What A Sick Beat!
This is somewhat of a long-winded bad beat story. Read at your own risk.
I usually don't stew over beats, but tonight, I'm hurtin. Earlier today, I woke up and remembered I did well last night. Every night, Stars has a $20/2 MTT, and I couldn't wait for tonight's to start. I decided to win the buy-in playing $2/4 6Max, and after winning $100 in about 20 minutes, I knew it was going to be a good day.
Money-wise, the day is green. But, why am I sitting here w/ an empty feeling in my stomach?
Let me set the stage. Last night, I go 18/1066. A good win, I'm happy w/ it, etc. Tonight, there are right under 1000 entrants (976 maybe?) and the tournament payout is equally as good. The first hour is solid. I win the first hand of the tournament, and I keep going up from there. At the first break, I have a respectable ~T$3470. I play the second hour like I should ... I wasn't exactly a BIG stack, but I wasn't short stacked either. By the beginning of the third hour, I was getting short stacked. This was a bubble situation, and I had approximately 10BB's left.
~ I get AKo, and I push in MP. Folded, and I take the blinds. This is what I wanted.
~ Then I get AA. 3 from ITM, which is a weenie $35ish until we get deeper. LOL:
PokerStars Game #2564369320: Tournament #12384146
Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2005/09/13 - 02:11:48 (ET)
Table '12384146 108'
Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: masta p (19199 in chips)
Seat 2: troutman45 (30720 in chips)
Seat 3: pmen28 (23195 in chips)
Seat 4: phillyblunt2 (34628 in chips)
Seat 6: titanabe9 (12860 in chips)
Seat 7: Aequitas58 (10610 in chips)
Seat 8: TrafficKing (31174 in chips)
Seat 9: Theril7 (3230 in chips)
pmen28: posts small blind 400
phillyblunt2: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Aequitas58 [Ac Ah]
titanabe9: folds
Aequitas58: raises 1600 to 2400
TrafficKing: folds
Theril7: folds
masta p: folds
troutman45: folds
pmen28: folds
phillyblunt2: calls 1600
*** FLOP *** [9s 7c 7h]
phillyblunt2: bets 6400
Aequitas58: raises 1760 to 8160 and is all-in
phillyblunt2: calls 1760
phillyblunt2 said, "i had to after i commited myself"
*** TURN *** [9s 7c 7h] [4s]
phillyblunt2 said, "spdae"
*** RIVER *** [9s 7c 7h 4s] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
phillyblunt2: shows [Ks 5s] (a flush, King high)
Aequitas58: shows [Ac Ah] (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
Aequitas58 said, "lol"
The pot was over T$20k, which would have given me ammo to get deep - and I would have. The best part of all of this was that we were 3 from getting ITM!!! Ahh FUCK ME. For those keeping score at home, I was a 95% favorite. That's 95% chance I get ITM two nights in a row w/ tournament sizes of 1000 players each.
It doesn't get worse than this kids. At least my game is sharp.
On a related note, the Eagles lost the season opener to the Atlanta Falcons. Fuck.
--
Lou
I usually don't stew over beats, but tonight, I'm hurtin. Earlier today, I woke up and remembered I did well last night. Every night, Stars has a $20/2 MTT, and I couldn't wait for tonight's to start. I decided to win the buy-in playing $2/4 6Max, and after winning $100 in about 20 minutes, I knew it was going to be a good day.
Money-wise, the day is green. But, why am I sitting here w/ an empty feeling in my stomach?
Let me set the stage. Last night, I go 18/1066. A good win, I'm happy w/ it, etc. Tonight, there are right under 1000 entrants (976 maybe?) and the tournament payout is equally as good. The first hour is solid. I win the first hand of the tournament, and I keep going up from there. At the first break, I have a respectable ~T$3470. I play the second hour like I should ... I wasn't exactly a BIG stack, but I wasn't short stacked either. By the beginning of the third hour, I was getting short stacked. This was a bubble situation, and I had approximately 10BB's left.
~ I get AKo, and I push in MP. Folded, and I take the blinds. This is what I wanted.
~ Then I get AA. 3 from ITM, which is a weenie $35ish until we get deeper. LOL:
PokerStars Game #2564369320: Tournament #12384146
Hold'em No Limit - Level X (400/800) - 2005/09/13 - 02:11:48 (ET)
Table '12384146 108'
Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: masta p (19199 in chips)
Seat 2: troutman45 (30720 in chips)
Seat 3: pmen28 (23195 in chips)
Seat 4: phillyblunt2 (34628 in chips)
Seat 6: titanabe9 (12860 in chips)
Seat 7: Aequitas58 (10610 in chips)
Seat 8: TrafficKing (31174 in chips)
Seat 9: Theril7 (3230 in chips)
pmen28: posts small blind 400
phillyblunt2: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Aequitas58 [Ac Ah]
titanabe9: folds
Aequitas58: raises 1600 to 2400
TrafficKing: folds
Theril7: folds
masta p: folds
troutman45: folds
pmen28: folds
phillyblunt2: calls 1600
*** FLOP *** [9s 7c 7h]
phillyblunt2: bets 6400
Aequitas58: raises 1760 to 8160 and is all-in
phillyblunt2: calls 1760
phillyblunt2 said, "i had to after i commited myself"
*** TURN *** [9s 7c 7h] [4s]
phillyblunt2 said, "spdae"
*** RIVER *** [9s 7c 7h 4s] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
phillyblunt2: shows [Ks 5s] (a flush, King high)
Aequitas58: shows [Ac Ah] (two pair, Aces and Sevens)
Aequitas58 said, "lol"
The pot was over T$20k, which would have given me ammo to get deep - and I would have. The best part of all of this was that we were 3 from getting ITM!!! Ahh FUCK ME. For those keeping score at home, I was a 95% favorite. That's 95% chance I get ITM two nights in a row w/ tournament sizes of 1000 players each.
It doesn't get worse than this kids. At least my game is sharp.
On a related note, the Eagles lost the season opener to the Atlanta Falcons. Fuck.
--
Lou
posted by Aequitas58 at 2:37 AM
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