Tournament 64453738 $2 + .20

This was my 4th tournament of the day. The 1st is in my previous post. The 2nd was a bounty tournament with 168 players. I ended up 153 when my JJ met a JT and the JT hit a straight on the River. Overall I felt I played OK in that one. The 3rd was a deep stack tournament with 205 players; I finished 135. I had mixed play in that one overall.

I thought this 4th one was going to follow the others and I'd miss the money. My play was OK but I couldn't seem to get any traction. I'd win a few chips then I'd lose them shortly after. We played for 125 hands and around the 75th hand I finally started up in my chip count and for the most part stayed that way to the end. When we got into the plus 100 hands I did get lucky a number of times AND didn't get sucked out on when I had good cards. Final hand was 99 vs AQo and my 99 held!!

The tournament had 24 players and paid the top 4. I was 1st and won $19.20. Felt good to make the money and KEEP myself AWAY from those calls that kill me and there were several hands that tempted me that way. I wasn't sure they had me beat, but they made the big bet on the flop before me, so I bit my tongue, folded, and waited for a better spot.

The graphics following are just the final leader board and the PT4 graph of chip count to hands.

 

Leader Board

Chips by Hand

PT4 Notes & stuborn strike out

I've mentioned PT4 creating notes for you. Here is an example:

I still add my own notes as with them I include the type of session I'm playing. With PT you don't know if it was a SNG, Tournament, Freeroll, etc..

Now to my tournament play this morning. I entered a $2.20 Turbo tournament (2000 chips/ 5 min blinds) that had no late registration. We had 22 total players. The top 4 make the money. I played decent poker up to my last hand when I let my emotions get the best of me and was knocked out at 11th. This shows one of my big leaks that cost me my chance to play to the money.

Here is a video replay of the hand. Since it's not going to YouTube I can't edit comments in. I'm also not sure if you can play this without a special add-on.

Quick details: I had A9o on the Button. I had 3794 chips and was in  in 6th or 7th place. Blinds were 125/250/25. The play was folded to me, so I decided to see if I could steal the blinds and open-raised 3 BB (probably too low) and was called by the BB. Anyway, so far so good. If it falls through I've only lost 750 chips.

The flop is 10s Qc Jh and here is where the rub starts for me. I didn't hit the flop, but I now have an open-ended straight draw. If I hit the upper end I'll have the nut straight. Villain bets the pot. Rats. I don't feel he has the nut straight and suspect he is on a draw like me and betting big to get me to fold. Well I'M NOT GOING TO THAT!! I call.

A 3d on the Turn and villain bets All-In with 1785. If I call, I'll be All-In and he has me covered. I'm sure the 3d didn't help him and I still like my chances with the open-ended straight draw and I doubt he can beat a straight, though we might chop if that happens.  I'm not really terribly concerned about what he might have. I've already dismissed his having a straight and if he paired on the board, or double paired, MY STRAIGHT, on the River draw would beat him!! I DON'T WANT TO GIVE THAT UP!! So I call. Alas, the River is a 6s and with his pocket KQo he pairs his Q,  near doubles up and I'm gone!

Now, there was no reason for me to let myself be put into the position to be knocked out of the tournament. I had a decent amount of chips at the start of that hand and logic told me, I should let that hand go, and be around for a better change later. I didn't have the patience and was just too stubborn to let go. Not a winning way

Now let's see if I can get the video replay in. The extension on it is ".webm" and in order to view the file on my computer I had to download & install a viewer that could read those kind of video files. The viewer is free but during the install it also wanted to add a lot of junk for ads, to do tracking, and add toolbars to your browser. They say you can cancel all that stuff later if you want, BUT I'd rather not have it there in the 1st place. If all goes well, when you try to play this from the web it will play OK. Let me know if you have any trouble:  tmoskal1@comcast.net.