Chris Halverson’s Blog

My last few appearances at the WBT and PJK tourneys have been less than stellar, so when I saw that Party has been having freerolls I thought, “Hey, free NL practice!” So I went ahead and registered for Saturday night’s freeroll.

I had an hour or so before it started, so I figured what the hell, and sat down at a 1-2 table. Nothing happens for about an orbit then I see the big man sit three to my right. Hmm…slumming at 1-2? We chat for a bit, all the while I’m donating to the table fund. I got a little cocky which turned out to be a bad move. This table was pretty tight and not very good, so when I got AK and was raised on the flop that had a K, I should not have re-raised. Bets all the way down and I lose to a set of tens that he got on the flop. I dropped about 12BB there before the tourney started.

Things went pretty well at the tourney. 1127 people registered! As I was starting, I got an IM from Pauly who said he was going to sweat me. Great. Mr. NL going to sweat my limit grinding ass. One of my first hands I had 99 and called. Flop comes down 99x. Wow, quads! Do I slow play to get some more bets? No…I check, guy bets T450 and I raise all in. Doh! I should have just called or done a smaller raise and tried to extract more out of him. I was so excited to get a good hand though
Level 2 starts and I’m the chip leader at our table when Stinky Pants is moved to the table. Our table fights back and forth until level 4 when we realize that there are only four active players on our table. Well, we decide to bleed off the non-players so we can try to build up some chips. Cheating? Maybe. Either way we did it until after the break. The funny thing is that I split two hands with non-players once they got to the point where they were all in. Nice. Talk about cold cards, I can’t even beat non-players
I hit a run of really cold cards but lasted until level 7. I was at about T1600 and the blinds were starting to eat away at me. The hand that put me out:

Party Poker No-Limit Hold’em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (10 handed) [url=http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi]converter[/url]

MP1 (t3045)
MP2 (t6535)
MP3 (t1375)
CO (t710)
Hero (t1640)
SB (t685)
BB (t1775)
UTG (t15173)
UTG+1 (t2675)
UTG+2 (t7442)

[b]Preflop:[/b] Hero is Button with A:club:, Q:club:.
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls t200, UTG+2 folds, MP1 folds, [color:CC3333]MP2 raises to t700[/color], MP3 folds, CO folds, Hero calls t700, SB folds, BB folds, UTG+1 calls t500.

[b]Flop:[/b] (t2400) K:club:, 2:heart:, Q:heart: [color:blue](3 players) [/color]
UTG+1 checks, [color:CC3333]MP2 bets t1000[/color], Hero calls t940 (All-In), UTG+1 calls t1000.

[b]Turn:[/b] (t5340) T:club: [color:blue](3 players, 1 all-in) [/color]
UTG+1 checks, MP2 checks.

[b]River:[/b] (t5340) 8:diamond: [color:blue](3 players, 1 all-in) [/color]
[color:CC3333]UTG+1 bets t975 (All-In)[/color], MP2 calls t975.

[b]Final Pot:[/b] t7290
[color:#990066]Main Pot: t5220 (t5220), between MP2, Hero and UTG+1.[/color] > [color:white]Pot won by MP2 (t5220).[/color]
[color:#990066]Pot 2: t2070 (t2070), between MP2 and UTG+1.[/color] > [color:white]Pot won by MP2 (t2070).[/color]

Results:
UTG+1 shows Ah Th (one pair, tens).
MP2 shows Kh Ad (one pair, kings).
Hero shows Ac Qc (one pair, queens).
Outcome: MP2 wins t7290.

I was excited to see that club on the turn and was scaring the cats yelling “Club! Club!”, to no avail.

I busted out in 274th place. Not too bad if I do say so myself considering my lack of NL play. Yeah, I’m sure there were a lot of no shows, but it takes forever for them to be blinded away, and yes, tourneys are a crapshoot, but I think I played pretty well all things considered. Basically, after level 3 I hit a run of cold cards until the very end. That happens to everybody though (well, everybody except Fossilman I guess), so no complaints.

Anyway, it was fun and I’m glad I did it, especially after my debacle at the ring game earlier.

For you racing fans, tomorrow is a huge day: Formula 1 European Grand Prix, Indy 500, and the Coca-Cola 600. I wonder where I’ll be all day…Here’s a hint, the butt groove will be well worn into the couch tomorrow.

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