Sunday, September 19, 2010

Headsup and miniFTOPs

Hey,

in the last 2 weeks I could, because of the bankrollpush with the wcoop cash, play the two miniFTOPs events #11 and #12(with a satellite). In event #11 it went very well for a while and I also had the feeling I'm playing in a fish tank. For example because some players didn't even know the rules of texas hold'em:


Table info:

Seat 1: lolooney ($8,490)
Seat 2: paulgibbo ($6,025)
Seat 4: colinmc ($4,305)
Seat 5: ducksarecool21 ($11,795)
Dealer
Seat 6: sepp2403 ($3,270)
Posts small blind $50
Seat 7: TaikiY ($5,835)
Posts big blind $100
Seat 8: vector-selektor ($4,810)
Seat 9: Makaviti ($5,085) 
Dealt to TaikiY
 

Preflop: (Pot: $150)

FOLD Makaviti
CALL lolooney, $100
FOLD paulgibbo
CALL colinmc, $100
FOLD ducksarecool21
FOLD sepp2403
CALL TaikiY, $50
CHECK vector-selektor 

Flop: (Pot: $400)

  
CHECK TaikiY
CHECK vector-selektor
CHECK lolooney
CHECK colinmc 

Turn: (Pot: $400)

   
CHECK TaikiY
CHECK vector-selektor
CHECK lolooney
CHECK colinmc 

River: (Pot: $400)

    
CHECK TaikiY
CHECK vector-selektor
BET lolooney, $250
RAISE colinmc, to $4,205 and is ALL-IN
RAISE TaikiY, to $5,735 and is ALL-IN
FOLD vector-selektor
FOLD lolooney
RETURN TaikiY, $1,530 

Showdown:

SHOWS TaikiY
 
SHOWS colinmc
 
TaikiY wins the pot of $4,530 with a straight, Ace high
colinmc wins the pot of $4,530 with a straight, Ace high 


In event #12, a Headsup event with 55$ buyin, I had a very good player at my table, he got me down to 20BB and then I reraised him allin with A8o, he called with A7o and hit the 7.

I also started to play headsup sngs this week (mostly 6.25$ and some satellites). In about 70 I reached a ROI of about 6% (+Rakeback/Bonus). I decided to move up to the 11.50$ hus. For tomorrow I won a step 3 ticket that will make me able to play the miniFTOPs event #32 (26$ 6max, SuperStack and Knockout). I´ll try to win a step4 ticket for the miniFTOPs Main Event, but I won't invest too much money in the steps.
So far...

Thursday, September 9, 2010

WCOOP Event #3

Two weeks ago I won a 215$ ticket for the WCOOP. I decided to play event #3 (9max NLHE) with $2M guaranteed.
It had 12066 entrants and a prize pool of 2,413,200$, with 361.98$ for ITM and up to ~335k for the first place.

It started  at 11pm localtime on Sunday here in Germany. Given that I got semesterbreak that wasn´t really a problem. 
The table I was seated at the beginning of the tournament was very loose and I could collect chips by staying tight and only play really good hands.


This was the first hand that gave me a good amount of chips:



Seat 1: killacam477 ($9,945)
Seat 2: WILLY_PKR_BR ($12,395)
Seat 3: jmw86 ($9,770)
Seat 4: baconAVACADO ($7,665)
Seat 5: Lambo798 ($12,115)
Seat 6: wilddog1951 ($10,393)
Dealer
Seat 7: Oli_Tess ($11,200)
Posts small blind $40
Seat 8: ando206 ($8,432)
Posts big blind $80
Seat 9: TaikiYa ($9,285) 
Dealt to TaikiYa
 

Preflop: (Pot: $120)

FOLD killacam477
RAISE WILLY_PKR_BR, to $255
FOLD jmw86
FOLD baconAVACADO
FOLD Lambo798
CALL wilddog1951, $255
FOLD Oli_Tess
CALL ando206, $215
CALL TaikiYa, $175 

Flop: (Pot: $1,020)

