Nice 1-2 Punch

Monteroy

$3 rebuy, about an hour into the money, I have a nice stack.

PokerStars Game #19921955357: Tournament #103653307, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVI (1500/3000) - 2008/08/26 - 18:34:42 (ET)
Table '103653307 128' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: Monteroy (103149 in chips)
Seat 2: austriaco25 (101656 in chips)
Seat 3: ludopsg (76410 in chips)
Seat 4: KesselBling (106630 in chips)
Seat 5: jack77s (186142 in chips)
Seat 6: roksana1 (77658 in chips)
Seat 7: Micky05 (40530 in chips)
Seat 8: uptownslim (103665 in chips)
Seat 9: Cubababe (80865 in chips)
Monteroy: posts the ante 300
austriaco25: posts the ante 300
ludopsg: posts the ante 300
KesselBling: posts the ante 300
jack77s: posts the ante 300
roksana1: posts the ante 300
Micky05: posts the ante 300
uptownslim: posts the ante 300
Cubababe: posts the ante 300
uptownslim: posts small blind 1500
Cubababe: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Monteroy [Ah As]
Monteroy: raises 9000 to 12000
austriaco25: folds
ludopsg: folds
KesselBling: folds
jack77s: folds
roksana1: raises 65358 to 77358 and is all-in
Micky05: folds
uptownslim: folds
Cubababe: folds
Monteroy: calls 65358
*** FLOP *** [Jh Kd Qs]
*** TURN *** [Jh Kd Qs] [2c]
*** RIVER *** [Jh Kd Qs 2c] [5d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Monteroy: shows [Ah As] (a pair of Aces)
roksana1: shows [Tc Ac] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
roksana1 collected 161916 from pot

2 hands later


PokerStars Game #19921999726: Tournament #103653307, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVI (1500/3000) - 2008/08/26 - 18:36:38 (ET)
Table '103653307 128' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Monteroy (22191 in chips)
Seat 2: austriaco25 (101056 in chips)
Seat 3: ludopsg (75810 in chips)
Seat 4: KesselBling (106030 in chips)
Seat 5: jack77s (161542 in chips)
Seat 6: roksana1 (192816 in chips)
Seat 7: Micky05 (39930 in chips)
Seat 8: uptownslim (101565 in chips)
Seat 9: Cubababe (75765 in chips)
Monteroy: posts the ante 300
austriaco25: posts the ante 300
ludopsg: posts the ante 300
KesselBling: posts the ante 300
jack77s: posts the ante 300
roksana1: posts the ante 300
Micky05: posts the ante 300
uptownslim: posts the ante 300
Cubababe: posts the ante 300
Monteroy: posts small blind 1500
austriaco25: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Monteroy [Jc Jd]
ludopsg: calls 3000
KesselBling: folds
jack77s: folds
roksana1: folds
Micky05: folds
uptownslim: folds
Monteroy said, "heh"
Cubababe: folds
KesselBling said, "lol"
Monteroy: raises 18891 to 21891 and is all-in
austriaco25: folds
ludopsg: calls 18891
*** FLOP *** [5d Ah Td]
*** TURN *** [5d Ah Td] [4d]
*** RIVER *** [5d Ah Td 4d] [8s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Monteroy: shows [Jc Jd] (a pair of Jacks)
ludopsg: shows [4h 4s] (three of a kind, Fours)
Monteroy said, "sigh"
KesselBling said, "sick"
ludopsg collected 49482 from pot
KesselBling said, "gg"


Had a nice stack

InsaneGuy

wow... AT with a 76k stack wtf...

then risk 1/4 of a stack with 44.

no wonder why this tournament is easy if you can avoid the landmines.... (if...)

Riggz

Ouch

BBC Z

Is the second hand not standard for a big stack to think he's flipping with the short stack and it's for < 1/3 his chips?

Monteroy

I call hours 2-4 in that tournament the "surviving ace rag/baby pair worshipers" time.

First hand guy I guess was making a play to steal (his overall tourney results are reasonable), but it just seems like a strange spot to do that in vs an under the gun raiser who has been relatively tight and has his healthy stack covered. I suspect he was smart enough to realize he made a boneheaded play after.


Second hand guy has cashed in 6 of 118 tournaments he has played and has a ROI of -81% even with his $100 from that tourney, so I think for him it was more "me got a pair/pair good,me call any amount with pair" syndrome I see often enough.

Graham

That sucks