Bipolar Sit-N-Go
liquid's YTD: $1073.93
I played another sit-and-go yesterday. I didn't get a hand to play until level II, when I [over-]raised 5xBB with QQ74ss on the button... and got three callers. The flop had a bare ace on a ragged board and was checked to me, so I threw in a sizeable bet... and got one caller. We both checked it down from there, and foe showed down an ace and lousy side-cards to scoop with a single pair of aces. Hmm.
So I was the short stack among the nine remaining players. Two others got knocked out while I sat on the sidelines and got whittled down to $500, with most everyone else over $2000. Not good. But I finally found a playable hand (AJJ7ss), pushed, and won $1400 when my lone pair of jacks held up.
Eventually I was one of two very short stacks vs. two very large stacks. With the blinds at 200/400, me in the big blind with $740 and a crappy 2569ss, and the other short stack all-in, I squeaked into the money with a flopped straight. Hot diggity. A much better outcome than I ever expected earlier in the tourney.
And then things got interesting.
Shortly thereafter, foe #1 -- the chip leader almost from the outset -- had $10k. Foe #2 and I each had $2.5k. Together, foe #2 and I proceeded to take turns hammering foe #1. The high point:
This was the first time in forever I had not come in for a raise. The mood of the table was such that I could fully expect Foe #1 to raise, and he did not disappoint.
Foe #1 showed down KQJ4ss, a dream matchup for me, and suddenly I was the chip leader. Two hands later foe #2 finished foe #1 off to pull nearly even with me going into heads-up.
Three hands later, having built a $9k to $6k lead and in the middle of a key hand, my connection failed. Deja vu. By the time I was reconnected, I had missed eight hands. EIGHT hands! The new chip count: $14.6k for foe, $0.4k for hero. Another comeback was not to be.
I am cursed with an interesting life.
I played another sit-and-go yesterday. I didn't get a hand to play until level II, when I [over-]raised 5xBB with QQ74ss on the button... and got three callers. The flop had a bare ace on a ragged board and was checked to me, so I threw in a sizeable bet... and got one caller. We both checked it down from there, and foe showed down an ace and lousy side-cards to scoop with a single pair of aces. Hmm.
So I was the short stack among the nine remaining players. Two others got knocked out while I sat on the sidelines and got whittled down to $500, with most everyone else over $2000. Not good. But I finally found a playable hand (AJJ7ss), pushed, and won $1400 when my lone pair of jacks held up.
Eventually I was one of two very short stacks vs. two very large stacks. With the blinds at 200/400, me in the big blind with $740 and a crappy 2569ss, and the other short stack all-in, I squeaked into the money with a flopped straight. Hot diggity. A much better outcome than I ever expected earlier in the tourney.
And then things got interesting.
Shortly thereafter, foe #1 -- the chip leader almost from the outset -- had $10k. Foe #2 and I each had $2.5k. Together, foe #2 and I proceeded to take turns hammering foe #1. The high point:
Seat 4: Foe #1 ($6,195 in chips)
Seat 5: Foe #2 ($4,505 in chips)
Seat 7: Hero [JC,KS,AD,QC] ($4,300 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
Hero posts blind ($400), Foe #1 posts blind ($800).
PRE-FLOP
Foe #2 folds, Hero calls $400.
This was the first time in forever I had not come in for a raise. The mood of the table was such that I could fully expect Foe #1 to raise, and he did not disappoint.
Foe #1 bets $1,600, Hero bets $3,500 and is all-in, Foe #1 calls $1,900.
Foe #1 showed down KQJ4ss, a dream matchup for me, and suddenly I was the chip leader. Two hands later foe #2 finished foe #1 off to pull nearly even with me going into heads-up.
Three hands later, having built a $9k to $6k lead and in the middle of a key hand, my connection failed. Deja vu. By the time I was reconnected, I had missed eight hands. EIGHT hands! The new chip count: $14.6k for foe, $0.4k for hero. Another comeback was not to be.
I am cursed with an interesting life.
posted by liquid at 4:28 PM
2 Comments:
Time to sue your DSL carrier. That would be like a bouncer picking you up and throwing you out the door of the casino at the final table.
During the downtime I brought up a web browser and was able to hit the PokerRoom web site (among others). It was apparently just the PokerRoom app that couldn't connect. Bleh.
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