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March 19, 2006 I just want to share with you what led-up to and some highlights about a game I played that kept me sitting on pins and needles. First of all, I do not play very often games that cost more than $2, maybe 1 – 2 times a month. So At Canbet (the older software), in $10 freerolls I won a few times. Then I played a $1 tourney, got second place $15.xx. New site opened, (it is same on same as the “pokerroom” network), I transferred $5 to check it out. Played on 15/30 limit ring – got down to 3. Played again and figured if I make it up to $5.50 I’ll try for what to me is the BIG game. So I did, and got into the game that starts at 1:00am my time PST. (4:00am EST) that has $500 added to the pool, a game I was eyeing for some time. NOW – I was expecting a somewhat conservative play a “good game”. well what I found was a WILD WILD game. People were going all in everywhere with everything, it was like freeroll or maybe worse. Bad beats were flying everywhere. There were 515 entrants in what seemed no time we were down to about 300. (and this is a $5 buy in, in the middle of the night !!! I’m just stunned and confused about what I see and try to take advantage of it. By the way if anyone has played this tourney before – I would love to know if it is always like this and any theories as to why? So I play only best hands, and others are loose, the bad beats did not get me – and I’m up rather nicely, I’m in first place with about 250 people left (top 70 get paid) I stay on the top for a while, then one fellow, gets way more chips and stays in the lead with me being second – this is more or less steady picture til we get to be about 60 people left. I am just on cloud nine – I made it to the money in the BIG league… lol. Then, me and this big big stack guy end up at the same table, than in no time at all the table has the top 6 chip holders. There is about 50+ people in, and the top 6 are at one table … and still at one table … and still at one table. We all (no clear agreement) start playing so as to do not inflict major damage. If someone has a hand basically does raise once and the rest either fold or everyone keeps on checking and lets the best hand take it. Also any people transferred to the table, are essentially condemned. One of the six is bound to and in a fact does finish them off. There were some exceptions, and the there were some changes on the high stack group members, but still all at the same table. I’m doing good – position varies between 2 and 4. We are down to 25 peeps. BB is 2000. Then this hand happens – I have AK, the big big stack is BB, I raise (double BB) he pays, I check, he’s raising, I call, he’s raising and so we go till the final card, and I’m down from my 35K to about 15K, the river is a Q, and he had AQ in hand. Needless to say – now I was playing very tight, and I was upset, cause, he did “not play by the rules” and he in a fact had a weaker hand then mine. He did apologize … oh WOW… On the positive note I did finish 16th out of 515, won $26 and that is not bad I guess for a sharkette in training. And for the most part it was anything but what I expected, it was a wild game with chips flying everywhere… I’m still puzzled by that – it sure made it exciting and entertaining. April 7, 2006 April 21, 2006 |
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