So yesturday I final tabled a small 5$ MTT which had about 400 players. I ended up placing 4th for about 182$. Although the money is very insignificant, i'd like to discuss some very SERIOUS strategies on how I made it to the final table. Lets begin:
I register for this small tourny with the plan of donking around and just wasting time. The first orbit, I pick up 22 when 3 players limp ahead of me. I decide to shove 1500 LOL. I get called by 3 players holding AJo, QJo and AJo. Since the 3 players have each others outs, my hand holds up! +ev shove for sure :P. So I win a massive 5k pot in the first orbit. After I win, I decide to go eat dinner since I really didn't care about this tournament. After dinner, I come back to my computer to surf the internet before finally deciding to sit in. While sitting at my computer, I was looking for sites to watch Hellboy 2. While being frustrated at megavideo for removing the full movie on their website, I realized that I picked up AA in the tournament. Basically i get my whole stack in preflop vs QQ and i get up to 11k. Good result!
Since im in good shape for the tourny, I spend the next hour trying to update my Counter-strike source with the hopes of multi tasking CS source and grinding this 5$ tournament on the side. I soon realized that tabbing out of CS is too slow and I should play a smaller game.. like Starcraft.
I played 1 game of starcraft and decided that I suck at this game and quit.
Once I quit playing star craft, i spent the next 45 minutes cleaning up files on my desktop and reading old chat logs (yes I was super bored and wanted to leave the tournament!).
That is when I realized that we are playing hand-for hand (with 36 people left)! So I finally decided to start focusing on this tournament.
Once I began focusing, I managed to get my self quite a big stack and cruised into the final table with about 145K in chips. We play down to 4 people when the final bust out hand happens:
Full Tilt Poker Game #9381319914: $5 + $0.50 Tournament (71511972), Table 24 - 3000/6000 Ante 750 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:44:36 ET - 2008/12/07
Seat 2: LiquidFireAK (101,832)
Seat 3: zachs4 (157,657)
Seat 5: TheAdmiral54 (170,403)
Seat 9: pennyante59 (162,608)
LiquidFireAK antes 750
zachs4 antes 750
TheAdmiral54 antes 750
pennyante59 antes 750
pennyante59 posts the small blind of 3,000
LiquidFireAK posts the big blind of 6,000
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LiquidFireAK [Jd Ks]
zachs4 folds
TheAdmiral54 folds
LiquidFireAK: what did u fold admiral?
pennyante59 calls 3,000
LiquidFireAK raises to 18,000
pennyante59 raises to 161,858, and is all in
LiquidFireAK has 15 seconds left to act
LiquidFireAK: uhh
LiquidFireAK calls 83,082, and is all in
pennyante59 shows [5d 4c]
LiquidFireAK shows [Jd Ks]
Uncalled bet of 60,776 returned to pennyante59
*** FLOP *** [2h 7d 8h]
*** TURN *** [2h 7d 8h] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [2h 7d 8h 7s] [5h]
pennyante59 shows two pair, Sevens and Fives
LiquidFireAK shows a pair of Sevens
pennyante59 wins the pot (205,164) with two pair, Sevens and Fives
LiquidFireAK stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 205,164 Rake 0
Board: [2h 7d 8h 7s 5h]
Seat 2: LiquidFireAK (big blind) showed [Jd Ks] and lost with a pair of Sevens
Seat 3: zachs4 folded before the Flop
Seat 5: TheAdmiral54 (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: pennyante59 (small blind) showed [5d 4c] and won (205,164) with two pair, Sevens and Fives
Normally, I would never make a crazy call like this with KJ, but after watching the villan play many hands i knew he ALWAYS opened pots with any Ace. So this shove by him made NO sense. I knew king high was winning.. so I called... and lost! Bah! oh well.. i guess i cant really complain because I didn't really put much effort into this tournament :P
So I hope you guys learned some SERIOUSLY good strategies on how to final table a tournament.. because this experience has taught me one thing:
I need to get better at Starcraft so I can play it while grinding MTT's!
Monday, December 8, 2008
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