Depressed.

The C Kid

Just in from the Sligo Open. About 97 runners with a prize pool of approximately 33000.

Started with 8000 and kept it very tight in the early levels. About 45 minutes in, I'm on the SB with 76o, four limpers so I complete and BB checks. Flop is Q-5-4 rainbow. I lead out for 400 and get two callers, the turn is the magical 4th suit 8, nuts!

I check it and UTG limper raises 600, other player calls and I flat call behind. River is a queen. I lead out for 3000 and UTG limper calls with AQ to give me a nerve settling first pot.

Managed to steal a few blinds and managed to slowly build my stack up too about 14000. Ten minutes before the break, I re-raise a button raiser all in with 10,9 off from the SB and take down a 2000 pot. Next hand on button, UTG limps and rest fold round to me, I look down and see Aces. Having been at it the last hand, with blinds 300-600, I make it 2000. The SB folds, and the BB thinks for a minute or two before pushing all in for about 20000. The UTG limper then wakes up and pushes his remaining 5000 into the pot. Needless to say I couldn't get my chips in quick enough. They showed 10,10 and QQ respectively. My aces held and I was up to approximately 38000 and right towards the top of the leaderboard.

Played solid after that, and slowly built my stack up to about 50000. Limped UTG with AKs and a local player who was playing a wide range of hands aggressively pushed all in on the button for 17000. I called and he showed A-10 which failed to improve. Soon after I took out another short stack with JJ V 99. Had about 95000 with 770000 chips in play.

Didn't do much, except trying to steal the blinds and antes once an orbit to keep afloat. Laid down QQ on my BB after a UTG raise followed by an all in re-raise from the button for 25000. May have been ahead but with a chip leader still to act behind me, I decided I didn't need to get involved.

Play slowed right down when we got to two tables and I folded my way to the final table with about 86000. Final table consisted of Paddy O'Connor, the Ulster Cup winner Kevin Fitzpatrick, and a couple of other decent players I slightly recognised. I was 4th chip leader and after playing some excellent poker I really felt like I was in with a decent chance of a nice finish. POC was chip leader but took a loss in the first few hands, loosing about half his stack after trying to bully a local off a pot pre-flop. The local was having none of it, and called,his AJ dominating Paddy's QJ.

I was blinded down to about 70000,as it was a loose table with plenty of action. J-10 took down KQ and we were down to 8. The short-stacks 10-3 then doubled through against A-2. With blinds 4000-8000, and antes to 500 the blinds were really valuable and there was a serious shortage of flops seen.

About twenty minutes I was button +1, folded round to me I looked down and saw A9o. In what can only be described as a moment of complete madness, I somehow sure fit to push my remaining 68000 chips into the middle. A move of truly amateurish proportions, perhaps I got caught up in the tables looseness. The BB woke up with QQ and sent me out.

Maybe it was tiredness but to make such a mistake is really unforgivable. I played good poker for nearly 9 hours and to make such a mistake is really disappointing. I left straight after didn't watch the remaining action.

Really disappointed, so am struggling to take positives out of the tournament at the moment. I have only started playing live in the last six months after a few years of online play and this was the biggest tournament, by someway I have took part in, to blow what was a very decent chance of a good finish in such an awful way is really tough.

Think I will have to lock the bankroll away this week, and turn the computer off all week as I feel very tilty right now.

Hopefully a night's sleep will calm me down. Good night.

bohsman

Great report, unlucky with the A9 but youve got less than 10BBs theres not much else you can do - raise folding will cripple you if you dont put the BB on a bluff reraise and call anyway

Ive been working on laughing and just getting on with it after getting knocked out of a tournament - you shouldve seen me after the WSOP but Ive taken it pretty well the last few tournaments Ive played. Thats not to say you should be a good loser but taking a week off poker every time you get knocked out of a tournament will be costly

kincsem

I finished 35th of 97.
Never varied much from my original 8000 until a card dead couple of levels where I went down to about 3500.

Blinds were 400, 800 with a 50 ante and I was due to pay the blinds in a couple of hands. QQ :eek: , wow, all-in, called by Ivan Donaghy on my immediate left (about 8k stack) and he was re-raised all-in by Kevin Fitzpatrick with about 20k. Ivan folded pocket TT. Kevin had AK but with the board 7 high I trebled to about 11k. Ivan a bit miffed that he didn't call Kevin and take a nice side pot.

Earlier I lost to KKKKQ which was still leading the high hand (€1000 ticket)when I left. I didn't lose much to the quads.

