The fifth Full Tilt Online Poker Series started with a $200+9 NLHE tournament last night. It got a huge field, well over 4000 players, and featured the usual generous FTOPS structure. There were no antes, for example, until two hours into the tournament. A little over 500 places paid, and I was really looking forward to abusing the bubble, but then this happened:
Full Tilt Poker (9 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com
Preflop: Hero is SB with Ks, Jh. Blinds 300/600
2 folds, MP1 raises to 1800, 1 fold, MP3 calls 1800, CO calls 1800, 1 fold, Hero raises 13095 (All-In), 1 fold, MP1 calls 13095, MP3 folds, CO folds.
Flop: 5s, 3c, 3d (2 players, 1 all-in).
Turn: Ts (2 players, 1 all-in)
River: Kh (2 players, 1 all-in)
MP1 showed KQ to bust me. I was quite surprised by the call, not because it is particularly bad, but because he had been rather nitty so fat. He’d previously called off about 7% of his stack against my EP raise and folded to a bet on a QT8hh flop, commenting “Nice flop.” I asked what that meant, and he told me he had Jacks. I was pretty shocked by that fold, and also disappointed, since I held QQ for top set. The previous orbit, he’d opened for 1900 UTG+1 and insta-folded when MP3 reraised him.
MP1 started the hand with around 20,000 chips, so he was deep enough that he didn’t need a monster to raise, but I did think he’d need one to call. When I made the squeeze play, I felt there was a fair chance he’d fold AQ.
MP3 was the table chipleader and had been playing pretty LAG, so I didn’t think his call showed a lot of strength. If he had a hand to call my shove, I felt it would most likely be either a pair smaller than JJ or exactly AQ, neither of which has me in bad shape. CO was also fairly deep and getting good odds to come in at that point, so I wasn’t too concerned about him.
It really seemed like a great spot given my reads on the players involved, and I was shocked to see MP1 insta-call me with KQ. Oh well, tonight is the $200+9 HORSE event, which I’m eagerly anticipating.