coinflip situation

eight graph

So this graph makes at least one thing very clear: Mr. Brown is eliminated in the battle and will have to pay $200 to the winner, which is most likely going to be me :) . He and Ms. Pink played their ‘now or never-tournament’ and Mr. Brown was eliminated in 5th place. So from that moment on Ms. Pink knew she’s wasn’t going to end up last if she would reach the money, which she accomplished with a second place, worth $105. She’s now at $153. Brown only had $25 left and lost his last money on the heads-up tables.

Meanwhile I’m preparing myself for receiving an extra $400 besides my soon to be $950 of poker profits, after taking back the lead with an $868 bankroll. I played some big multi-table tournament for a change and was able to make a nice cash-out of $145. This hand was very important in the ‘final’ phase of the tourney:

So I make a standard raise with pocket Queens and the chipleader shoves all-in with his enormous stack. Now with QQ you only fear two hands: KK and AA. Now it makes no sense to just shove with those 2 hands so I had to call. It sucks to play a coinflip situation for your entire stack but luckily it held up. This means it’s $868 vs $802 (Mr. Blue) now, so the battle can be over any moment now…

Submitted by Mr. White

Btw: Mr. Brown is playing on Party Poker now, he said it’s interesting when you use the Party Poker Bonus Code.

Yes we had enough of it :p . A really big gap came into existance between Mr. White+Mr.Blue and Mr. Brown and myself, it’s $576+$540 versus $318 and $302. Luckily we have a plan to catch them again.

First things first: where does Mr. Blue’s fresh cash come from? Well he made an important cash-out in a $24+2 sit and go with 45 players. He finished in fourth place, resulting in $108. He needed a little luck on the final table though, the keyhand:

So he’s really shortstacked and shoves with J9, I suppose hoping nobody will call. Another shortstack wakes up with AJ suited but Mr. Blue catches the straight on the flop. Mr. White also made about $80 profit, playing the $20 buy-in 6 handed tourneys. As he talks enough about his play when he submits a post himself, I will not further disturb you with that ;) .

Now what happened to me this time? I was playing a sng with 18 players and reached the finale table, where we were down to six players. The player to my right came to the table as the chipleader and had been bullying a lot since the beginning, resulting in some losses. Then came the following hand:

So he raises my big blind again and I push his short stack all-in with AT suited. I was surprised he actually had a legitimate hand, but OK it still was a coinflip. Of course he has to flop a full house and river quads and I finish 5th, that is indeed on the bubble…

Because Mr. Brown also had a disappointing period again we have decided it’s time to take some risk: we agreed to not play according to our bankroll anymore and play for 10% of our bankroll each (about $30 per tournament) time till we go broke or have reached $1000 :) .

Submitted by Ms. Pink