Moxie Mike
Full House
Build-a-stack tournament at a local charity room last night.
$50 NLHE (50k chips) w/ one rebuy and one $30 break add on (30k chips).
~50 starters; ~2,000,000 chips in play.
ICM considerations: First place pays around $1k-$1200 but most nights there's a chop, especially if play approaches closing time and chip counts will determine the winner. FT is usually a crapshoot with skyrocketing blinds. Usually pays top 5 or 6.
Play in these rooms is about as fundamentally bad as you can imagine, especially during the rebuy period. I could give countless examples - but to give an idea - raised pots often go 5 to the flop until the avg stack gets to around 20 BBs.
16 players remain. Blinds are 3000/6000 and have been reduced from 20 minute rounds to 15.
Folds around to HERO with in the HiJack. Stack: Healthily above average at 185k. Hero's table image is very TAG -HERO rarely goes to showdown and always tables a solid hand.
HERO opens to 20k.
CO (50k)* folds.
Button (~280k) calls.
Blinds (both short stacked) fold.
Pot: 49k.
*If it matters, CO is a good player and good friend who had just been moved to the CO from another table one hand prior. HERO and CO have a $20 Seinfeld bet on.
Read on Button: Blue collar guy in his early 40s. Quiet and general but doesn't say much. Usually drinks a few Budweiser cans ($2 apiece in this room) and leaves the table periodically to smoke a cigarette. In past events HERO has observed him to be very loose passive preflop - likes to see flops but will fold when he misses. Doesn't tend to table garbage. On this night though, he has gone to limped/called raises preflop and gone to showdown with a plethora of junk hands including 6-2ss, Q-7o, 10-2ss, etc. His stack has fluctuated up and down greatly due to playing junk and making two pair, then donking off chips in subsequently poorly played hands.
Either this is how he always plays and I just never noticed or he's doing something he doesn't normally do.
HERO and button have both been at the same table since the beginning of the tournament (3.5 hrs).
Flop: .
HERO c-bets 35k.
Button calls after a little hesitation. Pot: 129k.
Turn: .
HERO 130k left. Action?
$50 NLHE (50k chips) w/ one rebuy and one $30 break add on (30k chips).
~50 starters; ~2,000,000 chips in play.
ICM considerations: First place pays around $1k-$1200 but most nights there's a chop, especially if play approaches closing time and chip counts will determine the winner. FT is usually a crapshoot with skyrocketing blinds. Usually pays top 5 or 6.
Play in these rooms is about as fundamentally bad as you can imagine, especially during the rebuy period. I could give countless examples - but to give an idea - raised pots often go 5 to the flop until the avg stack gets to around 20 BBs.
16 players remain. Blinds are 3000/6000 and have been reduced from 20 minute rounds to 15.
Folds around to HERO with in the HiJack. Stack: Healthily above average at 185k. Hero's table image is very TAG -HERO rarely goes to showdown and always tables a solid hand.
HERO opens to 20k.
CO (50k)* folds.
Button (~280k) calls.
Blinds (both short stacked) fold.
Pot: 49k.
*If it matters, CO is a good player and good friend who had just been moved to the CO from another table one hand prior. HERO and CO have a $20 Seinfeld bet on.
Read on Button: Blue collar guy in his early 40s. Quiet and general but doesn't say much. Usually drinks a few Budweiser cans ($2 apiece in this room) and leaves the table periodically to smoke a cigarette. In past events HERO has observed him to be very loose passive preflop - likes to see flops but will fold when he misses. Doesn't tend to table garbage. On this night though, he has gone to limped/called raises preflop and gone to showdown with a plethora of junk hands including 6-2ss, Q-7o, 10-2ss, etc. His stack has fluctuated up and down greatly due to playing junk and making two pair, then donking off chips in subsequently poorly played hands.
Either this is how he always plays and I just never noticed or he's doing something he doesn't normally do.
HERO and button have both been at the same table since the beginning of the tournament (3.5 hrs).
Flop: .
HERO c-bets 35k.
Button calls after a little hesitation. Pot: 129k.
Turn: .
HERO 130k left. Action?