Took 2nd on $130 Deep stack live tournament

[Wyte22]

soo far I have a 75% cashing rate with live tourneys! wasn't a very big field (29 players), but only top 5 spots paid last night. I just played incredible poker, using people's tells against them, pushing people out of pots, getting people to overplay their hands. Soo it got down to HU play, me and this guy named Kevin (another Full Tilt brat mind you like me! lol). I started the HU with 79K and he was chip ldr most of the final table (I started table as chip ldr but he went on a massive run tripling his stack in 10 hands!), with 110K. Soo it went back and forth, and I picked up a tell on him when I was slow playing my pair of kings into a screwy board. I min bet him on river, he re-raised me, soo I re-raised him, and he folded, showing me ace high. He hates to be min-raise/min-bet. Soo at this point I am sitting there with 84K in chips and he's around 107K. I get dealt AKo in the SB, soo I decide that now let's exploit that tell. Soo I announce raise, 2K/4K blinds at this point, and min raise it, knowing that he'll either re-raise me big or just move all in. Music to my ears when he almost instantly says all in! I snap call. He stood up and said "shit, you got AK don't you?" ......he turns of KQ.

Flop: 2 T 2
Turn: Q
River 2

GG Wyteman. I finish second, collect like $570 lol. Going back tonight I think

on a side note: I will never ever, ever, ever play a cash game at a casino again. I played in a $1/2 NL game last night for 4 hours (with 140 dollars). The avg raise PF for the table was $15. I've seen more not bad play, but horrible play that got rewarded. I think the entire time I was sitting there, I won 3 pots lol. Mind you, this was a $1/2 table but there was a $1500 pot and it was just sick of how much of an idiot this guy was and how he got rewarded. Here's the hand:

New Villian (just sits down with $900 between cash and chips): AA
Deep stack villian (Around $750 between cash and chips): A9

D stack raises to $20 (yes 10 times the BB), everyone folded to new villian, who re-raises to $75. D stack calls

Flop: J48

Soo New villian bets $120, D stack calls

Turn: 4

New bets $310, D stack moves all in, New insta calls doesn't even hestitate.

River: T GG ship it


The hand they got all my money.

I decided when my stack got to $30, i'm gonna start gambling like them, got back up to $70

soo I get 75o.

flop comes out 7 5 8. I bet pot, guy thinks for a minute and calls. Turn is a J, I bet again, he calls. River 5. I check, he moves all in and I snap call. Turn over the Full House but he turns over J5 for a slightly better FH. GG Wyteman ship it.

[powrdragn]

Admitedly on the hand you got busted, the guy played horrible, but you got off your game by getting int here gambling with 75o.

I have a local game here that's a 1/2 game and there are regularly $100-200 pots. Bets can go to $20 preflop more often than I like. But you know what. I like this game. It's easy.

I usually win $100-250 a session. I just wish I had more time to play it. Unfortunately, today I only won $50 in it.

In these types of games, just be patient. Don't worry about their "unbelievable luck." Just play your game and when you hit, you will get paid.

[bowlaman]

just guessing but im 99.5% sure wyte22 wasd the BB and it called to him. I know his game and how fast 75 would go in the muck. As with MOST good players. I would toss that with a 1 cent raise to me lol