Big Day gone bad
My big day of Poker on PokerStars didn't end up quite like I expected Sunday. I made it through the first hour of the PokerStars World Blogger Championships until this hand set me back quite a little bit.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)
MP2 (t10000)
MP3 (t31025)
CO (t12950)
Wolverine Fan (t18250)
SB (t20500)
BB (t16620)
UTG (t16200)
UTG+1 (t55350)
Zagga (t16045)
Preflop: Wolverine Fan is Button with Ac, Kh.
2 folds, MP1 raises to t3000, 3 folds, Wolverine Fan raises to t10000, 2 folds, Zagga raises to t16045, Wolverine Fan calls t6045.
Flop: (t32990) 9d, 6s, 6h (2 players)
Turn: (t32990) Th (2 players)
River: (t32990) Jc (2 players)
Final Pot: Zagga has 9s 9c (full house, nines full of sixes).
Wolverine Fan has Ac Kh (one pair, sixes).
Outcome: Zagga wins t32990.
I reraised Zagga in hopes of getting him to fold and taking down the blinds plus his raise. I really don't like A/K that much as it is a drawing hand (a very good drawing hand) but when he went all in I was good with that as my hand was better than average. This really was the end of my game. I did chip up just a bit but lost everything a little bit later.
My Brittbloggerment tourney didn't last very long as my all in with pocket queens ran into this:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)
Wolverine Fan (t1370)
BB (t705)
UTG (t1870)
UTG+1 (t1270)
MP1 (t2110)
MP2 (t1805)
MP3 (t1350)
CO (t3065)
Button (t1305)
Preflop: Wolverine Fan is SB with Qs, Qd.
2 folds, MP1 raises to t120, 2 folds, CO raises to t420, 1 fold, Wolverine Fan calls t405, 1 fold, MP1 raises to t2110, CO raises to t3065, Wolverine Fan calls t950 (All-In).
Flop: (t6575) Qc, Ts, Jh (3 players, 1 all-in)
Turn: (t6575) 8c (3 players, 1 all-in)
River: (t6575) Ac (3 players, 1 all-in)
Final Pot: t6575
Results:
Wolverine Fan has Qs Qd (three of a kind, queens).
MP1 has Ad Kc (straight, ace high).
CO has Ks Kd (straight, ace high).
Outcome: MP1 wins t3287.50. CO wins t3287.50.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t600 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)
MP2 (t10000)
MP3 (t31025)
CO (t12950)
Wolverine Fan (t18250)
SB (t20500)
BB (t16620)
UTG (t16200)
UTG+1 (t55350)
Zagga (t16045)
Preflop: Wolverine Fan is Button with Ac, Kh.
2 folds, MP1 raises to t3000, 3 folds, Wolverine Fan raises to t10000, 2 folds, Zagga raises to t16045, Wolverine Fan calls t6045.
Flop: (t32990) 9d, 6s, 6h (2 players)
Turn: (t32990) Th (2 players)
River: (t32990) Jc (2 players)
Final Pot: Zagga has 9s 9c (full house, nines full of sixes).
Wolverine Fan has Ac Kh (one pair, sixes).
Outcome: Zagga wins t32990.
I reraised Zagga in hopes of getting him to fold and taking down the blinds plus his raise. I really don't like A/K that much as it is a drawing hand (a very good drawing hand) but when he went all in I was good with that as my hand was better than average. This really was the end of my game. I did chip up just a bit but lost everything a little bit later.
My Brittbloggerment tourney didn't last very long as my all in with pocket queens ran into this:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)
Wolverine Fan (t1370)
BB (t705)
UTG (t1870)
UTG+1 (t1270)
MP1 (t2110)
MP2 (t1805)
MP3 (t1350)
CO (t3065)
Button (t1305)
Preflop: Wolverine Fan is SB with Qs, Qd.
2 folds, MP1 raises to t120, 2 folds, CO raises to t420, 1 fold, Wolverine Fan calls t405, 1 fold, MP1 raises to t2110, CO raises to t3065, Wolverine Fan calls t950 (All-In).
Flop: (t6575) Qc, Ts, Jh (3 players, 1 all-in)
Turn: (t6575) 8c (3 players, 1 all-in)
River: (t6575) Ac (3 players, 1 all-in)
Final Pot: t6575
Results:
Wolverine Fan has Qs Qd (three of a kind, queens).
MP1 has Ad Kc (straight, ace high).
CO has Ks Kd (straight, ace high).
Outcome: MP1 wins t3287.50. CO wins t3287.50.
I probably should have folded when two players went all in ahead of me. I would have been left with $900 in chips and, as it was very early in the tournament, had a good chance to chip up and finish well. However, I didn't and when the Queen fell on the flop I was dancing in the streets. I was typing No, No when I saw that an Ace on the river would beat me and, sure enough, the 3 outer bit me in the butt and GG me.
Freaking 3 outer on the river. That's poker.
posted by Wolverine Fan | Tuesday, October 16, 2007
3 Comments:
AK has been killing me lately - however - look at it this way - if you win you are sitting pretty - lose - you can move on back to real life for the day instead of playing 4 more house and THEN going out with AK.
You had a 55% chance of taking him down. What can ya do!
Hand #2.
Yup - hard fold but you figure there is a raiser and a reraiser.
That reraise would mean that this guy is serious and I have 2 outs.
OF COURSE you hit your Q LOL
Hand 1 - Not getting away from that once i have re-raised so much. Just gotta take the race, but more seriously, zagga is a tight player, so you would have been better seeing a flop and then re-evaluating.
hand 2- Depending on the players I would very rarely fold QQ pre flop. There are simply only two better starting hands in poker and if you are willing to fold it once you have committed a third of your stack, i think it would be pretty bad poker. I think there was nothing you could do here mate, just unlucky, especially after flopping the set!!!!!!
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