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 AKs, key to a big win (1348 players), Jack Keller III, 23. May 2004 16:08 | ||
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| Well I entered a $5 partypoker NL Hold'em tournament this morning on a whim and went home with 1348 other player's chips. Without question the key to the victory was wise (and very lucky) playing of AKs. I doubled up at least 8 times with AKs and it didn't lose for me once. Another key to victory was never screwing around with AQo or J8s or K9s ever. I only called with KQs and below. I won 6000 chips on the first two hands with AKs; I got them twice in a row. After that, I decided to play ultra tight (I just read TJ Cloutier's book "Championship No Limit & Pot Limit Hold 'Em"), literally only playing AA, KK, QQ, JJ and AKs, with the exception of my blinds. I actually sat out for 1/2 hour because I realized after I entered the tourney that I didn't have any coffee in the house so I went to the store. When I got back, I had 5200 chips left in my stack from the 6300 or so I left behind and the big blind was up to 200. In the middle of the tournament, with about 300 players left, the blinds started to go up rapidly and the many short stacks were getting desperate and going all-in with nothing. I spent about an hour folding every hand except the blinds and I didn't win a single pot that hour. Patience was key at this point, because the next hour was amazing. I only played five hands, but check them out: AA, AA, KK, AA, AKs. I was really upset after the second set of pocket rockets, I had raised the first and just took the blinds and the second was on my blind and it folded to me. The first three hands took place within the same two rounds and I doubled up with the KK. I doubled up with the AA and again with the AKs at the end of the hour and was sitting pretty at 60000 with about 30 players to go in order to finish in the money (they paid 120 places). The game got really tight with about 130 players and I took advantage of this time to gobble up some blinds. Until this time, I had shown every hand I could (with a couple of exceptions) during the entire tournament. Just out of the money, I totally changed gears and used my very tight image to gobble up blinds left and right. I made a lot of risky plays and got very lucky with poor cards at this time. It was the string of AKs that came along that eventually won me the 1.3 million chips and $1348.00 that they represented. Four or five times I doubled up with AKs at key moments. One was the final table, full with 10 players left. I raised 50000 (1/4 my stack) with AKs in UTG +2. The two players to my left moved in immediately, the blinds all folded and I wavered for a long time before I called. I had the two of them all-in so they showed the cards before the flop; I saw KK to my left, QQ to his left and I had AKs in spades. The first card was an A, the rest of the board was rags and I found myself with 500000 chips and 8 players on the final table. It went really slow, mostly blind stealing until the blinds got to 40000 and things got nasty. Everyone was all-in or nothing and it came down to two guys on my right with about 60000 each, and three guys to my left with about 200000 each. I had about 2/3 of a million chips and it stayed that way for a long time. I loosened up when it was just me and the short stacks, I kept putting them all in on their blinds and eventually I got them with small pairs. Finally, six hours into the tournament we were down to 4 players. After folding for what seemed like ages, I won a big three-way pot with AKs, drawing the flush against trips and a straight. That narrowed the field down to one guy from Russia and myself. There were 84 people observing the table for the heads-up match. I gave him a big chunk on the first heads-up hand (trying to intimidate him) and we were even at about 600000 each. The blinds were 40000/20000 and going up in about 10 minutes. We traded stacks back and forth, at one point I was down to about 1/3 million chips and I went all-in with a series of about 5 or 8 garbage hands to tie it up again. Yet again, I got a big pot from him with AKs and he was down to 250000 chips. This was the first time I looked down and saw that I had over a million chips in front of me. I played it very tight until the last hand. Instead of going all in (we hadn't seen a flop in about 15 hands), he raised from the small blind to 160000. I called with 63 of diamonds. The flop came 647 rainbow and at first I didn't notice the pair, I was looking at the (non-existant) straight draw and when I went to double-check my math, so to speak, I saw the pair. As soon as the Russian checked, I moved in my million chips on my pair of sixes, three kicker. Ironically, he had AKs and lost to my rags. My screen name is BrmcornsUNKL (after Broomcorn's Uncle from Super System) so watch out for me! If anyone has comments on the tournament I'd love to hear them. | ||
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| Re: AKs, key to a big win (1348 players), pat o., 23. May 2004 16:41 | ||
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| congrats! -- pat o. | ||
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| Re: AKs, key to a big win (1348 players), O71394658, 23. May 2004 16:55 | ||
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| Good job. I can't stand A-K. I get busted every time with it. Glad you have better luck with it than me. | ||
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| Re: AKs, key to a big win (1348 players), Jim Morrison, 23. May 2004 17:42 | ||
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| Congratulations! Sounds like you played a great tournament! | ||
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| Re: AKs, key to a big win (1348 players), AS, 23. May 2004 19:37 | ||
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| Congrats! You get extra style points for leaving the house in the middle of the tourney to go get coffee. | ||
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| Re: AKs, key to a big win (1348 players), rdale, 23. May 2004 20:10 | ||
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| Congrats... I too can tell how well my day is going to go by if AK is hitting or not, it is one of the more flaky big raise hands, either makes you look like a champ or a railbird. | ||
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| Re: AKs, key to a big win (1348 players), golfaddict, 23. May 2004 20:31 | ||
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| . Without question the key to the > victory was wise (and very lucky) playing of AKs. I doubled up at least 8 times >. Patience was key at this point, > because the next hour was amazing. I only played five hands, but check them > out: AA, AA, KK, AA, AKs. I was really upset after the second set of pocket > rockets, I had raised the first and just took the blinds and the second was on > > two rounds and I doubled up with the KK. I doubled up with the AA and again Given these cards and the situaiton which you were dealt theses cards, I would find it impossible not to fininsh 1st or 2nd. I guess you can be patient if you are getting aa ak or kk every few hands. However, I am just jealous. In every large multi-table tourny I play I am routinely dealt unplayble cards for 30mins to an hour and when I finally get ak I doomed to loose the coin flip. Congratulations on your victory | ||
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