Bring on the Tilt…Full Tilt
Posted on March 9, 2005
Tonight I installed Full Tilt and deposited $50 just in case I feel like playing the WPBT HORSE event on Sunday. I figured I might as well check out the interface, so I signed up for a $5+0.50 SNG.
Minimum raises were the norm and it was a rather tight table for the most part. I didn’t pick up any steal hands in position, so I just waited for some monsters. My first winning hand was 43o that flopped two pair. No one called my pot bet. I couldn’t slow play it because there was a flush draw on board and I needed to make sure nobody had the odds to call. Soon after I found rockets and doubled up. Not too many hands for the next few orbits and then I get Q♥T♥ in the big blind with a limper and the small blind. The flop gives me top two pair, so when it’s min bet by the small blind I bet pot. I didn’t realize it, but this left him with 50 chips and he of course bet out on the turn, which brought another queen, filling me up. He turns over Q5o. The only cards that can help him are the two tens, which would give us a split pot. Do I even need to say what the river is? A fucking ten. The player survives to live another day. I was the chip leader at that point and I could have really used that pot, but instead I run into runner runner. Maybe I used up my bad luck though.
I take a few pots here and there without any showdowns and then with 5 players left comes this hand…a loose player min raises UTG. He’s been calling all-in bets with hands like QTo and QJo. My A♠Q♠ on the small blind is looking good, so I push in. He calls of course and flips over two tens. He actually has a hand this time but it’s a race. I’m loving the flop which brings an ace and a queen. I only needed one, but that’s fine. The turn is a blank and I bet you can’t guess the river. Yup, another 2 outer on the river beats me when that fucking ten comes again.
As I look back at this hand I didn’t give the guy a chance to fold. I should have just called his pre-flop bet and he would have had an easy fold on the flop when two overs hit. Do you agree? How would you have played the hand? This just goes to show my inexperience in tournament poker.
I didn’t mind Full Tilt’s interface and after my deposit I have $50 in bonus cash calling my name. From what I’ve seen it isn’t worth my time though. Empire should have a reload bonus coming up in a few days.
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Personally, I like saving an all-in with AQ for when I have a smaller stack — but know that this guy would be prone to call with a dominated hand was prolly a good move. You’ll get ‘em next time!
I agree with you. You might have been better off to make a standard 3 or 4xBB raise instead of the push, but I dont hate it against an opponent who gambles with domination.
A 4xBB raise might have invited a push from him, which you probably would have called given his previous action. So in the end I doubt it would end differently.
Great blog, i’ve been lurking for a few months but havent posted before. Keep it up.
“I didn’t give the guy a chance to fold.”
That’s a good axiom to live by in NL Tournament poker. I was on the other end of that same hand once. I had Pocket Tens versus the chip leader’s AQo. I had gone all-in and he had considered folding, but it was a small call relative to his stack, and he caught his Q on the River.
I should have just raised, betting only 1/3 or 1/2 of my stack. The flop and the turn were all under 10, so I could have pushed and I’m sure he would have folded when he his missed overcards.
That, and I would have given myself the opportunity to fold as well if an overcard did flop.
Keep on jammin’!