I hate turbos, but they are quick, so I chose to play the $15 and the $150 but not the $1500. Sure enough, within an hour I was reduced to push/fold on both tables. I actually picked up a lot of big hands in the $150, but it didn’t do me any good. I was either getting no action, getting sucked out on, or losing races. The only kinda interesting hand is this one, in which I got a little FPS’y and a lot of unlucky:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $150+$12 Tournament, 60/120 Blinds 15 Ante (8 handed) – Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Hero (BB) (t6871)
UTG (t3790)
UTG+1 (t3670)
MP1 (t7084)
MP2 (t3912)
CO (t4635)
Button (t11283)
SB (t3755)
Hero’s M: 22.90
Preflop: Hero is BB with J
, J
2 folds, MP1 bets t300, 4 folds, Hero raises to t900, MP1 calls t600
Flop: (t1980) 7, 9
, 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 checks
Turn: (t1980) Q (2 players)
Hero bets t1111, MP1 calls t1111
River: (t4202) 3 (2 players)
Hero bets t2845, MP1 calls t2845
Total pot: t9892
Results:
Hero had J, J (one pair, Jacks).
MP1 had K
, Q (one pair, Queens).
Outcome: MP1 won t9892
This is another one of those “good in a cash game but too fancy for a tournament” plays that I just can’t help making. It’s worth pointing out that I’d been 3-betting a lot (always with hands, but they never got shown down), and in a high stakes cash game people will steal very aggressively when you check flops like this to them. I’m just giving up so often when I check here. It’s actually probably better to do this with QQ or KK than with JJ, since JJ actually has better equity against Villain’s shoving range if I bet the flop.
The other thing that threw me off was that in the FTOPS, the Second Chance event gave every player a free rebuy that expired if you didn’t use it during the rebuy period. I foolishly assumed Stars would work the same way and was actively trying to get my chips in during the last few minutes of the rebuy period, only to find that I was charged $15 when I did rebuy. Thankfully that was just on the smaller table, though I did end up rebuying on the $150 as well.
All in all, though, it was a good session. I made solid money on the cash games while wasting very little time or money on the tournaments.
The 5-card draw Event 3 would have been fun, but today was laundry day. 🙁