Tonight(or this morning to be more accurate) I was out for a bit and unable to get the full sked in as usual so I decided to just jump in the midnight ($11 1500chip tourney: Do I really play $11 tourneys, ah yes. I find nothing more entertaining than invested the ever severe .2% of my bankroll into a tournament) and the 1am ($26 3000 chip tourney). For the sake of this post, I played the 1am and got about halfway through and busted quite uneventfully so I won't mention any further on it. Now in the midnight, there are usually about 1900-2300 people entering during the week (with about 90% of them being the worst players on the site).
FT play-money player 1: Gee, I think I want to play poker for some real money, I find that I always am winning at the touraments I play and think I could show those people how to do it.
FT play-money player 2: I dont know man, I think its fixed, I always seem to see people making a flush whenever they play suited cards, that it why I limp and call a raise, a reraise and a rereraise with k4 suited, because a flush comes so much...you should put some money onto fulltilt, how about $11?! I'll stake you, you can play the midnight tournament and then we can molest each other two minutes later (that part maybe no word-for-word)
So these guniuses, I don't know how they got their money onto the site, decide to play the midnight tourney. First prize around $4000 most days so not bad investment for a possible $4k return and it requires very little focus, especially early. Within 20 minutes the field usually loses about 500 people (even with a decent structure for a small stake tourney - 50bbs, people somehow just fly outta this thing). This was a very weird tourney nonetheless, I was up and down and had some really interesting hands all culminating in a downward spiral of four awful hands...
Uh-oh I am short: blinds 25-50 stack 1400. about 1600/2201 people left.
I have AJo and I raise to 150 in the c/o. The button reraises to 250 (sounds queer I know, I thought that too). Sometimes I would fold here but considering it was so early I decided the idiot factor was too strong to be ignored and called. the flop came 943 all hearts. I have Ah. I decide to check and evaluate with the thought that since it is early I could stack here for funsies, unregister for the 1am and go to bed(cough masturbate cough). ONE problem, I have him covered, ohwell. He has about 850 on the flop and there is 575 in the pot. A way to know he is an idiot, he bets pot like it is the magical winning button that saves time and makes you win (lalala), where with one more click 'max' then bet, he would be all-in. I digress, I decide it would be fun to stack and move. He, get this, TANKS (uses his time bank to think - for those non-poker minds) and calls with A9d. He holds and I have around 400 left, huh. I shoulda know that min 3bet was A9 (soooted!).
Now is where I decide if I want to play anymore or just stack and go to bed. I surprisly am not that tired and I am watching the new episodes of the WSOP ME on pokertube.com (they don't pay me for promotions...yet) so I was still in the mood to play. I waited and picked spots and finally triple up when I move all-in utg with A5, the button calls and the bb isolates for 3k, the button folds and I get to 1300 when I flop a 5 and beat his AQo. YAY, Im back (should take the CAPS off, I wasn't really that excited and there was still a ton of people left and I was under the starting stack.
If you can't beat em, join em..play like an idiot to beat idiots "nice min raise"
My buddy Rich has become a supporter of the min raise or just over min raise in tourneys these days (more on that later) and I agree that it can be so sexy for your game. HOWEVER, early in a tournament I see little to no value in doing it. And the worst, are the manners in which these toads are using the min-raise button. How on god's green earth are you min-raising in the sb after two early position limps?! It's like taking a kicker in the 3rd round of a fantasy football league - everybody talks about how dumb it is but you don't fully realise it til you see your buddy passing up on starting RB's to get Steven Godkoswki(I can't spell it, fuck em).
