Saturday, April 21, 2007

Tournament report

Last night i went to the big boy for the 70+15+(15 bounty). I think 25 people entered and I ended up getting 2nd. First off let me explain the bounty; If you buy a bounty chip worth $15, every player you knock out holding a bounty chip becomes your bounty chip. When you make it down to 9 the bounty chips are collected and are worth 15 dollars each. Ok now to the action, I drew the 7 seat, but more importantly i was behind one of the guys from the tournament who gives me trouble, i wanted him gone before the blinds grew because he doesnt let me pick on the table while everyone else just lets me be a bully.

first hand, blinds $25-$50 everyone has $5,000 my friend who well will call Mike, limps along with another player. i look down and As Ad first hand? you kiddin? ok. 2 limps i make it 300 to go trying to isolate or hopefully get someone to reraise. the button ended up calling and mike and the other limper did as well.

flop

10s 4s3d


pretty safe flop it would be very hard for someone to call 300 preflop and flop 2 pair right here. Mike comes out firing 800 one player folds, up to me, now i know mike knows i like to be a bully so if i put in a raise here with some fold equity he might come over the top. i make it $3,000, button folds, he moves in, checkmate. he flipped over a flush draw, and my aces held. doubling me up but maybe more importantly getting rid of the problem that is mike early.


i built to nearly $13,000 within half an hour and decided to just play ABC poker. the blinds were small and i wanted to have a nice tight table image.


now i knocked out 2 players early winning their bounty chips, some player with a big stack came and sat on my left and he had 3 bounty chips as well. i watched a hand he played. ill pick up the action from the point the board read


3d 3s10h6h


some player moved all in for $3,900

he took only about 15 seconds and put in a call.

the player all in had
Ac 3c


the caller with the big stack had AsKs


the big stack starts flipping out, after someone said nice hand he muttered donkey fuckin play. this is music to my ears. i know hes on tilt, and hes a weak weak player. the action preflop was
Ac 3c and AsKs called. and AsKs just kept calling down.



The blinds rose to 200-400 and i was raising every hand folded to me. they just would fold every time, they are pretty easy to pick on. i have about $17,000

im in the big bling, UTG goes all in for $2,400 he used to be the big stack and he still has those

3 bountys. folded to me i look down at
Ks 10c. i consider my options, nothing horrible will happen if i lose this hand, but if i win ill get his $45 in bounty chips. i call he flips

AhQd


flop comes out


10d Kc6h


turn

Js

river


10h



hehe. ill take em however i can get em.


eventually the blinds raised to 300 and 600 which was jus party time for me. i raised every pot from every position. i soon let people know there was no more limping. the entire table limped my sb one hand and i looked down at


5h 8s



im all in. everyone folds. the dealer looked at my cards and kind of screwed me saying "you all just got punked"


didn't really need that. i dont want anyone to try to be a hero against me.



The final table was nuts, after i turned in my 7 bounty chips we started 9 handed. quickly moved to 5 handed. where somone was down to 1 $500
chip. he doubled/tripled up 6 hands in a row to be come the new chip leader. then lost a big pot. then later i was dealt

7d7s

and moved in for about $26,000


guy who had $500 now has $18,000

and calls, everyone else folds and im glad to hear him say "i need
some help dealer" and flip

7h 6h




knocked him out and we became 4 handed when 3 cash. another weak player was knocked out were ITM. with the blinds $3000/$6000. the button with about 14k moves in and i have
10d10s


he flips
Qs Js


and i win the flip. we are now HU


I have about 63k he has about 57k


first hand he makes it 12 to go and i look at


2d 2s


and move in. he thinks for a while and calls with
10s8s

he wins the flip. im short stacked. i actually get my stack up to about 35k then move all in again with
2d 2s this time i lose a race to JsKh and was knocked out of the tournament. all in all a fun tournament that i look forward to playing again next week if i do not go to CHUMASS.


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