So I decided to play one of my favorite shootouts. This plan was short circuited by the wait for another one to start. I was impatient (not a good trait playing poker), so I decided to play the turbo version of the shootout. Given the 5 minute blinds, I figure I should try to at least attempt to limp into just about any hands - I needed all the lucky flops I could get. This actually worked pretty well, but alas, not well enough. I went out around 30 something again, so this is not the part where I got lucky.
I still wanted to play something different, so I figured I would try a $20+2 single table SnG. This is above my normal SnGs where I play at the $5 or $10 games. This game seemed to be going pretty well until this hand came up:
Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t10/t20
9 players
Stack sizes:
UTG: t1400
UTG+1: t1400
MP1: t2040
MP2: t2280
MP3: t940
CO: t1580
Button: t1430
darval: t1490
BB: t940
Pre-flop: (9 players) darval is SB with Qc Qd
UTG raises to t60, 4 folds, CO calls t60 (pot was t90), Button calls t60 (pot was t150), darval raises to t190, BB calls t180 (pot was t390), 2 folds, Button calls t140 (pot was t570).
Flop: 5s 6c 4s (t690, 3 players)
darval bets t500, BB folds, Button calls t500 (pot was t1190).
Turn: 7c (t1690, 2 players)
darval is all-in t790, Button calls all-in t730.
Uncalled bets: t60 returned to darval.
River: Ac (t3150, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: t3150)
Results:
Final pot: t3150
darval showed Qc Qd
Button showed 3d 3s
Well that sucked. Here I am, 12 hands in and down to t60 after a stupid all-in bet. I didn't figure the guy for a 8 or a 3 and obviously I was way wrong. I took the approach that this was just a new challenge (albeit a potentially short one) and tried to see how far I could get with my 60 chips.
Now I got lucky. And lucky and lucky again. Then when there was no luck left I started to play smarter and kept going. Once again, luck had a role, but 50 minutes later, I got this in my email:
PokerStars Tournament #24536393, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $20.00/$2.00
9 players
Total Prize Pool: $180.00
Tournament started - 2006/05/10 - 23:21:52 (ET)
Dear darval,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $90.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
Now that was a nice way to end the night. ;-)
3 comments:
Thanks for playing last night and great job in the SNG. I will probably be playing tonight, so see you at the tourney.
That's a great feeling, isn't it? I came back from 40 chips to win a one-table SNG once and it was fabulous.
Congratulations on that and on the NOT finish.
Thanks. I always tell the table I am at that I like the challenge when I screw up and get severely short stacked after a stupid play. This is the first time I have managed to recover after getting that low tho.
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