Tour 8924 Freeroll End 1408 Hands 101 Round 1 Freeroll

Payout 1-250 Entry to $1000 Weekly Freeroll


I mainly entered this 1) because it was there when I started looking for a session to play, and 2) for some practice in building my chip stack in large field tournaments. I had done ok till near the end when I decided to compete with a player going all-in every hand to pick up the small chip stacks of the 6 out of 9 players who were sitting out and I imagine hoping to get lucky if he had poor cards and one of the live chip stacks called him.

Hand 80. I'd built my chip stack from 1500 to 3560, which is not much but at least on the plus side. I'm UTG w/pocket Q's (Qh Qc) and open raise 2 BB (240) MP1 raises to 360, CO calls and I re-raise to 900. MP1 re-raises to 1440; the HJ re-raises all-in w/their last 8455 chips, and I'm wondering what I'm getting myself in for. I call w/my last 2660 chips. Am I up against AA & KK? MP1 shows Ah Qd & CO shows Ac Ks. I just have to watch out for A's & K's. If this wasn't a freeroll, I don't know that I'd have called at this point, since it's no big deal if I bomb out from here, but is this just another time where I'm not listening to what the other players are doing, which is a bad habit I have? The other problem here is some players really play really poor cards, much poorer than I would ever expect, so these raises may not have been w/decent cards. In this case they both had decent cards. Flop 2c 10c 4d. So far so good. Turn 3s. River 6d. My Q's hold, I have 10,000 chips!! Right after this I get switched to another table.

Hand 82 I get a few more chips. I'm the CO w/7c 6h. Five of the 9 players are sitting out. Action folds to me and I bet open raise 2 BB (240), the BB calls. Flop Jd 8h 4d. I have a gutshot straight draw. BB checks and I make a min bet of 120 into the 540 pot. BB calls. Turn 5c. I get my gutshot!! Again BB checks and I bet 360 into the 780 pot, BB calls. River 6s. No harm but it might give BB a straight as well. BB checks & I bet 900 into the 1500 pot and BB calls. BB shows Qd 8s having just paired the 8. I win and now have 12,480 chips. In a higher level game I doubt I'd have found a player with just paired 8's who would have called my River bet. A few hands later I'm switched to another table. This is the one where I get done in. Six of the 9 players are sitting out, all have very low chip stacks. The player to my left is going all-in every hand and I'm folding most of my hnnds to him hoping for a good one I might call him on.

Hand 96. Not a great hand, but I've seen hands he goes all-in on with low number cards and I'm hoping this may be one of them. I'm SB w/Kd Qh. Action folds to me and I limp in w/180 (just in case he doesn't go all-in), but true to form he raises me all-in w/20,169 chips. I call. He shows Ac 6s; at least it's only one overcard. Flop 7s Jh 4c. So far so good. Turn 9d. River Ks. I win and have 23,600 chips!!!

Hand 99 I take another chance and he sucks out on me on the River. I'm HJ w/Kh 5h. He's CO down to 8,654 chips now. Action folds to me and I limp in w/2 BB (160), and indeed he's all-in again. He has 3c 6c. Maybe I'll be able to knock him out. Flop 2s 9d Kc. Yes!! My K paired, so he can't out-pair me unless he pairs both his 6 & 3. Turn 10c. That I'd rather not see. He now has a flush draw. River 9c. And indeed he hits his flush. :-/ I'm back to 15,026 and he has 17,548.

Hand 101. Having been unsuccessful w/K5s I decide to try K4s to see if I do any better. We have one new player who has 25,670 chips. I'm MP1 w/Kd 4d. Action folds to me and as I've been doing I limp in w/a 2 BB bet of 160, MP2, as he's been doing raises all-in w/17,783 chips, action folds to me and I call. MP2 shows, unfortunately for me, pocket A's (As Ah). For a change he has decent cards. Bad timing on my part. Can I suck out on him??? I can dream can't I? Flop 5d Jh 5c. Not looking good. Turn 6s. River 10s. Oh well it was fun while it lasted.

It would have been interesting to see how he plays when there are more players around who might call him.