Ivan Donaghy was knocked out by Kevin Fitzpatrick 88 v QQ. Kevin got the €1000 bounty ticket. Kevin later lost a big pot with AA when he semi-slow played. Flop 2J2. Kevin went all-in. Other player called (hands shaking) and showed JJ.

I made the same stupid mistake I made at the Merrion €400 a few weeks ago. I called with AK for about half my stack when shortstacked. Muppet alert. :mad: :mad: :mad: Finally out with my 22 v 29 at 23:00

My table was easy early on. One player played almost every hand betting 2k or 3k. Two others were throwing bets into the pot (cowboy film style) and others were dragging the pot before the dealer decided. Obviously never played in a card room/casino.

And my final bad beat ....... travelling at 70 mph (120 kph) on the M4 at Lucan there was a double flash of blue light which I now know was the Gatso speed camera. And it's a 40 mph (70 kph) speed limit. :eek: :eek: :eek:

p.s. thanks D. for telling me about the AJ. I'm sure my AK fold was correct.

RoundTower

The C Kid wrote:

About twenty minutes I was button +1, folded round to me I looked down and saw A9o. In what can only be described as a moment of complete madness, I somehow sure fit to push my remaining 68000 chips into the middle. A move of truly amateurish proportions, perhaps I got caught up in the tables looseness. The BB woke up with QQ and sent me out.

Maybe it was tiredness but to make such a mistake is really unforgivable.

I think you played this hand excellently. You would probably agree if the BB called you with KJ and you won, or if everybody folded and you won.

NickyOD

Well done C. When I spotted you made gthe final table I was watching closely from the Sit n' Go but I missed how you went out. There were some fireworks after you left. When down to 4 Sean was removed from the tournament for being a drunk loud obnoxious aggressive asshole who wouldn't shut up and game had to be stopped for ages. Paddy O'Connor ended up winning with the monster J6o although he deserved the win. I can't believe the player who came second got so far or that Brian Early managed to come 3rd.

I had come 3rd in the €150 on the Friday night which got me a ticket for the Supersat and €1000 cash so I was already on a winning weekend, but once again could not laydown a hand postflop after I slowplayes aces and walked into trips oin the flop. I think there were about 40 left at that point. It was the most unenjoyable night of poker ever for me. My table had the worst players I've ever seen with mo less than 4 of them with an all in strategy. i.e. going in for 10K into a pot of 800 with any pair and any big ace.

BTW C you palyed the A9 correctly and were unfortunate to walk into a hand. but when you are shortstacked that is absolutely a positive move. Well done. Nice cash.

5starpool

I also played this tourney which was my first pokerevents one, and I have to say it was very well run and the dealers were decent, especially considering it is a part time, once a week job for them and most had probably never dealt before joining pokerevents. The one gripe about the setup was the quality of the cards. They had obviously been heavily used, and some decks had very obvious different shading on the backs, but when I mentioned this i was told that most of them were like that, and some had scratches on the back too.

Anyways on to the tournament, most of my opening table were fairly inexperienced players, with perhaps 3 being players I was wary of. One guy who was very aggressive (raising 200 into only the blinds of 50-100 type player) called a re-re-raise all in with K6o, and didnt get help against aces. A couple of hands later I had aces and nearly the same thing happened but after my re-reraise preflop he folded. I got to the first break with around 11000 having rarely shown a hand which was just as well as I didnt have much to show at times. Key hand came when I had 99 in the BB (blinds 150-300 ante 25). 1 limper UTG (guy from hands above) and SB completed. I made it 1300 total and they both called. Flop comes 986 with 2 clubs. Small blind checks, I make it 2500 as straight and flush draw meant no free cards. UTG called and SB folded. turn was 3 of diamonds, and I bet 5k. After thinking UTG very messily and stringily went all in for less than 6k which I called and he had AA thankfully, so my set held up against them.

Moved table shortly afterwards onto table with Ivan Donaghy, Kevin Fitzpatrick and Sean (Kincsem). Nearly took out Ivan for the bounty too. I was BB, Ivan SB. I check with KJo and flop comes J high with 2 clubs. Ivan checks, I bet 1100 and he goes all in for 5k. I had to decide then whether this was a play to put me off with nothing (unlikely but he had stated in no uncertain terms that he wasn't going to be blinded off), 2 pair, or a flush draw. After thinking for a couple of mins I decide it is flush draw and I had 25k before the hand so I could afford the chance. It was a flush draw but it hit on the turn so no good to me. The bounty would have been nice and taken the pressure off playing for a ticket but it didn't play a part in my decision to be honest.

Break came soon afterwards and I had 19k with an average of 13500 approx, so still going ok with about 60 players left.

