Dublin EPt

The Troll

Did any of the boardsters play in this event? If so how did everyone do?

RMcG?

Fatboydim

Myself and KPnuts ended up on the same table together. Ken was on my right and a mad Scandie on my left. So that when Ken [KP] was on the button I was SB and Scandie was BB. The Scandie played 7 out of 9 hands each circuit and played any two cards... rarely folded and always seemed to hit. J7s he hit the straight flush against a nut flush I think it was - J7 off gave him full house. Q8 gave him two pair on the river... He called an all in on that when there was a straight draw on the board and he only had a pair of eights at the turn. The guy never hit his straight - but the Scandie always seemed to hit. Good play or luck? When the level was 150 / 300 KP found kings in late position... He raised - Scandie called three clubs flop. KP has Kc. Both players end up all in Scandie has A9c - KP out. Before KP finishes his ciggie I find AQh on the SB and it's been folded round to me... Only Scandie on the BB to deal with and he's going to call even if I go all in as he now has a monster stack. I raise make it 1200 ... Scandie calls. Flop KQ2. I have to bet my pair - he'll probably call and in truth I want him to - If I go all in he might fold and I need chips as coming into BB I'm down to 6k. So now after making my bet I have 3.6k left. He puts me all in. I think about it... But not for long as I know I have to call. If he's got the king good luck to him. I still might get lucky with an ace. I show my AQ he shows his PP2s I'm virtually drawing dead needing runner runner for a FH or straight. It doesn't happen. Ken is still outside barely down to the filter on his ciggie.

Other than that I didn't see any other boardsters so I don't know how RMcG did.

careca

It makes you wonder really. Playing terrible poker and still getting mountains of chips seems to be catching on these days. The fact that its a 4K entry fee seems to make no difference to these guys. I know a lot of the new scandanavian players are supposed to be ultra agressive but I would have thought it was post flop mainly. Is this the way forward ? Are we just too selective with our range of preflop hands ?

willis

careca wrote:

It makes you wonder really. Playing terrible poker and still getting mountains of chips seems to be catching on these days. The fact that its a 4K entry fee seems to make no difference to these guys. I know a lot of the new scandanavian players are supposed to be ultra agressive but I would have thought it was post flop mainly. Is this the way forward ? Are we just too selective with our range of preflop hands ?

no i dont think were too selective at all.i see players like this all the time who get lucky and build up a huge stack early...however the problem with these players(most of them) is that they play the same way throughout the tourney without adjusting for the increasing blinds. soon their stack will diminish as they cant get lucky everytime and now its costing them more and more to see the flop. A lot of players seem to play like the scandie above...their motto being "either i build up a big stack early or i bust out", however its when they get the big stack and how they manage it which decides how good they play.

The other side of the coin is to play like a rock early, building an image which will allow you to become aggresive when the blinds are worth stealing etc. There is no right or wrong way to play. you couldnt say the scandie was a bad player based on the above report,maybe he thought he could outplay people on the flop thats why he saw so many flops.

Again this is just my 2cents for what its worth

NickyOD

How did this player do in the end? Regardless of his preflop strategy. If he gets players to pay him off so well postflop just because they know he is loose then there is nothing wrong with his style. ala Tuan Le (highest earner on the WPT last year, although Le does make really bad calls too)

kpnuts

Fantastic weekend, still recovering... just piecing together some missing memories from a couple of pals' blogs...

dpommo: http://dpommo.blogspot.com

rob: http://norwichfan.blogspot.com

In the main event on Saturday, I never got going really... I sneaked up to 12.5k within the first few levels without any big hands, when tragedy struck... Fatboydim got the details of my exit hand slightly wrong, either way though, I feel I played it poorly... to lose an entire stack of 40+ big blinds with just an overpair to the board is not good poker

Blinds 150-300, I raise in EP to 1,200 with KcKh ... fully expecting our loose-aggro Scandinavian friend in MP (who already has 30k) to play, even if neither of the blinds defend, which I don't expect them to as I have only made one or two previous raises in the few hours I've been at the table...

Sure enough, our friend joins me for a flop of 7c4c2s and everyone else dies... I decide to make what I hope looks like a weak feeler bet in the hope that he raises, so I can slam em in and hopefully take the pot down there and then... so I bet 1k, he dwells for a bit, then asks how much I have left, dealer counts my stack etc, he eventually just flat calls.

Now I have decided, crazily, before seeing the turn, that he will bet big on any turn scare card, so I am going to check-raise ... turn Jc putting three clubs on board... i check, he bets 3.5k, i min raise to 7k, he goes all-in and I call for my last 3k knowing I'm beat but hoping my Kc at least gives me outs... it doesn't as he has Ac9c and I'm history!

The Scandinavian lad didn't cash in the end, but I thought he played super poker for all the time I was at the table, shook his hand and wished him well... he made some great calls in the early stages and just outplayed me there plain and simple, so no complaints!

Let's just say, as you will probably gather from the abovementioned blogs, I enjoyed myself far more at the weekend away from the poker tables than at them this weekend, apart from a quick drunken hit + run on the Fitz cash game in the early hours of Saturday and the same on the Merrion cash game in the early hours of Monday

Oh well, it's the Sporting Emporium for me tonight... GL me

Fatboydim

Sorry for getting the hand slightly wrong KP - Still not sure about this player though - I think the fact he never made the money probably confirms for me that he was trusting more to luck than judgement. But because of where I was sitting it was more difficult for me to judge his reactions.

ntlbell

How did RmcG get on?