Another double dose of less than good luck today.
Woke up feeling like crap but had plans on using ~$700 worth of tourney tickets (in STT SNG's). Just felt off though & blew up a bit at my partner over something trivial (trying to play while TV movie was blasting... maybe a $250 investment in Bose headphones would pay for itself?).
Playing the final game of the PokerPlayer Magazine (UK) series (4-games) had no clue I had any pts. on the leaderboard & with no clue how they were accounting for the pts. in the final game. Then with 6players left I discover that whoever wins this final game will actually win enough pts. to take the leaderboard 1st place prize of 500euros!!! (top3 pd. in tourney).
Guy on the button raises it up to 900... (150/300) I shove 11bb's in BB w AKs. he calls w KQo. Board comes 8-5-7 4 3 (sigh) we chop :(
earlier on, 18 players left (60/120) I'm sitting with 4,200 (biggest stack on table), I raise with AJo utg1 & BB calls.
Flop QsThKh I lead out for over 2/3 pot... he calls.
Turn brings a 3rd heart '7h'
He checks... I bet out again ~60% & he check-raises me BIG (leaving himself only ~8bb's behind).
I time down & fold the flopped nuts (broadway straight)... feeling sick while doing so (but still will have largest stack on table & there's plenty of soft spots as the majority are weak players.
Later I wonder 'wtf was that?' And wished I'd just gotten it in.
Guy on forum tells me "I thought you were weak there. Thought I was ahead with my AQ & the Q was Qh so I had a flush draw if I was behind"
I'm thinking that he was thinking that I was strong in that spot. I mean AJ is the bottom of my range there pre... so what could I have where I'm c-betting that board & then leading turn again (after being called & I know he's not calling with garbage there due to stack sizes, etc.).
I could have AQ (with Ah), AK, KK, TT
I'm not going to have AhTx (cuz I'm not raising in utg1 in that situation (lots of resteal stacks on table 12-17bb range). I might have KQs flopping Top2
Which of those hands can he get to fold? (well... He got me to fold the flopped nuts! LoL).
I just assumed he'd figure I was uber strong there but obviously not. Cuz his thinkin was "Figured you weren't strong"
Probably my biggest leak... trying to think what they're thinking. Especially in the micro tourneys where they're 'not' thinking & even in these priv. forum games where it's not much beyond level1 thinking stuff. (ie. like am I double barrelling weak'ish' hands that have good showdown value there? basically turning them into a bluff? Am I double barrelling 99 in that spot? Maybe 'JJ'.. with the oesd? (meh.. I'm sure I check that one back on the turn).
Anyways, it turns out to be a ridiculously tight fold but I find once I get a few games under my belt on these priv. games I get player reads down pretty decently & do a bit better later on (ie. I still don't know the PuntersLounge players very well at all... girlfriend knows them & her comment was "Just assume that they're all donkeys because almost all of them are. There's a few good players but chances are you'll be up vs. a donk." Hendon Mob games I did crap in the first month, til' I discovered who was a winning reg. & who wasn't. Who overvalues hands, who's often full of shit & picking bad spots. Who are the level1 thinkers.. etc. etc. Last two mos. I've won a ticket on leaderboard every time.
I end up going out in 4th for NO money... with 77 < 66 (aipf.. I open shove otb.. they call it off in SB) & once again for the ChipLead. Same guy donked me out in the last PokerPlayer buyin game on WillHill. he jams 20bb's otb with J8o & I call it off with AdQd on BB. Board comes 6s2sAs Qh (me now on Top2!!!!!).. river 7s, giving him the flush, sigh.
As usual I did the shits in the CC games this weekend. That FTP $600 satty tickets freeroll evades me once again, winning nothin this time (typically only winning a $3 ticket... at least I won the hoodie, a t-shirt & a coffee mug with my $3 ticket in the CC Invasion).
Worst laydown in awhile. And two bummer beats close to some decent dollars! Turns an easy potential $800+ day into a dismal $50 day. (Final table bubbled the $1k PokerCoach freeroll on WilliamHill... with KK < AQo for the chiplead).
