I’m Back?
Last nights Riverchasers tourney was a very fun, and very educational experience.
Staying true to my word I began the event with a much looser range than I normally would. I did not stay as passive as I had intended as the players were allowing me to be both loose and aggressive. It was quite the eye opening experience taking this tact from the very beginning. It also helped that I had hoyazo at my table for most of the time. He stated that he would be playing tighter than a mouses ass till we reached the points so I took advantage of his big blind at every opportunity. He only played back at me once and I went ahead and released my hand. He then showed “the hammer”, but I’m alright with that. I took much more from him than I gave.
I found that in order to really play this style I had to pay much more attention to my opponents than I usually do. I always try to pick things up, but this time I really had to put my opponents on ranges. This worked out swimmingly and I was able to adapt to each player pretty easily.
There were only three hands throughout the entire tournament where I knew preflop what I wanted to accomplish, and how I was going to play post flop. Of these three hand I played one incorrectly and won, played one correctly and won, and finally played one correctly and lost. I’ve thought about discussing the one I played incorrectly but I’m going to wait and see if any other bloggers mention the hand before I address it. This is the first hand in the tournament that hoy actually used the chat window so it may be mentioned.
I hit a real rough spot near the end where I thought I would bust out before the money. I made a correct read and got unlucky. This left me last in chips but the same player later doubled me up to put me in the top 3 so it worked out.
When we hit the final table I decided to approach it like I would a SNG. This led me to make some plays that others may have viewed as reckless or incorrect, but I was shooting for first place and I was going to do what I thought I needed to get there. This worked out for me until we were down to the final three. I had 65% of the chips in play at this point
April 20th, 2007 at 10:52 am
While I recall typing “omg” or something like that in the chat, unfortunately I don’t remember any of the details of the hand you’re referring to. I think it was just a run of the mill suckout, right? No big deal about that, we all get some in every good mtt run. Anyways I thought you played awesomely last night, and in fact picking up that low pocket pair three-handed at the final table at the same time as Waffles’ pocket Kings is really what did you in. I don’t remember if you called allin or raised allin, but assuming it was a raise allin then surely you played that hand right and just got scrooged by a setup with two pocket pairs being out at once in a three-handed game.
Fun playing with you as always. And yeah, again sorry for the recockulous delay with the DADI bounty. And of course you can re-bounty it, trash it, or smoke it in a big fat bowl for all I care, it’s yours to do with what you will.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:20 am
always a joy to run into u at a final table.
April 20th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Actually he called my massive overbet for value.. but I have special powers that make people call me no matter what, hence, all the suckouts.
Good game man! You were tough.. I just let Smokkee take you down and then I schooled him and it all worked out for the best.