Friday, December 4, 2009

APPT teams: Mincashaments!

Cliff notes from event #9 teams:

  • Outlasted Joe Hachem, Tony Hachem (playing w Sean Keeton), Lee Nelson, Amanda, Donna, John Juanda's wife (apparently)
  • Played on a table with Tony. He got steamed after some fish called a big preflop raise w QT and caught two pair to crack his kings
  • Joe bubbled
  • Had to rebuild my stack twice from super short after my partner's round - he escaped from some very awkward situations including laying down aces on a paired board when some fish ended up taking it down with trip 8s (82s FTW)
  • Mostly got respect for my 6-10BB shoves
  • Sucked out only once, when my K6s shove caught a king against AQ. Busted same guy with my AQ a couple of hands later
  • Despite the large number of live and online pros, there were still quite a lot of really awful players
  • One guy minraised my BB from the SB, leaving <4bb>
  • Quite a few players were really weak after the flop, check-folding after PFR, or open limping buttons and then checking two streets
  • Finished 9th out of 77 for about $1925 (minus buyin divided by two = not much)
  • Lol mincashaments
Many thanks to TFAL for the suggestion, and for playing really well. I had a great time. Full trip report later if I have the energy.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Poker is so easy

I stopped by Star City last night to get my bearings before tonight's tournament, and witnessed the biggest hand I have ever seen live.

The game was 10/20 No Limit Holdem with a buyin of 2-5k. There is a young guy (YG) sitting in front of me in seat two with a big stack that I estimate to be at least 10k, and former APPT winner Grant Levy (GL) shortstacked in seat 4. I picked up the action preflop, where the young guy (YG) had raised to about 120 UTG, and was reraised by GL to about 420 (leaving 1k behind). A middle eastern guy (MEG) on the button flat calls the 420. Now YG announces raise and throws a 1k chip on the table. GL goes all-in with his last 1k chip and MEG flat calls again. YG calls the 300 more. Pot is now nearly 4500. Flop comes QT3. YG bets 2500 into the sidepot. MEG goes all-in for about 6k total. I catch a peek of YGs AA, and the turn comes the miraculous A. Miraculous, because MEG turns over his monster QT as the blank falls on the river. YG drags the $16000 pot with barely a murmur. Poker is so easy.