Crown: Joe Hachem Deep Stack Series

[Pocket Aces]

Is this the email??



Because it mentions I should receive a confirmation email aswell and I have never received one. Starting to get worried.

I have sometimes received no emails in the past, not the most reliable service. I personally check the credit card for confirmation.

 

[Drummer_19]

FML. Just wrote this big post and then accidently hit the backspace key so now I'm going to write it a lot shorter.

- 275 runners top 30 paid I finish somewhere around 60th - 70th.
- Played well and can't complain about anything that happened, played the best I could and real happy with the way I played.

Hands of note.

- Blinds 400/800/100, I have around 8k and pick up JJ in MP, open shove. Played 2 to my left reshoves for not much more, table folds he has 88, flop is 567 (yay!) turn 10 river K, dodge a lot of outs to stay a live.

- Blinds 1k/2k/200, Dwindled back down to 10k, bad player min raises to 4k leaves about 5k behind, I find 44 (can't remember position, might have been the hijack or one behind it) normally I'm keen to fold here, but the sum of this guy being horrible and me having 5bbs makes me shove. BB has about 2k or so left and tanks. Eventually calls, origional raiser tanks and folds which is just unbelievable (late says he had K10, I swear some of these people are massive fish cakes), BB flips over 66, nd I'm pretty annoyed he went into the tank for so long with it, anywho end up rivering a set to WHAMBOOZLE this guy out of the tournament)

- Blinds 1k/2k/200 UTG+2 ships for what is around 20k, I find AKs (I hate this hand so much) in Middle position and make the easy shove, every folds, he flips over 55, beautiful I don't mind being in a race here... Flop 5xx, fml not a race no more, we end up counting it up and I have him covered by 800... Woohooooooo

- Very next hand I'm down to 600 due to the ante and make the concious decision to ship it blind. I ended up getting isolated which is fine by me. now I flip over Q5 nd I'm up against AQs... Flop bricks, turn.... Bam 5 ball, river x... back up to 4400.

- Couple of hands later I ship my remaining 4k or sowith KJo with the jack of spades, end up getting iso'd again nd I'm up against my nemesis 55, flop brings me backdoor flush draw... turn spade.... river............ SPADE! Back in the game baby... well sort of.

- Blinds 1500/3k/200? Blinded back down to 6900, end up shipping with A9 in MP, only another 3900 for the Bb to call so he makes the easy call with K7, board bricks out and can you beleive I'm back over 18k now from 600.

Bustout hand

- Blinds either 1500/3k or they just went to 2k/4k can't remember. Open shipped bit under 18k with A9 again, folds to the bb and he calls with K7, beautiful I'm favourite again and who knows maybe I got a shot here... Flop, 9xx, now here is where I went wrong, I gave it the smallest fist pump ever, now I should never to celebrate early. Turn 7... Oh gawd I didn't need this sweat..... River..... 7, FML, but I took it pretty well as I sucked out a few other times just to be in that position, so it was a case of easy come easy go.


Overall Pretty happy, felt I had an edge when it came to push fold as I was shipping a lot from the button and sb and maintaining a stack that way and not just sitting there folding waitin for hands.

I guess this ended up being quite long afterall, well I'm off to do it all again tomorrow and will be at table 30 seat 8 if anyone wants to come say hello.

 

[Carlton.No.1]

Just registered online for tommorows $125 tourney.

Does anyone know where you go to claim your ticket, do you get it at the booth?

 

[Drummer_19]

Just registered online for tommorows $125 tourney.

Does anyone know where you go to claim your ticket, do you get it at the booth?

Yep. Tournament booth no the one where you get chips for cash games.

 

[Athomas]

I came 4th today in the $125 event.
Played really well imo, more tighter then I usually would.

Lost a race KT to 99 which crippled me late, mainly cause I hit the King and he rivered the 9

Quite happy I played, had an exam till 12:30 which I finished early and went to crown

 

[Cartman121]

I came 4th today in the $125 event.
Played really well imo, more tighter then I usually would.

