Joined: Aug '08
Location: Spain
Age: 53 (M)
Posts: 13
I thought I should share the very strange hour I have just spent double dipping.
I entered the Titan 7k rebuy. After 20 minutes I hadn't had a playable hand apart from JJ that was beat when an ace came on the flop.
I decided to put on a cheap cash game at the same time, till the silly rebuy muppets where out of the way, and when the real poker starts.
In the whole first hour of the tourney I didnt win one hand. Saw the flop 10 times but couldn't hit anything to save my life. Yet on the cash table I went from 10$ to 30$ in 20 minutes.
In that time I got aces three times, AK twice and 10s and won with all of them. So on one table I was expereiencing that very rare time when i was getting nothing but quality hands and yet on the tourney absolute blank.
Now here is the really bad bit. After the one hour break I turned off the cash game as time to really concentrate. My first hand was JJ and I doubled up. Next hand A10 diamonds. Flop another ace and two spades bet the pot got one caller. Next card another ace bet the flop(me all in) and they called. I am now worried about my kicker and the draw to the spade flush. Yes you have guessed it river a spade and my trip aces knocked me out to the flush.
So here's me thinking what was that all about!! You can hardly say I am running bad as i crushed one table and experienced the poker gods against me on another. That is why I love this game. Where else could you experience such fantastic luck on one table and really bad luck on another.
Joined: Aug '08
Location: Spain
Age: 53 (M)
Posts: 13
That's the point I wasn't waiting for monsters. I just never hit anything on the flop. Plus my last tourney win was $2000 so I don't think i will be just staying at the cash tables javascript:void%20Indsaetsmiley(' ')
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Croatia
Age: 47 (M)
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just one thing, catching flopped flush draw on river is not a bad beat and you had smaller stack then the caller. I don`t know exact situation but maybe you should have check that turn if flopped spades were not pictures because you certainly looked as TA at the table OR caller was so big stack that he did not care if you had a boat. Personally I don`t like rebuy and turbo tournaments.
Joined: May '08
Location: Germany
Age: 59 (M)
Posts: 6787
Against an obvious draw it is not good to give a free card at the turn. Maybe he should have checked the flop and then bet the turn if no spade hit. A pure flushdraw had to fold there.
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Croatia
Age: 47 (M)
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Posted by shokaku: Against an obvious draw it is not good to give a free card at the turn. Maybe he should have checked the flop and then bet the turn if no spade hit. A pure flushdraw had to fold there.
Another thing he could do. But this certainly is not a bad beat. I chased flush draw so many times that I cannot remember. Big bet at turn after checked flop could drive him off, depends how big was his stack. I know I would raise min just to announce that I have Ace in this situation against big stack and wait to see the turn. Would I raise the turn, probably, cant tell. If his stack was too big I would not bother with raise. He could have been TA himself so big raise on turn would get him out of the pot when faced with allin. Not enough info.
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