Hey all,
I'm re-writing this post for the second time, so it'll be slightly shorter.
First, I'm happy to say that I finally took a tournament down - a $12 180-man turbo for $594. It's nothing big, but it's a nice start. The turbos are a pretty big luckfest, but I think there's value in playing them since the field is really horrible. I think I'm going to keep playing a few of them for a while.
As always, people know that I am running horribly bad. As some may have seen in my previous blog post, my   didn't even hold up on an   board...
I'm going to skip right ahead to taking a look at a hand I played.
Submitted by : Oxy
PokerStars Game #18555002377: Tournament #93876130, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2008/07/03 - 13:40:29 (ET)
Table '93876130 141' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: benn008 (14246 in chips)
Seat 2: Grim Reaver (3500 in chips)
Seat 3: RonnyKirsten (1560 in chips)
Seat 4: JohnnyCastro (9784 in chips)
Seat 5: life sign (7070 in chips)
Seat 6: TAO Alex (3125 in chips)
Seat 7: Spirit-Ger (4900 in chips)
Seat 8: hedkandis (4950 in chips)
Seat 9: Mikromozek (4378 in chips)
RonnyKirsten: posts small blind 25
JohnnyCastro: posts big blind 50
Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Grim Reaver  
life sign: folds
TAO Alex: folds
Spirit-Ger: folds
hedkandis: folds
Mikromozek: folds
benn008: folds
Grim Reaver : raises 100 to 150
RonnyKirsten: folds
JohnnyCastro: calls 100
Flop(Odds) (Pot : $325.00)
  
JohnnyCastro: checks
Grim Reaver : bets 275
JohnnyCastro: calls 275
Turn(Odds) (Pot : $875.00)
JohnnyCastro: checks
Grim Reaver : bets 675
JohnnyCastro: calls 675
River (Pot : $2,225.00)
JohnnyCastro: checks
Grim Reaver : bets 2000
Grim Reaver said, "kj?"
JohnnyCastro: calls 2000
Showdown
Grim Reaver : shows (a flush, Ace high)
JohnnyCastro: shows   (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
Grim Reaver collected 6225 from pot
Summary
Total pot 6225 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: benn008 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Grim Reaver (button) showed and won (6225) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 3: RonnyKirsten (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: JohnnyCastro (big blind) showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Sevens
Seat 5: life sign folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: TAO Alex folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Spirit-Ger folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: hedkandis folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Mikromozek folded before Flop (didn't bet)
There are a few things of mild interest to note.
The first and most obvious thing is that villain is an utter donk. I really have to drill into my head that these players are pretty shitty, and I have to adjust accordingly. This means looser calling ranges for all-ins, but also paying more attention to limpers and seeing whether they l/c or l/f to pushes or raises most of the time. I think 4-5 tabling MTTs is pretty optimal and allows you to observe pretty much every hand.
The second and more interesting fact is how I got villain to call my river bet. Notice that my 2k bet leaves me with 400 behind. I find that donks play their bluffs similarly, because they want to have at least a little something to play with if they get caught. I hadn't played a hand in a while, so I figured villain would view me as a typical donk (even being one himself) and the situation might look fishy enough to induce a call.
More importantly, and I think what caused the call, is my little chat comment. This is something I implemented with success at 1/2 FR, either while bluffing or valuebetting thin. The idea is that I call out a hand that I beat by far if I'm valuebetting. This should cause villain to believe that I think he has a very weak hand, and thus call me with his slightly better holding. If I'm bluffing, I'll call out the nuts or 2nd nuts, making villain think those are the only two hands I'm afraid of. The concept works fairly well, because most people don't have time to think about a little mind game like that, and I think it's an instinctive reaction.
Could be a bunch of psychobabble too...
Hope to play the 20k GTD tonight at 7, and a few other tourneys to boot.
Cheers all!
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