MTT donkeys rewarded

I decided to play the 12.30 $1 freezeout on Ladbrokes today and it turned out to be eventful but for the wrong reasons and i ended up out in 60th out of 148 in less than an hour.

I missed the first hand as I was getting a drink which was KJ and was not happy to see the flop of AQT which was probably an omen for the rest of the game lol

I doubled up with this hand when I made a good call on the river with 2 pair when there was a possible straight on the board.

> richmagpies1 posted small blind (10)
> jimmy175 posted big blind (20)
> Game # 896,592,770 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(6s 4c )
> rickman folded
> snowee called for 20
> dansebaren called for 20
> stoller folded
> will1984 folded
> monk_holyman folded
> Shakey69 folded
> richmagpies1 called for 10
> jimmy175 checked
> Dealing the Flop(4d 10c 6h )
> richmagpies1 bet for 80
> jimmy175 called for 80
> snowee folded
> dansebaren called for 80
> Dealing the turn(5c )
> richmagpies1 bet for 320
> jimmy175 folded
> dansebaren called for 320
> Dealing the river(2s )
> richmagpies1 bet for 480
> dansebaren went all-in for 1,690
> richmagpies1 went all-in for 1,060
> Extra chips returned to dansebaren, 150
> dansebaren shows One Pair, Tens, with kicker card Queen
(10d 10c Qc 6h 5c )
> richmagpies1 wins 4,040 with Two Pair, Sixes over Fours

I then blew the 2k after running 88 into QQ and then was almost to the felt when 88 again was no match for AT with a rivered T.

I had 388 chps left and pushed with JT and quadrupled up 1.5k with TT

> steve_mcc posted small blind (75)
> trout666 posted big blind (150)
> Game # 896,609,377 starting.
> Dealing Hole Cards(Jd 10s )
> get_in_there, you have 10 seconds to respond
> get_in_there folded
> BigJohnnyWin called for 150
> lunker folded
> richmagpies1 went all-in for 388.75
> 19lisa19 called for 388.75
> boomer797 folded
> RapidVII raised for 1,882.50
> steve_mcc folded
> trout666 folded
> BigJohnnyWin folded
> 19lisa19 went all-in for 1,711.25
> RapidVII called for 217.50
> Dealing the Flop(10d 2c 4h )
> Dealing the turn(7h )
> Dealing the river(Qh )
> richmagpies1 wins 1,541.25 with One Pair, Tens
> RapidVII wins 3,422.50 with One Pair, Sevens

I then thought things might be going my way and a comeback was on the cards when I had QQ....this is ladbrokes though so it was obvious that a donkey big stack would call my 1.3k all in with J8 clubs and hit runner runner for a flush. But even worse was the other guy who called with 76 when he had a nice healthy stack of 6k and then went all in after the flop with middle pair and went out. Man that was donkey play lol!....sigh.

** Game ID 896610729 starting - 2007-12-24 13:23:27
** $1 NLHE Freezeout[1579011]:Table 15 [Hold 'em] (200.00|400.00 No Limit - MTT) Real Money

- get_in_there sitting in seat 2 with $6282.50
- BigJohnnyWin sitting in seat 3 with $13797.96 [Dealer]
- lunker sitting in seat 4 with $4650.62
- richmagpies1 sitting in seat 5 with $1341.25
- boomer797 sitting in seat 7 with $3367.50 [Sitting out]
- RapidVII sitting in seat 8 with $6397.35
- steve_mcc sitting in seat 9 with $6100.62
- trout666 sitting in seat 10 with $677.50

lunker posted the small blind - $100.00
richmagpies1 posted the big blind - $200.00
** Dealing card to richmagpies1: Queen of Spades, Queen of Clubs
boomer797 folded
RapidVII called - $200.00
steve_mcc folded
trout666 folded
get_in_there folded
BigJohnnyWin called - $200.00
lunker called - $200.00
richmagpies1 went all-in - $1341.25
RapidVII called - $1541.25
BigJohnnyWin called - $1541.25
lunker folded

** Dealing the flop: 5 of Clubs, 7 of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds
RapidVII went all-in - $4856.10
BigJohnnyWin called - $4856.10
BigJohnnyWin shows: 8 of Clubs, Jack of Clubs
RapidVII shows: 6 of Hearts, 7 of Hearts

** Dealing the turn: 2 of Clubs

** Dealing the river: 3 of Clubs
BigJohnnyWin wins $4823.75 from the main pot
BigJohnnyWin wins $14535.95 from side pot 1

End of game 896610729

It really does make you wonder how people like that get big stacks....oh yes, I forgot its down to dumb luck and not even considering what the other players have. Ok lets have a look at this play in a bit more detail. I'm not sure which of the 2 plays was the worse:

The guy with 76 flat called pre flop in utg+1 with 6 players still to act - I mean that's piss poor play for a start. Did he think about what is he gonna do if raised, call with 76 out of position? Well we know he did which says it all really. A the end of the day he could have folded preflop and been still in the tourney with above average chips.

The big stack with J8 on the button called preflop for 200 as well - ok he might want to have seen a cheap flop as he had position and had about 14k chips so fair enough. But in my mind its just leaking chips if me or the small blind raise and he folds.

The small blind calls which is fair enough.

I'm the table short stack so I could go with anything and I push for 6x bb with QQ. Nothing wrong with that!

Now back to the fool with 76 - he can't seriously think he is ahead, can he when he makes the call for a quarter of his chips? What did he think I had that could he be beating? 54? lol And he was prepared to risk a quarter of his stack when he was likely to be a 3-1 dog at best. And let's not forget that the big chip leader is still to act who would surely be beating him too?

Ok so the big stack has seen my all in and a call and he has J8 and makes the call for 10% of his chips....hmmmm I 'm not sure its the best call in the world but he proably saw a face card and they were suited and his fold button was probably broken....

The small blind shows some sense and folds!

Ok the flop comes J75 with 2 diamonds.

Mr 76 hits second pair and as we all know the correct move is shove and pray...not! Ok I know its always better to be the aggressor rathet than the caller but I would not be putting my tourney life on the line with second pair when their is still the big stack left to act. How about a bet of a third of the pot to see where you are and maybe take it to just heads up with me? Lets face it his kicker is pretty poor to so he could be pretty dead to the big stack if he has another 7 or J. I'm afraid this is a typical move oneline and one that if you made in a live situation, you would have been laughed out of the card club with...and rightly so!

Now its big stacks turn to act and he has flopped top pair but is facing a bet of almost 5k or nearly 50% of his remaining stack. Of course he insta-calls and obviously gave no thought to what Mr 76 had. He would be dead to AJ, QJ, KJ, but this doesnt seem to cross peoples minds when they shove in blindly and hope for the best.

As too often happens the awful play was rewarded with runner runner and he not only took chips of Mr 76 (who lets face it deserved to lose them all) but also the 5k side pot off me (who didnt) lol.

Bank roll is now $115.69