October 23, 2005
Skip if poker talk makes you sleepy
I went out on pocket jacks at the blogger tournament today and promptly played another freeroll tourney on Party. This is one of the more exciting hands:
***** Hand History for Game 2921764149 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:16824350 Level:5 Blinds (50/100) - Sunday, October 23, 21:03:25 EDT 2005
Table $2,500 Players Club Freeroll(494611) Table #30 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 3: WELLS17 ( $345 )
Seat 6: kashei ( $7083 )
Seat 8: jerrydel1 ( $570 )
Seat 1: CATMANLOL ( $1791 )
Seat 2: mordain76 ( $3972 )
Seat 10: shki_1 ( $3025 )
Seat 7: terra451 ( $1155 )
Seat 9: Ameriprise ( $3230 )
Seat 5: teetee825 ( $1435 )
Trny:16824350 Level:5
Blinds (50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to kashei [ 3s As ]
Ameriprise calls [100].
shki_1 folds.
CATMANLOL folds.
mordain76 folds.
WELLS17 folds.
teetee825 folds.
kashei calls [100].
terra451 is all-In [1105]
jerrydel1 folds.
Ameriprise folds.
kashei calls [1055].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3d, 8s, Ad ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ah ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
terra451 shows [ Ts, Th ] a full house, Aces full of tens.
kashei shows [ 3s, As ] four of a kind, aces.
kashei wins 2510 chips from the main pot with four of a kind, aces.
Player terra451 finished in 792 place
terra451 has left the table.
The Small Blind left the table. The Dealer button remains in place.
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Bad play, good ending.
Posted by: Jay at October 23, 2005 09:39 PMHow was that a bad play? I was big stack, he was short stack.
Posted by: Karol at October 23, 2005 09:44 PMCame in 121 over at PokerStars (short of the tee-shirt, dammit) but I got to win a couple of pots off of Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) so I'm a happy camper.
Posted by: Mark Poling at October 23, 2005 10:15 PMBut his stack wasn't so short as to be irrelevant; and since he's going all-in, ya gotta assume he's got a pocket pair or an a-x (and a bigger x than you.) So at best you're only a slight underdog, unless he's bluffing an all-in.
You wouldn't want to risk doubling him up, especially since at that point it wasn't really important to eliminate people yourself (700+ players remaining?)
Posted by: Jay at October 23, 2005 10:42 PMI'm with Jay. Really bad play. You are a big dog to most of the hands that will make that move. Not only is he likely to have Ax or a pair, but the pair is certainly higher than your 3, so you are playing with just your ace.
I finished in 314th because I couldn't lay down QQ preflop even though I kind of sensed that the big stack had me beat. (He did.)
Posted by: Charles at October 24, 2005 12:53 AMHow did you finish in the Party tournament?
Posted by: Charles at October 24, 2005 12:54 AMI saw it as a desperate move of a short stacked player. Also, the fact that that thousand wouldn't have made a big dent in my stack definitely factored in.
I was in the top 150. I get tired and lose focus and generally feel like I can't play big tournaments well at all.
Last night I layed down pocket jacks after the flop to a small bet. I find pocket pairs a lot easier to lay down than aces.
Posted by: Karol at October 24, 2005 01:07 AMI have no idea what any of this means...
Posted by: Dave at October 24, 2005 08:31 AMWow. Nice ending. Seeing this play alone it seems like a bad move, but it sounds like you may have had this player figured out.
Posted by: Nate at October 24, 2005 09:06 AMWow. Nice ending. Seeing this play alone it seems like a bad move, but it sounds like you may have had this player figured out.
Well, but for the fact that she didn't have him figured out. Karol was behind when the money went into the pot. And with the blinds at 50/100 (s)he wasn't really so short stacked that (s)he needed to push 1150 into the pot with, say, KQ from middle position.
And as neat as it must have been to make quad aces, the hand was more or less over when you flopped an ace.
Posted by: ugarte at October 24, 2005 11:33 AM(s)he = terra451
"And" = annoying construction that I'll stop overusing.
Yesterday was crazy. I lost 4,000 in chips in a manner of minutes - immediately after you made a comment on the table chat - hmm... :)
Posted by: Alceste at October 24, 2005 12:07 PMKarol, do you know about pokerhand.org to make posts like this easier to read?
Posted by: SS at October 24, 2005 03:21 PMI was big stack, he was short stack.
There is such a depth of innuendo there...
Posted by: Shawn at October 24, 2005 10:58 PM
