Playing in the DTD Monte carlo, I sit on my table with a table full of unknowns (to me)
Start off standard semi tight trying to see cheap flops playing cash game style (cash games being my preferred area) nothing too dramatic and gradually build from 30 to 40k within a couple of levels.
Anyway getting to the point.
Blinds increase and ante's kick in. This is in my opinion where guts and skill take over.
Blinds 150-300 with 25 ante, and it becomes obvious / standard that a couple of players are now stealing and chipping up a bit raising to like 700.
One particular player to my immediate right is doing more than his fair share and it starts to really bug me. From his conversations earlier with another player and all the people who kept stopping by to say hello and shake his hand, it was easy to see he was a somebody in the poker world.
Ok. It's time I put a stop to this. He keeps stealing when folded around and stops me from stealing - the only solution is to 3 bet him. I've now been playing very tight and made a point of showing my big pp's and AK when I do raise so my image is now super tight.
I decide that i'm going to 3 bet him very soon after the button passes me.
Blinds still 150-300 - 25 ante with me on about 40k and in the cut off. Folds round and he makes it 725. I look down at
and decide if you're going to 3 bet steal, it has to be some random hand so I make it 2200, folds back round and he has a think. All the time i'm thinking please please please just fold so I can show this. Him folding and me showing this would have made my day. I don't play many tournies, particularly big ones but this would have been as good as winning it.
Then it happens - he 4 bets me and makes it something like 6500. My first instinct is just to shove on his ass and make it an even bigger play than I had intended, the second option being to just pass, but no, I wasn't done with him yet. I now flat call in position with a view to shoving his cb on any flop that contains anthing to do with my hand and I mean anything. Any pair - any flush draw - any straight draw and even any gutshot. I might have even just shoved a scary looking flop.
Flop comes 10-7-2 rainbow probably the most uncoordinated unscary flop in the world. He bets about 7000 and I dwell and grudgingly pass, thinking to myself hmmmmmm nice hand well played etc etc.
The break comes and I enquire through a few friends who this menace is. Everyone is laughing at me and telling me its PAB, whoever the fuck Pab is, but apparently he's pretty handy winning the GUKPT main event in london and decent results on t'internet.
I did eventually get my revenge when I did the only thing that a novice tournament player can do to a pro - I sucked out on the river.
Quick summary- he raises UTG I flat with JJ flop 9 6 3 rainbow, he bets I flat turn 8 he bets I shove he calls and shows 8 9. I bink a 6 on the river - In your face Mr Pab - Owned. Only joking Pab - you really are different class and it was a pleasure and an experience playing with you. I actually started feeling sorry for you when you were down to 20k and I was sitting with 100k. I knew exactly what you were thinking and you were dead right. My chips would have been put to better use if they were in front of you.
I'll get you next time
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