Tournament play really inproving!

Friday 2 March 2007

Yesterday i saw a $30+$3 NLHE [$5,000 guaranteed!] taking place on pokerstars so decided to join it and also joined a $5 [360ppl max] at the same time. I got pretty deep in both of them, the $30 i got knocked out just before the money with a bad beat which sucked but the $5 i made the final table and ended up coming 5th for about $120 which i was kinda pleased with, i was chip leader (or in the top 3) throughout the whole bubble period (last 36) and still coming to the final table.

Something i did really differently in this tourney though was bullying at the bubble. I didnt have a huge chipstack, about average but i pretty much pushed all-in every hand and the big stacks didnt wanna risk losing there chips to me and the short stacks didnt wanna bust out. I had maybe 10,000 in chips with blinds about 300/600 so including antees i was making just over 1,000 chips every hand. I soon took the chip lead and carried on raising every hand.

Today i entered a $33 NL Hold'em [360players max] and this time didnt bust out for a while, i was again top5 in chips down to the last 100 people. I was sat on a table with 5 out of the top 9 in chips and they were flying round like crazy! I picked my spots and became chip leader after flopping an open ended straight draw and then turning and nuts against his AA to which he called my all-in!

I kept hold of the chip lead till we were down to 12 players and i got dealt AK, KJulius10 raised it to 4,000 which was a slightly larger raise than he had normally been doing and he was in early position to i decided to just call. Slugg7, who had really been playing like a donk went all-in again to try and steal the raises with AJo. This time we both had hands. KJulius10 just called the 30,000 so i knew he had a hand, i thought maybe AK or something like JJ. Figured he'd move all-in with QQ+. I decided to just call and see a flop as i was pretty sure that if i pushed he wasnt folding. Flop came 83T and KJulius10 pushed for 21,000 more to me, no way i was calling here with A high, i had him covered in chips so i knew he had a hand and folded becoming the short stack with just 24,000. He showed TT for top set which turned to quads on the river!!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?868903

After that i picked a bad spot to steal the blinds and opted to move all-in rather than risk a few callers but ran into AA and was knocked out in 11th place for $120.

Bankroll: $740

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