Thursday, January 17, 2008

AIPS Post-Mortem

Twice I was dealt TT.  Twice the board came with all unpaired undercards with no flush draws and unlikely straight draws.  Twice I ran into overpairs (QQ and AA).  Twice I never improved.  And after the second one, I donk out in 141st out of 155, far and away my worst performance. 

But it begs the question - am I supposed to slow-play overpairs, turn into a calling station, or try to play aggressively?  I took the aggressive route in each, slowing down only in the first hand vs. Chris.  And I can't fault either player with QQ or AA...they played their hands properly. I just stepped into the bear trap. Twice.

Then I walked over to a NLHE SNG and had to experience this:

Full Tilt Poker Game #4899473856: $5 + $0.50 Sit & Go (37197113), Table 1 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:24:43 ET - 2008/01/17
Seat 1: EugenPoly (1,025)
Seat 2: FaT-T666 (1,446)
Seat 3: supra350z (4,179)
Seat 4: BambiDD (1,265)
Seat 5: newbee101 (1,450)
Seat 7: NoFish4You (1,420)
Seat 8: djm182 (2,020)
Seat 9: sau124 (695)
sau124 posts the small blind of 40
EugenPoly posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #8

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to djm182 [Qs Ad]
FaT-T666 calls 80
supra350z folds
BambiDD folds
newbee101 folds
NoFish4You calls 80
djm182 has 15 seconds left to act
djm182 raises to 250
sau124 folds
EugenPoly folds
FaT-T666 calls 170
NoFish4You folds

*** FLOP *** [Ac 5h 8s]
FaT-T666 checks
djm182 bets 400
FaT-T666 calls 400

*** TURN *** [Ac 5h 8s] [Ks]
FaT-T666 checks
djm182 bets 500
FaT-T666 calls 500

*** RIVER *** [Ac 5h 8s Ks] [2c]
FaT-T666 checks
djm182 checks

*** SHOW DOWN ***
djm182 shows [Qs Ad] a pair of Aces
FaT-T666 shows [2h Ah] two pair, Aces and Twos
FaT-T666 wins the pot (2,500) with two pair, Aces and Twos

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