Thursday, March 30, 2006

Trying to Qualify Week 2

I registered for a bunch more of Party Poker freerolls. When I was checking my e-mail before bed at 2am the other night I logged in and was taken to one of the tournaments in progress. There were about 1,000 players knocked out already and I had 2,100 odd chips so I thought I'd play for a while. For the whole tournament I was at a table of players, the majority of whom did not know the first thing about poker. I managed to build up some chips by going all-in with QQ and Q-10 suited called me. Players love those suited cards. They look so pretty. I made a 15,000 raise later with AK and some lady called me with Q-J and hit a Jack. It wasn't looking to good at that point, but I doubled up again when I took AK suited against K-Q suited for all my chips and doubled up again. One player started going nuts at our table, raising every hand and I called with A-9 suited. He had 9-10 and a player overcalled with K-9. Then another player started to self-destruct, raising 4 hands in a row. I had A-5 and thought about going over the top. I should have, but folded. He had 8-5 and a player won with K-8. I would've won with the Ace and missed a nice opportunity to double up. I was kicking myself. I played tight, then went all-in with A-K and A-J came over the top of me and flopped a Jack. I was down to about 7k in chips and waiting. A player with a huge chip stack made a raise and I called for about 1/2 my chips with 6-6. I had seen him go all-in with Ace high so I was going to call if low cards came. The flop came 4-4-8 so I called when he went all-in and doubled up when he showed A-J and didn't hit. I went all-in later with 3-3 in the big blind heads up. The little blind had just called and when I went all-in he showed K-J suited and I doubled up. Then I got lucky because the blinds on either side of me left the table. And the guy on the button had a huge chip stack so I thought he would attack my blinds. He didn't, but he was crazy enough to do anything if a player called in front of him so several times I kept my big blind. When I was the small blind the same thing happened several times. Everyone folded and I raised the missing big blind and took it. I coasted like this, winning one more race with 10-10 against K-Q suited. A funny thing happened late - with about 3 players remaining a guy with about 400,000 in chips called a guy who had over a million with A-Q. The guy with over a million was going all-in every hand trying to force players out. Well, he caught a 7 on the river and knocked the guy with 400,000 plus in chips out. How stupid was that? He could have got up and gone to sleep and been playing in a tournament to get to the World Series. Instead he calls an all-in. If he had aces, he should have folded. The top 50 get-in. There is no special prize for 1st. 1-50 are the same. I went out 48th with A-10 against Q-J. So I will be playing again Saturday for a chance to freeroll to the WSOP. At least this time it only took 4 hours and I got in by playing less than one full tournament.

2 comments:

Mr. Chips said...

Thanks.

Ok I'll take it down this time. :)

And let me know how you do in Foxwoods...

Those massages aren't cheap my friend.

Anonymous said...

Why do these omaha players all of a sudden think they can crack a holdem tournament?