By Adanthar on July 8th, 2007 (more posts by author)

I'll let my 2+2 posts speak for themselves:

8:13 PM:

[quote]11K @ dinner break after a (two card) boat < quads and AT < 66 on an A43 board. pretty happy to still be here, really.[/quote]

1:09 AM:

[quote]so I stopped getting 3 bet and 4 bet when I had hands that could do one but not the other and doubled up by trapping with aces. 32K...

until I ran QQ into AA an orbit later. such a skill game.

18600 at 4/8, and level headed or not, I'm getting tired of getting set up (especially when the guy with AA, who played 2 hands all day and neither well, then got AA > KK and has 50 thousand.)

edit: to be fair I did have a TT > AA in there for, like, 9K, so I'm technically freerolling the tourney. except it was another SB/BB hand with a couple of limpers that I had no chance to fold anywhere. seriously, this is getting kinda sick. [/quote]

1:39 AM:

[quote]
10 minutes after the break, AQ > 99 so I have a 26K stack

10 minutes after that, I raise 88 from the SB, BB shoves (he has a 40K stack, and this is about the fifth time we've done some version of this/last time AA > KQ that raised to 10x), AT is very very good because I can't win a coinflip for a stack at the WSOP to save my life.

gl all, also, lol donkaments.[/quote]

Today was basically a nightmare. Every hand I played was a setup hand of one type or another and I'm amazed that I lasted as long as I did, because there was simply no such thing as a premium hand that didn't run into a bigger one or a marginal raise that didn't run into a 3 bet. I think 80% of 2+2 goes out before the first break on the boat vs. quads hand and most of the other 20% is certainly out by the dinner break. Playing very, very well got me to a coinflip for a big stack, though - it just didn't work out.

Meh. I'll post a report later, probably after tomorrow's online tournaments are done. This month has been pretty exhausting to say the least - it's hard to be in a good state of mind when you just can't win.