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I'm weak tight. (to the guy in the small blind)

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1. • Posted by Mr Kittens 2009-02-17 09:29:04
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   • After returning home from the Venetian Deep stack, I've been thinking of the plays that got put on me, and I guess that's what they were thinking.

     Up to this point in the tourney, I hadn't made any big hands so I have had to fold a lot, but now I'm getting short stacked.

     Blinds 150/300 I'm in middle pos. with QQ. I raise to 1000. The sb calls. Flop is 47K rainbow. He leads out 2500. I have about 7000 left. I think the only K he could have called with is KQ but since I have 2 queens that is unlikely. He would have reraised with AK. So I put him on TT, JJ or lower pair. So I push in. He tanks for a while and my Swedish friend calls the clock on him. Now I know he doesn't have a K and I want a call. He finally asks if I will show if he folds. I shake my head no. So he calls. He has Nothing at all. (hehe) Well I won that one.

     Anyway, I guess I have a lousy table image. I'm OK with it. ;)

2. • Posted by Tony Gags 2009-02-17 16:57:03
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   • Very Good read

3. • Posted by Mr. Segan 2009-02-17 18:19:05
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   • I saw that hand and was amazed at that call. Unreal!

4. • Posted by Jason M 2009-02-17 20:04:43
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   • good assessment and way to get paid off :D how'd you end up doing in the tourney?

5. • Posted by Mr Kittens 2009-02-17 22:21:43
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   • I finished around #50 in that one (just after the dinner break). I pushed with ak and got called by TT.

     I played 2 days later and finished around #50 again. Early on in that tourney, I went on a pretty good run, going from 8k in chips to 45k when the average was 18k. Then went card dead and was moved a few times. Now I'm at a table with huge stacks (mine is about 40k, ave. about 44k, many of them have 100k+) I played there about 30 minutes. My stack is starting to shrink fast. Blinds and antes are 1000/2000 +300 ante, so around 5k a round. On my final hand I'm in the sb and action has folded to me. I have AK and 35k stack. I bet 15k. The sb pretty much instant calls. He is a youngish kid with head phones, sunglasses, hat, jacket covering his head. So he is pretty much in a cocoon (he doesn't notice who raised or if I was pot committed or anything just that his cards look pretty) plus he had a huge stack. So I put him on AJ, AQ, KQ QJ. Flop comes 59T. So no Q or J hitting, I'm probably good so in they go. He calls with A10. Ooops, almost right read, game over.

     Anyway, many players in these $340 buy things are pretty dangerous because they think they are good. Yet they are unbluffable. Standard solid play is the key there. They never believe you hit top pair if you continuation bet. Compared to the 1.5k buyin WSOP event they are awful. Many never fold to a reraise. (I think I reraised 4 times during the tourneys and each time I had the other player crushed and I got called every time. ) I saw a guy raising with A4 then gets reraised and calls. Then proceeds to keep playing like that after everyone sees what he did.

     I enjoyed adapting to this kind of play though.

     BTW, I played the 1-2 nl cash games there and they were pretty sweet. Played 2 sessions, bought in for 200 in each. First session up 200, second up 100. If I could of stayed awake, I would have had all the chips. Hehe

6. • Posted by Jason M 2009-02-18 00:06:48
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   • nice. thanks for the recap. tough break on the AT - ugh. when i was plaing in november, the play seems to jive with what you described - people just didn't fold.

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