Playing in Seattle this week decided to try a super deep stack $35. tournament at a small casino, The Hideaway. It was fairly nice place with a juicy 3/6 kill omaha game going at 10 a.m. The tournament was a disaster for me. Playing tight I folded AK suited in the small blind against a raise and reraise. Too bad, the original raiser had A/10, the re-raiser QQ and I turned two pair.
After winning one small pot with a flopped set of 9's, I was about even (20,000) in chips. The game was crazy, saw people calling raises with junk and raising way out of proportion to the blind size. Could hardly wait for a "real hand". Under the gun I see K/K and raise 3 times the $400 blind to $1200. This is still early as we began with 100/200 blinds. I get 4 callers! Not good, and what the heck are they thinking calling an UTG raise from the tightest player at the table? The flop is jack high with two spades, so I make it 5,000 to go protecting against the flush draw and begging the AJ to call. Fold, Fold, Fold, re-raise to 15,000 and a fold. Hmmmm, could I have run into aces? With over 1/3 of my chips in the pot and getting great calling odds I re-raise all-in only to get an insta-call from J/J. Gone, despite turning the flush draw.
A seat opens in the omaha game and I sit down. The action is crazy with several kill pots capped preflop. I miss all my draws pretty much all the time (except when severely short stacked, then I win small pots) and watch garbage win many times. One guy flops a royal flush with "Mr. Bling" an aggressive better jamming all the way. The guy wins a $350 monte and quits soon afterwards up about $500. I just keep rebuying, like a donk, and quit stuck $300. Not pretty. My last hand had so many outs I lost track (flopped trips) and he runners a flush. Can't count the number of hands I ended up with 3 pair and second nut low. I give!!!!!
2 comments:
Self comment: I so could have gotten away from the kings....if......I had more experience with that particular player. He was older, so should have given him credit for a big hand as not likely to bluff or semi-bluff with flush draw. He definitely could have slow played aces and would have just called with flush draw or even two pair. Had he flat called I picked up flush draw on turn so probably same result.
Good self comment, but you are right about the same probable outcome. It sounds like you have been dealing with the loosey goosey type of overly lucky players that I have been up against lately. Maybe we both need a break. I'm not going to play at all until the 2nd at the very earliest and I might just wait until a week from tomorrow. I'm just not liking the game right now & that's unusual for me. Hope to see you someday!
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