€200 + €20 Deep Stack tournament @ the Sporting Emporium

Flushdraw wrote:

Who's up for a last longest for this?

im in Tony

58o wrote:

i'm in but prob will be a little late . stick me down for last longest anyway.

ha ha - just home from the jackpot i guess?

GL to all the deros in this. I may appear for some drunken monkey stuff later on...

5starpool wrote:

That hand above was a very sick one, with questionable play from both I think.

Calling re - raises pre - flop with KJ OOP FTW!! Then checking every single street for the double win!!

My mistake for never putting KJ or AJ in his range. Rating players as competent is a dangerous business. I thought the insta call could only have been JJ that rivered a set. Oh well, we live and learn.

Strewelpeter gone in 4th. Jay, 58o and Keith discussing a deal when i left. I think prize money was something like 3300, 2200, 1200

Thanks, I was playing a below average stack for most of the night. I got ahead a couple of times but never got to build a monster. Until the FT I got very little in the way of playable hands JJ twice and AQ twice and never when in position to take the huge pots. Thats the beauty of a structure like this game, even at the shortest when we were playing the bubble (for nearer 2 hours than 1 I think) there was never less than 10bbs in front of me.
On the FT I got very lucky to almost triple up with AA v KK holding up but I didn't really make the most of the few chances I had to use the bigger stack. In the end when we got 4 handed and as the blinds hit 2K/4K 500 I started to try to play, ahem... creatively against the big stacks that wasn't so clever so I quickly ended up in 4th and left the the three lads working on a deal. The Guy who had the CL wasn't going to be able to make it back tonight and the stacks were quite level some sort of a deal was done and Jay and Shane spit the last longest.
Delighted to run good with all those good players and there were plenty of good laughs through the very long night.

Shane posts as 58o

He might want to change that to 82o

UnLuckyLloyd wrote:

Calling re - raises pre - flop with KJ OOP FTW!! Then checking every single street for the double win!!

My mistake for never putting KJ or AJ in his range. Rating players as competent is a dangerous business. I thought the insta call could only have been JJ that rivered a set. Oh well, we live and learn.

Lloyd,

I wasnt going to comment on the hand, but hey seeing as how youv started i might as well.

I raise from EP and you immediately reraise me. It comes back around to me and im thinking that firstly im getting 2/1 on my money, secondly that you would be out to get one over on me and as a result I can open your range up a bit.

I gave you a big sweat and I know its not your anti well or anything but I will let you in on two of your live tells now.

1. You stared me down - this is a sign of weakness in your hand. When you have a big hand against me here you are focussed on the centre of the table trying to get me committed with a worse holding.

2. I asked you to count your chips and you initially stayed silent - instead pushing them forward towards the dealer. Again if you have a big holding here you are comfortably leaning back in your chair telling me "ah its about another 15k - its a lot of money" etc etc, instead you clam up. I reckon you then realised that you had stayed silent and decided you better talk and you muttered out about how much chips you have.

Now taking the above into consideration I am comfortable that you dont really want to go to war. I dont have you on AK/ AQ or PP's greater than 8's or 9's. i.e something you will instantly call a push with. So I decide to peel off a flop. and reassess it from there. Mistly because of the above and also cos its only your 2nd/3rd hand at the table and I wanted you to know that you were not going to be snapping off my raises for the length of time at the table.

Flop 10 high and if you ask me i have a pretty good table face here. I dwell and check. You bottle and also check. Why do I check? Well ive already decided that ive enough comitted to the pot and that I can give it up. Why? Well im not in the habit of magnifying my preflop mistakes.

Turn a brick and i dwell for ages and I check. You also check

River J, I dwell and check and you push and I insta call. Now why wouldnt I insta call? What am I playing it for if im not willing to get it in. The only thing Im really afraid of is AJ - now thats in your range but given what ive said above your range is wider than normal, its an easy call and there was no need for pains and dramatics over wether or not I can call.

Now rather than bemoaning my play please examine your own. Specifically look at your post flop play. I refer you to my point on your well thread - are you playing bad rather than running bad. Well In this case youv played it bad and post flop its your fault that you went broke in this hand. In fact if your looking for opinions why not start a thread examining your postflop play in this hand and also in your AK v A4 hand against baker1.


I know I played the hand sub optimal and I can acknowledge that. But your the one that failed to punish me for my bad play - your plan for the hand was to take it down preflop and when that happened you didnt know what to do. You only had a plan A.

phantom_lord wrote:

I dunno about the first one, but I'm fairly sure he never counts out his chips, no matter what he's holding.

That is not my experience and im very confident that ive logged quite a few more hands with Lloyd than you. Its not just about the act of counting of his chips its about his demeanor when I ask the question.

BCB your call preflop is horrendous.