I went deep in another MTT, this time the 20k guarantee $11 on Stars. I finished 148th in the 3196-man field after taking a couple sick beats to send me home.
Here are the last few significant hands of the tourney:
Hand 1: 1000/2000
Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Jopazo (10522 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero (29778 in chips)
-- ante posts of 200 clipped
BADARSE888: posts small blind 1000
Hero : posts big blind 2000
Holecards:
Dealt to Hero [ 
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FOLD LalaSMarques
FOLD cancunjoe
FOLD ILIETOGIRLS
FOLD 'Please Pass
J_Dianda is connected
RAISE Jopazo, 8322 to 10322 and is all-in
FOLD Nortoneal
FOLD BADARSE888
CALL Hero , 8322
Thoughts on this call:
- I'll still have 20.5BBs if I lose, so I won't really be crippled
- Villain is shoving lots of mid-pairs, lots of weak aces. I'm thinking I'm probably a coinflip to win here most of the time, and I'm getting over 2-to-1 from the pot so I made the call.
- Stoving this with villain having a range of {22+,A5s+,KTs+,QTs+,A5o+,KTo+,QTo+} puts me at 43% to win. Is that range too generous?
- Maybe not the greatest call in hindsight but I'm willing to gamble a bit at this point.
Flop:
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Turn:
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River:
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Showdown:
Hero : shows [ ] (a straight Nine to King)
Jopazo: shows [ 
] (a pair of Kings)
>>>Hero said, "wow"
Hero collected 23244 from pot
Pretty nasty result for the shorty.
Hand 2: 1000/2000
Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: Nortoneal (18847 in chips)
Seat 3: BADARSE888 (88262 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero (42500 in chips)
Seat 5: LalaSMarques (59810 in chips)
Seat 6: cancunjoe (85291 in chips)
Seat 7: ILIETOGIRLS (95235 in chips)
Seat 8: 'Please Pass (25740 in chips)
Seat 9: J_Dianda (18470 in chips)
-- clipped 200 antes
Hero : posts small blind 1000
LalaSMarques: posts big blind 2000
Holecards:
Dealt to Hero [ 
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>>>Hero said, "didn't wanna see ak" -- me talking about the last hand :P
FOLD cancunjoe
FOLD ILIETOGIRLS
>>>Hero said, "lol"
FOLD 'Please Pass
RAISE J_Dianda, 4000 to 6000
RAISE Nortoneal, 12647 to 18647 and is all-in
BADARSE888 has timed out while disconnected
FOLD BADARSE888
BADARSE888 is sitting out
RAISE Hero 23653 to 42300 and is all-in -- not happy about the reraise but this is an easy shove
FOLD LalaSMarques
CALL J_Dianda 12270 and is all-in
Flop :
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Turn:
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River:
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Showdown:
Hero : shows [ ] (a flush King high)
Nortoneal: shows [ 
] (a flush Ace high)
Nortoneal collected 754 from side pot
J_Dianda: shows [ 
] (a flush King high)
Nortoneal collected 58410 from main pot
Yikes. I'm 53% to win this, with the AK at 32.6% and the KJ at 14%. Pretty nasty beat! I'm back down to about 20 BBs so still not too worried.
Hand 3: 1000/2000
I pick up rockets on the button and it gets folded around. I raise it up to 8000, hoping for some action since I'd just played those two big pots. No luck however; my AA just picks up the antes and blinds.
Hand 4: 1500/3000
Seat #4 is the button
Seat 3: BADARSE888 (76362 in chips)
Seat 4: Hero (21353 in chips)
Seat 5: LalaSMarques (55810 in chips)
Seat 6: cancunjoe (84291 in chips)
-- clipped 300 antes
LalaSMarques: posts small blind 1500
cancunjoe: posts big blind 3000
Holecards:
Dealt to Hero [ ]
FOLD ILIETOGIRLS
FOLD 'Please Pass
FOLD LouPoker
FOLD garysr2
FOLD Nortoneal
RAISE BADARSE888, 73062 to 76062 and is all-in
CALL Hero , 21053 and is all-in
FOLD LalaSMarques
FOLD cancunjoe
This open-shove really took me by surprise. Villain has shown that he's not a very strong player and his shove really screamed "I don't know how to play this hand so I'm just gonna shove!". After some thought I made the call.
Flop:
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Turn:
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River:
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Showdown:
BADARSE888: shows [ ] (a pair of Jacks)
Hero : shows [ ] (high card Ace)
BADARSE888 collected 49306 from pot
Pretty nasty there. Had I doubled through I would have had a comfortable 30 BBs! Oh well.
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