Lost a race KT to 99 which crippled me late, mainly cause I hit the King and he rivered the 9

Quite happy I played, had an exam till 12:30 which I finished early and went to crown

Very nice, how many runners and how much did you collect?

 

[Athomas]

Very nice, how many runners and how much did you collect?

290 runners, collected $2475. Was happy enough

Some horrible players, but I thought quality was good overall.

AA vs 66
AK vs QQ
AK vs A8
AJ vs AT (this was a pivotal 1 almost @ final table)
99 vs A7

Easily my five biggest hands, the AK vs QQ i got lucky though with a rivered King.

 

[Cartman121]

290 runners, collected $2475. Was happy enough

Some horrible players, but I thought quality was good overall.

AA vs 66
AK vs QQ
AK vs A8
AJ vs AT (this was a pivotal 1 almost @ final table)
99 vs A7

Easily my five biggest hands, the AK vs QQ i got lucky though with a rivered King.

Very nice cash man. So 1st got roughly $6k?

Got it in dominating everytime except for 1 flip.

 

[red+black]

FML. Just wrote this big post and then accidently hit the backspace key so now I'm going to write it a lot shorter.

Word of advice to anyone who types a long post. Ctrl-C before you Submit, just in case.

I came 4th today in the $125 event.
Played really well imo, more tighter then I usually would.

Well done, sounds like you had a full day. You probably aced your exam too! I was there railing a mate in the PLO, there was a crowd around your final table so I didn't really see anything.

Borgsta and Falchoon played the PLO. I'll assume that Falchoon cashed.

 

[Athomas]

Was a super long day. My exam was at Festival Hall and I decided to drive into the city. Bad idea. Walked in 14 minutes late assuming other people would be late too, but no, 1200 people looked up at me walking in .

The blinds were sick for the tourny today, average stack was 5-6BBS as it was getting deeper. 10 hour session in the end!

 

[Borgsta]

5am finishes for 5th and $1850 = me tired and dreading going to work.

 

[Drummer_19]

Was a super long day. My exam was at Festival Hall and I decided to drive into the city. Bad idea. Walked in 14 minutes late assuming other people would be late too, but no, 1200 people looked up at me walking in .

The blinds were sick for the tourny today, average stack was 5-6BBS as it was getting deeper. 10 hour session in the end!

It was incredibly lol wasn't it? I busted at 2k/4k and it was just ridiculous how shallow the stacks were. Well done on the final table appearance and the cash!

 

[The Passenger]

but really really tempted by the $230 omaha tournament on monday evening.... very tempted.

well i'm very glad i gave into temptation - second place!!

we cut a deal three way so i ended up with equal most. had about 850k, another guy 750k, and short stack was 300k. short stack was a nice lad (seemed about early 20's) in a wheelchair - got the impression he was regular at crown so some of you guys might know him. he ended up coming thorugh and winning but there was only a bit of cash and the trophy (which i wouldn't have minded) to play for so we loosened right up after the deal.

played really well i thought. only got into two all-in situations bad (one of which wouldn't have busted me anyway).... one was as were approaching the bubble (about 22 left)... i potted pre flop with AKT8 s/s, one caller, flop comes AA9 and i bet pot which was about 80% of my stack. guy re-pots and i'm thinking my king should outkick him and even if he has A9xx i've still got 6 outs. he's got 99xx which gives me 10 outs for the better full house or quads and i spike a king on the river. that was end of my tournament there if not for the king... he went on massive tilt after that, lost a further 50% of his chips about 3 hands later and only just made the money. he would've been close to chip leader at that stage too.

the other one i got in a tangle with a guy who had about 20k, whilst i had 50k with about 30 left (blinds around 800/1600 at this stage?? sounds about right. i actually don't remember a whole lot about last night. i was so tired by the end), i'm holding KKxx on a T92 flop. he pots, i re pot to put him all in and he has T9xx (2 rags) but the turn and river repeated giving me better two-pair... it was a suck out but can't find too much sympathy for guys who call pre flop raises for a quarter of their stack with T963 (or a hand to that effect).

