Thursday, April 1, 2010

A couple tournaments and Vegas

First the Vegas part. I am playing The WSOP event number 34 on June 18th. I had been planning this for weeks and was really excited about it then reading Memphis's blog here. I read that he is also entering the same event. How cool is that. Hopefully we will get a chance to meet up down there prior to the event... Even better if we both can get through day 1. That's the first goal anyways.

I played 2 live tournaments the last couple days and it was like night and day for me. Both tournaments had just under 50 entrants so a decent field. On Tuesday night it just seemed no matter what I did the cards just didn't fall for me. Twice I called short stacks all ins with a dominating hand and got sucked out on but that's poker. Then finally when I got short stacked and pushed with pocket 8's I got called with J,10 and of course the Jack hit and that was my night. Jacks were my nemesis all week.

Last night I started off strong with AJ suited early and caught a Jack on the flop and turn and won a decent pot to in the first blind level. From there I was up and down a lot.. That's the only Jacks I loved last night as you will find out. The table I was at was fairly aggressive which I usually prefer. No limping at this table. I also hit pocket Queens and pocket Kings with both holding up. The Queens I got when an early position excellent player pushed all in. I had him covered and insta called him with my Ladies. They held up !! That helped build my chips.

I sailed along never being a huge stack but always with enough chips to play with. I hit the final table with probably out of 8 the 5th stack. I played fairly conservative and bet big when I got AK there and took down a good pot.

When we got down to 4 people and I was now the short stack I got dealt 2,6 in the BB. Exciting hand eh. Everyone folded to the SB who just called. I checked. Excellent get to see a free flop. Flop comes 2,2,8. You gotta love that flop. SB older lady checked and I checked behind hoping she might catch something on the turn. I wanted a bigger pot. I was playing to win not just happy to take it down there. The turn brings a Jack. She bet (hit her J) which almost covered my stack so I pushed all in with my remaining few chips. Flipped up the cards and she had J9 I think. She looked surprised when she saw my trip deuces. You gotta love deuces they can be so deceiving. Anyways here comes the river. Yep you guessed it a Jack on the river which gave her a full boat of JJJ22 and me a a full house of 222JJ. Tough to lose like that but still a pretty decent night. I could have bet on the flop and taken it down but to me that was safe flop. What do you think???

Speaking of Jacks I was playing an online cash ring game (very low stakes) on Sunday and was dealt KQ. There was preflop raise of about 5x the BB. I was the BB. I just flat called. Flop comes Q 7 3. I bet to see where I was at and the preflop raiser goes all in for I think it was like 2 bucks. Told you it was low stakes. Ha Ha. I thought about it. Couldn't put him on AA or KK. I thought maybe AQ so I hesitated. Decided to call. He had pocket Jacks so I had him dominated. Turn was a 2 I think and the river was of course a Jack.. Told you I hate Jacks this week.

6 comments:

  1. I am playing The WSOP event number 34 on June 18th.

    That's great, and we can arrange to meet, for sure! GL GL GL.

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  2. Sounds great Memphis . I look forward to it. My poker playing son will be there too although he isnt playing any WSOP events .

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  3. Nice cash Coop! I'm assuming that's a cash! And I am sooooo jealous that you're both playing in the same event. I wanna play too!!!! My original plan was to play in Vegas in June, but I don't see it happening unless I get a windfall (or win) of a couple of G's.
    Can you play any other night for the private tourney? I can switch it to Tues Wed or Fri if that works for you - let me know, cuz if it doesn't I'll just keep it to Thursday.

    Happy Easter!
    Josie

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  4. Wish it was cash. This was one of those point ones that I play. Going gto a cash one on Saturday night (hopefully). As for the private tourney Wednesday works for me but DO NOT change it unless it also works for everybody else. Thats the date you picked and I can always make another one at another time. Let me know. Oh and I live on the West coast so time zone is the same as say Seattle.

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  5. Wednesday it is - just for one. I plan on hosting a biweekly tourney online, which may not be wednesdays. At least we'll know it isn't rigged as it's all real people playing.
    And I'll transfer the funds to you....we'll talk more about that when it's closer...I know how you feel about online playing (and i'm with you) btw I play SOOOO much better live, but I'll still kick your butt and even though it's online, I'm gonna go with the lowcut look. It's make the pictures more interesting when I post my results.

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  6. Josie I will Do a deposit (if I can figure it out) so you don't have to transfer any of your cash. I will just deposit 20 bucks sometime this weekend.

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