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May 27, 2007, 4PM: Played 4 hours, 37 minutes at Poker Stars
$200 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (52nd out of 1237 Players)

Jesse took 1/2 my action and paid the juice. (DeiYuo)
 
2 hands happened within minutes of this tournament that almost through me off my game.
 
 
Hand #1:
 
PokerStars Game #10137282600: Tournament #50597871, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2007/05/27 - 20:19:45 (ET)
Table '50597871 63' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: TOisbig (12160 in chips)
Seat 2: JEUX D PLAGE (7252 in chips)
Seat 3: bikocruz (11477 in chips)
Seat 4: berchem13 (4540 in chips)
Seat 5: mtcarddealer (12855 in chips)
Seat 6: keke22 (5910 in chips)
Seat 7: DR TOOTH (4840 in chips)
Seat 8: Deu_Zebra (1800 in chips)
Seat 9: mister mist (4758 in chips)
TOisbig: posts the ante 10
JEUX D PLAGE: posts the ante 10
bikocruz: posts the ante 10
berchem13: posts the ante 10
mtcarddealer: posts the ante 10
keke22: posts the ante 10
DR TOOTH: posts the ante 10
Deu_Zebra: posts the ante 10
mister mist: posts the ante 10
DR TOOTH: posts small blind 100
Deu_Zebra: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mtcarddealer [Ts Th]
mister mist: folds
TOisbig: folds
JEUX D PLAGE: folds
bikocruz: folds
berchem13: raises 600 to 800
mtcarddealer: calls 800
keke22: folds
DR TOOTH: folds
Deu_Zebra: folds
*** FLOP *** [9d 7c Tc]
berchem13: bets 1000
mtcarddealer: raises 1325 to 2325
berchem13: raises 1325 to 3650
mtcarddealer: raises 1325 to 4975
berchem13: calls 80 and is all-in
Click here for the odds when the chips go all in.
*** TURN *** [9d 7c Tc] [8c]
*** RIVER *** [9d 7c Tc 8c] [6h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
berchem13: shows [As Ks] (a straight, Six to Ten)
mtcarddealer: shows [Ts Th] (a straight, Six to Ten)
berchem13 collected 4725 from pot
mtcarddealer collected 4725 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9450 | Rake 0
Board [9d 7c Tc 8c 6h]
Seat 1: TOisbig folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: JEUX D PLAGE folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: bikocruz folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: berchem13 showed [As Ks] and won (4725) with a straight, Six to Ten
Seat 5: mtcarddealer showed [Ts Th] and won (4725) with a straight, Six to Ten
Seat 6: keke22 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: DR TOOTH (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: Deu_Zebra (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: mister mist folded before Flop (didn't bet)
 
 
Hand #2
 
PokerStars Game #10137347511: Tournament #50597871, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (150/300) - 2007/05/27 - 20:23:59 (ET)
Table '50597871 63' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: TOisbig (11750 in chips)
Seat 2: JEUX D PLAGE (6742 in chips)
Seat 3: bikocruz (12142 in chips)
Seat 4: berchem13 (4475 in chips)
Seat 5: mtcarddealer (12990 in chips)
Seat 6: keke22 (6540 in chips)
Seat 7: DR TOOTH (5070 in chips)
Seat 9: mister mist (5883 in chips)
TOisbig: posts the ante 15
JEUX D PLAGE: posts the ante 15
bikocruz: posts the ante 15
berchem13: posts the ante 15
mtcarddealer: posts the ante 15
keke22: posts the ante 15
DR TOOTH: posts the ante 15
mister mist: posts the ante 15
bikocruz: posts small blind 150
berchem13: posts big blind 300
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mtcarddealer [Ks Kh]
mtcarddealer: raises 465 to 765
keke22: folds
DR TOOTH: folds
mister mist: folds
TOisbig: calls 765
JEUX D PLAGE: calls 765
bikocruz: folds
berchem13: folds
*** FLOP *** [2c Js 8c]
mtcarddealer: bets 1260
TOisbig: calls 1260
JEUX D PLAGE: folds
*** TURN *** [2c Js 8c] [6c]
mtcarddealer: checks
TOisbig: bets 1800
mtcarddealer: calls 1800
*** RIVER *** [2c Js 8c 6c] [9d]
mtcarddealer: checks
TOisbig: bets 7910 and is all-in
slightreturn is connected
mtcarddealer: calls 7910
*** SHOW DOWN ***
TOisbig: shows [7h 8h] (a pair of Eights)
mtcarddealer: shows [Ks Kh] (a pair of Kings)
mtcarddealer collected 24805 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 24805 | Rake 0
Board [2c Js 8c 6c 9d]
Seat 1: TOisbig showed [7h 8h] and lost with a pair of Eights
Seat 2: JEUX D PLAGE (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: bikocruz (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: berchem13 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: mtcarddealer showed [Ks Kh] and won (24805) with a pair of Kings
Seat 6: keke22 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: DR TOOTH folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: mister mist folded before Flop (didn't bet)
 
The thing that had me stumped on this hand was the outragous bet on the river.  Why so much I asked myself for about 40 seconds of my time bank clicking off.
 
After that hand got up to 25K, then donked off 10K with QQ.  Then took my 13K back into 20K to coast into the money.
 
Coasting through the money was ok, cause I did pick up a hand here and there and never committed myself till I got really short.  Didnt think I would make it to the 63place pay slot, then I double up with Ac9c against Qc9s.  Very next hand pick up AA and steal the blinds.  This allowed me to sneak into the 63 pay slot.
 
After getting there 3 players dropped in one hand.  I took a stab at the blinds with Ac7c with little over 3X the bb in my stack, and GOT A WALK.  Played through another round of blinds when someone in early pos raised with AcJc.  Enough to put me all-in.  I call with AdKh If I win that hand i have 40K with the blinds 1500/3000.  Flop came AcJhXh, fearful of AJ like always cause I seem to run into that hand with a bigger ace, and they seem to find the J more than the 18% or whatever they are supposed to.  This was the case.
 
Was really happy to make it as far as I did.
 
Had a big stack through the early rounds of the tournament, and just kinda sat on, not really feeling the need to risk little here little there.
 
Then when I was short stacked I played excellent.  Had the disipline to lay down JJ with an a on the board with the BB calling my raise.  (only had 7X the bb left after folding), could have been busted that hand.
 
Had the disipline to lay down A-X suited after getting put all in by a stack not much bigger than mine (leaving me with once again 7X the bb after folding).  Most people would have felt themselves committed to call, but I wanted to wait to get my chips in with the best hand.
 
Was really pleased with my performance for this tournament, and hope my WSOP event is played very similar.  Except for running into the donkeys that feel AJ is so powerful.
 
I am very confident in my tournament game right now, and I know when I get myself in front of people instead of the computer a lot more of my tournament skills come out.
 
Thats why DeiYuo is begging me a piece of my action.

Last Update: May 28, 2007, 2:13PM

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