Well, Friday's game went pretty well, as I made a $66 profit, surviving three tough beats early in the game. Today, however, I played a $5 + $0.50 sit n' go online in which I limped in early position with pocket fours (not a conventionally wise move). I did this because there had been a lot of limping in the tournament so far, and if I had to pay any more without a set I could just dump it. However, a fairly good flop came out for me. Here's the hand history, transcribed from the internet:
PokerStars Game #17356311263: Tournament #87979159, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2008/05/11 - 14:16:22 (ET)
Table '87979159 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: HomeyT-34C (1646 in chips)
Seat 2: d-nice_954 (1065 in chips)
Seat 3: bruno_judite (1727 in chips)
Seat 4: rhcp99 (1170 in chips)
Seat 5: Brixton Guns [that's me] (1830 in chips)
Seat 6: Steve1107 (1250 in chips)
Seat 7: leetpiet (2775 in chips)
Seat 8: RyanG84 (1420 in chips)
Seat 9: flicken84 (617 in chips)
bruno_judite: posts small blind 25
rhcp99: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Brixton Guns [4h 4s]
Brixton Guns: calls 50
Steve1107: calls 50
leetpiet: folds
RyanG84: folds
flicken84: folds
HomeyT-34C: folds
d-nice_954: folds
bruno_judite: calls 25
rhcp99: checks
*** FLOP *** [4c Ac 5h]
bruno_judite: checks
rhcp99: checks
Brixton Guns: bets 150
Steve1107: raises 250 to 400
bruno_judite: calls 400
rhcp99: folds
Brixton Guns: raises 1380 to 1780 and is all-in
Steve1107: folds
bruno_judite: calls 1277 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (103) returned to Brixton Guns
*** TURN *** [4c Ac 5h] [Qh]
*** RIVER *** [4c Ac 5h Qh] [7c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bruno_judite: shows [Qc 8c] (a flush, Ace high)
Brixton Guns: shows [4h 4s] (three of a kind, Fours)
bruno_judite collected 3954 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3954
Rake 0
Board [4c Ac 5h Qh 7c]
Seat 1: HomeyT-34C folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: d-nice_954 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: bruno_judite (small blind) showed [Qc 8c] and won (3954) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 4: rhcp99 (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 5: Brixton Guns showed [4h 4s] and lost with three of a kind, Fours
Seat 6: Steve1107 folded on the Flop
Seat 7: leetpiet folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: RyanG84 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: flicken84 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Tough way to go out (actually, I went out the next hand , as I was on the big blind and had only 100 in chips). Still, had I won the pot, I would have had a clear chip lead and been in ideal position to win the tournament, so I think it was okay to get the money in here. Here's a breakdown of the odds to win during the hand
Preflop, we would've tied about .82% of the time, I'd win 50.03%, and bruno_judite would win 49.15%.
After the flop comes down 4c Ac 5h, things change and I become a favorite to win. It's now 73.54% win for me, 25.56% for him, and still less than 1 percent to tie. He's still beating me one out of four times, but I'm in great shape on this flop.
On fourth street, he has only one more chance to hit his hand, since he missed here. Now it's 81.82% for me to win, 18.18% for him, and no chance of a tie. He beats me almost once in five times on average here.
Unfortunately this was one of those times, but I'm confident that if I keep getting my chips in when I'm in spots like these, that I'll be able to succeed in these tournaments.
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