I'll give you a quick run down of the tournament and then the hand I was ousted from the tournament with. I ran as bad as I could during the rebuy portion of the tournament. And of course as I continued to lose I increased my gambling. We will just say I was the "rebuy" leader of the tourny. After the rebuy period closed I hit a couple hands to push me up to 145K (twice avg). A small cooler put me down to about 110K after dinner. There was 16 left and 5 spots pay. 110K was good for average and I liked my table draw. UTG limped for 1600 as did I with a pretty big hand AcQd10d4c. A double suited hand with 3 high connecters is better than a limp hand, but I wanted to see a flop with it. With aggressive players behind I could just call or reraise if certain players popped it. One other person limped and Frank Kasella bet pot out of the SB. Frank had just lost a couple big pots and has a very wide range here. The BB folded and the UTG limper called. UTG is a novice to the game, but usually selects strong hands preflop. All of my options are available and could be correct. I was more worried about UTG than Frank and thought if I pushed that he could call me down with a hand that hand me in big trouble. But....with Frank spewing a little bit I felt a call was best. The other limper folded and with 32K in the pot the flop was QcJd4h giving me top and bottom pair with a gut shot and two back door flush draws. Frank had 32K in his hand and just dropped it in as the flop was being exposed. UTG folded and it was on me with 100K in front of me. Normally I would just shove, but Frank gave a speech that made me think he was strong. The hands I was worried about was JJxx and QJxx. Knowing that Frank would beat in the middle with any draw I decided to just call leaving myself 68K behind. I was going to fold if a A, J, 10, 9, or 8 hit the turn otherwise I was going with it. The turn was a 2s and he quickly annonce all in. I was still sure he liked his hand, but had no clue if I was ahead. I missed both my back doors, but after making the call on the turn I felt I had to call. He showed KhQsJs8h for top two. I needed a A, K or 4 to win, but the 9c fell and I was out. I'd like to think I am a pretty good PLO player, but I am unsure if my analysis of this hand is correct for tounament play. Unfortunatley all the good PLO players I knew were playing, so I will have to wait to run down the hand with them.
There is a 500 NLHE today and I will be playing. Yesterday was a miserable day that had me a huge loser. It will be tough to play well in today's event when I will need to finish 2nd to recoup yesterdays loses.
Justin "robert07" Young
Friday, December 4, 2009
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