A hand from a recent tourney/ thinly veiled beat story.
I haven"t been playing online MTT"s for almost 2 years now, SNG"s suit my free time a little better, however, I can"t believe that this is the standard way some players play!
PokerStars Game #28303658404: Tournament #162033779, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/05/17 18:59:37 WET [2009/05/17 13:59:37 ET]
Table "162033779 207" 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: vs84sa (7200 in chips)
Seat 2: Hans Klein44 (8090 in chips)
Seat 3: peridotangel (5025 in chips)
Seat 4: diria que no (1090 in chips)
Seat 5: Saffinator (2635 in chips)
Seat 6: zmss (7820 in chips)
Seat 7: joeyrulesall (5175 in chips)
Seat 8: clynd99 (4075 in chips)
Seat 9: brenda2110 (2010 in chips)
diria que no: posts small blind 50
Saffinator: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to clynd99 [As
]
zmss: calls 100
joeyrulesall has timed out
joeyrulesall: folds
joeyrulesall is sitting out
clynd99: raises 350 to 450
brenda2110: folds
vs84sa: calls 450
Hans Klein44: folds
peridotangel: folds
diria que no: raises 640 to 1090 and is all-in
Saffinator: folds
zmss: calls 990
joeyrulesall has returned
clynd99: calls 640
vs84sa: calls 640
*** FLOP *** [
]
zmss: checks
clynd99: bets 2985 and is all-in
vs84sa: folds
zmss: calls 2985
*** TURN *** [
] [
]
*** RIVER *** [
] [
]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
zmss: shows [
Th] (a pair of Kings)
clynd99: shows [As
] (a pair of Jacks)
zmss collected 5970 from side pot
diria que no: shows [
] (a pair of Kings - Queen kicker)
diria que no collected 4460 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 10430 Main pot 4460. Side pot 5970. | Rake 0
Board [
]
Seat 1: vs84sa folded on the Flop
Seat 2: Hans Klein44 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 3: peridotangel (button) folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 4: diria que no (small blind) showed [
] and won (4460) with a pair of Kings
Seat 5: Saffinator (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: zmss showed [
Th] and won (5970) with a pair of Kings
Seat 7: joeyrulesall folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
Seat 8: clynd99 showed [As
] and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 9: brenda2110 folded before Flop (didn"t bet)
There"s a limp UTG and I raise to 450 in MP, one caller and short stacked SB shoves, the limper calls and although I am compelled to fold here (I probably shouldn"t even be in the hand anyway), I"m getting around 5:1 on a call and can hope for a favourable flop. I probably could have gone over the top and put my whole stack in to isolate, but I figured having almost 3k back if I miss the flop, and being up against an UTG limper that a call is acceptable. The LP caller joins in.
When the flop comes J high with two baby clubs and UTG checks to me I"m sure I have the best hand, I"m not really worried about baby sets or the wheel draw so I shove and all I"m really hoping is that the short stack hadn"t found AA-QQ in the SB.
The one guy folds and when the UTG limper calls my first reaction is that he must have had a monster, after all the AA/KK UTG limp is a bit of a common move, so when he shows KTh I"m thinking wtf??
Of course the K shows up on the turn and ruins my day but I think this is probably the craziest call I"ve seen since play money days on Willy Hill 3 years ago.
Can anyone come up with a feasable explanation for the call? Maybe he"s got me on a pair 66-99 and thinks for 7.5k in the middle his overcards a worth the speculation? I honestly can"t figure it out!