aside from that i only lost at showdown on maybe 3 occassions and neither of those where for mega amounts of chips. played pretty solid most of the way, don't recall bluffing once - or if i did i was bluffing with the best hand anyway. just generally kept pots small pre-flop, only played hands which are easy to avoid trouble with, and played post-flop poker... well at the start i was playing post-flop poker.

the deepstack strucutre is really good at the start of the tournament but progresses into a crapshoot by the end. i don't know how but tournament organisers need to work out how to ensure that real poker is being played at the business end of a tournament when the real money is on the line. there's no use playing nice deep stacked poker at the start when it means **** all, but having to play bingo for a share of 22k in prizemoney (which is obviously, not an insignificant amount of money).... essentially you are playing poker for the right to go into an expensive bingo tournament.

i was fortunate enough once we reached the money to, at least three times, look down at premium hands (i remember pocket aces, AKKT double suited, and KJT9 double suited and there may have been others) after the pot had been raised already (got paid off nicely with the aces) so was able to add more than just the blinds to my stack on those particular hands. also got paid off pretty nice on another hand which allowed me to have 900k of the 1.9M chips in play when we got to 4-handed.

borgsta, which lad were you?? i was the fella with khaki hat, black 66 shirt and seedy looking mo (can't wait for movember to end... who's idea was that anyway??)... from memory 5th place (you) was the guy on my immediate left at the time of knockout. i think. if so, i remember re-potting you just before the final table with one of those hands above (AKKT) so it was a good lay down.

the older guy that wouldn't do a deal came 4th. or maybe 6th. or maybe you are him.... though i doubt it.

also couldn't believe the mixed game was still going at 5am with about 10 guys left (started at 2pm).

 

[red+black]

Borgsta has glasses if that helps. Even when he's playing Holdem, he looks down and sees 4 cards.

And saying this is a Deep Stack series is a bit misleading. It doesn't take long before any of these events simply become a crapshoot.

I should have played last night, although I haven't played any Omaha for a while

 

[Borgsta]

The guy that wouldn't deal was the guy with the sunglasses upsidedown.

I was the one wearing a blue Tottenham jacket with glasses. I was to the right of the guy in the wheelchair.

Were you the guy who had the most chips after taking out the loud American? If so I was the one that suggested you should get a bit more in any deal.

If not you were the guy who busted me, even though I had my lucky 5k chip left after my shove with AxJc10x4c and I hate you I'd say I would catch you around next time but I doubt I will remember anyone's face. Was absolutely wrecked when the final table started!

 

[Borgsta]

And saying this is a Deep Stack series is a bit misleading. It doesn't take long before any of these events simply become a crapshoot.(

Ours was interesting last night. At the start obviously everyone was playing loose with the double "rebuy". Once it got down to about 30 people it tightened right up and it became really tight shortish stack poker. I was sitting pretty with about 70k so didnt really have to make a move without anything decent.

Then simply no one busted for an eternity. We got down to 22 people and it was super tight and I tried to steal some blinds for the first time in an hour. Of course I ran into Aces and got super lucky. QJT5 vs AA87. Board runs out 934-10-10 otherwise I busted there.

Once it got down to 16 (money) my table became a bit of a donk fest with 1 bloke potting it without looking on 4 occasions, beating me once and then I got him for double it later. To get down to the final table I knocked out 2 players with my super strong A77j single suited against the blind pot bet.

My 2 big hands of the night that got me into a good position was really just stupid play by the other player. At about 400/800 I potted to 3200 after 1 limper and got 2 callers. Flop came down KQ2 and I bet 3500 and again got 2 callers. Turn brings another 2 and I put out 9000, first guy folds before the other guy pushes in his remaining 25k. I said unless you have quad 2's you lose and showed my KKx2 which I honestly forgot was there. He had a 2 but I don't understand what else he thought I was betting with other than a full house.

Other one was AAJ8 double suited for me. UTG pots it to 5k on 800/1600 and I am 2 before the button and repot for 17k. The guy takes an eternity and asks how much i have behind (27k) before finally calling. The flop comes and within half a second he says all in, obviously trying to push me off the pot but with no thought as to make it believable. I called after about 1.5 seconds and his runner runner gutshot draw didn't come good.

