mistake I openly said that no one had better bluff me because I really didn`t care too much if I lost. Wether it was that statement or the play it inspired me to I found myself on the final table and ended up HU against Mad4Cards. The lead went back and forth before Mad looked like she was going to steamroller me. I managed to claw it back though and looked on the verge of getting even or even slightly in front when I got my money in ahead on the flop with an over pair and the nut flush draw. Unfortunately she hit runner-runner for a flush and sent me to the rail in 2nd place. Good points for the team but another disappointing 2nd.
My final game report comes from my debut game against some of my old K9 mates. Drader has started his own forum - Hammer`s Hangout and they had a small buy-in at FullTilt. It was omaha but annoyingly it had been set up as NL. My early hands were terrible and the NL format wasn`t helping matters. Fortunately the highly aggressive player managed to get himself eliminated and things settled down a little. There were only four players left after that and one of those was sitting out due to a power loss. Lightning36 went out 4th and in effect I was HU with Philman. I continued to play fairly tight until Drader`s chips had been wiped out and then tried to make an impression on Philman`s impressive stack. I was outchipped by almost 4-1 but I held my nerve, hit a couple of hands and steadily accumulated a few chips. Then just before the break I hit a big hand and managed to reverse the situation so that I had the 4-1 advantage. I was determined that I wasn`t going to let him back into the game and applied pressure for a few hands before calling his all-in and ending the match by hitting my flush draw. A very modest win but one I was pleased with given the chip deficit I`d started the HU with.
Anyway enough of my internet problems and onto the poker. I played the Poker.com Affiliates tourney and found myself at a table with only one other player who was active. I had ood position on him that allowed me to claim the majority of the free blinds until I was moved. I would have rather had several active players because I hit a large number of excellent hands and only picked up the blinds with most of them. Once I moved tables the decent cards pretty much dried up and I was unable to advance my stack. Nonetheless I made it to the final table and played solid tight aggressive poker and watched as players fell to the wayside. I`d managed to win a few pots and I think we were down to 6 players when from UTG+1 I found myself with AA. The question was how was I going to get some value from the hand? I decided to bet about half my stack and hope someone would take the bait. My hopes and expectations were realised when the next player pushed over the top of me. Great I thought, I should double up with any luck. What I wasn`t expecting was for another player to also push all-in. I called and to go with my AA the first player had KK, and the second had AK. No unpleasant surprises hit the board and I tripled up and took the chip lead. After that we were down to the final three pretty quickly and things were looking very good for me. Unfortunately I bled off my lead trying to take one of the short-stacks out. A-2 vs his K-2 and of course he hit a set of kings to get back into the game. After that we ended up with the three of us pretty evenly stacked. I made it to HU still pretty much even but I wasn`t able to close the deal and ended up taking 2nd place. Disappointing not to take the win but it was an enjoyable game and I played very well on the final two tables.
Friday was the Poker.com Forum League game and it was scheduled for FL Om8b. One of my favourite games at the moment and I was really looking forward to it, as were quite a few other players. Unfortunately they`d cocked up the tournament and it was several hands in before we realised it was standard FL Omaha. I`m not used to playing omaha as a FL game and being annoyed about the mistake I openly said that no one had better bluff me because I really didn`t care too much if I lost. Wether it was that statement or the play it inspired me to I found myself on the final table and ended up HU against Mad4Cards. The lead went back and forth before Mad looked like she was going to steamroller me. I managed to claw it back though and looked on the verge of getting even or even slightly in front when I got my money in ahead on the flop with an over pair and the nut flush draw. Unfortunately she hit runner-runner for a flush and sent me to the rail in 2nd place. Good points for the team but another disappointing 2nd.
My final game report comes from my debut game against some of my old K9 mates. Drader has started his own forum - Hammer`s Hangout and they had a small buy-in at FullTilt. It was omaha but annoyingly it had been set up as NL. My early hands were terrible and the NL format wasn`t helping matters. Fortunately the highly aggressive player managed to get himself eliminated and things settled down a little. There were only four players left after that and one of those was sitting out due to a power loss. Lightning36 went out 4th and in effect I was HU with Philman. I continued to play fairly tight until Drader`s chips had been wiped out and then tried to make an impression on Philman`s impressive stack. I was outchipped by almost 4-1 but I held my nerve, hit a couple of hands and steadily accumulated a few chips. Then just before the break I hit a big hand and managed to reverse the situation so that I had the 4-1 advantage. I was determined that I wasn`t going to let him back into the game and applied pressure for a few hands before calling his all-in and ending the match by hitting my flush draw. A very modest win but one I was pleased with given the chip deficit I`d started the HU with.
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