Wednesday Night $30+$3 LHE Tourney Report
I decided during the day that I would play in this tourney, my first really significant online tourney except for the WSOP Main Event FPP Qualifier last May. I started off with this really LAGgy guy to my right, and he somewhat dictated the pace early on--not that it would've mattered--I was totally card-dead.
11:01 pm (T1580): I steal a couple blinds, and am starting off well.
11:06 pm (T1620): I flop top two with AJs, but get no action on my turn bet. Not bad, though.
11:16 pm (T1350): I get pushed off a pot by Mr. LAG. I have AJo, flop is A-T-T. I raise pre-flop, raise the flop, and he re-raises me. When he leads out on the turn, I let the hand go, figuring him on KT or the like. Meh.
11:26 pm (T1005): Best hand of the night. QQ in the SB. LAG boy of course raises from the button. I oblige and re-raise him. The flop is the beautiful J-8-Q, but they're all clubs. The turn is the King of clubs, I bet, he raises, and I flat call him. The river completes the flush on board, and I lead out with him calling. He shows AJ of hearts, and splits the pot. This guy was behind the whole way. Maybe I should've re-raised the turn--would you have re-raised it? Didn't think so.
11:27 pm (T1140): Next hand, I raise with QJ on the button. Flop is 6-6-5. I lead out and get called. The turn brings a Queen. I lead out and am called again in two places. The river is the Ace of hearts, and it gets checked around. LAG-boy shows me A4o to beat me. The second caller shows 84o, finishing 3rd in a 3-horse race. I'm pissed at this point.
11:39 pm (T1290): I pick up a nice pot with AQs when a Queen falls on the turn, and all I get are folds.
11:49 pm (T915): I get 33 in MP, and flop a set. No callers. Damnit.
12:20 am (T815): Beginning to run for my life at this point. Blinds are 75/150, I raise in MP with QJ (tricky, aren't I), and pick up a pot with a turn bet with just my overcards.
12:29 am (T1040): Q8o in the BB. I open-raise pre-flop, get a call from UTG. Bet the flop on a bluff and I take it down. Hey, any way you can, right?
12:30 am (T1440): Same thing with A8o from the button.
12:37 am (T1390): Big pot win. I pick up KJ on the button, and open-raise. The flop comes 9-5-K rainbow. UTG bets. I raise and take down the pot.
12:40 am (T2590): In better shape. I just noticed that I outlasted PokerStars' uber-star Jennicide. I pick up AJs UTG+1, raise it up, and when an Ace falls on the flop , take down the pot with a bet.
12:43 am (T2440): The crippler. Our table chip leader (think he was #2 overall) took me for most of my chips. AJs on the button. I raise pre-flop, and get two callers (CO-1--the chip leader, and the SB). I flop a nut flush draw, with a T-7-3 flop, bigger cards being spades. Chip leader bets, and I raise. I still get called...(is trouble afoot?). Turn pairs a 7, I bet and get called. River is a 4. It's checked around to me, so I take one last stab at the pot. Chip leader calls, and flips over K3o. He called me down with BOTTOM PAIR. Worst part is that this guy got hit with the deck all night. Limps with Q2--flop comes Q-Q-6, turn is the deuce. Stuff like that.
12:47 am (T340): All-in with A4o from UTG, I don't improve and I go home in 37th place of 139 players.
Not too bad for being card-dead. An amazing fact: I finished 37th in the tourney (with the top 18 getting paid) without winning a single hand at showdown. I split the pot with the QQ hand. Other than that, not a single win of mine went to showdown. 37th is a sort of moral victory, though. I outlasted Mr. LAG from earlier, and played fairly well despite my lack of cards. A fun time. I'd obviously rather have finished ITM, but overall, encouraging signs.
An observation: The blind structures in the limit tournies on Stars are BRUTAL. At no point did the chip leader have more than 25BB, and the average stack moved between 6-8BB during basically the whole tournament. It moved the tourney fast, but it turned it into a card-catching contest at times.
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