Weekend Wrap

Well of the tournaments I listed yesterday, the only one I cashed in was the Cake 150k. But wow, that was close. 33k for first, was third in chips with 40 to go. Then lost a race with 8s against AQ, then reraised all in with JJ from sb and bb woke up with KK, then shoved random A and couldn't suck out on 8s for 25th. Disappointing. I was feeling it too. Also built up nice early stack in Sunday Million, then played pretty atrociously from that point on. I'll review that hand history at some point.

Despite those disappointments, along with my bubble in 250k, hard to complain about the weekend as a whole. Looking back over Warmup win, was hit was the deck with the deck pretty good at the final table, with aces, kings, jacks and tens. And better yet, managed to play decently big pots with basically all those hands, which is just as important as picking up the hands in the first place. And had a decent amount of other raising hands, pairs and AJ and stuff like that.

This is the race I never had to win:
Stage #1143028182 Tourney ID 1974593 Holdem Multi Normal Tournament No Limit $5000 - 2008-04-05 18:01:46 (ET)
Table: 11 (Real Money) Seat #3 is the dealer
Seat 1 - GOROYALBLUE ($44258 in chips)
Seat 2 - BBOUJA ($73215.50 in chips)
Seat 3 - BZIMZIM ($149626.50 in chips)
Seat 4 - KINGOFTROY8 ($140610.50 in chips)
Seat 5 - MRPUMPKIN107 ($53228 in chips)
Seat 6 - ELHOLANDES ($95282 in chips)
Seat 7 - JOHNNY2912 ($111324 in chips)
GOROYALBLUE - Ante $250
BBOUJA - Ante $250
BZIMZIM - Ante $250
KINGOFTROY8 - Ante $250
MRPUMPKIN107 - Ante $250
ELHOLANDES - Ante $250
JOHNNY2912 - Ante $250
KINGOFTROY8 - Posts small blind $2500
MRPUMPKIN107 - Posts big blind $5000
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to BZIMZIM [10d 10s]
ELHOLANDES - Folds
JOHNNY2912 - Folds
GOROYALBLUE - Folds
BBOUJA - Folds
BZIMZIM - Raises $13000 to $13000
KINGOFTROY8 - Raises $43500 to $46000
MRPUMPKIN107 - Folds
BZIMZIM - All-In(Raise) $136376.50 to $149376.50
KINGOFTROY8 - Folds
BZIMZIM - returned ($103376.50) : not called
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BZIMZIM - Does not show
BZIMZIM Collects $98750 from main pot

He then told me he didn't believe I had a big hand, but that he folded AQ, which I thought was a hilarious statement. He said he didn't want to get his whole stack in there with AQ. The rigidity of people's thinking amazes me sometimes. He reraised, he's getting 2:1, he's got a third of his stack in there, and he folds while saying he doesn't think I have a big hand. So instead of having to win a gigantic, tournament-defining flip, I'll take a third of his stack without a flop. Awesome. Feel free to make that fold anytime.

Aces in the bb:
Stage #1143037480 Tourney ID 1974593 Holdem Multi Normal Tournament No Limit $6000 - 2008-04-05 18:11:52 (ET)
Table: 3 (Real Money) Seat #2 is the dealer
Seat 2 - WSTELLIAN ($151597.50 in chips)
Seat 3 - MONCUR ($127464.50 in chips)
Seat 4 - BZIMZIM ($208076.50 in chips)
Seat 5 - ELHOLANDES ($233017.50 in chips)
Seat 8 - JOHNNY2912 ($227296.50 in chips)
Seat 9 - COIN GUY ($172547.50 in chips)
WSTELLIAN - Ante $300
MONCUR - Ante $300
BZIMZIM - Ante $300
ELHOLANDES - Ante $300
JOHNNY2912 - Ante $300
COIN GUY - Ante $300
MONCUR - Posts small blind $3000
BZIMZIM - Posts big blind $6000
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to BZIMZIM [Ah Ad]
ELHOLANDES - Folds
JOHNNY2912 - Folds
COIN GUY - Folds
WSTELLIAN - Folds
MONCUR - Raises $15000 to $18000
BZIMZIM - Calls $12000
*** FLOP *** [Qh Qs 10s]
MONCUR - Bets $12000
BZIMZIM - Calls $12000
*** TURN *** [Qh Qs 10s] [9s]
MONCUR - Bets $12000
BZIMZIM - Raises $30000 to $30000
MONCUR - Folds
BZIMZIM - returned ($18000) : not called
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BZIMZIM - Does not show
BZIMZIM Collects $85800 from main pot

Obviously wasn't crazy about that board at that point. That raise on the turn should give me a very good idea where I'm at. Could have raised the flop, in retrospect, if he doesn't give me credit for a Q, I wonder if I could have gotten him to shove a more marginal hand there, like a 10 or draw. But actually, I didn't really give him credit for that much. I kind of like it as played, picked off an extra 12k on the turn.

