Edmonton Trip Report (LONG)
Start the 7 card stud at table 1. Very good table as one maniac keeps rebuying and rebuying basically chips everyone up. One very good player 2 to my left. One fish in seat 7 plays draws to river everytime. Do well in the beginning taking two rebuys and add on and am well over the chip average. Play fairly tight get paid off on one made full house on 6th by a straight and the maniacs AAs up. Get outplayed I think on one hand by good player 2 to my left when I raise her bring in with split Kings. She calls. 4th street brings an Ace for her, she checks and I check. Fifth street she pairs her 2 and bets I fold. I played the hand weak but may have still been correct. My two KKs were still live but all my othe 3 cards had one allready out. Maniac and fish eventually get nocked out. Antes are killing me and I am catching nothing but trash making me think I really should have played those Kings.. Three players that replace players on are table are very tough players with big stacks. I go broke when I raise the bring in 3 with my 3 showing he reraises me and I reraise all in with AJ in the hole. He has 3 random cards 3,8 Ten I think but makes two pair and im gone in about 50th spot. 3 of these players at this table make the final table and guy that knocked me out wins the tourrny. (at least I got knocked out by the best)
Day 2
Get at a good table again with not much raising preflop many multiway pots early on. Many pots 7 or 8 way myself being one of the tightest players at the table. I think with this many callers any A2 is playable from any position, but play A 3 only if suited or from late position. Play a couple speculative hands form late positoions. Get mixed up in a hand from early postion with AKKQ when flop came AQ4. I bet couple fold, raise , call. I call. Turn is Q. I bet, Raise, call, I reraise, Cap, call call. River is a low card, and I know me and raiser are getting quarter but he doesn't figure it out and cost us money when callers low gets 1/2 off the pot and our AAAQQ gets a 1/4. I have just over 12000 at the 2nd break and am in decent postion. Next two hours I dont recall winning a pot. My stack gets worked down to 2100. I survive an all in on my big blind when my 2 5 makes a low for half the pot. I tripple up on another hand when I make a flush gives me a little breathing room. Down to four tables I get a good rush of cards at the right times and build my stack up to 40000. Most hands are played heads up now and actually possible to steal blinds. We get down too two tables and near the bubble. I have over 80000 in chipps 2nd largest stack at the table. Big stack is playing very aggressive. Blinds are huge relative to chip stacks..Blinds move up againg to the 5000-10000 level. Couple of players fold including big aggresive stack. I fing A35T suited Ace. I make it 20000 hoping to steal the blinds or play the hands all in against a small stack. To my surprise the 3rd largest stack cold calls from late postion. Both blinds fold.Flop brings Ks Qs 3c. I bet again 10000 hoping to take it down. But if he calls i still have nut spade draw. Turn is kh. I check. He bets 16500 all in. This player I do now and is a very touigh touny player. 91500 in the pot. I may be drawing dead to the house. Is he capable of betting a busted low " I think it is possible but dont think so" If I call I will have about 35000 left if I lose and give a very tough player a big stack. I think for a long time and the only hand that he can have that makes any sense to me is A23x. giving me a tie so far for high with a freeroll for spades. anything better I think he reraises me on the flop. AA I think he raises preflop or folds. Another holding he could have is A2Kx. I do notice that when I am counting down my chips that my hand is shaking (note to self work on that). I take a long time in deciding and feal that if I can call his all in bet I should of made the bet in the first place and maybe get some fold equity. For some unknown reason I call and he shows his hand of A 4 6 8 i beleive it was. Absolutely nothing 7 outs in the deck for him. A 3 hits the river and I take in a 107000 pot and bust him out. Not totally happy with my play as I made one and possibly 3 mistakes on the hand but I think he played the hand worse than I did with his only correct move being the turn bluff which almost worked. From then on it was clear sailing into the money and on to the final table. The big stack was relentless in his raising and basically ran over the table. I stayed out of most pots he was in and occasionly played marginal hands against all ins. Got lucky a few times but got beat a few times. Ended up 3 handed with me being the short stack. 2nd chip postion kept going to war with large stack on each of his blinds and eventually busted out giving me 2nd. I had virtually no chips with blinds at 20000-40000 and less than 80000 in my stack I just went all in every hand and he busted me 2 hands later. All in all a great tourny and a lucky break for a change on the bubble. Most players said they would not have called his bet there and wondered how I did it. I am not sure to this day why I did but just happy I did. (90% of the time I do fold there I think)
Day 3
Bad play combined with bad cards and I am out early in 191st spot. 2 pair get run down twice. TPTK never holds up once. Get one pocket pair the whole tourny TT and is the one hand that holds up. I was at a good table with couple loose players but just couldnt hit a hand and they could...
Day 4
NL event and possibly my worst game as u will soon see. Not much exciting first 3 or 4 laps mostly fold play a couple suited connectors but nothing happens. Get moved to a table which has allready busted 2 players. Very loose player 3 seats to my left. I know if i am patient and get a good hand he will pay me off or bust me. Not much happens to me up to the supper break down a couple 1000. After supper I get a Askd in late positon. Blinds are 100 - 200 and UTG has limped. I make it 600. Loose player in Big blind calls and UTG calls the 200. Flop is 4s 9s Ts. Big blind checks, UTG checks, and I check. I think I want a free card, and cant really stand a big reraise. Turn card is Qd. Big blind checks UTG bets 1500. I think he probably hit a Q and will fold to a large raise. I still have aboout 4600 left and raise all in with the nut spade draw and gut shot broadway draw. He calls quickly and turns over kJ of hearts and no help for me and I am gone. Very poorly played on my part on the flop and turn and prove to myself how much more I have to learn about no limit.
