Showing posts with label painful glory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painful glory. Show all posts

Friday, April 29, 2011

Million dollar table

Last night, the table I joined became a million dollar table. That is to say, the total of the chips of all the active players at the table reached a peak of over a million play dollars, and hovered there for about 15 hands. When the table was at its peak of $1,074,720, I had a healthy stack of $143,476 but that only managed to put me in fourth place!

I played very well for over 99% of the session, but made a disastrous decision at the end that took me to the felt in one fell swoop. Here's the final hand of the session, in all its painful glory:

Table 'Andromeda IX' 9-max (Play Money) Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: (23400 in chips)
Seat 2: (63200 in chips)
Seat 3: (114500 in chips)
Seat 4: (37100 in chips)
Seat 5: neostreet (97376 in chips)
Seat 6: (244850 in chips)
Seat 7: (39900 in chips)
Seat 8: (39200 in chips)
Seat 3: posts small blind 100
Seat 4: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to neostreet [Tc Ts]
neostreet: raises 200 to 400
Seat 6: raises 6000 to 6400
Seat 7: folds
Seat 8: calls 6400
Seat 1: folds
Seat 2: folds
Seat 3: folds
Seat 4: folds
neostreet: raises 6000 to 12400
Seat 6: raises 232450 to 244850 and is all-in
Seat 8: calls 32800 and is all-in
neostreet: calls 84976 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (147474) returned to Seat 6
*** FLOP *** [Qs 8c Ac]
*** TURN *** [Qs 8c Ac] [6h]
*** RIVER *** [Qs 8c Ac 6h] [As]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
neostreet: shows [Tc Ts] (two pair, Aces and Tens)
Seat 6: shows [Kd Ks] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
Seat 6 collected 116352 from side pot
Seat 8: shows [Kh Th] (a pair of Aces)
Seat 6 collected 117900 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 234252 Main pot 117900. Side pot 116352. | Rake 0
Board [Qs 8c Ac 6h As]
Seat 1: Seat 1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Seat 2 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Seat 3 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: Seat 4 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: neostreet showed [Tc Ts] and lost with two pair, Aces and Tens
Seat 6: Seat 6 showed [Kd Ks] and won (234252) with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 7: Seat 7 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Seat 8 showed [Kh Th] and lost with a pair of Aces

I can't fully explain why I made such a risky move. The massive amount of chips at the table was tantalizing, surely. Also, everyone was playing pretty loosely, and I felt I had a good chance to double up. I was tired of seat 6 bullying the table. And to top it all off, I was mentally tired. The truth is, I'm not 100% ashamed of making this move; you need to have guts to really go somewhere in poker.

I don't have the hand statistics for the simple reason that I was too shell-shocked to remember to save them :-) I do know the number of hands I played, however - 114.

delta: $-40,000
balance: $1,310,936