| 20 Jul | RollercoastersPosted by PokerBarney on 4:17PM, 20th Jul 2006Permalink |  Send to a friend |  RSS feed |
First hand, T9o in the small blind. I complete, and flop AT9 - up from 1500 to 2400.
Few hands later, AA in mid position. Three way all in: QQ vs AK vs my AA. Board comes KxxxK and I'm down to ~900.
A few hands later I'm up to ~2000 thanks to a double up I can't remember (probably AK or something).
Here's the interesting one. K5s in the big blind. Couple of limpers, SB completes, and I check. Flop 236, two spades. SB leads 600 into the 800 pot, making it 1400 total and >2.1 to call. I go into my time bank and consider my options.
Assuming he's betting on either top pair or a straight draw, I have Ks, 4s and spades as outs (15). If he's made a straight already, the 4 may still be an out, and spades definitely are (9-12). If he's betting on a flush draw, chances are it's lower than mine.. so however I look at it I'm roughly 50/50 (60% in the first case), plus I have a little fold equity since I have another 1200 chips on top of his bet.
My raise all in gives a pot of 2600 with a cost of 1200 to call.. so he's getting decent odds, but still may fold a drawing hand. I also figured this was as good of a chance as any to double up and get back into contention for final tabling. So I push.
Limpers fold (eventually), and SB calls, showing T6 for top pair junk kicker. Turn is a 5, giving me an additional 2 outs, river is Q of spades and I rake the pot. I am very pleased with this move (regardless of outcome), as I feel it represents a new level or calculated aggression which is necessary for me to increase the number of times I go deep.
Later, I am blessed with AA again, and this time it holds up against 99. Another few rounds, and I have QQ.. short stack UTG pushes (the guy that cracked my AA earlier) and I call. He was stealing with 43o and I take another one.
Into the final table as chip lead, and I run out of cards. I rarely find a good spot to steal, so am gradually shortened to a medium stack with 5 left. I am dealt TT on the button.. UTG min-raises, so I push. He calls and shows 99, flops a 9 and I'm out.
All in all I think I played OK, and it just goes to show how much the gods can influence the outcome of your game. While I was dealt lots of nice big pairs (AA twice, QQ twice), overall, when I was all in with an overpair, they held up 1/3 times... not the sort of figures I want to see.
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