All in all a great time, met some new people and talked a lot of poker, played a lot of poker, felt i didnt play my A game this weekend but poker gods still smiled on me for a change. Hope to see U all in Regina if work lets me get away that weekend.
HUBBLE
Day 2
Get at a good table again with not much raising preflop many multiway pots early on. Many pots 7 or 8 way myself being one of the tightest players at the table. I think with this many callers any A2 is playable from any position, but play A 3 only if suited or from late position. Play a couple speculative hands form late positoions. Get mixed up in a hand from early postion with AKKQ when flop came AQ4. I bet couple fold, raise , call. I call. Turn is Q. I bet, Raise, call, I reraise, Cap, call call. River is a low card, and I know me and raiser are getting quarter but he doesn't figure it out and cost us money when callers low gets 1/2 off the pot and our AAAQQ gets a 1/4. I have just over 12000 at the 2nd break and am in decent postion. Next two hours I dont recall winning a pot. My stack gets worked down to 2100. I survive an all in on my big blind when my 2 5 makes a low for half the pot. I tripple up on another hand when I make a flush gives me a little breathing room. Down to four tables I get a good rush of cards at the right times and build my stack up to 40000. Most hands are played heads up now and actually possible to steal blinds. We get down too two tables and near the bubble. I have over 80000 in chipps 2nd largest stack at the table. Big stack is playing very aggressive. Blinds are huge relative to chip stacks..Blinds move up againg to the 5000-10000 level. Couple of players fold including big aggresive stack. I fing A35T suited Ace. I make it 20000 hoping to steal the blinds or play the hands all in against a small stack. To my surprise the 3rd largest stack cold calls from late postion. Both blinds fold.Flop brings Ks Qs 3c. I bet again 10000 hoping to take it down. But if he calls i still have nut spade draw. Turn is kh. I check. He bets 16500 all in. This player I do now and is a very touigh touny player. 91500 in the pot. I may be drawing dead to the house. Is he capable of betting a busted low " I think it is possible but dont think so" If I call I will have about 35000 left if I lose and give a very tough player a big stack. I think for a long time and the only hand that he can have that makes any sense to me is A23x. giving me a tie so far for high with a freeroll for spades. anything better I think he reraises me on the flop. AA I think he raises preflop or folds. Another holding he could have is A2Kx. I do notice that when I am counting down my chips that my hand is shaking (note to self work on that). I take a long time in deciding and feal that if I can call his all in bet I should of made the bet in the first place and maybe get some fold equity. For some unknown reason I call and he shows his hand of A 4 6 8 i beleive it was. Absolutely nothing 7 outs in the deck for him. A 3 hits the river and I take in a 107000 pot and bust him out. Not totally happy with my play as I made one and possibly 3 mistakes on the hand but I think he played the hand worse than I did with his only correct move being the turn bluff which almost worked. From then on it was clear sailing into the money and on to the final table. The big stack was relentless in his raising and basically ran over the table. I stayed out of most pots he was in and occasionly played marginal hands against all ins. Got lucky a few times but got beat a few times. Ended up 3 handed with me being the short stack. 2nd chip postion kept going to war with large stack on each of his blinds and eventually busted out giving me 2nd. I had virtually no chips with blinds at 20000-40000 and less than 80000 in my stack I just went all in every hand and he busted me 2 hands later. All in all a great tourny and a lucky break for a change on the bubble. Most players said they would not have called his bet there and wondered how I did it. I am not sure to this day why I did but just happy I did. (90% of the time I do fold there I think)
Day 3
Bad play combined with bad cards and I am out early in 191st spot. 2 pair get run down twice. TPTK never holds up once. Get one pocket pair the whole tourny TT and is the one hand that holds up. I was at a good table with couple loose players but just couldnt hit a hand and they could...
Day 4
NL event and possibly my worst game as u will soon see. Not much exciting first 3 or 4 laps mostly fold play a couple suited connectors but nothing happens. Get moved to a table which has allready busted 2 players. Very loose player 3 seats to my left. I know if i am patient and get a good hand he will pay me off or bust me. Not much happens to me up to the supper break down a couple 1000. After supper I get a Askd in late positon. Blinds are 100 - 200 and UTG has limped. I make it 600. Loose player in Big blind calls and UTG calls the 200. Flop is 4s 9s Ts. Big blind checks, UTG checks, and I check. I think I want a free card, and cant really stand a big reraise. Turn card is Qd. Big blind checks UTG bets 1500. I think he probably hit a Q and will fold to a large raise. I still have aboout 4600 left and raise all in with the nut spade draw and gut shot broadway draw. He calls quickly and turns over kJ of hearts and no help for me and I am gone. Very poorly played on my part on the flop and turn and prove to myself how much more I have to learn about no limit.
All in all a great time, met some new people and talked a lot of poker, played a lot of poker, felt i didnt play my A game this weekend but poker gods still smiled on me for a change. Hope to see U all in Regina if work lets me get away that weekend.
HUBBLE