Posted by Johnnymac 8:25 AM
Here's a hand I played last night. I thought initially that I would scratch my balls a little bit and put some cheeky title to it like, "How to Slowplay" or something like that, but I reconsidered and now just want to share it. I slowplayed it a little bit, especially on the flop, but after some consideration I don't think I played it well as much as I got lucky that my opponent picked a bad moment to go crazy and try to steal the pot. Luckily for "Crackerboy", he had me covered up and thus he didn't commit suicide by trying to steal, and even more impressively, he was able to recover his stack and get back into the money by the end of the tournament.


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PokerStars Game #848642772: Tournament #3389366, Hold'em No Limit -
Level VI (100/200) - 2004/11/11 - 19:32:56 (ET)
Table '3389366 1' Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: Grummy (5767 in chips)
Seat 4: johnnymac96 (1645 in chips)
Seat 5: nemesis18 (2788 in chips)
Seat 6: crackerboy (2305 in chips)
Seat 9: DNAPoker (995 in chips)
nemesis18: posts small blind 100
crackerboy: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to johnnymac96 [Tc Td]
DNAPoker: folds
Grummy: folds
johnnymac96: raises 300 to 500 (remember Fro's - and Doyle's - advice about playing TT aggressively in a shorthanded game; it's not a big raise, but I'm not going to let anyone play for free, either- I want to get heads up)
nemesis18: folds
crackerboy: calls 300 ("Pa-zeeshun raise! Ze big blind vil not be pooshed ah-vound!")
*** FLOP *** [Ts Qs Qh] (holy shit, what a great flop!)
crackerboy: checks
johnnymac96: checks (a big bet too soon wins nothing, and I have position so I will give him a free card and hope he hits it)
*** TURN *** [Ts Qs Qh] [2h]
crackerboy: checks
johnnymac96: bets 200 (just a small bet to try and induce him to come over the top if he has a Q)
crackerboy: raises 1605 to 1805 and is all-in (WOO WOO!)
johnnymac96: calls 945 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [Ts Qs Qh 2h] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
crackerboy: shows [9h Ad] (two pair, Queens and Deuces) (wow, just Ace high?)
johnnymac96: shows [Tc Td] (a full house, Tens full of Queens)
johnnymac96 collected 3390 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3390 Rake 0
Board [Ts Qs Qh 2h 2c]
Seat 2: Grummy folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: johnnymac96 (button) showed [Tc Td] and won (3390) with a full
house, Tens full of Queens
Seat 5: nemesis18 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: crackerboy (big blind) showed [9h Ad] and lost with two pair,
Queens and Deuces
Seat 9: DNAPoker folded before Flop (didn't bet)

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CODA: I played heads up with "Grummy" for a very long time at the end of this tournament and kept trading chips and getting back to even. On the next to last hand I had him slightly covered up (~$500) and managed to get all in with AKs vs his A6o. Wouldn't you know that he caught a 6 on the flop and then bounced me from the tourney on the very next hand when I couldn't even fully cover the $800 BB. UGH!

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