Ultimate Bet Has Been Rough

Seems like there are many more tougher players at UB as of late. That combined with the fact that I've been beaten set over set twice in 3 days for a buy-in has made this bonus hunt extremely -EV. Winning breeds winning, and right now, I'm not breeding a damn thing. Lost half a buy in with AK when I flopped TPTK, bet the pot and got called by a guy with QQ who hit his Q on the turn. They're not necessarily bad plays--just bad luck. I couldn't have laid down QQ there either, so even though the guy did hit a two-outer, I'd have done the same thing (except I would have gotten ALL of my stack).

I feel like I'm playing solid, but just not getting any luck. See this example:

Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold'em, $.25 BB (9 handed)


MP1 ($21)
MP2 ($24.75)
MP3 ($3.90)
CO = Villain ($29.60)
Button ($24.40)
SB ($12.25)
Hero ($28.75)
UTG ($11.50)
UTG+1 ($22.20)

Preflop: Hero is BB with Kh, 7h.

UTG calls $0.25, UTG+1 raises to $0.5, MP1 calls $0.50, 2 folds, Villain calls $0.50, Button calls $0.50, Ricky calls $0.50, Hero calls $0.25, UTG calls $0.25.

Flop: ($3.60) 7s, 6c, 7c (7 players)

Hero bets $0.75, UTG calls $0.75, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, Villain raises to $3.5, Button folds, Hero raises to $14.35, UTG folds, Villlain goes all-in for $29.10, Hero goes all-in for $28.25, Villain returned $0.85 (uncalled)

Final Pot: $60.35

Results in white below:

Villain shows Ah, 7d, and has three of a kind, sevens, ace kicker.
Hero shows Kh, 7h, and has three of a kind, sevens, king kicker.
Villain wins $57.35

Of course he had the case seven AND the ace kicker...just some bad luck. What are you gonna do?

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World Series of Poker Results

Event #2 (NLHE $1500 buy-in)--2305 entries!
Allen Cunningham won this one, beating out Scott Fischman (2nd), and Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot (3rd) for the first prize of $725k. Last year's main event was the largest live poker tournament ever. If the Rio hadn't capped entries, this would have beaten it. And to think that this year's first eventhad a first prize that was just about the same size as when Phil Hellmuth won the main event in 1989--that shows how much poker has grown. As for other notables, An Tran finished 7th, and Hellmuth took 24th in this event.

Event #3 (PLHE $1500 buy-in)--1071 entries
Congrats to Thom Werthmann who outlasted Layne Flack and Tony Ma for the $369k first prize.

Event #4 (LHE $1500)--1049 entries
Eric Froelich won the $361k first prize and became the youngest player ever to win a WSOP bracelet.

Event #5 (O8B $1500)--699 entries
Pat Poels got through a tough field and won $270k.

Event #6 (SH NLHE $2500)--548 entries
Isaac Galazan outlasted Harry Demetriou and Antonio Esfandiari to take home $315k and a bracelet.

Event #7 (NLHE $1000+rebuys)--826 entries, 1495 rebuys
Have I ever mentioned how much I HATE rebuys? As of this writing, the event is at the final table, and Chuck Thompson is the chip leader with 544k. Phil Gordon is still in, but short stacked at about 125k.

Event #8 (7 Stud $1500)--472 entries
They're down to the final 20, with play resuming later today.

A big thanks to Dr. Pauly for his updates, and to Poker Player Newspaper for final results.

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A final note, I was drawn out on in back-to-back hands. Pocket 7's UTG +1. I raise pre-flop, get 1 caller. The flop comes 9-9-T. I bet the pot plus, and get called. Turn card is a Q. Caller goes all-in for much more than I have, and I fold. Correctly, I might add, since he showed me his KJo. Two hands later, I flop the Broadway straight (with 2 hearts on board--Q-T-J) with AKs, bet the pot. Turn card pairs the board (a Jh, I believe), I bet the pot again, and the river is the 2h. I go all-in for my remaining pittance, and this guy flips over his KK (with a heart), for his runner-runner flush. Buy-in gone, IGHN. Oh well. It's what happens when you run cold. C'est la vie!