Hey another hand on the button!
Stage #1143050527 Tourney ID 1974593 Holdem Multi Normal Tournament No Limit $8000 - 2008-04-05 18:24:02 (ET)
Table: 3 (Real Money) Seat #4 is the dealer
Seat 2 - WSTELLIAN ($198595 in chips)
Seat 3 - MONCUR ($51467 in chips)
Seat 4 - BZIMZIM ($268026.50 in chips)
Seat 5 - ELHOLANDES ($215817.50 in chips)
Seat 8 - JOHNNY2912 ($255146.50 in chips)
Seat 9 - COIN GUY ($130947.50 in chips)
WSTELLIAN - Ante $400
MONCUR - Ante $400
BZIMZIM - Ante $400
ELHOLANDES - Ante $400
JOHNNY2912 - Ante $400
COIN GUY - Ante $400
ELHOLANDES - Posts small blind $4000
JOHNNY2912 - Posts big blind $8000
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to BZIMZIM [Js Jc]
COIN GUY - Folds
WSTELLIAN - Folds
MONCUR - Folds
BZIMZIM - Raises $20100 to $20100
ELHOLANDES - Raises $60200 to $64200
JOHNNY2912 - Folds
BZIMZIM - All-In(Raise) $247526.50 to $267626.50
ELHOLANDES - All-In $151217.50
BZIMZIM - returned ($52209) : not called
*** FLOP *** [Jd 2s 4s]
*** TURN *** [Jd 2s 4s] [5c]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 2s 4s 5c] [Ad]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BZIMZIM - Shows [Js Jc] (Three of a kind, jacks)
ELHOLANDES - Shows [Jh Ah] (Two Pair, aces and jacks)
BZIMZIM Collects $441235 from main pot

I wonder if my earlier shove where I got Troy to fold helped my here, and made it look like i was overplaying hands. Troy's call should have been clearcut I think, this one is less clearcut. A little deeper stack, so not quite as good a price, and the AJ instead of the AQ. Is he ever going to see a worse A here? I wouldn't really think so. Best case scenario is a race, but I would think he would be dominated here a lot, and not sure he's getting quite the right price. Not a bad call, but debatable perhaps. Whatever, ship.

An A+ laydown that makes me think about my play:
Stage #1143060706 Tourney ID 1974593 Holdem Multi Normal Tournament No Limit $10000 - 2008-04-05 18:33:44 (ET)
Table: 3 (Real Money) Seat #9 is the dealer
Seat 2 - WSTELLIAN ($189395 in chips)
Seat 3 - MONCUR ($24917 in chips)
Seat 4 - BZIMZIM ($610744 in chips)
Seat 8 - JOHNNY2912 ($160496.50 in chips)
Seat 9 - COIN GUY ($134447.50 in chips)
WSTELLIAN - Ante $500
MONCUR - Ante $500
BZIMZIM - Ante $500
JOHNNY2912 - Ante $500
COIN GUY - Ante $500
WSTELLIAN - Posts small blind $5000
MONCUR - Posts big blind $10000
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to BZIMZIM [Kd Kc]
BZIMZIM - Raises $25100 to $25100
JOHNNY2912 - Folds
COIN GUY - Calls $25100
WSTELLIAN - Folds
MONCUR - Folds
*** FLOP *** [8c Jd 8d]
BZIMZIM - Bets $30000
COIN GUY - Folds
BZIMZIM - returned ($30000) : not called
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BZIMZIM - Does not show
BZIMZIM Collects $67700 from main pot

What was interesting about this hand was that coin guy, who is a good player, told me he mucked 99 here, and I'll choose to believe him. For one thing, I don't know how it didn't get it pre, I'd certainly been raising enough. But I also wonder if my lead out bet, a little less then half the pot, gave away my hand a bit. Sometimes my lead out bet is a little smaller with a big hand, trying to invite a raise. This works great against bad players. But I wonder if players I see more frequently are beginning to pick up on that. Definitely time for a little more variety in my play against people I play against frequently.

Saw foolishgolf took down the dream package on AP last night, quite a ship. Never bothered to play that thing, with first being the only real prize just didn't seem worth my time, even though it would be awesome.

Back to work tonight.