7/19/06

Cash Games: +$2.7
I played 74 hands 25NL on pokerstars. 7.3 ptbb/100

MTT: $9.92
I played 2 4.4 180 man SNG's. I placed 8th in one of them and lost the other QKs vs Q3s preflop. The final hand is posted below with explaination.

SNG: +19.5
I played 2 5.5 dollar's (1st and 4th) and three 6.5 turbo's (1st, 6th, 4th)

Thoughts:
I went into the final table of the $4.4 tourny second in chips with a substantion lead compaired to the rest of the field. There is no doubt I was the best player at the table. I was playing some great poker until my bumb ass played this hand:

POKERSTARS GAME #5608413347: TOURNAMENT #28362586, $4.00+$0.40 HOLD'EM NO LIMIT - LEVEL XII (800/1600) - 2006/07/19 - 04:39:25 (ET)
Table '28362586 18' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: too.chewy (29204 in chips)
Seat 2: SandbergFan (15090 in chips)
Seat 3: blabla6677 (27628 in chips)
Seat 4: TonisD1 (16139 in chips)
Seat 5: JAGTECH2 (27243 in chips)
Seat 6: \/iper (65526 in chips)
Seat 7: Beer Luggin (25748 in chips)
Seat 8: ihatepoker11 (17447 in chips)
Seat 9: RaisinYa (45975 in chips)
too.chewy: posts the ante 75
SandbergFan: posts the ante 75
blabla6677: posts the ante 75
TonisD1: posts the ante 75
JAGTECH2: posts the ante 75
\/iper: posts the ante 75
Beer Luggin: posts the ante 75
ihatepoker11: posts the ante 75
RaisinYa: posts the ante 75
\/iper: posts small blind 800
Beer Luggin: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RaisinYa [Kh Ac]
ihatepoker11: raises 15772 to 17372 and is all-in
RaisinYa: raises 28528 to 45900 and is all-in
too.chewy: folds
SandbergFan: folds
blabla6677: folds
TonisD1: folds
JAGTECH2: folds
\/iper: raises 19551 to 65451 and is all-in
Beer Luggin: folds
ihatepoker11 said, "nh's"
*** FLOP *** [Ts Jh 7h]
ihatepoker11 said, "h"
*** TURN *** [Ts Jh 7h] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [Ts Jh 7h 9c] [8h]
ihatepoker11 said, "ka"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
\/iper: shows [Qc Qd] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
RaisinYa: shows [Kh Ac] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
TonisD1 said, "if ever u dont wanna set"
ihatepoker11 said, "gg"
\/iper collected 57056 from side pot
ihatepoker11: shows [Ks Ah] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
\/iper collected 54391 from main pot
Beer Luggin said, "nh again"
TonisD1 said, "n1 viper"
SandbergFan said, "wow that was sweet for me lol"
*** SUMMARY ***

I don't know what I was thinking (actuall I wasn't thinking). I for some reason auto pushed allin without even thinking for a second what I was doing. I had a good read on the first player the whole tourny we were at the same table. He was really tight and a decent player. If I would have actually thought about the situation It should have went like this.

The player has just pushed UTG he has about 40% of my chip count. I have AK a good hand but what am I up against. What hands would a tight player not really in push mode push with. These are the core hands (AA, KK, QQ, AK) I believe those are the only hands this player is making this move with. Of those hands Two I am a huge dog, One is a coin filp, one is a split. I really wish I would have taken a second to analyze the hand. This was an easy fold and costs me over $200. I am 90% sure I would go on to win the tourny without playing this hand.

The call the guy made behind me was questionable. Two people UTG go allin, his QQ is probably not good. I say 70% of the time one of us had AA or KK. Either way this had made me not sleep well at all last night.

At least I learned a valuable lesson. You must treat each hand independently. No hands should be played without a through examination of the conditions in the hand.

I still had a pretty good day overall..
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