Canterbury Park Event #2, $300+40 NL
Play perfect, go busto.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well, four hours of tournament play and I'm busto. I was cruising with a ton of chips for a while until these two hands came up.
A really bad player in the #1 seat raised UTG to 500 with the blinds at 100-200 with 25. His small bets generally meant small hands. I picked up 88 and re-raised to 1400. His stack was about 5200 at the start of this hand and I was at 9700. My image was somewhat loose, but I was not doing anything out of the ordinary. I had also laid down A Q on an A T 3 flop to him before I had even put a chip in the pot... that story will come later. So he knew I was capable of a big laydown. I'm sure he wasn't thinking on any other levels based on the quality of his play. Anyways, the flop came out JT3, suits unimportant. He stares at the flop and then bets 800. The manner in which he bet screamed weakness. Then, to seal the deal, he stares at me and will not avert his gaze. Totally weak. I give him a T at best, definately not a draw, possibly 99 or less. Ok, now that I know he's weak, I'd better make sure he's not committed. Nope - he has about 3k left.
"I'm all in."
Now I definately don't want a call, but I'm pretty sure he's on a 9T sort of hand and cannot call this bet. He thinks for a while and finally says, "Well, I guess that's why they call it gambling. This is a bad call, but I've already put so much money in the pot. I call."
He rolls over 99. OMG you fish. Lay your hand down one time.
My favorite part is that after he doubles through me he says that he "knew" that I was on overcards and that he "knew" he was ahead the whole time. Riiiiight. Explains his pre-flop speech. The hand we played before was quite interesting because when he bet 400 into me as the pre-flop raiser 3 ways in a 1400 chip pot, I asked how much he had left. He lifted his hands up to show me but FORGOT that his cards were in his hand still and I saw the bottom one, T . That combined with all the tells I was picking up on him made me conclude that he had TT or AT. He later confirmed that he had TT. Good laydown B!
Anyways, from there I doubled up a guy with aces, doubled up with Jacks, and found myself in this spot with 5700 in chips. I was in the small blind in the 200-400 with 50 level on a new table. A player limps from MP, I complete in the SB, and the BB checks. I have 9 T . The flop comes Q Q 8 . It checks around. I'm thinking, Jack. Sure enough... J . Even better. I bet 600, and the big blind looks thrilled that I bet 600. Ahh, he flopped queens. Sweet. He raised to 1500, player folded behind, I went all-in and he immediately called with Q 7 . River came 8 and I was sent packing. Bummer.
Tomorrow is the $200+30 NL event #3. I'm going to play super-aggro Gussey (Hansen) style tomorrow. Should be fun.
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So far I've met several of y'all that are members of PSO and/or regular readers of this blog. So much fun! I love meeting people, and if you see me floating around please say hello! If you don't, shoot me an e-mail so we can meet up.
Peace and good luck,
Devo
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posted by Devo @ 6:53 PM
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