Played in the Stars .50 MTT tonight at 8PM. I played a great tourney, doubled up early with JJ vs. Ax and Qx (?!), and rode it from there. At one point I got low when I shoved AKs against a preflop all in and got called by AA. I shoved a couple hands in a row and got back, only to shove with AKs against a preflop raiser, this time getting called by KK, except I caught my A and tripled up. Thing was, I was right about my shoves, I was even money against a small pair, just ran into bad hands behind me.
I spent a large portion of the tourney in the top 30. When it got down to 3 tables, I had a great streak of cards with KK 2x, QQ 1x, AK, and was shoving with them, hoping to be called because I was playing a lot of hands, and never had to show. Well, I got in a hands with JJ. UTG has M<4, raises all in, big stack calls. I sit for a while and Shove. Big stack sits for a while, finally calls. both have ATo. I’m in great shape – like 85% to win because they’re using each other’s outs. Flop comes with a T, turn has an A (?!) and I’m gone by the big stack. I shoved because I wanted it heads up and hoped the big stack would not call, but I guess all that aggressiveness ensured my doom. With my M of 7ish, I wasn’t letting it go.
Oh well, I came in 20th out of 2500 people, although I only got about 2 bucks and my entry for my 5 hours of work… I really was happy with the way I played, just couldn’t close. Made a buyin on UB, too.
September 13, 2007 at 3:10 pm |
20th out of 2500 people is an excellent showing. It’s obvious to me that you’re very strong in multi-table tournaments. All this practice will do you good when the time comes that you can afford to play in a WSOP event where the buy-in is $1500-$2500. Keep up the hard work.
You aggressiveness was not your demise. The donks just got lucky against you. Here are the Poker Stove numbers:
227,556 games 0.070 secs 3,250,799 games/sec
Board: Tc 7d 5h
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 87.043% 87.04% 00.00% 198072 0.00 { JJ }
Hand 1: 06.478% 00.00% 06.48% 0 14742.00 { ATo }
Hand 2: 06.478% 00.00% 06.48% 0 14742.00 { ATo }