O-Poker

I was home sick from work yesterday and was debating whether or not to play the MATH (Monday's at the Hoy) blogger tourney. It was starting at 10 PM and was a deep stack tourney, so I wasn't exactly sure when it would end and I didn't want to stay up all night. I decided that I would register to play if it had less than 60 players. I am glad I did because MiamiDon (who has been tearing up the Battle of the Blogger Tourneys), OSU, and I chopped the tourney. Normally, I would say let's just play it out (especially, since I had a slight chip lead), but I was sick and tired (literally).

I had a lot of fun playing the tourney because the deep stacks allowed for more post flop play which makes things a lot more interesting.

A few key hands

http://www.pokerhand.org/?983983
I flopped a straight and turned the nut flush. I think that the turn card probably cost me some money.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?983995
This was the key hand that doubled me up fairly early and allowed me to open things up a little more in the later levels. I decided to see a flop for 120 with Q10 and got the perfect flop.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?983998
A little bit of an overbet on my part. I clicked on the bet amount and typed in what I thought was 150, but turned out to be 1,050. Ooops.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?984019
I was pretty sure that HomelessShelter would fold after the flop on blank flop since he didn't re-raise me preflop. I wasn't pretty sure that he was shoving preflop with a decent pair. He said that he had AK. I took a chance and it worked out.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?984032
MiamiDon's turn raise just seemed fishy to me. I called and we checked down the river.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?984054
I decided to get all the chips in preflop. Once we got short handed, I had been raising a lot, getting re-raised, and folding. I felt like my hand was good here and was actually surprised to be up against a pair. I was thinking it would be something like Ax.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?984061
I raised preflop and the re-raise all-in pretty much committed me with AQ. I lost the coin flip.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?984066
Four handed at the final table. The river bet seemed fishy. Ace high is good.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?984072
I just called on the river instead of shoving because I felt like there was a good possibility that he had the flush.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?984077
I knock out the short stack with 44 vs A4.

From there we agreed to chop and went into shovefest mode.

Great playing with everyone.