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9th HandWe have calmed down after the break and since we now have 40K and a big lead on everyone at the table, only one of the fish next to CF has around 35K but hasn't shifted any in the whole time I've been at the table, so he can keep his chips warm until the blinds get big and I take them that way.
Kevin Iacofano clearly notices I have taken my foot off the pedal and starts opening 2-3times/ orbit for a while...
Eventually I find a hand I want to play vs him and 3bt the btn... I know he won't want to peel here very often. I've had the better of him so far in our duel (I've had the better starting hands tbh) and as my first 3bt I don't think he will assume I'm messing around here ever...
I have the mighty
of course.....
And then the punk to our left cold calls from the small blind - WTF?! Excuse me.... sir - are you freaking crazy? Well Kev clearly freaks out a little and folds.
This is all taken away and the worries about AA or KK etc are quickly put away with the following flop.
Flop
Well I guess that's a good flop... I think he has a big pair... and I errr.... I have.... errr............ quads?
? That's pretty high up on the hand ranking chart that I remember.
The punk donks into us for 3k into 5.5k ish... I don't see much point raising here, he could spazz shove but I'm not sure...
Turn
He donks into us again... for 6k (from 22k) now I know he's a punk-spazz but he 'could' have a K.... I freaking hope so... I make it 14K and he snap folds
face up, huffing and puffing.... WP sir... you are a poker genius.
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10th HandThis hand is set-up by some of the previous hands with CF and there's a new guy to our left after the AA's hand. He looks comfortable at the table, had about 35K in chips when he came, has lost a few though.
Anyways, he's seen me ISO the CF a LOT and decides to do something about it.
CF limps UTG and I open
to 5x, then the Scottish 'wannabe' to our left now 3bts pretty standard size wise. CF folds and I take some time, work out that I think he will 5bt shove some % and we're snapping that.. so we decide to 4bt (he didn't see our previous one being AA's).
He takes a little time and calls oop... again vwp sir.
Flop
He checks and I decide to let one roll off here, figuring he'll own himself with any Kx on the turn and may bluff/ bet any pair...
Turn
He now comes out betting 10k from his 27K and I have a little think... I want to make this look as bluffy as possible, but effectively want to get the money in now so that his random spades don't get a free river to shove into me. I shove and he snap folds... fuming and SUPER TILTED he runs away from the table.
It was so funny watching this guy after this hand... I have been in these shoes before, and he clearly is fuming he's given away like 2/5 of his stack with no showdown and I'm now getting up and up to 50K and beyond....
The table are clearly frustrated that noone is getting the better of me, I've folded oop when I've been 3bt as they're not doing it enough to make it a problem.. I'm still opening at least 2 hands/ orbit and just breeding chips in front of them.
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11th HandKev opens the gun and we find
, we flat and the punk behind decides to squeeze to 3.2K... he's still tilting from previous hands with me, but I'm loving this raise. It's going to get everyone else to fold everything except QQ+ and Kev will have to be honest in front of me.. Kev folds and we are HU.
Basically I get the pot HU vs the punk with a good hand... yes please!
Flop
I check, he bets like 6K or something and we decide to call...
Turn
Pretty great card imo, obviously it makes it hard for him to have top pair.. but if somehow he has QQ+ with a heart, we're going to get it all! and if he's thinking I have AQ/ AK then he will keep firing as well.
I check, he bets 12K (from 29Kish) and I call..
River
I figure he's going to bet all his value hands, as imo he either has air... a T or an overpair... he should be betting all of this and he has a perfect 1/2pot shove for like 16K i think.
I check... and he sigh checks back with
.... F*ck... If i shove the turn he would have called the rest for sure...
(think this was a small mistake.. maybe my only value one all day)
Turns out this hand makes the pokerstars blog and apparently I scoop the pot looking so uninterested and nonchalant that they give me an 'award'.
#chillingwhenwinning
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#crushingthenoobsattheeasygame!
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12th + 13th Hands - the two most important hands I've ever played so far.These are the biggies... these are the CL Day1A hands...
So, we're in SB and its folded to the button, he's the weeded up, ravemusicblaring, possibly drugged up, spazztard who did come to the table with a lot of chips but hasn't played much since.
The BB 'punk' isn't there and the btn min opens... the few times he has opened he has made it 3-4x and I'm 100% sure he's on the steal. I figure that I can play
profitably vs him here as I plan to Craise a lot of flops and turns... and take this away from him 80%+ of the time.
FLOP
I check, he bets pretty small (imo still indicative of a bluff) and I decide to call... allowing him to barrel once more, I'm going to Craise most turns..
Turn
He could hit this, but more importantly I think this is the PERFECT card for him to now try turn and river barrels and we're going to cc, cc. This not only stops us losing a lot the few times he does have an A but more importantly its just going to get so much more value.
Obviously we have flush draw now and that will allow us to call much easier on 1/4 of rivers.
We check, he now bets a little bigger... almost 1/2pot... we 'sigh' call.....
