Last Nights Fitz 270 game: Any reports

Hitman Actual

Well, did anybody play this? Anyone know who made the big money? There's usually a long thread here at this stage on Friday.

roryc

Yeh would be interesting to hear who played. I played 2 satellites beforehand but my luck has been so bad lately its unreal.... Only played 2 hands in 2 satellites. Totally card dead, so there was no way I was paying into the tournament!

bohsman

Collete Doherty and Dave Callaghan split it.

ecksor

I played it for the first time and was sent marching after 6 or 7 hands. I thought I was making correct calls with an open ended straight flush draw but when I hit the flush it filled up his trips (and against trips my calls were especially horrible). I was played like a violin and the annoying thing is that I don't see how I could have gotten away from it. Ah well. I just wish I'd gotten to play for an hour or two before being roasted.

Hectorjelly

ecksor wrote:

I played it for the first time and was sent marching after 6 or 7 hands. I thought I was making correct calls with an open ended straight flush draw but when I hit the flush it filled up his trips (and against trips my calls were especially horrible). I was played like a violin and the annoying thing is that I don't see how I could have gotten away from it. Ah well. I just wish I'd gotten to play for an hour or two before being roasted.

tell us about the hand it sound interesting

Fatboydim

Turned up early for the freeroll and got 160 Euro towards entry. Four of us chopped - Then in the tourney itself I got my stak up to about 18k at it's highest but mostly stayed around 10k. My aces got cracked when I raised under the gun to 1k, blinds at the time were 400 and only BB called. Flop comes king high all diamonds... Not what I want to see. BB bets 1400 I raise to put him all in. I figure he's hit the king or has a diamond and if he's going for the draw I'll make him pay... He takes a long time and then calls. He has K with 7 diamonds diamond comes on the river. That dented me but I battled back. It came to that time in the evening where an effort had to be made to build a reasonable stack. Blinds were about to go to 800 / 1500... But were currently 500 / 1000 - I found A 10 hearts UTG... and raised to 4k all folded to the SB a tight young lad from Leeds who mostly layed conservatively and I think for the most part respected my moves and play - So I put him on a hand. Flop comes rags with queen... Rainbow. SB hesitates then checks. I saw the hesitation and miss read it. It looked like he thought about betting and decided not to... which was true... So I thought small pair... not a check raise. So I decided to bet and make it 6k - He reraised all in. I know I'm beat and I figure him for trips or at worst AQ. I consider folding. As if I do I'll have around 8k left. This is what I would usually do... But I was in a ****e mood after work problems [Got a phonecall at 23.30 during the game - feckers] knew I had a long drive home... and didn't fancy struggling... so decided death or glory. I was surprised to find he had KQ... A hand I would have folded from SB with that kind of raise from early position. So if an ace came I would have been up around 33k... It didn't come. and on my BB it went up to 1500 I found a king high and put all my remaining chips... about another 1200... in against surprise surprise pocket rockets.

So that was my show over... at about 1ish. Home by about 4.00

At least it only cost me 110

kincsem

My story
8,000 at the break on David O'Callaghan's table.
Out soon after the break when I was moved to Jimmy Wan's table. He had a house of 2's over 3's, then I had AJ against Pat Vickers AQ, and finally I was all-in with QQ v Jimmy Wan with AA.
Justice was done. I walked him last month. He walked me this month.

Always enjoy the 270, more tension, :eek: more dangerous. :cool:

It would be great if the Fitz would post the result on this board
..... and I miss not having the remaining number of players shown on the tournament clock at the Fitz

ecksor

Hectorjelly wrote:

tell us about the hand it sound interesting

Ha, I've been thinking about little else for the last day and a half.

I got Jh Th in early/mid position with the blinds at 25/50. I make a small raise to 100 (I figure that often people are wary of re-raising pre-flop especially when they have no clue how I play and I didn't really want to get in for 300 which seemed to be the standard raise. Perhaps this wasn't a good way of thinking but in this situation I got 3 callers with no raise).

Flop comes Qh 9h 2s giving me the draw I mention above. I figure in this scenario I'm the favourite to win the hand with two cards to come (I was wrong) and bet small to see how people react, another 100. Next to act re-raises to 500 and the next two guys fold. I quickly call the extra 400.

Turn is the 4c and I check. Other guy bets 1500 which was approximately a pot-sized bet, but with 15 outs (or so I thought) I figure I have the odds and some of those outs (a king for example) would get him to pay me off since he'd probably read me for a flush at this point and might think I was getting over-enthusiastic with top pair or a desperate bluff rather than the straight. I call.

River is the 2h. I assume I have the best hand and bet 2000 at it. He re-raises me to put my last 800 in at which point I figure I'm in trouble since he surely knows I have a flush (and perhaps I shouldn't have bet so much if I didn't figure him to call me without knowing he can beat me). Since the pot is about 8000 at this point there's shag all point in folding and since I was so damned confused by now there was the slim chance that it was designed to confuse me and panic me so I call. He turns over QQ and the 2 had made him a full house. I say "good game" and walk out the door feeling a bit shell-shocked.

The only other hand I recall this guy turning over was also QQ, which he opened with for 300 on the first or second hand. He also made trips on the flop that time and subsequently a full house I think.

Hitman Actual

I'm not sure if you're looking for analysis/advice on this hand, but I dont think you should have gone broke here. First of all, I think JTs in early/mid position in this game is generally a fold. If you do decide to play, then just limp, and get out if there is any significant action behind you. The min raise doesn't accomplish anything.

Then, the flop. I think your bet is too small, because if someone just calls the bet you still wont know where you are. You're also giving other flush draws the correct odds to call (fair enough, you're ahead of most flush draws, but I doubt anyone is playing here with an 8-high flush draw, so the only real draws out there are the ones that hurt you badly, Ace or King). As it happens, when you're raised, you're still not sure where you are. A good player here might see your bet as weakness and just move on the pot with a raise, although it's more likely that he has a genuine hand, and he's trying to make any draws "pay".

After that, I'm really not sure what you should do, but I dont think it's correct to call the 1500 bet. It seems like your play up to this point has left you really confused, and that's exactly the way I would be at this stage as well. Probably some of the better post-flop players here (which I'm not) will have advice on what to do from here on.

Anyway, the 250 game is one of the best around, so best of luck next time!