Sunday, August 12, 2007

King Kong says, "It's loose!"

It's been a bad poker morning. Every coin flip has come up tails, everybody has sucked out. It's just been stupid chilly.

Here's a hand where the lessons of position were drilled in once again.

Full Tilt Poker Game #_: $10 + $1 Sit & Go (_), Table 1 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:52:29 ET - 2007/08/12
Seat 1: (890)
Seat 2: (2,310)
Seat 3: hero (1,515)
Seat 4: (1,410)
Seat 5: (1,240)
Seat 6: (1,635)
Seat 1 posts the small blind of 20
Seat 2 posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to hero [Kc Jc]
hero raises to 120

A loose raise under the gun, I admit. But I had been very tight and thought it was good enough to try for a steal.

Seat 4 calls 120
Seat 5 calls 120
Seat 6 raises to 480
Seat 1 raises to 890, and is all in
Seat 2 folds

And, of course, that's pretty much the worst case scenario. The one nice thing about raising with a less-than-fantastic hand is that it's easy to get away from it.

hero folds
Seat 4 folds
Seat 5 calls 770
Seat 6 raises to 1,635, and is all in
Seat 5 calls 350, and is all in
Seat 6 shows [Ad As]
Seat 1 shows [Th Qd]
Seat 5 shows [7s 9s]

Obviously, the rockets I can understand, but 79s? He called a raise, then called a re-raise and all-in? And QTo went all-in after a re-raise?

Ironically, I had them all beat apart from the aces.

Uncalled bet of 395 returned to Seat 6
*** FLOP *** [6s 5c 5h]
*** TURN *** [6s 5c 5h] [2h]
*** RIVER *** [6s 5c 5h 2h] [6h]
Seat 6 shows two pair, Aces and Sixes
Seat 5 shows two pair, Sixes and Fives
Seat 6 wins the side pot (700) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
Seat 1 shows two pair, Sixes and Fives
Seat 6 wins the main pot (2,950) with two pair, Aces and Sixes
Seat 1 stands up
Seat 5 stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3,650 Main pot 2,950. Side pot 700. | Rake 0
Board: [6s 5c 5h 2h 6h]
Seat 1: (small blind) showed [Th Qd] and lost with two pair, Sixes and Fives
Seat 2: (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: hero folded before the Flop
Seat 4: folded before the Flop
Seat 5: showed [7s 9s] and lost with two pair, Sixes and Fives
Seat 6: (button) showed [Ad As] and won (3,650) with two pair, Aces and Sixes

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