River
This is a pretty sweet river, we are only beat by two cards and if he has those, nice runout... I think he's going to bluff this river 100% and decide to cc.
I check and he bets almost full pot, for 15K.... I SNAP call and he tentatively shows the
.... I show my
and he literally EXPLODES.
His face instantly drips.. he's buzzing in his seat, i can hear his pulse from seat 1 (he's in 9) and I can see his brain melting out of his ears onto his chips.
I FEEL AMAZING! This is what I've learned, this is how it feels.... This is me, John Black, the poker player......I know this seems ridiculous to read, I know this makes me sound like a tool... but this advert is literally 'it' for this moment in my poker life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVq-DkftWBc(sorry mods if this is against the rules.. but its needed).
And now the hand... the one that is tearing my poker friends into two groups as to whether I'm a genius or an idiot.
Why I was almost the CL Day 1A of UKIPT Nottingham 2012.... almost.The very next hand the CF limps and then the spazztard now limps again... We find
and ISO again to 4x and it folds around... the CF folds (finally learn his lesson?) and the spazztard now shoves.... for 60K or something.
Its 300/600, there's 1200 in limps and I make is 2800, now this guy wants to ship in his remaining 55K - I think it was 52.5K to call (stuck in my mind for some reason).
(OMG - I just had a blue screen of death and my computer shut down.... I literally sat here quietly... trying to work out how to react.) I thought I'd lost everything above..........So this is what goes through my head:-
- I know I'm ahead... 100% certain.
- he opens all his pairs and big A's for a raise
- so this dude literally has Ax, Kx, or Qx, all the time... and maybe occasionally a random 45ss....
- vs that range we have to call... we crush his Ax and Qx range...
- we're a 62/38 vs the rest.. and he never has pairs!
- IF we lose, we have 40K (avg is 37K)
- however the chips go to our direct right... so we can get them back
- we're on a table that won't get broken for the rest of the day
- we're crushing the table and no one will even try to bluff us after this
- Do we need to take the risk? do we need to get into this monstrously high variance spot?
- Do we want to win the UKIPT Nottingham, or just mincash?
Win = take the edges + rungood...
but if we win... we're on like 160/170K or something ridiculous..
We will be Day1A CL and have a super soft table to finish the day on, probably finishing the day with 200K+..... We will be Day1A CL in the biggest competition the UK has ever held.
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Took me 30 seconds to slide the call in.... the entire table 'breath in' and he fuming slaps his on the table.
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Its 62/38... 62% of the time we're CL in UKIPT Notts, now I'm a much cooler cucumber at the table these days, the 11th hand above shows this, but I had to stand up to watch this one...
This was the biggest pot in 'potential value' that I've ever been involved in.. and I'm ahead... and I
need to hold.
in the window......
And we do not improve.
I take it really well, morale is high and I'm bouncing off the ceiling.... I go and find Adam Reynolds who is on the cash tables apparently being a fish and giving Mitch some moneyz for fun.
Back to it then... back to the 'grind'.
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I took it super well, no tilt at all and I get straight back on the horse.. raising and taking the next hand....
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Final few, I promise.- I get back up to 60K pretty quickly, working hard and making a few small plays and some thin-ish value bets.
- We find
again on the btn and Kev Iacofano opens in middle position.. he hasn't been opening that much of late and this will be the nth time we've 3bt him from the button.. so we're expecting some action. But he snap folds.
- We then tighten up a little, trying to grind our way through to Day2.
- After a few orbits we open 44 UTG and get shoved on by an older guy who has just been moved to our table, its 12K to call and i opened for 2200 or something.. there's like 6K dead money so I call... (a mistake i know, the only one all day I think) and we're up against 99. We lose and we're down to 50K ish... (50K avg now)
- We then open 66 UTG and fold to the 15K shove this time.... but he had 44's.... FFS!
- Kev Iacofano opens the button and we find
in the BB, we take a lot of time (as we have with real hands) and 3bt pretty big. I know he's not going to assume its a bluff, ever... he's going to rationale that I don't want to play the pot oop vs him.. and that this is the first time I've gotten cheeky all day oop. He folds and I declare "its good for the game boys..." and show.
- Few more hands and we're chipping back up to 55-60K
- Then we get KK in the SB and the punk kid 3bt our open... we shove and he snaps saying "I hope you've got that 72o again..."
and shows us his A7o. He flops an A and we're on life support of about 28K.
- Our next open gets 3bt by him again and we fold KQo.
- Eventually we find A7o on the button and its folded to us... we shove and the punk finds AQo in the SB....
Is this even normal???We do not find a 7... and we are out.
I feel like I played the best poker I ever have, I definitely ran good in some sweet spots... might have missed 16K of value in the JJ hand.. but apart from that, I made the biggest call... in the biggest spot - and couldn't hold.
Get me into more please! I don't have the roll to play them myself now, so I'm going to be rebuilding and trying to satellite in.
If anyone wants to be on a list of people to get information if i sell pieces then please pm me.
This has been 3-4hours of my life. I hope you enjoyed it.
peace.
jb