Good tournament but still a dissapointment [PF=11.27]
The first event of the Poker Winter Challenge in Seefeld, Austria was a really good tournament for me. So many things went the right way (not the lucky way!) but at the end I shouldn't make it into the money (that's the dissapointing part).
Quite early I took a huge pot from Jan-Peter Jachtmann. This was a strange hand. I had JJ and had already raised preflop. Jan-Peter was the only caller. Being first to act I bet agressively into the 7-2-2 board and Jan-Peter just called. Turn was a 3. I bet and he calls again. River another 3 and I'm not willing to hand over the action to him so I bet again. He calls and now I'm sure that I'm behind. I show my Jacks and he mucks his hand. I know that Jan-Peter is a very good player so I would love to know what he was holding ... I can't come up with anything that makes sense here (especially with his call on the river).
Somewhat later I had my next key-hand with QQ. Again I raised pre-flop and got a caller. Another low flop and I bet little over three quarters of the pot just to be faced with an all-in. I was quite close to throw my ladies away but counted my remaining stack again. The pot was huge at this time and I came to the conclusion that the cards didn't matter anymore. The pot was just too big to fold here. Good choice ... as I was up against pocket Jacks. No help for him and I was chipleader at our table. In the next hand I was dealt pocket Jacks, called an all-in from a small stack and lost against his AT due to an Ace on the Flop. Still chipleader.
I was able to maintain my stack a long time but then (with 3 tables left) the dynamics changed. New players with simmilar or even bigger stacks came to our table and I wasn't able to keep up the pressure. Finally I was faced with a tough decision. My stack was at 21,300 with blinds 1,200/2,400 and Ante 300. Sitting on the button I found QQ but there was an early position raiser with an oversized raise of 10,000. I was sure he didn't have Aces. I put him on something like pocket 9's to K's or maybe AK. From all those hands only KK should scare me. So I finally decided that it was time for action with 17 of 110 left (10 getting into the money). I went all-in, he called (which was no surprise) to make it a monster-pot of 50,000 and I was up against my scarecards - the pocket Kings. No help and out on 17th after almost 6 hours. To bad ... this pot would have taken me to the final table for sure. Well, it now brought him to the final table and into second place at the end :-(
Next try on Wednesday...
Quite early I took a huge pot from Jan-Peter Jachtmann. This was a strange hand. I had JJ and had already raised preflop. Jan-Peter was the only caller. Being first to act I bet agressively into the 7-2-2 board and Jan-Peter just called. Turn was a 3. I bet and he calls again. River another 3 and I'm not willing to hand over the action to him so I bet again. He calls and now I'm sure that I'm behind. I show my Jacks and he mucks his hand. I know that Jan-Peter is a very good player so I would love to know what he was holding ... I can't come up with anything that makes sense here (especially with his call on the river).
Somewhat later I had my next key-hand with QQ. Again I raised pre-flop and got a caller. Another low flop and I bet little over three quarters of the pot just to be faced with an all-in. I was quite close to throw my ladies away but counted my remaining stack again. The pot was huge at this time and I came to the conclusion that the cards didn't matter anymore. The pot was just too big to fold here. Good choice ... as I was up against pocket Jacks. No help for him and I was chipleader at our table. In the next hand I was dealt pocket Jacks, called an all-in from a small stack and lost against his AT due to an Ace on the Flop. Still chipleader.
I was able to maintain my stack a long time but then (with 3 tables left) the dynamics changed. New players with simmilar or even bigger stacks came to our table and I wasn't able to keep up the pressure. Finally I was faced with a tough decision. My stack was at 21,300 with blinds 1,200/2,400 and Ante 300. Sitting on the button I found QQ but there was an early position raiser with an oversized raise of 10,000. I was sure he didn't have Aces. I put him on something like pocket 9's to K's or maybe AK. From all those hands only KK should scare me. So I finally decided that it was time for action with 17 of 110 left (10 getting into the money). I went all-in, he called (which was no surprise) to make it a monster-pot of 50,000 and I was up against my scarecards - the pocket Kings. No help and out on 17th after almost 6 hours. To bad ... this pot would have taken me to the final table for sure. Well, it now brought him to the final table and into second place at the end :-(
Next try on Wednesday...
2 Comments:
Zur ersten Hand:
Wahrscheinlich wird er auch ein PP gehalten haben, eben kleiner als du.
Also 88,99 oder TT.
Ja, TT wäre auch meine Vermutung. Aber in der frühe Turnierphase so lange und so viel zu callen...
Ich weiß, es gibt genug Calling-Stations die das machen ... aber eine Calling-Station ist dieser Gegner sicher nicht!
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