€50 + scalp tonight

ionapaul

Anyone planning on playing tonight? I wanted to play the €50 double-chance during the week but the weather disuaded me. I had a good deal of fun last week at the Friday tourney and will probably head in tonight - I think the scalps are great fun, and everyone seemed to be into them on the tables I played.

Iago

discard my earlier thread and start a new one so...

I will be playing tonight, what's the scalp part about?

I will be raising with 72o from any position, limping with AA and calling up to 2Xbb bets preflop with any two suited cards...I call it my looney passive strategy, try it out I think you'll be surprised

Incidently anybody going in early for some sit n gos, or should I just go and get drunk beforehand?

ionapaul

Oops, just noticed your earlier thread - sorry bout that.

Everyone gets a 'scalp' chip at the start of the tourney, which have no table value but which must be thrown in to the pot when you go all in. If someone knocks you out they get this scalp chip as well as your stack - the scalps can be cashed in for €10. I got two scalps last week and it felt fine

I'll meet early for a SnG if a few are interested - what time would I want to be there? What is the typical SnG entry - €10 + €1?

Iago

So if I've won 5 scalps and then go all-in I lose my own scalp chip but can cash in the 5 I've won for €50 once I'm out of the tournament? Sounds good, maybe I should play looney agressive instead..

Well I plan an being there for around 6.30 or so anyway if there's going to be people around

Dr_Colossus

What time does the tournament start tonight

Dr_Colossus

What time does the tournament start tonight They used to start between 9.10 and 9.40 up until recently but I believe they may have pushed the starting time back abit. Can anyone confirm what time they actually do start, is it 8:30 now or so?
Ty D

BigDragon

Dr_Colossus wrote:

What time does the tournament start tonight They used to start between 9.10 and 9.40 up until recently but I believe they may have pushed the starting time back abit. Can anyone confirm what time they actually do start, is it 8:30 now or so?
Ty D

All at 8.30 now. You will get early bird chips for being there on time except in the freezeouts and freerolls I think.

Hitman Actual

Yeah, they start very much on time these days (8.30), but you really need to be there before 8.20, unless you ring in.

Juan Pablo

Finished up 3rd in the 50 50 tonight, about 90 runners with a prize pool of just over €8k. The scalp idea works great imho, although Cecil's Injun chants and drawings of tomohawks on scrap paper can be a little distracting! Got no cards for the first 8 blind levels but kept patience, topped up, was down to 3k by the 400/800 level but a few all ins here and a couple of bluffs there (apologies again Iago ) and I was up to 35k (4th best stack) and at the final table. Hughie had around 190k starting off though :eek: He wound up winning it, taking 3k for his troubles. i've always liked the Friday tournie and i reckon the scalp idea makes it a bit more interestng and fun. Good tournie.

Iago

Juan Pablo wrote:

Finished up 3rd in the 50 50 tonight, about 90 runners with a prize pool of just over €8k. The scalp idea works great imho, although Cecil's Injun chants and drawings of tomohawks on scrap paper can be a little distracting! Got no cards for the first 8 blind levels but kept patience, topped up, was down to 3k by the 400/800 level but a few all ins here and a couple of bluffs there (apologies again Iago ) and I was up to 35k (4th best stack) and at the final table. Hughie had around 190k starting off though :eek: He wound up winning it, taking 3k for his troubles. i've always liked the Friday tournie and i reckon the scalp idea makes it a bit more interestng and fun. Good tournie.

We have unfinsihed business JP...but well played

This was my first €50 tournament in the fitz and I have to say that I really enjoyed it. Similarly to JP I spent the prefreezeout level contemplating life and the universe as I mucked hand after hand after hand. The guy sitting beside me on the first table was dealt pocket A's 3 times in 5 hands! During the same period I was dealt k8o 7 times in 10 hands, must be a record of some sort (in total I was dealt k8o over 20 times last night, and didn't win with it once)

Anyway moving on, I managed to end up at around 4.5K at the break thanks to this hand. I was UTG and was dealt 88, I flat call the blind and there are 4 players in total for the flop

Flop comes down 4s 7h 8s

I checked, mp bets 200, one caller and I raise to 600, both players call.

