A Reminder of Why I Stopped Playing Tournaments
I played some poker today -- about 50 hands of $0.5/$1 and 3 tournaments.
I won about $50 in the cash games. For my 2nd hand at one of the tables, a short stack jammed UTG for about $25 with QQ. I had KK and stacked him. I don't remember how I won the rest.
Tourney 1 was a $11 ($13 maybe?) double-shootout satellite to the $1M weekly on stars. I got stacked by getting a ton of chips in on an AK7 flop during the first level holding K7 vs. AT in a limped pot (I was in the BB). It took a bet and 4 raises to get me all in on this flop with blinds of only 10/20 and stacks of 1500. Of course, the turn was an A and I was dead.
I then played a $5+R, also on Stars. I got to about 200 left (1400 or so started), where I moved in on a bunch of limpers from the button with A4o for about 15K (blinds at 600/1200). The last limper insta-called with A7s and I didn't get any help. Sweet.
Finally, I played a $10 freezeout on Stars. I had a massive amount of chips in this one. I was in the top ten for almost the entire tournament until I got busted over the course of 2 hands. In the first, I lost a 20K pot (blinds 300/600) that was all-in preflop with my AA vs. some donkey's KQo. He flopped broadway and I never filled up. I then lost the rest in my next big blind when a big stack min-raised me from the cutoff. I called with 86o, check-raised all-in on the 246 flop, then lost to the big stack's A6. I know I suck for going broke with a pair of 6's, but does he really have to have the A6 there? Why not A7, KT or basically anything else? Oh yes, and I barely missed the money in this one.
Fun stuff. This reminds me of why I stopped liking tournaments -- you have to be playing well AND get really lucky over a fairly prolonged period of time to get anywhere in them.
I'm going to make some burgers and drink some beers.
I won about $50 in the cash games. For my 2nd hand at one of the tables, a short stack jammed UTG for about $25 with QQ. I had KK and stacked him. I don't remember how I won the rest.
Tourney 1 was a $11 ($13 maybe?) double-shootout satellite to the $1M weekly on stars. I got stacked by getting a ton of chips in on an AK7 flop during the first level holding K7 vs. AT in a limped pot (I was in the BB). It took a bet and 4 raises to get me all in on this flop with blinds of only 10/20 and stacks of 1500. Of course, the turn was an A and I was dead.
I then played a $5+R, also on Stars. I got to about 200 left (1400 or so started), where I moved in on a bunch of limpers from the button with A4o for about 15K (blinds at 600/1200). The last limper insta-called with A7s and I didn't get any help. Sweet.
Finally, I played a $10 freezeout on Stars. I had a massive amount of chips in this one. I was in the top ten for almost the entire tournament until I got busted over the course of 2 hands. In the first, I lost a 20K pot (blinds 300/600) that was all-in preflop with my AA vs. some donkey's KQo. He flopped broadway and I never filled up. I then lost the rest in my next big blind when a big stack min-raised me from the cutoff. I called with 86o, check-raised all-in on the 246 flop, then lost to the big stack's A6. I know I suck for going broke with a pair of 6's, but does he really have to have the A6 there? Why not A7, KT or basically anything else? Oh yes, and I barely missed the money in this one.
Fun stuff. This reminds me of why I stopped liking tournaments -- you have to be playing well AND get really lucky over a fairly prolonged period of time to get anywhere in them.
I'm going to make some burgers and drink some beers.
posted by the_real_zano at 7:46 PM
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