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  1. King Balky King Balky is offline

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    Nov 10th, 2008 (11/10/2008 2:05pm)

    I'm starting to second guess my play on these two hands. I'm probably just being results oriented because I ran into aces both times but I just wanted to get some opinions.

    I had no real reads on either player except that maze had been pretty tight. This hand is with about 50 people left

    pokerstars Game #21909677212: Tournament #117596062, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVII (30000/60000) - 2008/11/09 23:53:28 ET
    Table '117596062 408' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
    Seat 1: King Balky (2528770 in chips)
    Seat 2: Mazelucky (1036210 in chips)
    Seat 3: mls2323 (1007423 in chips)
    Seat 4: whatwhyhow11 (444004 in chips)
    Seat 5: RunThisTable (3066977 in chips)
    Seat 6: droc99999 (2623743 in chips)
    Seat 8: U_Still_Here (1197650 in chips)
    Seat 9: ballnhand (818228 in chips)
    King Balky: posts the ante 6000
    Mazelucky: posts the ante 6000
    mls2323: posts the ante 6000
    whatwhyhow11: posts the ante 6000
    RunThisTable: posts the ante 6000
    droc99999: posts the ante 6000
    U_Still_Here: posts the ante 6000
    ballnhand: posts the ante 6000
    mls2323: posts small blind 30000
    whatwhyhow11: posts big blind 60000
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to King Balky [Jh Ac]
    RunThisTable: folds
    droc99999: folds
    U_Still_Here: folds
    ballnhand: folds
    King Balky: raises 120000 to 180000
    Mazelucky: calls 180000
    mls2323: folds
    whatwhyhow11: raises 258004 to 438004 and is all-in
    King Balky: raises 2084766 to 2522770 and is all-in
    Mazelucky: calls 850210 and is all-in
    Uncalled bet (1492560) returned to King Balky
    *** FLOP *** [5d 5c 3c]
    *** TURN *** [5d 5c 3c] [8d]
    *** RIVER *** [5d 5c 3c 8d] [Js]
    *** SHOW DOWN ***
    King Balky: shows [Jh Ac] (two pair, Jacks and Fives)
    Mazelucky: shows [Ad As] (two pair, Aces and Fives)
    Mazelucky collected 1184412 from side pot
    whatwhyhow11: shows [Jc Qh] (two pair, Jacks and Fives)
    Mazelucky collected 1392012 from main pot

    His flat on button worried me a little but I thought I could have pushed him off most hands in his range and isolate the short stack.

    48 people left

    PokerStars Game #21909851394: Tournament #117596062, $200+$15 Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVIII (40000/80000) - 2008/11/10 0:03:35 ET
    Table '117596062 327' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
    Seat 1: moohaha123 (1324264 in chips)
    Seat 2: King Balky (1488560 in chips)
    Seat 3: foucault82 (1225219 in chips)
    Seat 6: mls2323 (2504026 in chips)
    Seat 7: Justin58 (676804 in chips)
    Seat 8: papoorboy (546659 in chips)
    Seat 9: Annna KK. (2840715 in chips)
    moohaha123: posts the ante 8000
    King Balky: posts the ante 8000
    foucault82: posts the ante 8000
    mls2323: posts the ante 8000
    Justin58: posts the ante 8000
    papoorboy: posts the ante 8000
    Annna KK.: posts the ante 8000
    Annna KK.: posts small blind 40000
    moohaha123: posts big blind 80000
    *** HOLE CARDS ***
    Dealt to King Balky [Qh Qs]
    King Balky: raises 119999 to 199999
    foucault82: folds
    mls2323: raises 250451 to 450450
    Justin58: folds
    papoorboy: folds
    Annna KK.: folds
    moohaha123: folds
    King Balky: raises 1030110 to 1480560 and is all-in
    mls2323: calls 1030110
    *** FLOP *** [5s 3d 6d]
    King Balky said, "nh"
    djLongtime [observer] said, "oh baby"
    PEYTOND [observer] said, "a"
    *** TURN *** [5s 3d 6d] [4s]
    *** RIVER *** [5s 3d 6d 4s] [4c]
    *** SHOW DOWN ***
    King Balky: shows [Qh Qs] (two pair, Queens and Fours)
    mls2323: shows [Ah Ad] (two pair, Aces and Fours)
    mls2323 collected 3137120 from pot

    I quess it's worth noting that I was playing to make the FT with a healthly stack and willing to take some gambles to make it happen. That being said is there any way I could have lost less chips on either of these hands or are they both just pretty standard?

    Thanks for any advice.
  2. optika11329 optika11329 is offline

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    Nov 10th, 2008 (11/10/2008 2:14pm) in reply to King Balky

    Firstly - run into Aces less!

    1st hand - you can fold given the exposure to 800k behind - you have plenty enough chips to play

    2nd hand - gg!

    UL - nice run
     
  3. pokerchief29 pokerchief29 is offline

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    Nov 10th, 2008 (11/10/2008 2:16pm) in reply to King Balky

    u know the answer...u dont need any advice.
  4. doubledave22 doubledave22 is offline

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    Nov 10th, 2008 (11/10/2008 2:20pm) in reply to pokerchief29

    i think you played both hands perfectly fine. Unless u had a good read on the flatter in the first i like the isolation raise. Folding is probably ok tho since the reship is gonna be a pretty small range (plus the flat obv can be AA/KK sometimes). Read dependent for me on the 1st def tho.
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  5. pokerchief29 pokerchief29 is offline

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    Nov 10th, 2008 (11/10/2008 2:26pm) in reply to optika11329

    disagree with you playing the first hand bad. after your raise and the call by maze the other dude reraises you 250k more your gettting lil under 4 to 1 to just call. You have to isolate there even though you have minimal fold equity vs maze. you played em fine

    oops meant to quote optika didnt work
  6. TheVillageGrinder TheVillageGrinder is offline

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    Nov 10th, 2008 (11/10/2008 3:11pm) in reply to King Balky

    2nd hand is totally standard

    1st hand is somewhat icky to me and very much read dependant.

    He calls off 18% of his stack pre. I just hate doing that unless I'm trapping. IDK some ppl play bad tho. If I had a read that he was loose/weak I'd prolly iso like you did.

    One question: Did you know what you were gonnna do if he shoved on you pre?
  7. King Balky King Balky is offline

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    Nov 10th, 2008 (11/10/2008 5:41pm) in reply to TheVillageGrinder

    Thanks for the replies, pretty much what I expected to hear.

    Village - if Maze had shoved pre I would have folded quickly, he had been pretty tight. He played the hand well.
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  8. Cuthroat187 Cuthroat187 is offline

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    Nov 10th, 2008 (11/10/2008 6:16pm) in reply to King Balky

    Norwalk CT represent
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