Another double dose of less than good luck today.
Woke up feeling like crap but had plans on using ~$700 worth of tourney tickets (in STT SNG's). Just felt off though & blew up a bit at my partner over something trivial (trying to play while TV movie was blasting... maybe a $250 investment in Bose headphones would pay for itself?).
Playing the final game of the PokerPlayer Magazine (UK) series (4-games) had no clue I had any pts. on the leaderboard & with no clue how they were accounting for the pts. in the final game. Then with 6players left I discover that whoever wins this final game will actually win enough pts. to take the leaderboard 1st place prize of 500euros!!! (top3 pd. in tourney).
Guy on the button raises it up to 900... (150/300) I shove 11bb's in BB w AKs. he calls w KQo. Board comes 8-5-7 4 3 (sigh) we chop :(
earlier on, 18 players left (60/120) I'm sitting with 4,200 (biggest stack on table), I raise with AJo utg1 & BB calls.
Flop QsThKh I lead out for over 2/3 pot... he calls.
Turn brings a 3rd heart '7h'
He checks... I bet out again ~60% & he check-raises me BIG (leaving himself only ~8bb's behind).
I time down & fold the flopped nuts (broadway straight)... feeling sick while doing so (but still will have largest stack on table & there's plenty of soft spots as the majority are weak players.
Later I wonder 'wtf was that?' And wished I'd just gotten it in.
Guy on forum tells me "I thought you were weak there. Thought I was ahead with my AQ & the Q was Qh so I had a flush draw if I was behind"
I'm thinking that he was thinking that I was strong in that spot. I mean AJ is the bottom of my range there pre... so what could I have where I'm c-betting that board & then leading turn again (after being called & I know he's not calling with garbage there due to stack sizes, etc.).
I could have AQ (with Ah), AK, KK, TT
I'm not going to have AhTx (cuz I'm not raising in utg1 in that situation (lots of resteal stacks on table 12-17bb range). I might have KQs flopping Top2
Which of those hands can he get to fold? (well... He got me to fold the flopped nuts! LoL).
I just assumed he'd figure I was uber strong there but obviously not. Cuz his thinkin was "Figured you weren't strong"
Probably my biggest leak... trying to think what they're thinking. Especially in the micro tourneys where they're 'not' thinking & even in these priv. forum games where it's not much beyond level1 thinking stuff. (ie. like am I double barrelling weak'ish' hands that have good showdown value there? basically turning them into a bluff? Am I double barrelling 99 in that spot? Maybe 'JJ'.. with the oesd? (meh.. I'm sure I check that one back on the turn).
Anyways, it turns out to be a ridiculously tight fold but I find once I get a few games under my belt on these priv. games I get player reads down pretty decently & do a bit better later on (ie. I still don't know the PuntersLounge players very well at all... girlfriend knows them & her comment was "Just assume that they're all donkeys because almost all of them are. There's a few good players but chances are you'll be up vs. a donk." Hendon Mob games I did crap in the first month, til' I discovered who was a winning reg. & who wasn't. Who overvalues hands, who's often full of shit & picking bad spots. Who are the level1 thinkers.. etc. etc. Last two mos. I've won a ticket on leaderboard every time.
I end up going out in 4th for NO money... with 77 < 66 (aipf.. I open shove otb.. they call it off in SB) & once again for the ChipLead. Same guy donked me out in the last PokerPlayer buyin game on WillHill. he jams 20bb's otb with J8o & I call it off with AdQd on BB. Board comes 6s2sAs Qh (me now on Top2!!!!!).. river 7s, giving him the flush, sigh.
As usual I did the shits in the CC games this weekend. That FTP $600 satty tickets freeroll evades me once again, winning nothin this time (typically only winning a $3 ticket... at least I won the hoodie, a t-shirt & a coffee mug with my $3 ticket in the CC Invasion).
Worst laydown in awhile. And two bummer beats close to some decent dollars! Turns an easy potential $800+ day into a dismal $50 day. (Final table bubbled the $1k PokerCoach freeroll on WilliamHill... with KK < AQo for the chiplead).
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