After that cards died dramatically, I think I only got one pp in the rest of the tournament. I stole the blinds and played position a few times, which required stone cold bluffs at times to take down the pot, including one hand on Kincsem's BB (when he had AK as mentioned above). Blinds were 500-1000 I think, and I raised to 3500 with AJo. Folded around to Sean who flat called thankfully, and when he checked a raggy flop I put in a hefty bet which he, again thankfully, folded to. Still around the 25k mark on.y whith averages creeping up.

This was around 11pm now I believe, and the cards I got after that were horrific, a run of 52o, 82o (3 times in a row in my BB) allied to the fact that there were no unraised pots, wild aggression had given way to vrey controlled aggression for the most part, so I found it very hard to play a hand. With 16 left I went all in with Jc8c hoping to steal. Kevin thought about it for a long while (with A10 as it turned out and folded, saying he gave me credit for a better hand - thanks Kevin), and I got called by QsTs. When the flop came with 3 clubs I got a bit carreid away and felt the need to apologise for giving a yell and hitting the table. Those who know me know that that is not my stlye, and I did apologise immediately, but the relief was huge, headsman staved off for a short while. The blinds were at 3000-6000 with 400 ante now, and my stack of 29k was not in good shape, but cards still stayed muck bad. I couldn't find one suitable spot to play where I might even have a chance if called. I was down to 11k again soon and my BB was next when an amazing hand happened. Guy to my left (very good player only recently moved to table, but he has played a lot of big events I heard) had won two previous pots with all-in moves, raised to 15k (still less than 3BB), and the player to his left who throught pure aggression had built a big stack reraised all in for 65k, which was folded round to the original raiser who called for about 55k with AA. Other player after a few minutes to sort chips dispondantly shows Ac2c, adn despite a 2 on the flop, AA held up. As I said it was my BB for 6k and after ante had only 4.5k left. UTG (who had just won massive pot raised to 20k, and it came round to me again to look at 84o) Despite my huge desire to get a ticket at nearly all costs, with the running antes and 3k SB next I had to call for my last 4.5k as it would return 26400, no brainer really despite knowing that I was well behind). So it's A10o vs 84o for my tourney life and brief hope when an 8 was first card revealed was killed with a 10 hiding beneath. I exited 12th, and 5 mins later guy who had lost big vs AA took the same route as me with no choice in the BB, and the final table was born.

With 97 runners and plenty of chips my early tight aggression was paying off until the 4 hour card dead spell did for me. I was gutted, absolutely gutted, as I had (rightly or wrongly) decided that the 1k ticket was my initial aim, and getting down to the last 30 or so, I don't believe I could have survived any longer without a large dose of luck given the cards I got. I left at 2.35am after 8 hours of play, and got nothing.

Disgusted, but as I say without leaving it in the lap of the gods with the like of 64o I couldn't do any better. At least not at this stage of my poker life, but as everyone will agree we are all still learning, and the day I stop learning is the day I stop playing.

jtsuited

nice report. couldn't have played the A9 any other way IMO.

The C Kid

Cheers for the replies lads.

I think my initial disappointment to the play with the A9 hand was that I had been knocked out when I still had a reasonable stack in regards to the rest of the table and could concievably have folded to a higher placing. However I was playing to win and I don't think I'd do anything differently. My stack was just a little too small to consider raise-folding which I suppose would have been my preferred move in the circumstances. In the cold light of day I have cheered up a bit!


Glad to see Paddy O'Connor won as he was one of the two players, along with Kevin Fitzpatrick, that I had respect for at the final table.

Amaru

C Kid, you in DCU?

NickyOD

The C Kid wrote:

Glad to see Paddy O'Connor won as he was one of the two players, along with Kevin Fitzpatrick, that I had respect for at the final table.

Agreed. It was the only good thing to come of what was the worst final table of all the Supersats so far IMO. The players in Sligo are the craziest I've ever seen. The player who came 2nd caught me bluffing twice when he a made a great call on a flop J-5-5 with 2-4 and hit a 2 on the turn. He also paid me off with Ace high (and I wasn't the only player he did this for) when he called off bets on all 3 streets!!

Amaru

He called with 2 4?!!!!!!! What hand did he think you had? 2 3?!!! That sounds like the worst call of all time!

NickyOD

Amaru wrote:

He called with 2 4?!!!!!!! What hand did he think you had? 2 3?!!! That sounds like the worst call of all time!

I guess he thinks becuase I don't have any of the flop we're still racing or that his backdoor wheel draw is slighly ahead.

The C Kid

Yeah, I'm in DCU Amaru. First year journalism. Do I know you?