So I'm just chillin around 1300 for awhile til I pick up AA in the bb with the blinds at 50-100, it goes limp, limp, limp, limp, limp, a couple folds mixed in,then the sb makes a sick play, he MIN raises, WTF, well done bud, did I miss a chapter in Supersystem or is that a move you learned playing for cheerios down at the soup kitchen (regular worth 1, multigrain worth 2 and the rare honey nut worth 5!). I decide with so many limpers it would be fun to see a flop and try to get some more money in the pot. However, I can't just call, that would be silly...BUT I can raise...So I min raise! haha "make it 300 to go suckas!!" The action goes around and two fold but we have 5 of us going to the flop (a $1500 pot, yippee!) the flop comes 1074, stellar, I think okay, there is enough out there, after the sb checks I move all-in for 1000 and get three, count em three callers! what a cooler, someone has a set I think, they show their hands, sb has AJ, one has q10 and the last man who called had the devilish J9, wow so sick!! haha. I fade the 8, Queen and 10 and more than quadruple up! haza! I chill for a while til we get to the money, it usually happens by about 215am, and I'm pretty sure I cash in this specific tourney about 40% of the time, no lie.
I chill and and chip up pretty consistently until we get down to about 100 players and we are getting into the deep money, like $28.41 we're talking about! This is when I start to turn it on, I am raising and reraising and just murdering people, I move from 22k (about 30bbs) up to 90k without being all-in within about ten minutes, just picking on the weak players or are planning on moving up in the money to get the extra $2 that is offered if you outlast 13 more people. Getting late I am raising 2.1-2.3x with everything and it is working like a charm, as we get down to 25 people I am in the top 5, not good for the field, I check everyone left at my table and only one guy is a winning player and he has profitted a cool $300 out of $5k in cashes, IDIOTs!
I get into a fun couple hands where the guy two to my right(always on the button when im in the bb) starts stealing my raises spots and raising me, bastard! I decide we better put our dinks on the table and see whats what. I repop him (this sounds a lot like the story matt damon tells Ganish about Johnny Chan at the turkish bath but it doesnt stay that way) three or four times and he finally ef's off. He seemed like he was getting sick of it and he raises my bb again, we are two of the bigger stacks so I don't wanna tangle but I would. I have 99 in the bb and he makes it 2.5x to 25k, I reraise to 65k and he tanks and repops to 147k. Hey! This is button/sb/bb play, he can't have it, can he? I shove for my 310k and he tanks, wow he really got caught 4betting here and I 5bet him out with half his stack in the middle. He folded and I took a huge pot.
The end is where it is not so fun, with the blinds at 10-20k 2k ante, I am raising a good amount but everyone is shoving on me, I keep having to fold until I raise in the c/o wiht A6o to 44500 and the sb shoves for around 120-130ish, whatever the number was I was getting about 2-1 and I thought I had to make a stand, I was also the chip leader at over 600k so I could afford calling it. (btw chip leader with 30bbs, crazy, I know!) I call he shows A10o and I lose. two hands late, with 13people left I am just looking to make the final table. I raise utg to 44k with AJo and the bb moves for 164k. I call, kinda frustrated but having a good feeling that he thought I was raising with anything, he shows 77 and I lose to that. Another couple hands later I am at 280k and have 66 onthe button, a short stack min raises, seems decent but I don;t know what to do, he has about 160k. Fulltilt freezes and my comp is shutting it down...oHno! it must have hit my disconnect button cause I signed back on and still had a chance, I shove and he tanks then calls with 1010, crap, I lose again. down to 89k, blinds 10k-20k I move utg A3c, gotta be a favourite, get insta called and lose to AKo, out, lost 1/4 of the chips in play in 8 hands and Im out.
13th place for $165 or something, woohooo.
The funny part was the way it went down, I was playing a bunch of idiots, raising and taking everything and avoiding conflict, I made one thin-ish call and everything went down hill from there. If I were to bet I woulda said I was a lock to win that tourney, no one else knew what they were doing. Ohwell, like I said, I was over it right away...More entertainment but great to try new stuff and see how it works.
Sorry not much in the way of educational this time but definately just a way to vent and a reason to stay up later, bedtime was at 11pm, score!
had a great party last night, the gf organized all my friends to come out, and beau, to go downtown for my going away, so fun, my stomach hurts, I think someone put something in my beer, something poisonous. All for now, TTYL.
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