Turn is Qs

Now I'm worried, should I have increased the bet by more on the flop, has someone hit the flush. I throw out a bet of 1,200. MP thinks about it for a couple of minutes and then folds saying I've the flush. LP folds as well, had an overpair but put me on the flush.

I topped up at the break which gave me 7.5k sitting down at the freezeout. Pretty good considering that apart from the 88 the best hand I'd seen all night was A3o. Post freezeout I was back to contemplation of the universe again. Kept myself afloat by winning a few hands without having to show cards post flop when I hit top pair and bet big on it. Then this hand occured. I'm in MP and I'm dealt Ad8d, finally a hand I can play, blinds were 200-400, UTG makes it 800 to go and it's folded around to me. He's been doing this all night and on a couple of occasions when he's had to show his cards he's been holding Q9s and KTs so I flat call and the BB calls as well. 3 players for the flop, it comes down

AJJ

BB checks, initial raiser makes it 1000 to go, I'm worried about my kicker here but I call anyway, BB folds. Turn is a 10, rasier bets 500, I flat call, and then he turns his cards over showing A6s, he mistakenly thought that the hand was over. Ok so I know now that we are splitting the pot as things stand, river is a 7 and he checks. For a brief second I thought "the fair thing to do here is check", then I went all-in for around 4K, needless to say he folded and I took down the pot of 5.6K, nice if you can get it.

Couple of hands here and there and I'm up to 15.5K and moved to JP's table. I made my one and only mistake here, and JP benefitted from it. I'm on the button and I have A4o, everyone folds around to me and I'm going to raise, but Hughie is sitting next to me on the SB and has amassed a bigger stack than the rest of us together. Everyone someone has raised him on his blinds on the last two tables I was on with him, he has massively reraised them and generally had the goods. I'm not that comfortable with A4o, I flat call Hughie folds and JP checks, flop is J 10 7, two spades to go with my A but that's it. JP throws out 2K in a bet, again I should have raised but instead I flat called, turn was a rag and JP goes all in for 5K.

I knew he was bluffing, before the card was turned he had put his chips into one pile and was clutching them ready to throw them in. In fairness his only move on the turn was going to be all-in and I knew it. My gut told me he was bluffing but my brain just wouldn't let me call it with A high, after all if he's holding even a small pair then I've 3 outs for half my stack. I folded and then afterwards JP blamed it on the evil hand...

Soon after that the table broke to form the last two tables, blinds were 1K-2k I had 6.5K left and went all-in on the button with Ako, called by the BB who had TT, guy beside me comments that he folded a T and the last one in the deck duly arrives on the flop, my K on the turn was irrelevant and I was out in 19th place. Not bad for my first run at the game and I'll definitely be back for more.

edit: Really wanted to play 72o last night but the only time I got it two players went all in before me and I had to throw it away. Flop came down A 2 2 DOH!!! One other interesting hand, I had 92o and folded preflop, flop was 992, turn was A, river was 9, I'd of hit a poker and a pair!

ionapaul

I was on table 5 for many hours last night - with Hughie of the massive stack and that chap with the interesting tashe going crazy about the scalps. Made a stupid mistake during level 1 and lost half my stack when my pair of 2s didn't hold up against someone's 7x when two 7s were flopped and another one appeared on the river. Doubled up some time later with rockets. Hughie and the guy with the tashe were really bullying the small stacks after the break and I *really* wanted to double up against one or both of them! At about half 11 I was moved downstairs to table 1 and as the blinds increased and I was still getting bollox all, I knew time was running out. At the 800-1500 level, I was dealt 77, had to go all in, was called by two others at the table, and another small stack with A6s knocked me out when the river made his flush.

Compared to last week, the pace was MUCH slower this time, in terms of knockouts. At midnight last week, there were only 20 players left, I guess there were about 40 when I was knocked out after midnight last night. No scalps for me this time, very disappointing! Will probably be back again next week.