Thursday, March 23, 2006

WPT/WSOP qualifier last night

won a cheapy qualifier to last night's Full Tilt Pick your own package satellite, start @ 2 am which is slightly to my hindrance, but i can usually still play ok when tired, 135 runners @ $200 which resulted in the first 2 getting the $12K packages + 3rd-5th got between $1600 and $600

thought i played well the whole way, tight and agressive and had built my stack up to the average with 25 left, went a bit card dead, but got my double up with 2 tables left and ended up getting to the final table with almost exactly average stack of 20k, there are 3 stacks shorter than me (around 10k) and two bully stacks @ 60k, blinds are 600-1200 with 125 ante

about 5th hand into the final table circa 5.30 am (have been playing this hand over and over in my head since). obv know that i played it badly but need advice on how to play these marginal hands

am on BB with 66 , bloke in mid position whose range is varied, have seem him raising small with very marginal hands, makes it 3600. all others fold, i'm pretty sure he's not on overpair, as he has been making bigger raises with premium hands, so i decide to Stop and Go and i flat call

flop QQ7, i push immediately for my 15k, (whether i was getting v tired i dunno, it was 5.30AM) is this Awful awful play? looking back on the hand i can't believe i made this play, didn't even think it through

i was talking to HJ at the time and i agree with his either push or fold pre-flop thoughts and my personal leaning was towards the fold, for some reason (must be tiredness/not taking enough time over the decision) i called

my real question is once i have made the call (whether that be a mistake or not), what is the correct play with that flop? if i check it, he will bet whether he is ahead of me or not and i will be almost certainly forced to lay it down no matter what the bet size

i would have been left with 15k behind if i check/fold the flop which although slightly short is playable

ps needless to say, he called my push immediately, with KQ! (isn't it nice to be in his position!) K on the turn kills my 6% chance! lol

advice appreciated and needed (as all MTT are ending with me finishing between 8th and 27th at the mo! lol)



other poker news is that things are going well at the moment, after having a very strange couple of weeks trying to settle into things post USA, i am getting back into the swing of things

a very big thing for me in Poker is game selection, find it very hard to know what to play, all i know is to steer clear of NL texas hold'em cash games, v unprofitable for me, that led me to the conclusion that i should steer clear of all cash games, especially after experiencing some horrible swings, both good and bad (but just too large % of bankroll) in Omaha cash games!

However all I am playing at the mo (asides from the obligatory MTT and satellite's!) is Omaha H/L cash games, really love the game, there is a lot more certanties in it and even less people who understand the game really properly.

am finding it easy enough at a certain level to grind out a profit which is giving me the cash to play MTT's and Satellite's which should theoretically lead to a good payout at some point! lol

really am enjoying it anyway and also racking up good amounts of Rakeback and Full Tilt Poker points which has got me enough points to get into a 500 runner 20 seat WSOP freeroll in roughly a month or so

www.fulltiltpoker.com/proWSOP2006.php

check out the promotion, it's very good and if you'd like 27% rakeback on their site and be in with a chance to get some of these seats just leave me a message on here

will post again soon

yours in poker

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