**Sept MTT Thread**

[ace2daface]

Hey, this might be a stupid question but is there any way to know roughly how long a tourney is going to last based on participants, blinds, time to next blind level , starting stack etc. ?

 

[Dwilius]

Hey, this might be a stupid question but is there any way to know roughly how long a tourney is going to last based on participants, blinds, time to next blind level , starting stack etc. ?

Yea, unclick show registering/upcoming only and see how long it took the day before. I'm sure there is a formula, but I don't know it.

 

[No Brainer]

Dont you just love these hands?

pokerstars No-Limit Hold'em, 1.1 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP2 (t3520)
MP3 (t5255)
CO (t2925)
Button (t10405)
SB (t3860)
BB (t6035)
UTG (t3000)
UTG+1 (t2070)
Hero (MP1) (t5685)

Hero's M: 75.80

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with K

, A

UTG bets t100, 1 fold, Hero raises to t300, 1 fold, MP3 calls t300, 4 folds, UTG calls t200

Flop: (t975) A

, 5

, 6

(3 players)
UTG bets t2700 (All-In), Hero calls t2700, 1 fold

Turn: (t6375) 6

(2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t6375) J

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t6375

Results:
UTG had A

, K

(two pair, Aces and sixes).
Hero had K

, A

(flush, Ace high).
Outcome: Hero won t6375

 

[Debi]

Ouch lol - that is usually me on the losing end.

 

[Worak]

Good game good night

Todays sessions sucked a bit - down 10$.

Until the last one before going to bed....took a shot at a 3$ MTT.

More ore less took the whole FT apart, one after the other .

 

[Mr.Flushee]

Misclick tourny, i was 4 tabling $2.20 180s when my brother phoned when i was registering for the tournaments. I use the tile format and one of the tables were minamized and thought i had only 3 tournys going so i was trying to which i thought was playing 3 tables at once and talk to my brother on the phone and accidently registered for an extra tournament and wrong buyin of $4.40 180 but it ended up paying off getting 3rd for $85.68.
My bust hand was K6<QJ Big Blinds were 2k and was in small blind with 14k and decided to push against Chip Leader 123k. He ended up calling and flopping a Q.


PokerStars Tournament #195526001, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40 USD
180 players
Total Prize Pool: $720.00 USD
Tournament started 2009/09/14 21:13:16 ET


Dear Whatthe555,

You finished the tournament in 3rd place. A USD 85.68 award has been credited to your real money account.

You earned 126.13 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at

Congratulations!

Thank you for participating.

 

[Debi]

Hehe - I got a pop-up saying the batteries in my wireless mouse were dangerously low while I was in this hand. I could barely get the mouse to move so I made a bit of an overbet. I was not going risk timing out in the middle of this hand and losing it lol.

I bet my image on my table just went wacky.

PokerStars Game #32875279401: Tournament #195157218, $5.00+$0.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2009/09/15 13:33:14 ET
Table '195157218 191' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: jwallie (9085 in chips)
Seat 2: dakota-xx (3165 in chips)
Seat 3: Pungak (2660 in chips)
Seat 4: typer1987 (6120 in chips)
Seat 5: Odissey P (6270 in chips)
Seat 6: Hughezy (2775 in chips)
Seat 7: Damfy (4085 in chips)
Seat 8: allanbwood (1650 in chips)
Seat 9: GoldPPK (2950 in chips)
Pungak: posts small blind 25
typer1987: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to dakota-xx [Kd As]
Odissey P: calls 50
Hughezy: folds
Damfy: folds
allanbwood: folds
GoldPPK: calls 50
jwallie: folds
dakota-xx: raises 100 to 150
Pungak: folds
typer1987: folds
Odissey P: calls 100
GoldPPK: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [6d 2s Kc]
Odissey P: bets 50
GoldPPK: calls 50
dakota-xx: raises 2965 to 3015 and is all-in
Odissey P: folds
GoldPPK: folds
Uncalled bet (2965) returned to dakota-xx
dakota-xx collected 675 from pot
dakota-xx: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 675 | Rake 0
Board [6d 2s Kc]
Seat 1: jwallie folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: dakota-xx (button) collected (675)
Seat 3: Pungak (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: typer1987 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Odissey P folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Hughezy folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Damfy folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: allanbwood folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: GoldPPK folded on the Flop

 

[Worak]

dakota-xx: raises 2965 to 3015 and is all-in

I bet my image on my table just went wacky.


Nice little overbet debi !

 

[Debi]

Hehe - I had a tough time with batteries during that tournament. Not long after the mouse thing got resolved my mortgage/insuance companies had me on a conference call and my phone battery got low. I had no place to plug in the charger so had to keep walking from the phone to the computer while playing lol.

I think the worst thing that happened was I folded J9 on the button with no bets in front of me.

 

[the lab man]

Anyone use a M calculator during tournies?

Or do you manually figure it out?

Any thoughts good or bad on these???

 

[Debi]

I have never seen one - I just figure it out myself.

 

[Debi]

Sigh lol...

