Mr. White and Mr. Orange have collected some points in the challenge recently, but it looks like I’m not really a tournament player in the end. Of course, I can make some decent profits in single table sit ‘n go’s, after all I proved that during our first challenge over here. But in the big tournaments you just need a certain dose of luck on several important moments.
Sometimes I’m lucky and I can even make a deep run, but I just can’t make it to a final table till this moment. Just to let you know that I’m still participating in this challenge, I saved one of my sweetest suck-outs of the past few weeks, enjoy:
After all players just call preflop and on the flop, I feel like I have to fire a third decent bullet on the turn. After I get reraised I have to call: mainly because I’m committed, but also because I can still be in the lead against a flushdraw! When I see i’m against A8, I realize I’m in big trouble: I’ve only a 4.55% chance to win this hands with only two outs left in the deck. As you can see, sometimes that’s just enough.
Next time I hope to have the same amount of luck, but on a more crucial moment than this. Maybe I might reach a final table then.
Submitted by Mr. Blue.
I don’t talk a lot over here, but I can tell you one thing: I finished in 5th place in a 212 players tournament yesterday, took down 3 points and immediately took the lead in our poker challenge. Hurray.
I can’t show you a lot of hands because I was working during the tournament (some of those people here actually have a job…) so I needed all my attention for just playing. I did save one particular hand because it was crucial in building the stack I took with me to the final table:
We are both relatively deep stacked here and at the moment I raise him on the flop, I know he has a weaker Ace than me. But my opponent is not giving me a hard time getting all the chips in the middle, when he raises all-in on the turn with, indeed, his weak Ace. Always nice to eat another big stack, at that point I was in second place with 136 players left. In the end I finished #5th. The new rankings:
1. Mr. Orange 3 points
2. Mr. White 2 points
3. Mr. Blue 0 points
I already warned Mr. Blue and Mr. Orange last time when I finished in 14th place, but now it’s serious business: I reached the final table in a $5+.50 tournament (90 players). In the end I finished in 6th place, which credits me with 2 points in the challenge. Only 13 to go for a new victory…
I saved three hands from this tournament which were very important in my way towards the final table. During the first hand I’ve got to commit all my chips pre-flop, but with a decent reason: AA.
It quickly becomes clear that our table had to deal with a dealer’s joke here: AA vs KK vs JJ. Luckily my Aces held up and at this point I’m starting to believe that this can be my tourney. Next important hand:
This time I’m AGAINST pocket Aces, but I like this flop with the nut flushdraw and AND the OESD. His pre-flop minraise indicates me that this guy won’t go anywhere so I decide to get all my chips in the middle right away. As you can see when you look at the percentages, I’m already favorite to win this hand at this point. 7 on the river does the trick. My last big hand before reaching the final table:
Those are crucial hands when you want to make a deep run in a tournament. Of course I’m a big dog preflop against those Queens, but my opponent makes a small raise preflop and I flop a set, what can I do?
From that moment on I faced few problems on my road to the final table, but I couldn’t catch any cards there, ending up in 6th place. This results in the following rankings:
1. Mr. White 2 points
2. Mr. Blue 0 points
3. Mr. Orange 0 points
Submitted by Mr. White
So with this new challenge going on I try to find some time now and then to play tournaments. I know the other two guys play a lot more than I do, but that doesn’t really matter. As you saw in the last post from Mr. Blue, their performances are really poor so I’m confident to win this thing after my first tournament.
That’s because I almost immediately reached the final table in a tournament with 180 players. Let’s show some hands. Blinds were already 100/200 when I took this strange pot with a pair of sixes:
When everybody calls me on the turn, I’m quiete sure I have the best hand but I don’t like the river Ace: somebody could easily have called with Ace high. However, it’s the beginning of a good run, some hands later:
Kings in late position with the blinds already gone up to 125/250, that’s worth a minraise. A shorty feels like going all-in with AJ and my hand holds up; at that moment I’m in tenth place with 23 players left. But then I drain some chips and the next hand I’ve got the feeling I have to move with my short stack:
Some guy with KQ understands that I don’t need much of a hand there to shove my chips all-in and that’s the end of it: I finish in 14th place but I feel like winning this challenge once again.
Submitted by Mr. White.
This is Mr. Blue over here. I tried to collect my first points in the new challenge this week but it looks like Pokerstars doesn’t want me to win this thing. I faced two cold decks in a time span of four minutes so I didn’t collect any points yet. Positive thing: the other guys also didn’t reach a final table yet.
