Yay Donkaments

Mods : if this goes in tales of poker or mtt hh no prob.

I'd like to keep here since these hands happened short-handed at the final table and this is where I almost always post...

disclaimer : I hate tournaments. But watching the wcoop final table made me want to gambool. Busted quickly out of 4 low buy-in mtt's then made a run in 100-man 33$ and won it. Nothing big about the payout (850$ for 1st) but I was kind of pumped about the hands that got me the chip lead, especially...

1) this squeeze : 1st raiser was hyper-maniacal. I have pushed ai post-flop twice vs him with huge combo draws and gotten him to fold, but have done nothing out-of-line preflop. I am 100% sure smooth-caller would have 3-bet a hand he liked here

0 Tourney Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) (Tournament 29516731) - Mon Oct 02 05:48:20 EDT 2006

Table Regular(852936) Table 1 (Real Money) -- Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 4

Seat 1: SimonQ (49939)
Seat 2: PGAPIMP (117885)
Seat 4: KGB_PRO (41070)
Seat 9: HERO (91106)
SimonQ posts ante (50)
PGAPIMP posts ante (50)
KGB_PRO posts ante (50)
HERO posts ante (50)
KGB_PRO posts small blind (800)
HERO posts big blind (1600)

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to HERO [ 5h, 2s ]

SimonQ folds.
PGAPIMP raises (5200) to 5200
KGB_PRO calls (4400)
HERO raises (19400) to 21000
PGAPIMP folds.
KGB_PRO folds.
** Summary **
Main Pot: 31600

2) this call :

villain has not played a huge hand this strong yet. I am very confident in my read. Only problem is, he could be bluffing with a better hand. But i have outs vs those hands.

Tough call nonetheless, especially because of the stack sizes...

Table Regular(852936) Table 1 (Real Money) -- Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 4

Seat 1: SimonQ (54139)
Seat 2: VILLAIN (112585)
Seat 4: KGB_PRO (35770)
Seat 9: HERO (97506)
SimonQ posts ante (50)
VILLAIN posts ante (50)
KGB_PRO posts ante (50)
HERO posts ante (50)
SimonQ posts small blind (800)
VILLAIN posts big blind (1600)

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to HERO [ 6h, 4h ]
KGB_PRO folds.
HERO calls (1600)
SimonQ calls (800)
VILLAIN raises (4400) to 6000
HERO calls (4400)
SimonQ folds.

** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2d, 5h, 7d ]
VILLAIN bets (9000)
HERO calls (9000)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 6s ]
VILLAIN bets (97535)
VILLAIN is all-In.
HERO (tanks.... then ) calls (82456)
HERO is all-In.

** Dealing River ** : [ Js ]

Creating Main Pot with $196712 with HERO
Creating Side Pot 1 with $15079 with VILLAIN
** Summary **
Main Pot: 196712 | Side Pot 1: 15079
Board: [ 2d 5h 7d 6s Js ]

SimonQ balance 52489, lost 1650 (folded)

VILLAIN balance 15079, bet 112585, collected 15079, lost -97506
SHIP IT-----[ 3d Qs ]LMAO ------ [ high card queen -- Qs,Js,7d,6s,5h ]

KGB_PRO balance 35720, lost 50 (folded)

HERO balance 196712, bet 97506, collected 196712, net +99206 [ 6h 4h ]
[ a pair of sixes -- Js,7d,6h,6s,5h ]

The HU was academic.

SHIP IT.