PokerStars Game #32922428413: Tournament #195646768, $8.00+$0.80 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (40/80) - 2009/09/16 16:52:02 ET
Table '195646768 102' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: zhantemir (10000 in chips)
Seat 2: vanikun (3360 in chips)
Seat 3: JUSTFOLD BK (2780 in chips)
Seat 4: subfraut777 (14145 in chips)
Seat 5: cleanerchen (2225 in chips)
Seat 6: ran7ger (2920 in chips)
Seat 7: KSchuricht (2770 in chips)
Seat 8: pgrzes (1700 in chips)
Seat 9: dakota-xx (3195 in chips)
ran7ger: posts small blind 40
KSchuricht: posts big blind 80
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to dakota-xx [Kc Kh]
pgrzes: folds
dakota-xx: raises 120 to 200
pgrzes said, "lmfao"
zhantemir: calls 200
vanikun: folds
JUSTFOLD BK: folds
subfraut777: folds
cleanerchen: calls 200
ran7ger: raises 2720 to 2920 and is all-in
KSchuricht: folds
dakota-xx: raises 275 to 3195 and is all-in
zhantemir: folds
cleanerchen: folds
Uncalled bet (275) returned to dakota-xx
*** FLOP *** [8s 7s 2s]
*** TURN *** [8s 7s 2s] [Ts]
*** RIVER *** [8s 7s 2s Ts] [8h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ran7ger: shows [Ks Kd] (a flush, King high)
dakota-xx: shows [Kc Kh] (two pair, Kings and Eights)
ran7ger collected 6320 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6320 | Rake 0
Board [8s 7s 2s Ts 8h]
Seat 1: zhantemir folded before Flop
Seat 2: vanikun folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: JUSTFOLD BK folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: subfraut777 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: cleanerchen (button) folded before Flop
Seat 6: ran7ger (small blind) showed [Ks Kd] and won (6320) with a flush, King high
Seat 7: KSchuricht (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: pgrzes folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: dakota-xx showed [Kc Kh] and lost with two pair, Kings and Eights

 

[No Brainer]

Dont you just love these hands?

MP2 (t3520)
MP3 (t5255)
CO (t2925)
Button (t10405)
SB (t3860)
BB (t6035)
UTG (t3000)
UTG+1 (t2070)
Hero (MP1) (t5685)

Hero's M: 75.80

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with K

, A

UTG bets t100, 1 fold, Hero raises to t300, 1 fold, MP3 calls t300, 4 folds, UTG calls t200

Flop: (t975) A

, 5

, 6

(3 players)
UTG bets t2700 (All-In), Hero calls t2700, 1 fold

Turn: (t6375) 6

(2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t6375) J

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t6375

Results:
UTG had A

, K

(two pair, Aces and sixes).
Hero had K

, A

(flush, Ace high).
Outcome: Hero won t6375

Ouch lol - that is usually me on the losing end.

I guess I had it coming...

I was going so well, 48th out of 98 left in the tourney(3856 started), my best tourney so far and then I got this...

UTG (t37112)
UTG+1 (t215804)
MP1 (t275848)
MP2 (t132640)
CO (t121170)
Button (t131382)
SB (t80556)
Hero (BB) (t100364)

Hero's M: 14.55

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8

, 10

5 folds, Button calls t3000, SB calls t1500, Hero checks

Flop: (t11400) 9

, Q

, J

(3 players)
SB bets t12000, Hero raises to t30000, Button calls t30000, SB calls t18000

Turn: (t101400) 3

(3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t67064 (All-In), Button calls t67064, 1 fold

River: (t235528) A

(2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t235528

Results:
Button had 8

, 10

(flush, Ace high).
Hero had 8

, 10

(straight, Queen high).
Outcome: Button won t235528

 

[sharkyo01]

Only a Freeroll but still a win

 

[Worak]

Was running really bad the last days - w/o tilting.

Regular downswing imo.

Hit the money again today - my ROI on FT has gone up to 82% now lol.

 

[Johnnybmoto]

So, I've decided I'm gonna make the move to the dark side. Even though I can beat cash games pretty consistently they tilt me to no end.

MTT's is where my heart is. I love em.

Thinking I'll start playing them as my main game, but still play a few cash games to supplement the tournaments.

 

[Debi]

So, I've decided I'm gonna make the move to the dark side. Even though I can beat cash games pretty consistently they tilt me to no end.

MTT's is where my heart is. I love em.

Thinking I'll start playing them as my main game, but still play a few cash games to supplement the tournaments.

Welcome to the dark side!

It is a good idea to have a plan for playing some cash games to earn money when the tournament cashes are slow. I wish I was good enough at cash games to do that.

But I know what you mean about where your heart is.

 

[No Brainer]

This hand happened almost 2 hours into a $3 tourney... Average stack around 8000.

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $200(BB) poker stars
SB($11,290)
BB($5,295)
UTG ($1,050)
Hero ($11,630)
UTG+2 ($14,805)
MP1 ($7,620)
MP2 ($6,351)
MP3 ($10,124)
BTN ($24,346)

Dealt to Hero A♠K♦

fold, Hero raises to $600, UTG+2 calls $600, fold, fold, MP3 raises to $10,099 (AI), fold, SB raises to $11,265 (AI), fold, fold, fold,

FLOP ($21,823) 8♠3♠T♣



TURN ($21,823) 8♠3♠T♣Q♦



RIVER ($21,823) 8♠3♠T♣Q♦T♥



MP3 shows A♣A♦
(Flop 94.4%, Turn 86.4%)

shows K♥J♣
(Flop 5.6%, Turn 13.6%)

MP3 wins $21,823

 

[Jillychemung]

Guess SB was thinking that MP3 was stealing and MP3 thought his overshove would hide his AA. IMHO, typical kind of play for this buy-in level.

Nice laydown by you though.

 

[arahel_jazz]

September MTT wrapup

Well, I didn't play much MTT in Sept because of school, but when I did, I did OK... If I hadn't gotten cocky and played that $5.50 rebuy, I would be in even better shape.

ROI on the top half is for all of 2009.