Amaru

No, i was there last year, and just saw your post on the pokersoc forum. If you'd played last year, chances are you'd have played against me.

Shortstack

5starpool & C kid - I had a disaster on the way to Sligo and never made it to get a report done for Antes Up. Any chance I can put your reports up with the results? If so PM me to let me know, also let me know your real names so I can credit you.

Thanks

Mike

Fatboydim

Well done C. Nice result. Don't be so hard on yourself.

If Nicky took the Donkey award in Limerick I took it down in Sligo.

On the Friday I played well in the €150 Fo... But finished on the bubble in 11th place. The hand that did for me was pushing all in on the SB after it had been folded to me with Tony Rafter on the BB. Tony knows me well and we've played together a lot so he knows I'm capable of a move or two so he called with pocket 4s. I hit the ace and he put his coat on. But before he could get the last arm into his sleeve the third 4 hit the river. I was crippled and two hands later out.

But I was pleased with my play.

Then the main event on Sat I played like the biggest F**tard Donkey riding W**ker. Pissed up player [Though probably not as pissed as he made out] UTG raises the blind to 100. A piddling raise and this table was super aggresive. I find AQ so I flat call as I figure if there's any decent hands they'll raise behind me. The player immediately to my left flat calls... Then it is folded around... back to the raiser and we see a flop. 2 Q 6 rainbow. The player on my right bets 500 I decide to only flat call convinced I have the best hand. Player to my right raises to 1K - The pissed up guy now raises to 5k. My head is screaming fold... But prior to this the hand had been missdealt and pissed up guy showed pocket aces... Was he on tilt because he lost out on aces? Why only a 100 raise? Could he have aces again... It's a very unscarry flop... no draws. Could he have trips? Could he have two pair or King Ten. I realised that I had spent so long thinking about it that I now had only two options. To fold [YES YOU MUPPET!] or re-raise all in {NOOOOOOO!}
You can guess what I went with. Player to my left now looks as constipated as I did... After a while he calls. Oh poo! And our inhebriated pal of course follows suit. I turn over my AQ knowing I'm beat. On the left he has KK and our pal does indeed have the aces.

I looked like being first out - But I managed to stay on until my pocket kings got rivered by a pair of tens. Had I won that hand I'd have been back up to around 4.5K and could have got back in the game... But it wasn't to be.

I played one SnG later which I cashed in - And that involved the even more pissed up son of the pissed up player with the aces. Audible groans when he managed to luck out on a hand with two players in against him all in. He hit a flush on the river. But it was entertaining at least.

FullOf..IT

Yeah Fatboydim, i was on the right of the dipso, man did he hit sum cards and he must have had at least 5 bottles of bud gone in the level alone. But like he said he was only there for the "crack"!!!

I took a thumping in the 150 game when the first hand i played. I get KQd in mid postion raise x3 blind 2 callers. Flop = 45 7 d.BINGO!! i lead out , 1 faller 1 flat caller. Turn = kh. Checked to me (ive got no read on this guy so im guessing hes got the bare Ad) so i bet the pot, he calls. River is the Ad!!!. He goes all in. EH!?! WFT? i study the board and the and ive got the "2nd" nuts No brainer call for me and BANG u know wot he shows....68d!! flopped the fecking thing! Think it held up as high hand too.

Went out in bout 32nd in main when i raise on button with KJ one caller. 10 high board on flop. check check, turn is a jack. he bets i go all in he flips over J6 for 2 pair, no help on river so im gone. Think the chap was the same person who caused all the hassle on the final table......a nordy with grey hair and beard? and if so what the hell did he do as he was pretty tanked up when i left....

Fatboydim

FullOf..IT wrote:

No brainer call for me and BANG u know wot he shows....68d!! flopped the fecking thing! Think it held up as high hand too.....

That's when you know your luck isn't in.

FullOf..IT wrote:

Think the chap was the same person who caused all the hassle on the final table......a nordy with grey hair and beard? and if so what the hell did he do as he was pretty tanked up when i left....

Yeah I think I know the guy you mean another person who'll push all in pre-flop with any high card. I've seen him make terrible calls and win. Once in another tourney he re-raised on the button initial raiser a tight solid player holding Aces goes all in... he calls the all in [and it would have crippled him if he lost] and he was rewarded with a flush on the flop.. Had something like K2.

And when you think our dipso friend was on almost 50K before end of level three and still didn't make the money...

FullOf..IT

Fatboydim wrote:

And when you think our dipso friend was on almost 50K before end of level three and still didn't make the money...

yeah ud nearly be tempted to put a tracking device on them and follow....but it would probably end up like the scene from rounders with the pros picking off the "tourists"!