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 Another Tournament at the Belle, FeliciaLee, 12. Nov 2003 04:56 | ||
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| October 15, 2003 We had our Monday Limit to No-limit Hold'em tournament at the Belle on Monday. I won't bore you with the setup of this tourney, since it is the same every week. We started with 50 competitors. Russ (a good tourney player I've profiled in other posts) was to my right in the two seat. Bill (another player I've profiled) was in the one seat. Bob, a terrible cash game player as well as tourney player, was in the four seat. Somehow, during the course of the first hour, we got on the topic of diabetes. All of us from seats one to four had diabetes. Russ has type I, the other three of us have type II. We never took a poll from the rest of the table, to see just how widespread this debilitating disease has become. I doubled my initial 100 chip buy-in during the first hour. I was never in the position to rebuy (which is a good thing, since the rebuy isn't such a hot deal). At the break, I did the $20 add-on for 500 chips. Russ got moved to another table. I started dominating our table, since Russ was gone. I played fast and hard. I never limp in once the tourney turns no-limit. Maybe I'm not getting all of the value out of my hands, but like Sklansky says, "You're broke, you're out." I have noticed that with the crowd at the Belle, going all-in makes them nervous. Soon our table broke, and I was moved to another. This table was a bit more aggressive. I filled the seat vacated by my husband, Glenn, when he got eliminated. I started to bleed off chips, getting no help from the deck. I begged the other opponents to call me if I raised all-in. Larry, a great old goat in seat five, finally called my all-in. I was dealt a pair of nines and Larry was in the BB with A2s. He was the chip lead at our table and could afford to double me up. I thanked him for the call and he did, indeed, double me up. There are only a few opponents at the Belle who understand the concept of needing to be doubled up, or getting eliminated. Most of the tourney players will actually turn to me and say something like, "I can't believe you want a caller! Why do you want to be eliminated or doubled up?" I just smile and say that it is necessary. I don't believe those people pay attention to the blind structure or the other stacks. I never see them at the final table unless they are just getting run over by the deck. I was able to steal a few more pots and survived to the final table. I was medium stacked. We redrew for seats and I drew seat one. What is up with me lately and the horrible draws for seats? Oh, well. Good thing I'm a better player than random drawer, lol. Seat two was a tourist who looked like she had been caught in bright headlights. She was a decent cash game player, but had obviously not played in many tourneys. Seat three was an aggressive, older man whom I'd never seen before. Seat four was a middle aged woman who also had that deer-in-headlights look. Seat five was Larry. Seat eight was an older guy named Charlie who is aggressive, but basically plays both cash games and tourneys as if they were all based on "luck." Seat nine was JJ, a middle-aged Korean who knows proper tourney strategy. JJ, Larry, Charlie and I started dominating the table from the word GO. Everyone had received their $50 final table bonus, so they weren't playing to win, save we four. Seat four never raised once. Never. She limped in or folded every hand. I doubled up a couple of times, as did JJ and Charlie. Seat two went on a monster rush of premium hands and tripled up. We went from ten to six in short order. Between myself, Larry, Charlie and JJ, someone was all-in every hand. Larry shoved all-in with JJ, only to meet Charlie's AA. Larry was down to one chip, and soon out. My hands went ice cold, and the blinds started eating me up. I had to shove all-in with KT, doubled up, and was slightly back in the game. I kept see-sawing from chip dog, to a decent stack, but never could gain any real momentum at this table. Finally, we were down to five, all of us in the money. I was dealt A3o on the button. I tried to steal, only to be called by the two seat in the small blind, who woke up with pocket aces, doh! The four seat only had two chips after paying her big blind, so she called, as well, with KJo. I made a pair of threes, but was drawing pretty slim. Fourth place paid $310 and IGHN. This room has got to be the most awesome around. I am cashing in about 1/2 of the tourneys that I play, even including the icky-sticky Omaha tourneys, lol. The prize pools are big, due to the multiple rebuys if under 100 chips. The players absolutely do not know how to play no-limit, for the most part, which is how the tournament is played after the first hour. I love it. Sure, I'm not entering tourneys that have a 20k first prize. I know that this is small-time chicken feed, but I like it, I love it, I want some more of it! Felicia :) | ||
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| Re: Another Tournament at the Belle, Mark Barnett II, 12. Nov 2003 13:03 | ||
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| just remember though more tourneys entered means more posting!!! *whether thats a good or bad incentive ill leave that upto you* Rule #1 of Poker Circumstances alter cases Rule #2 NEVER forget rule #1 | ||
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