Let’s not talk too much about this jokes, let’s go immediately to the hands, first one:
What can I say? I raise in late position with 77 after some rock just limped with his 99, and he first needs to flop a set before he raises me. Of course I also had to flop a set… So I was eliminated but no problem: I played at another table simultaneously and was hoping to make a deep run over there. There the next hand was dealt:
Why not see a cheap ass flop with A2? Because you can flop two pair and the villain next to you flops a better two pair. To make it even worse: let’s both make a full house on the turn. I hope I will have some more luck in the following tournaments, for now I say goodbye.
Submitted by Mr. Blue.
Hello poker addicts and other gambling people. Now the PSOP have passed, I started to concentrate on my online game again. The PSOP made me realize I still have to work on my tournament skills, because I want to become the best overall poker player, not only a brilliant cashgame player. So I returned to the poker room where it all began for me, Everest Poker, to play some tournaments.
Pity: the hand histories from Everest Poker are totally disgusting, so not a single poker hand replayer will convert them. So I’ll just paste the hand history over here:
Starting game 5003919898.
Mr Brown69 is at seat 0 with 2,375.
mandrin81 is at seat 1 with 985.
elmelun888 is at seat 2 with 715.
Henry6 is at seat 4 with 950.
sodos is at seat 5 with 990.
fortunafreak is at seat 6 with 1,000.
9hertz40 is at seat 7 with 1,000.
madjumber is at seat 8 with 995.
nicomathilda is at seat 9 with 990.
The dealer is seat 1.
elmelun888 posts a blind of 5.
Henry6 posts a blind of 10.
(Mr Brown69 is dealt 5c 2c.)
Pre-flop:
sodos calls for 10.
fortunafreak folds.
9hertz40 folds.
madjumber folds.
nicomathilda folds.
Mr Brown69 raises 30.
mandrin81 calls for 40.
elmelun888 folds.
Henry6 folds.
sodos calls for 30.
The flop comes
4c 6c 7c.
sodos bets 10.
Mr Brown69 raises 70.
mandrin81 folds.
sodos raises 295.
Mr Brown69 raises 885.
sodos goes all-in for 575.
310 is pushed back to Mr Brown69.
Showdown:
sodos shows: 10c Qc
Qc 10c 7c 6c 4c
Flush, Queen high
Mr Brown69 shows: 5c 2c
7c 6c 5c 4c 2c
Flush, Seven high
The turn comes Kc.
The river comes 6d.
Mr Brown69 shows: 5c 2c
Kc 7c 6c 5c 4c
Flush, King high
sodos shows: 10c Qc
Kc Qc 10c 7c 6c
Flush, King high
sodos wins pot (2,035).
You see, this is obviously a clear case of punishing the good player and rewarding the poker donk. I make a very good raise on the cut-off with an hand which is very easy to play after the flop in that position. Two loose players call this raise BUT I FLOP A FLUSH + THE STRAIGHT FLUSH DRAW! Donk 1 leads out with the minbet, I raise while opening a bottle of champaign. Then I get reraised by this monkeyman as he flopped the higher flush. He’s so lucky I don’t make my straight flush. I’ll keep informing you about my pushes.
Submitted by Mr. Brown.
The Pokerheist Series of Poker have come to an end. It was Ms. Pink who won the deep stack Main Event, her second ‘bracelet’ and a 210€ prize. In the overall classification, Mr. White and Mr. Blue ended up with the same amount of points (20) and as both won one event, the classification of the Main Event was deciding for giving away the 150€ and as Mr. White finished third and Blue fourth, White also won our second ‘challenge’.
By winning the Main Event, Ms. Pink was the only player who won two events. Just like in the real Main Event, the best players were knocked out first, with myself finishing in sixth place. Ms. Blonde was eliminated next in fifth place. What followed was a very long period of play between the other four players, mainly due to the fact that both White and Blue knew that if one of them was eliminated next, the other one would win the overall ranking and the 150€. In the end it was Mr. Blue who was knocked out by Ms. Pink, when they both turned a flush: 8 high vs. K high.
White played like real nit meanwhile to avoid elimination and had become very shortstacked and that’s why he was busted in third place. Then it was between Ms. Pink and Mr. Orange, both already owner of one bracelet. Ms. Pink had about 14500 chips, Orange about 9500. This hand decided everything after twenty minutes of heads-up play:
Ms. Pink (button, sb 200) KsJd
Mr. Orange(bb 400) 3c3s
Pink raised it up to 1000, Mr. Orange made it 2500, Pink called. Flop came Js8s3d . So top pair versus bottom set, a flop which would create some action you would think. But Orange slowplayed his set and Pink checked behind. Turn came 2s, so Pink added a King high flushdraw to her hand. Then Orange bet 3000, and Pink moved all-in, putting Orange all-in. Orange made the call and river came… 7s, making Pink a flush. This challenge was a new succes, we’ll see about a third one!
Submitted by Mr. Brown.