Ace-Queen At The World Series Of Poker Part II

Read part I of Niall Smyth’s World Series of Poker exit blog here.

The Good.
One hand that happened early in the day, I raise with K-8 and as was the norm the small blind, reraised. The big blind stared him down and 4-bets it, at this stage late in level six, I’m either so sick of them just taking my chips or less likely I have a good read.

I go ahead and reraise again we get a quick fold from the small blind and after a lengthy stare down from the big we get a fold as he shows an ace. Nothing magical I’m sorry folks but this was my first low of 49k and helped me rebuild my stack back towards 100k on the level.

We move along maybe two levels now and the blinds are 400-800 and the table norm raise is 2k. (I’m after losing 2 pots one was mentioned above the other was hitting 2 pair on the river were I ended up folding to a massive over bet and the only real scare was runner flush. Sorry I know wrong section!)

I only mentioned the two lost pots because I think this next play was mainly tilt as opposed to skill. So it goes raise, call, and I call cut-off with 9 8, do you remember the tanker well he turned into a manic aggressive when he got chips and he makes it 8k.

He gets a fold-fold but I’m not in the mood – I know you buddy I’m going to trap you with this tricky hand. BINGO, GIN, YATSI………………………… FLOP K-10-10 &%&* FML.

I check ready to muck my hand when he bets, but there was thing I had noticed about this guy when he bet he either stated the amount or did it in silent and when he said it he always seemed to show strong hands. His chips went in the middle but he never said a word. At this stage I can’t take too long to decide, the longer you take the weaker you are right, at that moment I haven’t a clue but after he bets 9.5K I find 20.5k to reraise. Why add the .5k you might ask I have no idea but everyone is doing it and I’m not one to be different, maybe it has something to do with maths or meta-game that I don’t understand.

Anyways he folds and my fully tilted half read turned out to be right Good game me.

As good play goes that’s about all I have – genius I know – well you don’t win the Irish Open by fluke you know. It’s nothing like picking the winner in the Grand National just cause you like a horses name.

The third and final part of this blog will appear soon on CardPlayer.com.