Tuesday, June 13, 2006

June 10th - £20+£2 Pot Limit Hold'Em - Grosvenor (Luton)

When you take on board as many 6/4 shots as I did in this evenings £20 Pot Limit game in Luton you're bound to come up short once or twice as to the outcome. It just so happened that the time I DID miss my flush draw it was for almost all of my chips!

With only 1000 points for your 20 notes you have to try and go easy. Pot limit is a much easier game to control than No Limit as, in the the early - mid stages in particular, you'll nearly always get to see a flop before committing away all your chip count.

I plodded along picking up a pot here and a pot there and despite having two buy ins I get to the break with circa 9k in chips which was pretty good. After all the rebuys & top-ups there was a prize pool of £2660 (133000 chips in play) and I was sitting happlily on a nice stack.

This got much bigger thanks to a fluke of a hand. In the 200-400 blinds with 3d-4d three of us see the flop of 2d-6d-9c. Now with my hand I ain't going anywhere so I bet out first only to be re-raised across the table for all my opponents chips...some 3000. Of course I call and he flips the Jd-Qd (nice hand) which then looks a big favourite for the pot once the 7d falls on the turn. I'm just about to whizz my hand away when he says...'Hang on a mo. Much as though I dislike to say this you still have an out which knowing my luck right now will almost certainly appear'.

Of course he was talking about the 5d which would give me the straight flush. He burned...and turned (as he was the one dealing) and out popped the 5d! Gasps all round!

With two tables left I have 18k in chips and am looking well in for another final table appearence until THIS hand....

Again, in EP, I get the Ac-6c and with blinds at 300-600 three of us see a flop of 3c-Kc-7h. Nut flush draw for me. I check. To my left there's a bet of 2k. The other player folds and I flat call. The Ah falls on the turn.

Now given that the 2k bet came straight away I immediately thought the bettor held something like K-Q / K-J / K-10. He hadn't raised pre-flop so this kind of holding was very likely. I immediately bet 2k. 'Raise', came a voice, 'to 8k'!

This guy was the only player on our table who had a similar chip count to me...perhaps a few thousand less...so this was going to be a big pot. With top pair and nut-flush draw still there to be had I duly went 'all-in' for maximum benefit which my opponent called. He flipped 3-3!

So I needed a club. The 6s fell on the river and I was down to 4k. Even if I'd have just flat called the 6k extra I'd still have been hard pushed to get away from two pairs after the river so never mind!

My last few chips went in with Kd-9d versus A-Q. No help for me and I was out in 15th place!

Entries -> 36 - Place -> 15th - Loss -> £82 ($152) Profit/Loss for 2006 -> +$12718

7 Comments:

At 4:59 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi. Just founf this, great blog!

However...

I think you casued your own downfall on that particular hand by making the assumption that players always check a set and by flatcalling Ace-Rag in early position.

 
At 5:09 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great blog. Interesting to read your thought processes. I play small comps in my local casino. I've played Luton a few times too and there are some VERY TOUGH players there, far better than some small comps elsewhere


What did you think the guy had once he had raised you loads on the turn?

He has to have better than KQ/KJ/K10 to do that?

and you had no sort of odds to draw to the flush, even the nut flush, did you?

did you get carried away?

 
At 5:38 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

what page of your book says shove it all in on a flush draw with 1 card to come when faced with a massive raise to your puny bet ??


I bet sales are going through the roof !!

 
At 7:18 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why did you call even though it was obvious that you were behind with no odds to call?

Coz it was sooted?

 
At 6:50 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

talk about young adolf what happened to fredom of speach all i said was there must be a chapter on how to play flush draws with 1 card to come for all your chips with no pot odds in 'How To Win At Texas Hold'Em - All You Need To Know' - on sale now at all good bookstores for only $5!

 
At 7:06 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Obviously not a fan of constructive critisism then.

Fine - I will look for another role model in life.

 
At 8:49 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have made an effort to recommend your book to all my friends, some have followed it to the letter, this has made me a winning player but sadly am losing my friends.

 

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