I busted with AJ104 single suit with the blinds at 20k/40k and me having 145k in my stack meaning me potting it was leaving me with 5k. Think BB put me all in with AKQ9 maybe or AKQ10. Anyway I didn't get lucky for a second time and that is all she wrote.

 

[DoubleA]

And saying this is a Deep Stack series is a bit misleading. It doesn't take long before any of these events simply become a crapshoot.

I played yesterday, busted about 100th or so bout an hour after the first break. I went from comfortably having 12 BB to having 3BB 1 round later without playing a hand. Ante's on the 4th level? Jumping the 500/1000 and also increasing the ante the next level as well? What a joke, not to mention the 25% fee....

Basically I had played decent poker, then had to call a 3BB bet all-in with A3 and lost to A4. If you go card dead for those two levels while everyone else is shoving you can't win the tournament and thats what happened to me.

 

[red+black]

Jumping the 500/1000 and also increasing the ante the next level as well? What a joke

Don't think Crown believes in the 500/1000 level.

not to mention the 25% fee....

Wow! Hadn't noticed that! Main event is 500+50, while the daily noon tournaments are 100+25.

Rip off much? There's even a Main Event satellite tomorrow and it's better value at 110+20.

 

[Falchoon]

we cut a deal three way so i ended up with equal most. had about 850k, another guy 750k, and short stack was 300k. short stack was a nice lad (seemed about early 20's) in a wheelchair - got the impression he was regular at crown so some of you guys might know him.

he was on my right on my initial table, he played super tight, probably went past the flop less than a handful of times in the first 2-3 hours. Bragged a bit about his reading ability and online play but as you said nice enough guy, was in hospital last week after losing 3-4 litres of blood with a bowel issue.

As for me I was chip leader on my first table, but we had lost 1 player of the 40 busted, it was unfortunate that I was moved as I had begun to get a fairly good handle on the table, when I was moved I had about 25k and got seated to the right of a hyper aggressive big stack 75k ish, with 2 other big stacks at the other end. I basically went from a table that really suited my style to one that had me playing too conservatively.

Couldn't complain a lot really,I got runner runnered by one guy twice , both times I hit the nut straight on the flop on the button with flush draw, potted it and got run down by a full house, he says he called out of the BB because he thought i was making a button play. I made some of that up hitting a full house on the river (aces) with an up and down straight draw that apparently was no good.

Got nothing on my final table and finished 50~60th, guy potted pre flop I called, hyper called too, I was first to act and potted, hyper folded original raiser re potted me all in.

I had the QQ, he had the better flush draw, hit his K on the river, would've been nice to have won the ~30k pot but not to be.

 

[Falchoon]

Congats to Black Thunder and Borgsta.

 

[Cartman121]

Congats to Black Thunder and Borgsta.

^^ This. Seems that BF players are dominating Crown at the moment.

 

[red+black]

Athomas - the only hand I saw, I think it was at the final table, was maybe Ax v Kx aipf, board ran out 32223 LOL.

Borgsta/Falchoon - you guys been playing much Omaha recently?

 

[Athomas]

Very nice cash man. So 1st got roughly $6k?

Got it in dominating everytime except for 1 flip.

Yeh first got $5400. I was lucky I held up lots, was a nice suprise.

Athomas - the only hand I saw, I think it was at the final table, was maybe Ax v Kx aipf, board ran out 32223 LOL.

Borgsta/Falchoon - you guys been playing much Omaha recently?

LOL I was in this hand. BB had about 1.5 BB's. I had K rag on the button, hoped it was enough for whatever he had. Obviously he calls and he had an ace.

Got lucky but it was quite funny, 3222 and the 3 comes and we are both like YES! He thought he'd doubled up.

 

[Borgsta]

Borgsta/Falchoon - you guys been playing much Omaha recently?

Haven't played any poker for about 3 months.

 

[Cartman121]

Athomas, what time did it finish?

Have an indoor match at 9pm so wondering if I could still play and make it tomorrow.