Arg, bad beat groan.

Tilter

I think I partially played it wrong, but oh man
I was playing the pokerstars $3+0. 2098 entered, so prize pool was over 6K.

We are down to the final 5 tables.
Payouts as follow:
Final Table - BIG MONEY for me
10-18 $50.36
19-27 $28.33
28-36 $22.03
37-45 $18.89

I had AKo near the button
I have 79K in chips (21st out of the remaining 45 ish)

Blinds 1.5K/3K
UTG raises to 12K, right calls, i call. Flop comes Ks 9s Kh. UTG bets 3k (meaning the person does not have K and is giving up hand). Right raises to 12K, I reraise to 30K (was thinking about raising all 67K, but didn't). Right person calls getting: about 4.75-1 on their money (I think I would have foled in his position, with a tonne of money). Turn is an 8, they go all in (100K) and I call (21K ish or something). They flip 88, and I am burned. Need K A or 9 but get nothing. Its all over, if I had won, I would have had 180K in chips and would have been in 2nd chip position and prime to win a couple hundreds, but tis it is not the day.

Here is the hand for hand of that play. Still steaming!! 1st was 1400, I would have loved to win that!!

*********** # 254 **************
PokerStars Game #648278578: Tournament #2433609, Hold'em No Limit - Level XIII
(1500/3000) - 2004/08/28 - 03:33:58 (ET)
Table '2433609 177' Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Debiloki (109313 in chips)
Seat 2: Fantastic4 (64862 in chips)
Seat 3: faust11 (25535 in chips)
Seat 4: hoppus3313 (66520 in chips)
Seat 5: aarog (225201 in chips)
Seat 6: Tilter (79750 in chips)
Seat 7: Nakika (73203 in chips)
Seat 8: jentshoe (47864 in chips)
Seat 9: cynderblock (44586 in chips)
Debiloki: posts the ante 150
Fantastic4: posts the ante 150
faust11: posts the ante 150
hoppus3313: posts the ante 150
aarog: posts the ante 150
Tilter: posts the ante 150
Nakika: posts the ante 150
jentshoe: posts the ante 150
cynderblock: posts the ante 150
Nakika: posts small blind 1500
jentshoe: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Tilter [Kd Ac]
aarog is connected
cynderblock: raises 9000 to 12000
Debiloki: folds
Fantastic4: folds
faust11: folds
hoppus3313: folds
aarog: calls 12000
Tilter: calls 12000
Nakika: folds
jentshoe: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ks 9s Kh]
cynderblock: bets 3000
aarog: raises 9000 to 12000
hoppus3313 said, "starting this table with a bang huh"
Tilter: raises 18000 to 30000
cynderblock: folds
aarog: calls 18000
*** TURN *** [Ks 9s Kh] [8h]
aarog: bets 183051 and is all-in
Tilter: calls 37600 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [Ks 9s Kh 8h] [Qs]
cynderblock said, "qq here"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
aarog: shows [8c 8d] (a full house, Eights full of Kings)
Tilter: shows [Kd Ac] (three of a kind, Kings)
aarog said, "thanks"
cynderblock said, "****"
aarog collected 180050 from pot
hoppus3313 said, "you are so lucky"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 180050 | Rake 0
Board [Ks 9s Kh 8h Qs]
Seat 1: Debiloki folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Fantastic4 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: faust11 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: hoppus3313 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: aarog showed [8c 8d] and won (180050) with a full house, Eights full of
Kings
Seat 6: Tilter (button) showed [Kd Ac] and lost with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 7: Nakika (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: jentshoe (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: cynderblock folded on the Flop

I say GG and nh, and just stare blankly at the screen. When will it be my time...

DJP

You had the boss hand, pre and post flop. The cards just didn't fall for you after that though. Tough loss. Always classy to say gg/nh when you are beat though. Even when you are steaming. lol There are enough "Phil's" out there already. lol Your time will come though. You won't always fall to Mr. 2 outer. In the long run, that is.

BBC Z

Flop comes Ks 9s Kh. UTG bets 3k (meaning the person does not have K and is giving up hand). Right raises to 12K, I reraise to 30K (was thinking about raising all 67K, but didn't).

Why not push in on the flop? The pots about 50K (when it's your turn to act postflop), you've got 60K in chips which would atleast make the guys reconsider calling with an underpair.. Seems like a good enough size pot that I wouldnt mind just taking it down right there and then.

You didnt really give those guys any indication that you had a real hand. A call preflop followed by a min (re-re)raise probably gave aarog the gut feeling that you didnt have the goods.

Regardless.. The major theme (that I see constantly on the tables) of poor players is thier inability to toss away low pocket pairs when the flop comes overcards. He got lucky which is very sucky

Chugs

tough break ... but i think your impulse to push all the chips in would have been the right one on the flop, once it was raised back to you.

you have the set with top kicker, and at that moment your leading and beating ever pocket hand except KK or K9 ... push them in.

alex_844

actually the only hand that could beat you on the flop is K9, i say all-in, you would have made it a really really tough decision for the guy and you were willing to push later anyways. pre flop i think your play was good, gotta be wary of a big pocket. always tough to lose when you're a 93% favourite! ( i looked it up )

Tilter

yeah, I checked it up too. in hinesight, I should have pushed it all in. The problem was, I was thinking either to SLOWPLAY it (call 12K) or go all in. But when I was deciding, I kept hearing all these beeps, so I was unsure and in the end, I raised only to 30K (was thinking about a 40K raise or all in). Oh well. I try again.