11th in Riverchasers

Lately in the BBT, I have been going deep, but not deep enough... this is for the last 4 tournaments.

Last Monday's Riverchasers, I lasted almost 2 hours before I ran KK into AA just shy of the points and money.

Last Tuesday's Skillz (Razz), I lost a key all-in and got crippled, then KO'd on the points bubble.

Last Wednesday's Mookie, I was the first person ITP.

And one key trend was consistent throughout all 3 of those tournaments: super-tight play by me. Usually I get too aggro early on and that ends in my flame-outs. I did make one bad play in the Mookie on Wednesday (shoving A-hi on the river vs. a bet from a nit) but what's a tournament without a bad play by me?

That takes us to Riverchasers last night. I played the first four hands I was dealt, and bled a nice chunk of chips away early. Then I ran two pair into a rivered straight to bring me to 2000. I could've been KO'd on this hand, but my opponent folded... and yes, the Royal Mook scares all:

Full Tilt Poker Game #11908246631: PPI / Riverchasers Tournament (88441526), Table 5 - 25/50 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:22:48 ET - 2009/04/27
Seat 1: HighOnPoker (2,595)
Seat 2: TuscaloosaJohn (4,555)
Seat 3: Schaubs (3,505)
Seat 4: NYRambler (1,550)
Seat 5: jamyhawk (2,260)
Seat 7: tgrazz (4,100)
Seat 8: cmitch (2,620)
Seat 9: Troublecat (2,815)
tgrazz posts the small blind of 25
cmitch posts the big blind of 50
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to NYRambler [Th 8h]
Troublecat folds
HighOnPoker folds
TuscaloosaJohn folds
Schaubs folds
NYRambler raises to 150
jamyhawk folds
tgrazz folds
cmitch calls 100
*** FLOP *** [9d 3s 5d]
cmitch checks
NYRambler bets 200
cmitch calls 200
*** TURN *** [9d 3s 5d] [6h]
cmitch bets 400
NYRambler calls 400
*** RIVER *** [9d 3s 5d 6h] [As]
cmitch checks
NYRambler bets 800, and is all in
cmitch folds
Uncalled bet of 800 returned to NYRambler
NYRambler mucks
NYRambler wins the pot (1,525)

I flopped bottom set vs. Jordan a little later, but he didn't call my turn shove... that brought me back to a starting stack.

Took two pots with JJ and a nice bruff with A9 sooted; that took me to this hand, which finally gave me something to work with:

Full Tilt Poker Game #11909265356: PPI / Riverchasers Tournament (88441526), Table 5 - 80/160 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:26:44 ET - 2009/04/27
Seat 1: HighOnPoker (6,335)
Seat 2: TuscaloosaJohn (5,825)
Seat 3: Schaubs (7,545)
Seat 4: NYRambler (2,995)
Seat 6: cracknKK (18,124)
Seat 7: tgrazz (4,355)
Seat 8: bayne_s (2,125)
Seat 9: Joanne1111 (5,910)
NYRambler posts the small blind of 80
cracknKK posts the big blind of 160
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to NYRambler [9c 4c]
tgrazz calls 160
bayne_s folds
Joanne1111 folds
HighOnPoker folds
TuscaloosaJohn folds
Schaubs folds
NYRambler calls 80
cracknKK checks
*** FLOP *** [Ac Jc 2d]
NYRambler checks
cracknKK checks
tgrazz bets 160
NYRambler calls 160
cracknKK folds
*** TURN *** [Ac Jc 2d] [7c]
NYRambler checks
tgrazz bets 600
NYRambler raises to 1,680
tgrazz has 15 seconds left to act
tgrazz calls 1,080
*** RIVER *** [Ac Jc 2d 7c] [3h]
NYRambler bets 995, and is all in
tgrazz calls 995
*** SHOW DOWN ***
NYRambler shows [9c 4c] a flush, Ace high
tgrazz mucks (A-3)
NYRambler wins the pot (6,150) with a flush, Ace high

Never doubt the power of CRUBS!

Looking back, I never showed down another hand until my last hand of the tournament; talk about squeaky tight play. In the Money with 11 left, I had A2o in the BB. Tony Eusebio (a player so LAG he makes LJ seem Tight-Passive) raised from the button, which was common. I shoved with my A-2 since I was miles ahead of his range. He called me with A-5, so it was a likely chop...

Until both a 2 AND a 5 came down on the flop... ugh. No third deuce for me, and I'm out in 11th. Good to finally be back ITM in the BBT, and up to 22nd in the Overall Leaderboard. I'm looking to get those 25K FTP points for being in the Top 20. I can play a lot of 1800 FTP token satellites with those!

Tonight is Skillz: Stud Hi-Lo. This was the skillz game back when the BBT started as well, and I was in the points in that tournament, let's hope for something better tonight.

And congrats to Tony Eusebio for winning the Riverchasers last night, not making a deal HU vs a TOC seat winner (lucko) and winning it the right way.

-Kenny