TWBCoOP - I'm out.
Here's my final hand:
PokerStars Game #5293074860: Tournament #25183930, Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2006/06/18 - 17:55:39 (ET)
Table '25183930 38' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: mxzx_rev440 (8207 in chips)
Seat 2: Hoejyland (7002 in chips)
Seat 3: Milo Damon (12160 in chips)
Seat 4: slickdog (5643 in chips)
Seat 5: ScottFX (18625 in chips)
Seat 6: Draxa (10645 in chips)
Seat 7: wheatrich (3730 in chips)
Seat 8: Xorply (3299 in chips)
Seat 9: stevengg (4315 in chips)
mxzx_rev440: posts the ante 25
Hoejyland: posts the ante 25
Milo Damon: posts the ante 25
slickdog: posts the ante 25
ScottFX: posts the ante 25
Draxa: posts the ante 25
wheatrich: posts the ante 25
Xorply: posts the ante 25
stevengg: posts the ante 25
Milo Damon: posts small blind 200
slickdog: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Xorply [8s 8d]
ScottFX: folds
Draxa: folds
wheatrich: folds
Xorply: raises 800 to 1200
stevengg: folds
mxzx_rev440: folds
Hoejyland: raises 5777 to 6977 and is all-in
Milo Damon: folds
slickdog: folds
Xorply: calls 2074 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [4c 5s Qd]
*** TURN *** [4c 5s Qd] [6c]
Xorply said, "7"
*** RIVER *** [4c 5s Qd 6c] [Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Xorply: shows [8s 8d] (a pair of Eights)
Hoejyland: shows [Ad Qc] (a pair of Queens)
Hoejyland collected 7373 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 7373 | Rake 0
Board [4c 5s Qd 6c Jc]
Seat 1: mxzx_rev440 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Hoejyland (button) showed [Ad Qc] and won (7373) with a pair of Queens
Seat 3: Milo Damon (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: slickdog (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: ScottFX folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Draxa folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: wheatrich folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Xorply showed [8s 8d] and lost with a pair of Eights
Seat 9: stevengg folded before Flop (didn't bet)
So even though I'm out, I really like how I performed in this tourney. One lucky hit for some dumbass making a lousy call and I'm crippled. That is poker and it can be brutal.
Final position for me was 436th place out of 2247 entrants isn't too bad of a showing and it would have been much better if not for that bad beat.
posted by Xorply @ 3:00 p.m.
7 comments
7 Comments:
Xorply, where to begin.
When you comment on your elimination from the tournament you bemoan your "Bad Beat". Yet you called a raise with 4-5o?! Some people would say you got what you deserved. Your opponent had top 2 pair (A-Q's). Did you expect him to fold? Of course not.
When describing how well you played, and how much better it could have been had you not been sucked out on, you neglected the races you won (4-4 against overcards) and the suckouts you gave (A-7 against A-J).
You need to remember those hands as well when you're reviewing your play.
What you also need to remember, is that there were enough people in the pot to justify that call as you can guarantee my cards were live. I'm not "bemoaning" the hand. I got beat and that's poker. In the chat after, the fella that one agreed he got lucky and made a bad call on the turn, he knew my hand was made but just couldn't lay his top two down. Looking back on it, I should have pushed rather than check-raising, but that old thing about hindsight. I would have preferred if you hadn't posted anonymous though. Arguments come better from a face. ;-)
Also, 4-4 vs overcards is a favourite and I'll lay my money down anytime. The A7 hand was at the tail end of that maniac doing 5x the BB raises preflop for four hands in a row so I put him to the test figuring him for stealing and got lucky, and I said that.
Xorply,
"One lucky hit for some dumbass making a lousy call and I'm crippled." That, my friend is bemoaning. LOL.
Let's review. You were in the small blind and had posted 200. There was the original raiser, who made it 800, and then ONE caller. With the Big Blind behind you the pot was 2200. So you're getting a little less than 3:1. Not bad, but not great either.
Also, you sound contradictory when you say that there were enough people in the pot to justify the call AND your cards are live. The more people the LESS chance your cards are live.
Anytime you have a tiny pocket pair like 4's against overcards it's 55 - 45. That's what's called a race. You will lose almost half of those over the course of your poker life. Were you a favourite, yes, a very marginal one. And that's if your opponent only has 2 overcards and not an overpair. So your BEST hope was that you were in a coin flip situation.
Remember these hands when summarizing your tournament play.
See you at the club.
An anonymous tease! "See you at the club". Hmmm.
Just so you know X, I am not anonymous.
Well, there goes one of my two guesses. :-)
I do have to concede the point though, that my tournament, which had been going great though, was ruined by chasing with a pretty bad hand. If I were to go back and do it again, I would not have called preflop.
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