! Table f7, Hand 236, Day 190

! History of this hand:
! 05/11/09 08:56:49! Dealing a new hand
! 05/11/09 08:56:49! Everyone antes $3000
! 05/11/09 08:56:49! David Kluchman blinds $10000
! 05/11/09 08:56:49! oldbloke blinds $20000
! 05/11/09 09:03:15! Larry Stone folds
! 05/11/09 09:07:52! Will S folds
! 05/11/09 09:08:26! Jon Mittelhauser raises $50000
! 05/11/09 09:09:21! GotzNutz folds
! 05/11/09 10:03:33! mes folds
! 05/11/09 10:23:41! vpFREE folds
! 05/11/09 10:23:41! DazedAndConfused is on vacation and folds
! 05/11/09 10:55:20! David Kluchman raises $191700 and is all in
! 05/11/09 13:38:53! oldbloke raises $225100 and is all in
! 05/11/09 13:38:53! Jon Mittelhauser folds

! 05/11/09 13:38:53! Pot right ($845500), flopping/dealing/drawing cards
! 05/11/09 13:38:53! 2 players, 2 all in
! 05/11/09 13:38:53! Flopped cards: 5d 4d 3d
! 05/11/09 13:38:53! Flopped card: 5s
! 05/11/09 13:38:53! Flopped card: 3s
! Hand over, current board is: 5d 4d 3d 5s 3s
! David Kluchman has: Qd Ac
! oldbloke has: Ks Kd
! Pot 1: uncalled $225100 returned to oldbloke
! Pot 2: oldbloke wins $620400 with Two Pair (K K 5 5 4)

+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
|#|   Name                     |Bankroll| Action |Status|Pot#|Pot Size|
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+
 1|   vpFREE                   | 211525 |        |      |    |        |
 2|DV DazedAndConfused         | 234350 |        ||    |        |
 4|   oldbloke                 | 845500 |        |      |    |        |
 5|   Larry Stone              | 664975 |        |      |    |        |
 6|   Will S                   | 613225 |        |      |    |        |
 7|>  Jon Mittelhauser         | 338425 |        |      |    |        |
 8|   GotzNutz                 | 440600 |        |      |    |        |
 9|   mes                      | 310900 |        |      |    |        |
+-+----------------------------+--------+--------+------+----+--------+

! David Kluchman is eliminated!
! 52 players left in the tournament

I'm up to 2nd
Crikey!

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Dude!

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Wow! That was a legitimate Dude sighting, if ever I saw one ;-)

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What happens if you win?

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I faint.
Long way to go yet, still 50+ in. And I'm more used to shortstack survival tactics than bigstack bully|cruise mode. Still, it's the best I've ever done, both for longevity (previous best was March, IIRC - maybe Feb) and position.

One year, Conjelco donated some book tokens (they're a book store)
But normally, nowt but kudos.

Edited at 2009-05-11 09:33 pm (UTC)

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Actually, no: I'd get myself a Tshirt printed up.

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Congrats. You seem to have a faster table than ours (hand 229).

Hands I have junked: 9/8 9/5 T/7 44 (yes a pair, but not a good one) 9/3 J7 A/3 (bad position), A/T (it missed the flop anyway, in a big way) 4/2 Q/3 K/T (someone had already gone all-in) T/2 J5 T/9 K/4 (winner of this one had K/9) and finally K/5.

Trouble is, this table is a bit mad in that in each round the chances are someone will go all-in pre-flop, so you really have to have something substantial or be a big gambler to bet anything.

On the plus side, every time I've actually shown cards in this WRGPT they've held good (one split pot, no losses). On the minus side, I haven't knocked anyone out either.

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Yeh, I've had just enough good hands to be able to stay in this long without having to take any big risks. That move with the A/J on the KKx flop in the previous hand was pretty much the only time I've tried it on, so to speak.
I've had huge chunks of luck too, like my KK holding up there - isn't it something like 40% of flops have an A? So he was only slightly unlucky not to take it.
Our table's at the somebody-pushes-preflop-every-hand stage too, inevitable now, the shortstacks can't really bet less.

Hmmmm.
If a player has an A, there are 3 left, so to not have one on the flop is, um, 47/50*46/49*45/48 ? 0.82... so only 2 flops in 11 have an A? OK I was big favourite after all. 0.72 for the whole board, or a little better than 1 board in 4 has an A. Did I work that right?


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Yeh, I've had just enough good hands to be able to stay in this long without having to take any big risks.

Well, so have I really. It just seems like a long wait between them. :-)

I think your arithmetic is right. On the other hand, if you have two high cards and you're looking to pair up either of them then you have 49% chance from all five cards.

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if you have two high cards and you're looking to pair up either of them then you have 49% chance from all five cards.

With people pushing all-in, it feels awful risky if it's not the Ace you pair up though!

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If you have AK then it doesn't matter which one you pair up. :-)

Obviously the lower your "high cards" are, the more risk there is of them being overtaken. You want your cards to be higher than the other guy's anyway, otherwise what if he has an A too?

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