Ladbroke Poker – Recent Tournament Part 2
Posted on March 2, 2009
Filed Under Online Poker
Ladbrokepoker – After a reasonable placing of 7th in an online MTT this evening, I still felt fresh enough to take on another of the same 50 player MTT variety. I got off to a good start early on, raising my chipstack from it’s starting point of 1,500, to a healthier 2,400 with some well timed bets and good reads.
Inching my chips further up to 2,800, I was involved in the following hand, with a player holding (9d,10d) and with 1,800 chips in front of him. I was in the small blind and was faced with a strong raise from our player two seats to my right. He made it 500 to go with the blinds at 50/100, and as the action was folded to me, I felt I had to take a flop with (Ac,Qs).
The flop then came down beautifully, (9h,As,Qd).
I checked, seeing no obvious danger to my hand and feeling that a player who had invested 500 preflop would feel compelled to try and force the issue with a bet. Again, everything seemed to be falling into place as he moved all in, and I instantly called.
Then the turn came…diamond…followed by the inevitable river, also a diamond, to give him his flush.
I did not let this hand get to me though and fought back well, keeping up the momentum of good reads and strong plays.
After managing to double through with (K,K), I started pushing my luck a little, calling a shortstacks under the gun all in raise, with (5,5) in my hand, and thankfully, it held up against (K,Q). I don’t think I was being reckless, I simply knew that to go deep in the tournament, I couldn’t afford to be passive.
Then, after reaching 6,000 chips I was finally eliminated in exactly the same 7th place as in my previous tournament.
I had a big stack of 11,000 on my left, and had been avoiding confrontation with him where possible, but for whatever reason, I suddenly decided to take a shot at picking up his big blind whilst holding (3,3). I raised too heavily from the small blind (2,500) and he fired back a reraise for the rest of my chips. I should perhaps have folded, but I felt I had invested enough to take him on in what was likely to be a coinflip. He did indeed have two overcards of (A,J), but an Ace came on the flop, and no miracle arrived for me. Ladbrokepoker.com
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