Wednesday, December 19, 2007

My latest MTT

Again no dice. I did my best, but failed to hit my flops, and my opponents hit them bigtime. Out in 63rd place out of 208 in little over an hour.

€10 buyin at Celeb.
Notation: my stack - average - blinds - M - Q

75o as BB, four hearts on the table, I actually make my straight on the river. Nobody ever bets, LHS has Kh.

AQo OTB, I call a minraise after several others and miss the flop.

KK! RHS pushes, I push over the top. She only has 600 left. She has 97o! Gets a straight draw on the flop but thankfully does not connect. 2145. Next hand QJo. Limp. LHS raises to 300, I fold. LHS turns out to have QQ.

Next hand 33! Limp. SB raises to 250 = 5BB, I fold. FLop contains a 3... Would have won a big pot here. Too bad...

Stack 2045 - 2496 - 25/50 - M is high - Q 0.8.

AJs in 2nd pos. Limp. LHS raises to 200=4BB. Almost have to call here. FLop is AA6... Checked around on flop. On turn, one player bets 200, I call. He checks river, I bet only 200 into pot 1250 but he instafolds :-) Can't complain here! There were four people in the pot. Stack now 2895, avg 2836.

44 as BB. Will not call any raise above a minraise here, despite that 33 fiasco just now. Blinds now 50/100, M=20. Yes, raise to 400, I fold.

I am 38th out of 107 left, top 20 gets paid.

Complete with 63o and hit middle pair. Great. Fold on flop bet. Wow one guy pushes even before I can react! ALl three are all-in! Guy with two pair gets beaten when pair of tens makes a set on the river.

Fold J9o, flop J62, all check... Oh well. 44th out of 96. 93.

33 in MP, limp. Button pushes, blast. Have to fold again. Good thing too, player behind me calls with 77 and makes a set! And then a full house too.

QJo, limp once again. 2nd position. Hit a flop KKQ... Bet 300, hoping no one has a King. Pot was 700. One opp raises me, I HAVE TO FOLD, DAMMIT! 2195. Why do I keep calling with QJo... It really is a lousy hand.

2195 - 3851 (...) - 75/150 - M=10 - Q=0.6 or so

76o as BB. Completely miss the flop. Q6s as SB, fold to raise. Six minutes till the break. I am 56th out of 71 now... But my M is still 9.

AK! in late position. Limp and minraise, I just call. MISS FLOP....

Stack now down to 1670 again, just barely above my starting stack :-( Maybe I should have pushed... M=7.5. Break coming up. My last hand before the break is 43s, I fold it.

BREAK. Stack 1670 - avg 4727 (ugh) - M will be 5.5 - Q = 1/3. Quickly coming up to pushing ATC land. No, not that quickly, I miscalculated.

KT in third position is not quite good enough. TT UTG is though! I push. One caller. Two. Oh dear... out. They had 44 and A-K, both their hands beat me due to the wonderful board: a set and a straight. Wonderful.

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