wcoop update 2

oops I did it again... I spewed away a good stack in a Wcoop Event.

This time it was the $320 NLHE Event (WCOOP-19) where 1st pays $132'436.00...

Actually I didn't spew away just once but twice.

First hand I totally got carried away against a villain who had played back at me in a pretty obv spot, so I expected to bump heads with him in the future. Still it's a VERY bad hand... I really can't figure out how I got to call off his riverbet here... Without history the river is a CRYSTAL CLEAR FOLD...

Poker Stars $300+$20 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t200/t400 Blinds + t50 - 9 players - View hand 1889585
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BB: t55766 M = 53.11
UTG: t10353 M = 9.86
UTG+1: t6482 M = 6.17
UTG+2: t15575 M = 14.83
MP1: t15965 M = 15.20
MP2: t20160 M = 19.20
CO: t7243 M = 6.90
Hero (BTN): t26812 M = 25.54
SB: t15148 M = 14.43

Pre Flop: (t1050) Hero is BTN with 6 K
6 folds, Hero raises to t800, SB calls t600, BB calls t400

Flop: (t2850) Q 6 4 (3 players)
SB checks, BB checks, Hero bets t1222, SB folds, BB calls t1222

Turn: (t5294) 3 (2 players)
BB bets t2222, Hero calls t2222

River: (t9738) 8 (2 players)
BB bets t4777, Hero calls t4777

Final Pot: t19292
BB shows 4 3 (two pair, Fours and Threes)
Hero mucks 6 K
BB wins t19292



After that I had a table switch and somehow got into a 3barrel-bluffing spot... I just wasn't going to hand that pot over to villain.

Poker Stars $300+$20 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t250/t500 Blinds + t60 - 9 players - View hand 1889589
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (MP2): t17321 M = 13.43
CO: t13083 M = 10.14
BTN: t50602 M = 39.23
SB: t16433 M = 12.74
BB: t15075 M = 11.69
UTG: t12327 M = 9.56
UTG+1: t8077 M = 6.26
UTG+2: t53535 M = 41.50
MP1: t18497 M = 14.34

Pre Flop: (t1290) Hero is MP2 with 5 5
4 folds, Hero raises to t1000, 1 fold, BTN calls t1000, 2 folds

Flop: (t3290) 7 9 Q (2 players)
Hero bets t1337, BTN calls t1337

Turn: (t5964) K (2 players)
Hero bets t2564, BTN calls t2564

River: (t11092) 8 (2 players)
Hero bets t4669, BTN folds

Final Pot: t11092
Hero wins t11092




After that I got caught in the spur of the moment and the following happened. It's the same villain I had succesfully 3barrel bluffed before, just here its a bit different. I decided to donk out with the gutshot and a backdoor-flushdraw. On the turn I felt like it was really the time, where I could get him to fold out some of the hands that had me beat (pocket pairs like JJ,TT, 88-66, weak Queens and Ace highs). Obviously I would've prefered the 2 of clubs over the 2 of hearts, but what are you gonna do... On the river I considered leading out pot, so I would be putting villain to a tough decision and maximize fold equity. I ended up betting a half-assish amount, just because I was trying to accomplish my goal with the least amount of chips and rep a regular value bet...

The problem is, I'm not repping too many hands (betting the King river like that) AND villain and me got history (the 55 hand, which didn't go to showdown)... It isn't optimal to loose half your stack with almost 50 big blinds in a tournament like that and definately it's totally unnecessary. I feel like it's not the worst play in the world, BECAUSE villain should not expect us to three-barrel-bluff him shortly after we got a 3barrel through against him. And as you can see in the results, I'm pretty confident he would've been folding to a potsize bet, just holding a mediocre queen. I could actually imagine him more often folding to a thin valueish looking 4696 bet than to the two-thirds pot sized bet I chose in this hand.

I still have to note though, that I was a bit suprised by his call. He had one of the hands I was expecting him to either fold on the turn or at least by the river. But I guess he really took the hand that had went down before into his equasion here. I mean, what do I ever have, apart from total air and my actual hand, that doesn't have him beat? The most apparent drawing hand on that kind of a board is JT which gets there by the river... But with betting the river I'm narrowing my range to straights (JT), two pairs and sets. That just might have been what got him to look me up.

 
Poker Stars $300+$20 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t250/t500 Blinds + t60 - 9 players - View hand 1889590
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): t23212 M = 17.99
UTG: t12783 M = 9.91
UTG+1: t46691 M = 36.19
UTG+2: t24371 M = 18.89
MP1: t14025 M = 10.87
MP2: t11277 M = 8.74
CO: t7027 M = 5.45
BTN: t47577 M = 36.88
SB: t17987 M = 13.94

Pre Flop: (t1290) Hero is BB with J 8
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to t1000, 6 folds, Hero calls t500

Flop: (t2790) Q 5 9 (2 players)
Hero bets t1169, UTG+1 calls t1169

Turn: (t5128) 2 (2 players)
Hero bets t2888, UTG+1 calls t2888

River: (t10904) K (2 players)
Hero bets t6696, UTG+1 calls t6696

Final Pot: t24296
Hero shows J 8 (high card King)
UTG+1 shows Q J (a pair of Queens)
UTG+1 wins t24296



30 to 40 players to the bubble I shove 16.5bbs with KQo from the button and loose to the small blinds A8s.

gg buddy!


(I'm not sure why the hand histories I include in my blog posts look different every time, but I must've be mixing up the converters and formats so far, only possible explanation :P )