-Groucho
On the spur of the moment on Friday night, I decided to buy directly in to Event 1 of the FTOPS. Despite the fact that the buy-in was higher than my normal range, my reasons for this were simple:
1) I kind of wanted to.
2) I was going to be spending all night at the desk anyway, doing computery chores.
3) My confidence in my MTT game is fairly high right now.
4) My confidence in the ability of my $50 6-max NL tables to keep on donating donating donating, thus paying me my buy-in back, should I lose it? High.
5) I love playing in 'Event' tournaments, and I wanted to wash the taste of the last one (Stars' Main Event 2006), where I played like an idiot, out of my mouth.
6) I kind of wanted to.
So, I bought in, as did almost 2500 others. First prize: $92 grand and change. That's a spicy meat-a-ball, my friends.
Results?
I busted out around 800th, probably about an hour and a half before the money bubble, fairly happy with my play. I'd say I brought my A- game to bear that night.
Here's how my FTOPS went down, dredged pretty much from memory, and one hand that I'm putting under the microscope for all y'all.
1) Played tight and kept it right around the buy-in level until right before the break, when I doubled through a LAG who couldn't let go against my set when he paired his Ace on the flop.
2) Right after the break, I bet big with Jacks against a diamond flush drawer on a paired board . . . and the turn brought me the Jack . . . of diamonds, to fill me up while completing his flush. Wooooooooooot! Needless to say, I doubled again and was around 45th of 2000 runners.
3) A bad thing happened. We'll get to that in more detail soon. I made what I'm sure was the correct play given the situation, but it remains The Horribly Bad Thing That Happened (THBTTH). It actually was more memorable than horribly bad, but 'Thbtth' is fun to say and sums up my feelings on the hand rather concisely.
4) For about 40 minutes post THBTTH, I couldn't steal without being re-raised and couldn't hit the board. I slowly bled chips until I got into pushmonkey range with an M of about 4. I pushed, I got dominated, I went home. So it goes.
5) I played 40 min. of cash games and won half my buyin back already. Beeeautiful.
And Now For Something Completely Thbthh
Blinds: 120/240 Ante 25
My Chips: 10,692
Villain 1 Chips: 6,260
Villain 2 Chips: 9,424
So you already know that this isn't going to be nice for me. I think I played it correctly, but I am interested in what you all think. So sound off and tell me I am a donkey.
I find QQ in the cutoff. It folds to Villain 1, a looseish player who was getting a little low on chips, who raises it up to 840. Villain 2, relatively new to the table, simply calls.
I decide that A) I'm probably ahead, and B) I don't want to see a flop.
I re-raise to 2,400.
What do you think of this move? Correct? Not enough of a bet? Eh? Eh?
Villain 1 thinks, then re-raises all in.
This is not unexpected from this guy. My read is I'm probably ahead.
Villain 2 thinks, then calls.
Reads
The Raiser: A bit loose. I am reasonably sure I have him beat. I have a good feeling he's got an underpair.
The Caller: Haven't seen more than a couple hands from this dude. No idea.
What do you do? (Try to forget that you know I'm getting wounded here.)
1) All in? If so, why?
2) Fold? If so, why?
3) Just call? How stupid are you, and why?
A post tomorrow ought to finish this up.
3 comments:
What do you think of this move? Correct? Not enough of a bet? Eh? Eh?
I like the re-raise, but I think it's a little on the small side. 2400 is only 3X and if you want to push the other guy out, you need to point out that you're willing to take the other guy's stack. I'd go for a 4K re-raise right there if not push outright. The LAG dork will come along for the ride (which you assumed already) and unless the other guy has KK or AA (which is really just bad cards for you at this point) so be it.
What do you do?
I don't like those two smooth calls. Not at ALL. Especially from a guy I don't know a thing about. The only reason I can see him calling in that spot is because he wants you to come over the top of him. If he didn't want you in there, he'd jam all of his chips in the middle to isolate the donk. I will admit that I didn't realize that until I stopped and thought about it, though. My first move would be to jam and I'd probably pay for it.
#2 calls a re-raise and a re-re-raise......I'd have to put him on the aces at this point.
#1 could be playing something like K-Q or A-Q and pushing loosely with them so you'd be almost dead already b/c he's got one of your outs.
Then again, I've been wrong many times before.
This is very interesting. But my thinking was a bit different. My read on Villain #1 is that he has the monster here rather than Villain #2. IF #2 has Aces or Kings he would want to thin the field so the two smooth calls are a bad move. #1 on the other hand may have Aces and his initial raise was an attempt to get someone to re-raise him so that he could go over the top.
So my reads are:
#1 - Aces (or Kings)
#2 - Jacks (or lower) and maybe AK suited
It's a tough situation for sure. I would probably fold to all this action. It's a weak move, but at least I have enough chips to fight another day.
But then again, this is FTP and the probably both have some sort of suited connectors and one of them makes a club flush on the flop.
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