A Tiny Tourney Win
Today I went golfing then meet up with some people for drinks during the evening. When I got home I decided to get pokered out and play a few tournaments. Here's how these went.
1) $10+1 PLO8 on pokespoker. This had 38 people in it and I won it for $152. Yeeee-haw! I don't even know how to play this game, but the way these people were playing couldn't have been right. They were doing stuff like calling all-in checkraises with top pair, or calling pot bets on the turn drawing to the 2nd nuts on one side with nothing on the other side. Bad. I abused these suckas when we were shorthanded by doing a ton of raising and check/raising (admittedly I was probably running pretty hot and catching a bunch of hands). I don't even really remember how I won. My heads up opponent potted the river and I had the nut low with two crappy pair on the high and I scooped.
2) $20+2 Stud8 on Stars. This had 135 people and I ended up getting 90th or so. The big hand I lost was where I hit trip Ts with the (TT)9T on 4th street (limped pot and I was to the right of the bring in), bet the whole way, then got beat by a keenly played pair of aces who hit trips on 7th street.
3) $10+R NLH on Stars. This had 500 people or so and I finished something like 70th, which was out of the money. I was pretty medium stacked the whole time. Then I doubled up with 5d7d vs. KcJc on a 3d5sKd flop. The guy open-limped preflop then called a c/r for most of his stack on the flop then complained about receiving a "bad beat." So apparently losing when you're a 49/51 dog is a bad beat now. I later got all my chips in with 9h9c vs. 8d7d on a 6s7h8h flop, where I took an "extremely bad beat" by losing as a 51/49 favorite. If I won this flip I woulda been in the top few in chips with about 70 left, but it wasn't meant to be.
Finally I played a few hands of 1/2 while I was finishing up the last tourney and lost about $45. Nothing interesting here -- most of it was lost when I flopped an A with ATo, bet the whole way, then folded to a river raise on a fairly dry board.
1) $10+1 PLO8 on pokespoker. This had 38 people in it and I won it for $152. Yeeee-haw! I don't even know how to play this game, but the way these people were playing couldn't have been right. They were doing stuff like calling all-in checkraises with top pair, or calling pot bets on the turn drawing to the 2nd nuts on one side with nothing on the other side. Bad. I abused these suckas when we were shorthanded by doing a ton of raising and check/raising (admittedly I was probably running pretty hot and catching a bunch of hands). I don't even really remember how I won. My heads up opponent potted the river and I had the nut low with two crappy pair on the high and I scooped.
2) $20+2 Stud8 on Stars. This had 135 people and I ended up getting 90th or so. The big hand I lost was where I hit trip Ts with the (TT)9T on 4th street (limped pot and I was to the right of the bring in), bet the whole way, then got beat by a keenly played pair of aces who hit trips on 7th street.
3) $10+R NLH on Stars. This had 500 people or so and I finished something like 70th, which was out of the money. I was pretty medium stacked the whole time. Then I doubled up with 5d7d vs. KcJc on a 3d5sKd flop. The guy open-limped preflop then called a c/r for most of his stack on the flop then complained about receiving a "bad beat." So apparently losing when you're a 49/51 dog is a bad beat now. I later got all my chips in with 9h9c vs. 8d7d on a 6s7h8h flop, where I took an "extremely bad beat" by losing as a 51/49 favorite. If I won this flip I woulda been in the top few in chips with about 70 left, but it wasn't meant to be.
Finally I played a few hands of 1/2 while I was finishing up the last tourney and lost about $45. Nothing interesting here -- most of it was lost when I flopped an A with ATo, bet the whole way, then folded to a river raise on a fairly dry board.
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