WSOP, bad beats, great hands

Yeah, he did very well to resist tempation and pay the blinds through that 100 minute drought!

on a running note, len miller (steve scott's coach at uc irvine) made it through his day 1 flight (down to about 7500 chips though)...

where do you find the actual accounts of how certain people (fullem) are doing?

Malmo, I also get slightly over 25% rakeback at Euro.

Fullem is in 513th out of 1868 that advanced to today.

Fullem is to the right of a short-stacked Amir Vahedi. BF is down to 22K. $2900/round in blinds and antes. Needs some good cards.

If he is going to call anything preflop just go all in and flip the coin if you want to be aggressive.

Both my buddies are out as of today, and one is back in the office, the other is still in Vegas. I got the quick scoop from him this AM. He said he only played 12 hands throughout the entire tourney, and finished around 1000th place. He played AQ or better only, so he was extremely tight. He got it up to about $18,000 at one point, but went down to $8,000 after a tough loss. The blinds went up to 500-1000 with 200 ante ($3,300 per trip) and he only survived two trips around the table before being forced all-in with nothing. He said because the money went down to 560th place, everyone was playing very tight trying to survive, and eventually, the blinds and antes caught up to most of the short stacks.

I played in my local tourney last night until my full house got busted by four aces. Oh well, I finished in the money.

Less than 1% of the field remains ...

Anyone have a link to the poker thread started sometime in the last six months where malmo held forth with a veritable "poker university"? I think he posted at least a dozen posts with details tips and tables on the fundamentals of poker.

(I've tried the search engine, but...)

Many thanks to anyone who can help.

Here's one:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=563766&page=0

Played in a tourney last night at the local pub. I finished 3rd out of 45 or 50. There were three hands of note:

(1) I am dealt AK of diamonds. On the flop I get two diamonds and the queen of clubs. The girl to my left is the dealer. She raises 20k. I figure her for top pair probably with two diamonds as well. Next card is off suit. We both check. Last card is the Queen of Diamonds. Now, I figure her for AQ with trip queens against my flush. She raises 20k again, i go all in and she calls. The Result: Four Queens. She was sitting on a pocket. Bitches.

(2) Down to the last table, I find myself short stacked against a lot of large stacked new players. I am the dealer and I push all in blind. Five people call me! The flop comes with two spades (3 and 4) plus a 5 of clubs. The big stack in sb position, goes all in. Two fold; two call. Everyone flips their cards (except me since I still haven't looked at them). The sb is sitting on the A/K of spades. One guy has 6/7 suited and the other guys has pocket kings. Then comes another four on the turn. The river is a spade. The big stack is raking in his side pot and starts for the original pot (about 65k) when I say "hold on, let's see what i got." Turns out I had pocket 3's and win with a full boat.

(3) Now with chips to play, I start winning some hands and narrows down to three players. Two get money so I need to double up. I have pocket fives. The flop comes 4 3 3 rainbow. The guys gives me a 10k bet that looks like a straight draw. The, next card is a 5 to make my boat. He throws in another 10k. The river is a four. He goes 20k, i go all in, he calls. Fucking four fours beat my full house. Asshole.

mcgato wrote:

Here's one:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=563766&page=0

That's the one! Many thanks.

We have a final table.

A recent bad beat story from my neighborhood game: I was dealt A 3 of hearts as the BB. Nobody raised, so I was in for the flop, which came As, 9h, 7h. So I've got top pair and a flush draw holding the ace. I raise, everyone folds except one guy who calls. I figure he's got an ace and a better kicker, so I need a heart to fall. Sure enough, the turn card is the 5 of hearts and I've got the nut flush. I check hoping for a raise and he checks back. The river comes 8h. I go all in and he calls. He flips over the 5 of spades and 6 of hearts to make the unlikely straight flush. Sometimes you get burned when you slow play your hand.

My Worst beat.....on pokerstars this year in tourny for WSOP seat. under 200 players left. I have Ad5d, BB had 8-7 unsuited and player 3 has 10d2d. Flop is 8d7d3c. I bet big, both call. Next card 6d. BB goes all in...I wait to hope to trap third player for about 10 secs then I go all in. Player 3 calls. 9d comes up on the river for a straight flush to player 3. Worst part is I was 9th in chips at that point, BB was 13th and player 3 was 7th before that hand. Player 3 became a huge chip leader as the 10 were very close in chips before that hand. I wonder if he won the tourny!!

A bad one, though probably not my worst:

Heads-up in a home poker tourney. He has a slight chip lead. I'm on the button (and dealing the cards) with AK. I call, he raises, I call.

Flop: K-K-7 -- He bets, I reraise, he re-re-raises all-in with J-10, I call.

Turn: 9

River: 8, giving him a straight to beat my set, winning the tournament...

...but then I realize I failed to burn a card before the river. I say: "Hey, my mistake I was the dealer, if you want that card I dealt to stand it is your choice. He wants it to stand. Out of curiosity, I deal the "correct" card to just see what it would have been...another 8.

Hand 232 - Steve Dannenmann has the button, he raises to $700,000, and Hachem calls. The flop comes 6h-5d-4d, Hachem checks, Dannenmann bets $700,000, Hachem raises to $1,700,000, and Dannenmann calls. The turn card is the As, Hachem bets $2,000,000, and Dannenmann slowly raises to $5,000,000, Hachem reraises all in, and Dannenmann immediately calls. Hachem shows 7c-3s (seven-high straight), while Dannenman has Ad-3c (top pair). Dannenmann needs to catch a seven on the river to chop the pot with equal straights.

The entire crowd is on their feet as the river card comes. There are only three cards that can keep Hachem from becoming champion.

The river card is the 4c! Joseph Hachem has just become the 2005 World Series of Poker champion!

Had the opposite of a bad beat today- a good (lucky?) win.

playing 2/4 limit at Eurobet

I have QQ It's raised in front of me and I reraise. The guy on the button cold calls 3bets and 5 of us see the flop.

Flop is Q25 all hearts. someone leads out betting and I raise hoping to thin it out for the people drawing.

The pot is so big that nobody is leaving though. Guy on the button cold calls and a four of us see the turn.

turn is a jack. It's checked to me, I bet, button raises, someone else cold calls (i figure I am beaten and will just call down in the now pretty large pot).

I have 10 outs on the river- one Q and 3 each of the other cards. I figure that if the river doesn't bring one of the other kings or aces (non hearts that is) or a heart I MIGHT squeak by (maybe AQ was raising...).

River brings the 4th Q. checked to me, i bet, button raises, other guy cold calls, I raise, button 4bets and we both call.

Button flips over two hearts A9. He flopped the nut flush...

The other guy (original raiser) had 10/10. He was the one that lead out betting on the flop and for some reason he stayed in w/ a pair board w/ a flush draw. Thanks buddy.

121 dollar pot.

Moral of the story? Never cold call (3bets) w/ Ace9suited.