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Twice in three tries
By Adanthar on August 5th, 2007 (more posts by author)

I didn't play the Sunday Million last week and went out early the week before, but tonight, I made another deep run in the biggest tourney of the week to get a 40th place finish. I actually got it in behind a couple of times for a change and played a couple of hands questionably, but mostly made the right plays at the right times again until losing a consecutive flip and 62/38 very late (sigh). Two of these kinds of deep runs in nearly consecutive tries really does mean a lot, though.

Here's a fun hand against a guy that had been getting away with playing 40/30 or so for an entire hour:

Seat 1: never river (41470 in chips)
Seat 2: loonatic111 (36328 in chips)
Seat 3: HHHthegame88 (88449 in chips)
Seat 4: ANDREA1984 (62134 in chips)
Seat 5: A.Brandon (26250 in chips)
Seat 6: RyanT5o (64585 in chips)
Seat 7: Leonidas_l (72854 in chips)
Seat 8: gyme (36603 in chips)
Seat 9: adanthar (70124 in chips)
never river: posts the ante 250
loonatic111: posts the ante 250
HHHthegame88: posts the ante 250
ANDREA1984: posts the ante 250
A.Brandon: posts the ante 250
RyanT5o: posts the ante 250
Leonidas_l: posts the ante 250
gyme: posts the ante 250
adanthar: posts the ante 250
ANDREA1984: posts small blind 1250
A.Brandon: posts big blind 2500
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to adanthar [As Ad]
RyanT5o: folds
Leonidas_l: folds
gyme: folds
adanthar: raises 5000 to 7500
never river: folds
loonatic111: folds
HHHthegame88: raises 15000 to 22500
ANDREA1984: folds
A.Brandon: folds
adanthar: calls 15000
*** FLOP *** [6h 7c Ah]
adanthar: checks
HHHthegame88: checks
*** TURN *** [6h 7c Ah] [4d]
adanthar: checks
HHHthegame88: checks
*** RIVER *** [6h 7c Ah 4d] [5d]
adanthar: checks
HHHthegame88: bets 65699 and is all-in
adanthar: calls 47374 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HHHthegame88: shows [Kc 5h] (a pair of Fives)
adanthar: shows [As Ad] (three of a kind, Aces)
adanthar collected 145748 from pot

Post Comments
Question. It turns out that the guy had nothing and picked up a gutshot draw, but do you really think it's good to play so passively here and basically let him catch up and take all your chips? I just don't see this being good in most situation. Even if he's way too loose, even loose players get cards from time to time. I just don't see this being a good way to play your trips. I don't mind the call PF and the flop check is okay but the check on the turn -- especially given the draw heavy board? I assume you were confident he would bet for you on either the flop or turn, but once he checked the flop I just cannot see the turn check being right. What am I missing here?
Posted by tateissy on 2007-08-06 10:46:40
Okay. We have just about a PSB left on the flop after calling PF, so the question is what he will bluff with vs. hit (and shove when checked to) with vs. call a shove with, given my read is he has just about any two.

After his flop check (BTW, my flop check is automatic on any board unless the flop came something ridiculous like 3 middle clubs), he a)never has an ace and b)will almost never call a push on the turn. So the only question is whether he's going to bluff shove at some point, and the chance that he'll do that with two random cards greatly outweighs my need to protect the pot given that he has an equal amount behind.
Posted by Adanthar on 2007-08-06 12:13:09
Against a player like that, I think you have to suck it up and not be afraid to get drawn out on. Let him make the mistake.
Posted on 2007-08-06 12:40:39
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