I had not played at the "new" Lucky Bridge Casino since its reopening several months ago and having gotten spanked in the cash game at the Moose, decided to focus on tournament play. Checking out the action at Lucky, I found a $15, $5 add on 3:00 tournament offered with 3000 starting chips and reasonable blind progression. After signing up, found only about 14 players would be in it. After knocking out a few players and going through the alternates, we eventually got down to 4 players. The short stack suggested a 20/20 prize for 3rd & 4th (paid only 2 spots) and was rejected by the others. He was quickly knocked out and we agreed to a 3 way split of the $210 prize money.
Rolling over my profits seemed like a good idea, so I signed up early for the 7:00, $37.00 buy-in event. With like 70 players or so and $700 added it promised to be a profitable investment. I set the tone early on with the raise first hand of my 8/9 suited. With callers the flop came 8/A/10 and one spade. I fired a continuation bet of around $300, representing a big ace and got one caller, the blonde lady to my immediate left. When the board paired the 10 on the turn (another spade), I checked my 2 pair flush draw to her. She bet $500 and I called, pretty sure that she had an ace. The turn was another 8, giving me 8's full of 10's, so I fired out a 1000 bet. She called and was disgusted to see my full house. The big guy in seat 8 commented about the "donkfest" which I found very insulting. I think that I played the hand very well and got lucky but consider this:
1. Most of players had not played with me before, so I set an early table image of loose aggressive which I could capitalize on later with my usual tight aggressive style.
2. I acted appropropriately on each round, betting to represent the big hand, check calling a small bet with my draw, and value betting the river with what I figured to be the best hand.
3. She commented that my flush draw was "no good" so I did get lucky that it did not materialize, however I was done with the hand on any river card except an 8, so my losses would not have been catastrophic.
Anyhow, I could not gain traction and ended up short stacked when we were down to 3 tables and called an all-in (K/10 offsuit) with my J/J with another caller with Q/10. The all in player hit a king and I was eliminated. At least I got my chips in with a "real hand".
With work finished for the week am planning on a "tournament tour". First up: Moose 10:00, then Joker's 3:00. Tomorrow, planning Joker's 12:30.
Rolling over my profits seemed like a good idea, so I signed up early for the 7:00, $37.00 buy-in event. With like 70 players or so and $700 added it promised to be a profitable investment. I set the tone early on with the raise first hand of my 8/9 suited. With callers the flop came 8/A/10 and one spade. I fired a continuation bet of around $300, representing a big ace and got one caller, the blonde lady to my immediate left. When the board paired the 10 on the turn (another spade), I checked my 2 pair flush draw to her. She bet $500 and I called, pretty sure that she had an ace. The turn was another 8, giving me 8's full of 10's, so I fired out a 1000 bet. She called and was disgusted to see my full house. The big guy in seat 8 commented about the "donkfest" which I found very insulting. I think that I played the hand very well and got lucky but consider this:
1. Most of players had not played with me before, so I set an early table image of loose aggressive which I could capitalize on later with my usual tight aggressive style.
2. I acted appropropriately on each round, betting to represent the big hand, check calling a small bet with my draw, and value betting the river with what I figured to be the best hand.
3. She commented that my flush draw was "no good" so I did get lucky that it did not materialize, however I was done with the hand on any river card except an 8, so my losses would not have been catastrophic.
Anyhow, I could not gain traction and ended up short stacked when we were down to 3 tables and called an all-in (K/10 offsuit) with my J/J with another caller with Q/10. The all in player hit a king and I was eliminated. At least I got my chips in with a "real hand".
With work finished for the week am planning on a "tournament tour". First up: Moose 10:00, then Joker's 3:00. Tomorrow, planning Joker's 12:30.
1 comment:
Sorry to hear you didn't do better last night. I feel I was a little stupid putting all my money in with Q-8 but in the end I simply got unlucky that the luck-box to my right had a barely bigger kicker. I will probably play Saturday 12:30 at Jokers instead of Sunday at Moose, so hope to see you there! Good luck today.
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