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vegable United States. Sep 06 2009 23:18. Posts 2453

So I just got back from the 18 man tournament. I'm surprised so many people showed up on labor day to play this, first prize was $200, followed by $150 then $100 for third. I started with about 9500 chips, which was about average among the better players who began with 12-20k. The non-regulars of these freerolls began with 1k + any other winnings they had accumulated before. Blinds started at 5/10 lol so splash city. Basically all my low cards were flopping pictures and high paint seeing low flops. I hit some hands trying to force big action but everyone was so uptight wtf? So I begin getting impatient.

at 25/50 blinds, I open ace-queen offsuit in the cutoff 175, and a kid my age who I had knocked out countlesstimes before makes it 350 to go. I call. Flop comes Ks108s. He CHECKS to me so I'm like yeah mother fucking bet!!! 750, he check/minraises to 1500. at this point i'm like fuck this is gonna look super dumb if I fold. Hes got me covered at 11k chips. I look for any reason to peel or make a move at his face and he swallows nervously, very legit without breaking eye contact. I throw a 5000 chip on the table to show him what internet poker is all about son! He deliberates then shoves...I muck and ohhhhhhh god, for the next 5 minutes there was a shitstorm of comments there. I've officially branded myself as a grade-a donator. Totally felt bleh after doing something I would never do, even onlines!

Then suddenly my table catches my FPS fever. I see the same kid overbetting 11k into a 1.5k pot with 77 into 3 people on 855. Some dude calls with trips and I'm going WTF???? Curse of the 5k graychip. Then some other dude bets the flop and shoves turn with 8J on K910 in position out of nowhere, and I think hes actually pretty balanced as far as play goes. Everyone began losing their peanuts and I'm sitting here going oh god wtf, there is a lesson to be learned here.

We go on break and I go into lockdown mode. This white gangsta kid I've been battling hard with (but not flopping in my favor) raises utg. He is super loose aggressive and splashy but reckless to the point where its obviously unprofitable. We are 5 handed and hes got me covered at 5k+ chips, blinds at 200/400. I raise 2600 over his 800 chip minraise and he calls, what?!??! FLop is 642, he checks and I instshove, which I've been doing with bluff hands many times and getting caught, he looks me up and loses unimproved with ace-queen off. Ship it I'm at 11k!!!

Third break finishes, blinds at 300/600 of the final table, 8 players. I peek down at JJ utg and make it 1800. This brash lucky level -1 thinker has got me covered, and checks his holecards befoere I do and goes "now I'll show you how to play some poker" and continues to talk nonstop. He had been chatting casually with a lady next to him and it folds around, he shoves into me and I'm like easy turbomuck.

Let me tell you about live set ups. There is so much stimulation going on that it will mess with your mind a little bit. I decide to indulge in this stimulation, not knowing how to make any use of the information I might gather lol, but might as well play C-list hollywood like any other tom, dick, and harry at the table. So's I starts chatting this 40 year old up, whos obviously way way more than socially equipped to handle any comments I might have. So I smack him with "those chips will look pretty good once I double up", and he goes "no I won't be out, I'll still have some left". Blah blah some other comments to goad me and the table goes "ooooh". I lose the battle of wits and my ego does not like that one bit. I'm boiling like day fresh Maine lobster in a dutch oven. Its high time I show this grandfather clock what web hold'em is all about. No shortage of gamble here!

From an independent overhead perspective, such as one might find in an online setting, folding KK here wouldn't look that bad, with ~9k left at 300/600 blinds. Some table banter from other players sealed the call. it was curtains as he flipped over the nuts.

I went home with an XL t-shirt.

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CrownRoyal United States. Sep 07 2009 01:33. Posts 11385

WHAT IS THIS

Xenocidegs United States. Sep 07 2009 02:03. Posts 365

I opened this page predicting you would come in 7th-9th place and you came in 8th.
I read people good

exalted United States. Sep 07 2009 02:36. Posts 2918

lesson 1: when someone min RRs and checks the flop to you, don't bet it, esp with outs and showdown value

exalted from teamliquid :o