Saturday, August 18, 2007

FTOPS Event 11

I made an entertaining and unexpected run in the FTOPS $200 6-handed limit hold em tournament on gamblegambel's account, eventually finishing 18th out of 1171 entrants. This was arguably the best structured FTOPS event thus far, and it was tons of fun to play. I don't pretend to know how to play high-level limit hold em, but I have a stunning record of success in LHE tournaments.

I basically played solid and ran good down to the final hundred players. At that point Adam Friedman started consulting me and "the game was on." I was clearly outclassed in the later stages of the tournament but Adam recommended a few monster bluffs that worked. It was interesting to watch the field steadily get tougher and tougher as it got deeper in the tournament.

A few of the more interesting hands from before Adam got on the phone with me, most of which I probably grossly misplayed:

Dealt to gamblegambel [Ah 3c]
rayjh1 raises to 1,000
BLAKE39 folds
Chinese_Torture folds
badbeatninja folds
getrythm folds
gamblegambel calls 500
*** FLOP *** [As Qh Ts]
gamblegambel checks
rayjh1 bets 500
gamblegambel calls 500
*** TURN *** [As Qh Ts] [4c]
gamblegambel checks
rayjh1 bets 1,000
gamblegambel calls 1,000
*** RIVER *** [As Qh Ts 4c] [3d]
gamblegambel checks
rayjh1 bets 1,000
gamblegambel raises to 2,000
rayjh1 raises to 3,000
gamblegambel has 15 seconds left to act
gamblegambel is sitting out
gamblegambel has timed out
gamblegambel folds
Uncalled bet of 1,000 returned to rayjh1
gamblegambel has returned
rayjh1 mucks
rayjh1 wins the pot (9,250)

Dealt to gamblegambel [6s 4s]
rayjh1 folds
BLAKE39 calls 500
Chinese_Torture folds
badbeatninja calls 500
getrythm calls 250
gamblegambel checks
badbeatninja: direct obv
*** FLOP *** [9c 2s 5s]
getrythm bets 500
gamblegambel raises to 1,000
BLAKE39 folds
badbeatninja folds
getrythm calls 500
*** TURN *** [9c 2s 5s] [Kd]
getrythm checks
gamblegambel checks
*** RIVER *** [9c 2s 5s Kd] [Qh]
getrythm checks
gamblegambel checks
badbeatninja: i've played two satellites all year
*** SHOW DOWN ***
gamblegambel shows [6s 4s] King Queen high
getrythm shows [6c 6d] a pair of Sixes
getrythm wins the pot (4,000) with a pair of Sixes

Dealt to gamblegambel [Kc 9s]
getrythm folds
gamblegambel raises to 1,200
rayjh1 folds
BLAKE39 raises to 1,800
Chinese_Torture folds
badbeatninja folds
gamblegambel calls 600
*** FLOP *** [4h Kh 9h]
gamblegambel checks
BLAKE39 checks
*** TURN *** [4h Kh 9h] [Ks]
gamblegambel checks
BLAKE39 bets 1,200
gamblegambel raises to 2,400
BLAKE39 has 15 seconds left to act
BLAKE39: u donts gots a K
BLAKE39 raises to 3,600
badbeatninja has been disconnected
gamblegambel raises to 4,800
badbeatninja has reconnected
BLAKE39 calls 1,200
*** RIVER *** [4h Kh 9h Ks] [Jc]
gamblegambel bets 1,200
BLAKE39 raises to 2,400
gamblegambel raises to 3,600
BLAKE39 calls 360, and is all in
Uncalled bet of 840 returned to gamblegambel
*** SHOW DOWN ***
gamblegambel shows [Kc 9s] a full house, Kings full of Nines
BLAKE39 mucks
gamblegambel wins the pot (19,620) with a full house, Kings full of Nines
BLAKE39 stands up

Dealt to gamblegambel [6s Ah]
rayjh1 folds
Wall131TCI-I folds
Chinese_Torture raises to 1,600
badbeatninja folds
ZaDom calls 1,200
badbeatninja: my cards are drunk.
gamblegambel calls 800
*** FLOP *** [Js Ad 9c]
ZaDom bets 800
gamblegambel raises to 1,600
Chinese_Torture has 15 seconds left to act
Chinese_Torture: oh boy
Chinese_Torture folds
ZaDom calls 800
*** TURN *** [Js Ad 9c] [Ts]
ZaDom checks
gamblegambel checks
*** RIVER *** [Js Ad 9c Ts] [Qd]
ZaDom bets 1,600
gamblegambel has 15 seconds left to act
gamblegambel folds
Uncalled bet of 1,600 returned to ZaDom
ZaDom mucks
ZaDom wins the pot (8,000)

Dealt to gamblegambel [6h 6c]
Chips Reese folds
Chinese_Torture raises to 2,400
badbeatninja folds
ZaDom folds
gamblegambel folds
rayjh1 folds
Uncalled bet of 1,200 returned to Chinese_Torture
Chinese_Torture mucks
Chinese_Torture wins the pot (3,000)

Dealt to gamblegambel [7d 7s]
badbeatninja folds
gamblegambel: nh
ZaDom raises to 2,400
gamblegambel raises to 3,600
rayjh1 folds
Chinese_Torture folds
ZaDom calls 1,200
*** FLOP *** [Qc 8d 6c]
ZaDom checks
gamblegambel bets 1,200
ZaDom raises to 2,400
gamblegambel has 15 seconds left to act
gamblegambel folds
Uncalled bet of 1,200 returned to ZaDom
ZaDom mucks
ZaDom wins the pot (11,400)

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Someone told me the FTOPS $2500 event was at 1 PM Saturday, and I said, oh crap, 1 PM. And we laughed, and I thought, man, I'm a full-scale degen.

And I'm loving it.

1 Comments:

Blogger Devo said...

Sad there's no vs. badbeatninja hands there :) Nice blog Thomas.

6:58 PM  

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