Archive for July 5th, 2009
Key Hands From Day 1
July 5th, 2009 | Author: foucault
I’ll hopefully be publishing a full write-up after the tournament, so for the moment I’m just going to share two key hands.
In the first, blinds were 150/300. The CO, who was pretty blatant with his bet sizing, opened to 675. The Button, a young player in a Poker Stars hat who seemed good and was probably a participant or a similar forum, called. The SB folded, and I had QdTd on my BB. I squeezed to 2500. The CO folded, and the Button called. He had about 40K to start the hand, I had 45K.
The flop came 972 with one diamond. I bet 3500, and he called.
The turn was the Jd. Stacks are awkward for a check-raise, and I don’t know how often he bet-folds the turn anyway (not that it’s such a bad thing for me if it checks through). Also, I didn’t think he’d raise a second barrel very often at all. So I bet 7500, and he called.
The river was an offsuit 2. At this point the pot is about 28K, and there is just over a pot-sized bet left in the effective stacks. I really wanted to shove but couldn’t bring myself to pull the trigger. We both checked, and he showed 44. If I knew he were calling the turn that wide, I think a shove is definitely correct. Absent that information, I think it’s very close, and for better or worse I didn’t feel like bluffing off my whole stack in level 3.
