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Silver Level
216 players........NL Hold Em..........1st and 2nd win entry into the WSOP main event with $2k travel money and the fortunate player to knock-out poker professional Tony G. gets the 3rd prize........
For those that wonder who Tony G is ..........he is the guy that wreaked table chat havoc on the WPT. Anyway he is a very aggressive player and likes to put people to the test often and usually with the best hand even if only a marginal favorite.
This game was played at Doyles Room, which isn't one of my favorite sites as I have never seemed to get anything to go my way there.
Now the play........Tony is UTG and leads out with a modest preflop bet of $140 with the blinds at 20/40.
It is folded to me in late position with AQ spades. I smooth call.
This is about 15 hands into the tourny and the table has shyed away from most of any hands he has played except me and one other player, but at this point Tony has me chipped by a couple hunny. KEEP IN MIND TAKING OUT TONY WINS A SEAT.
The button and sb fold leaving me and the pro head to head with 300 in the pot.
The flop comes Js Th 6s. I now have a gut draw to the broadway and the nut flush draw with position. He delays for a couple secs then goes all in with his 2k in chips. I have about 1400 (due to a donkish play the previous hand).
Remembering who he is and having some experience of him from playing at poker champs earlier this year coupled with the hands I saw him play on TV as well as what I maintain while tracking stats and players in the articles. (surprising that a boozy mutt like me actually does have memory) I told myself that if I had an opportunity to go big in a hand with him during this tourny I would and here the situation was right off the bat in this game.
I figured he may have AK or something lame like AT with the light preflop bet, because a guy like that goes big with a modest pair preflop in that position. That for me ruled out a set. Then I figured although hoping it wasn't the case that if he had AK at worst I was in a race 44% vs his 54% with a shot at a tie at whatever it is 4 or 5%. If he had AT the I was drawing ugly with the 9 outs to the flush and 3 outs for the Qs. I didn't even think about AJ as I figured he would make and action bet with Top pair Top kick and test if I smooth called with KK or QQ.
This may seem like I have reanalyzed this play and am justifying, but if that is what you think then there it it is. This is honestly the way I approach everyhand I play save the ones I'm wasted or just don't care on.
My head swims with so much dirty water as I wade through the questions that sometimes I feel like I just carried a freakin 2 ton boulder up a hill dragging a trailer on foot after playing a tourny sometimes.
If I had to play it again I would have reraised preflop and looked for an all in , standard reraise , or the quick smooth call and tried to gauge how vulnerable my AQ was. There is my post hand "what could I have done different".
I put him on AK or AT hoping his massive overbet was a protective bet or a test of my willingness to go (him still having over cards and a gut draw). I made the call and the turn was a blank and the river gave me my Q but that filled his broadway and he chipslapped me out of the tourny.
I made the call figuring that if my gamble paid off I would have crippled him and would have had a big enough stack to force him any hand he played after that with a chance of winning the seat.
I may have just donked it up, I am sure the on-line poker superpros that read this will let me know, but what would you have done?
Anyway I now have to take my low-budget no card catching arse off and look for a new brokeman's way to the wsop.
For those that wonder who Tony G is ..........he is the guy that wreaked table chat havoc on the WPT. Anyway he is a very aggressive player and likes to put people to the test often and usually with the best hand even if only a marginal favorite.
This game was played at Doyles Room, which isn't one of my favorite sites as I have never seemed to get anything to go my way there.
Now the play........Tony is UTG and leads out with a modest preflop bet of $140 with the blinds at 20/40.
It is folded to me in late position with AQ spades. I smooth call.
This is about 15 hands into the tourny and the table has shyed away from most of any hands he has played except me and one other player, but at this point Tony has me chipped by a couple hunny. KEEP IN MIND TAKING OUT TONY WINS A SEAT.
The button and sb fold leaving me and the pro head to head with 300 in the pot.
The flop comes Js Th 6s. I now have a gut draw to the broadway and the nut flush draw with position. He delays for a couple secs then goes all in with his 2k in chips. I have about 1400 (due to a donkish play the previous hand).
Remembering who he is and having some experience of him from playing at poker champs earlier this year coupled with the hands I saw him play on TV as well as what I maintain while tracking stats and players in the articles. (surprising that a boozy mutt like me actually does have memory) I told myself that if I had an opportunity to go big in a hand with him during this tourny I would and here the situation was right off the bat in this game.
I figured he may have AK or something lame like AT with the light preflop bet, because a guy like that goes big with a modest pair preflop in that position. That for me ruled out a set. Then I figured although hoping it wasn't the case that if he had AK at worst I was in a race 44% vs his 54% with a shot at a tie at whatever it is 4 or 5%. If he had AT the I was drawing ugly with the 9 outs to the flush and 3 outs for the Qs. I didn't even think about AJ as I figured he would make and action bet with Top pair Top kick and test if I smooth called with KK or QQ.
This may seem like I have reanalyzed this play and am justifying, but if that is what you think then there it it is. This is honestly the way I approach everyhand I play save the ones I'm wasted or just don't care on.
My head swims with so much dirty water as I wade through the questions that sometimes I feel like I just carried a freakin 2 ton boulder up a hill dragging a trailer on foot after playing a tourny sometimes.
If I had to play it again I would have reraised preflop and looked for an all in , standard reraise , or the quick smooth call and tried to gauge how vulnerable my AQ was. There is my post hand "what could I have done different".
I put him on AK or AT hoping his massive overbet was a protective bet or a test of my willingness to go (him still having over cards and a gut draw). I made the call and the turn was a blank and the river gave me my Q but that filled his broadway and he chipslapped me out of the tourny.
I made the call figuring that if my gamble paid off I would have crippled him and would have had a big enough stack to force him any hand he played after that with a chance of winning the seat.
I may have just donked it up, I am sure the on-line poker superpros that read this will let me know, but what would you have done?
Anyway I now have to take my low-budget no card catching arse off and look for a new brokeman's way to the wsop.
