a few bad beats, rereading to calm down

ive been taking a few beats lately and havent really had much to blog about so i thought id throw an old tournament report on. enjoy.


i played a live tournament tonight 70+15, 15 payed rake, pizza, and drinks. its run pretty well.

everyone stars off with 5k, tyop 5 pay out, 40 entered.


ok so i start off playing well, one guy i recoginzed from a long time ago. andyway he raised and i reraised with q10, he mucked and asked me to show so i did. he was al il disgruntled about that, but it wasnt many chips.

well never next hand i flop trips and get paid off probably because of it, now i got about 8500. a lot of boring hands, juss bluffs for small pots. and then i caught some guy bluffing me. then bluffed him back, then value bet him later, then finally took him out. i really had a field day with that player.

anyway most stuff was boring till the final table, my hands were just holding up which was really helpful. so we sit down at final table, ive got about 35k chip leader has around 50. my friend i recognized also made the final table.and one early hand. one limp, chip leader makes it 4500 to go. blinds 500/1000. my friend had about 30,000, which was pretty solid. anyway he looked at his cards, took a while to think, and said. "i think i picked up another read on you, ok im all in" to me this just stank aces. the chip leader immediatly calls and flips KQ, and as for my friend, i was right he had aces. so now ive got his tell.


eventually we get down to 4 players. im chip leader. now we got my friend , some nice guy who always wants to get in as a statistcal favorite, and a quiet guy with about 55,000 chips.


i needed information on the quiet guy, i wanted to figure out what kind of person he really was. so i teased him a bit. "why do you keep babblin on and on? cant u shut up for like 2 minutes?"


im looking for one of two things here

he laughs and has a good time with it= a nice guy, trying to have a good time, very easy to steal his blinds cuz he just likes sticking around and seeing flops.

or

he gets brash, might say something rude to me, might put a bounty on my head just for pride- this means hes going to be willing to put expected value out of the way to try and take me down a peg.


now these are both sterotypes but ive found them to be true to a great extent.

anyway, he laughed, he had a good time with it. bingo! so i start robbing his blinds, everytime he limps i jus pop ti n he mucks.

so i bluffed my other friend about 3 or 4 times, and finally i was dealt KQ, i raised he called, the flop was

882
i bet 5k, yhe moved all in for about 40k, i mucked, he showed 44. now ive got him. hes pushing based on how comfortable he is with his hand, not thinking about chip stacks. so here is the turning point


me-65k
him-45k

2k-4k blinds.

i get dealt 99 on the button
i make it 8 to go jus thinking ill get the shortstack in cuz he only had about 12. to my surprise my friend moves all in for 45k. i take a long time thinking about it, if he had AK AQ, hed consider more options, if he had AA KK QQ JJ, hed be talking me into a call like ive seen him do many times before. i get the feeling, hes comfortable, but only because he thinks im mucking cuz i was on a steal



"i call, im not sure man i was puttin you on sevens"

he flips exactly sevens. the room goes nuts. i win the hand take a monster chip lead, and win the tournament, $1,100

it was a lot of fun and really well set up




thanks for reading