  
CHECK ando206
BET TaikiYa, $650
FOLD WILLY_PKR_BR
CALL wilddog1951, $650
CALL ando206, $650 

Turn: (Pot: $2,970)

   
CHECK ando206
BET TaikiYa, $1,850
FOLD wilddog1951
CALL ando206, $1,850 

River: (Pot: $6,670)

    
BET ando206, $400
CALL TaikiYa, $400 

Showdown:

SHOWS ando206
 
SHOWS TaikiYa
 
TaikiYa wins the pot of $7,470 with two pair, Kings and Queens 

After this hand my chips blinded away until I could win a pot with AQ that gave me a stack of about 15k.
Another interessing hand might be this:

Table info:

Seat 1: Bandek ($18,401)
Seat 2: WILLY_PKR_BR ($26,024)
Seat 3: jmw86 ($6,593)
Dealer
Seat 4: baconAVACADO ($12,587)
Posts small blind $125
Seat 5: Lambo798 ($20,703)
Posts big blind $250
Seat 6: wilddog1951 ($10,209)
Seat 7: Oli_Tess ($5,163)
Seat 8: H0ldnemHall ($8,540)
Seat 9: TaikiYa ($14,440) 
Dealt to TaikiYa
 

Preflop: (Pot: $645)

FOLD Oli_Tess
FOLD H0ldnemHall
RAISE TaikiYa, to $600
FOLD Bandek
FOLD WILLY_PKR_BR
FOLD jmw86
CALL baconAVACADO, $600
FOLD Lambo798
FOLD wilddog1951 

Flop: (Pot: $1,845)

  
BET TaikiYa, $1,000
CALL baconAVACADO, $1,000 

Turn: (Pot: $3,845)

   
BET TaikiYa, $2,000
CALL baconAVACADO, $2,000 

River: (Pot: $7,845)

    
CHECK TaikiYa
BET baconAVACADO, $1,000
CALL TaikiYa, $1,000 

Showdown:

SHOWS baconAVACADO
 
SHOWS TaikiYa
 
baconAVACADO wins the pot of $4,922 with three of a kind, Aces
TaikiYa wins the pot of $4,923 with three of a kind, Aces 
After this hand I got 3 hand I could win a lot of chips with:
I got moved to another table before this hand which was full of good players.(They were 2 or 3 fishes too, but compared to the first table, this one now was very tough)
After this hand I lost a couple of small pots and blinded down to about 10BB.
I probably avoided some risky but +EV spots because I wanted to get into the money.(on a 11$ MTT for example I would have played them definitely)
After I got in the money I only had 7.5 big blinds left and the first hand I got was this one:

Table info:

Seat 1: ne2aces1 ($88,012)
Seat 2: esprit ($14,546)
Seat 3: GhettoHomie ($42,210)
Seat 4: sagedecarte ($186,704)
Seat 5: 0_WILLIAM_0 ($39,740)
Seat 6: WhyMeGeez ($109,187)
Dealer
Seat 7: TaikiYa ($15,095)
Posts small blind $1000
Seat 8: yogi147 ($24,039)
Posts big blind $2000
Seat 9: jeanckilly ($116,965) 
Dealt to TaikiYa
 

Preflop: (Pot: $5250)

FOLD ne2aces1
FOLD esprit
FOLD GhettoHomie
FOLD sagedecarte
RAISE 0_WILLIAM_0, to $5,200
FOLD WhyMeGeez
RAISE TaikiYa, to $14,845 and is ALL-IN
FOLD yogi147
FOLD jeanckilly
CALL 0_WILLIAM_0, $9,645 

Flop: (Pot: $34,940)

   

Turn: (Pot: $34,940)

    

River: (Pot: $34,940)

     

Showdown:

SHOWS 0_WILLIAM_0
 
SHOWS TaikiYa
 
0_WILLIAM_0 wins the pot of $34,940 with a straight, Eight to Queen 
I finished in 1520th place (1530th people were paid) and won about 360$ which gave me a significant bankroll push :)