Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Loose talkers, tight players

That seemed to fit my table at the tournament. Everyone was mouthing off pre-game on how they would go all in all the time; but when push came to shove they didn't.

As usual I got nothing until 10 minutes before the rebuy when I doubled up twice to land at 5000 chips. Just after the rebuy period I had JJ and went up against AA (I put him on AK which in hind sight was a bad read). Very luckily I flopped a jack and was suddenly up to 9000 in chips.

I wasted some of it on a bad raise, followed by a bad bet and a bad call. I had 99 and a player that vigorously defended his blinds called me. FLop came AK and I played the hand like I had an ace. Which unfortunately he had. He went all in and I only had to call 1000 chips. Which was so stupid since I knew I was beat.

Oh well. Two hands after I had 96s under the gun and limped in. The same guy raised 1000 preflop and everyone folded to me. I decided to go all in. Since I had been playing a solid game up to those nines I figured he would fold to my "posing as AA/KK". The rest of the table was sure I had just that and apparently so did he because he folded.

The rest of the game consisted of me getting blinded down until I got 33 in a late position. I did the old string bet bluff with all my chips and got called by the big blind. He had TT and the tournament was over, I finished 14th.

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