More Rebuy Madness

14 Entrants in CHIMPS so we start seven-handed.  These people must view me as a complete and total rock, as most of my raises/shoves were met with nothing more than quick folds.

Other than one limp from the button, I don't play a hand for the first seven minutes.  Meanwhile, people are picking up hands and getting callers.  The player three to my left has 10k chips before I've even made a move.

The painful summary of a lot of key hands is below.  I walked away from this with a few thoughts:
1) There seemed to be a LOT of UTG raising - especially from warrendc and rascony.  Food for thought. 
2) It shocked me the number of times I went into a pot and had the entire table stick their tail between their legs - particularly in the rebuy period.  I took advantage of this a few times, but not nearly enough. 
3) I continued playing a bit too tight as I started to get short.  Granted, you'd love to wake up w/ a monster and get action, but theres' times where TP will do.  I need to think through these better as they come.
4) The ideal strategy here is to chip up big early and just secure a big stack for the post-rebuy period.  Short of that, you have to get action. 

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Here's a summary of my action in the rebuy period.
* Shove from button w/ 88, UTG raiser folds (WTF are you raising with UTG and then folding when you have a 5:1 chip advantage?)
* 4x raise very next hand from cutoff w/ 99.  Everyone folds.
* Shove from UTG+1 w/ JJ a couple hands later.  UTG limper and everyone else folds.
* An interesting hand w/ Snuffy where I read the situation right, made a tough but correct call, got sucked out on...and then resucked on the river.

Full Tilt Poker Game #6590995840: CHIMPS 3 - Event #3 (48190880), Table 1 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:14:16 ET - 2008/05/27
Seat 1: djm182 (2,055)
Seat 2: warrendc73 (1,865)
Seat 3: gadzooks64 (1,895)
Seat 4: khanwoman (10,725)
Seat 5: rascony (2,000)
Seat 6: SmBoatDrinks (730)
Seat 7: scottc25 (2,730)
scottc25 posts the small blind of 20
djm182 posts the big blind of 40
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to djm182 [Ts 9d]
warrendc73 folds
gadzooks64 folds
khanwoman folds
rascony folds
SmBoatDrinks folds
scottc25 calls 20
djm182 checks
*** FLOP *** [Th Ac 4d]
scottc25 checks
djm182 bets 80
scottc25 raises to 250 <<He's raising from SB if he has an Ace
djm182 has 15 seconds left to act
djm182 raises to 2,015, and is all in
scottc25 calls 1,765
djm182 shows [Ts 9d] <<Nice
scottc25 shows [Tc 7h]
*** TURN *** [Th Ac 4d] [7c] <<Three-outer
*** RIVER *** [Th Ac 4d 7c] [As] <<Counterfeited!!
djm182 shows two pair, Aces and Tens
scottc25 shows two pair, Aces and Tens
djm182 wins the pot (4,110) with two pair, Aces and Tens

* Seventeen minutes later, I make a pot size raise UTG+2 w/ AQo and get no action.
* A non-descript hand where I check the BB, river a gutshot, and try but fail to extract a value bet.
* 38 minutes in, I raise UTG+2 w/ JJ and get re-popped by the BB.  I come over the top of that and he has QQ.  Oooof.  From 3900 down to 1900.
* 43 minutes in, I wake up w/ AK in the SB.  With a pot-size raise in front of me, I shove and get two callers, including the original raiser.  AK up against AQ and TT, and I flop an A to triple up.  Sweet.
* The very next hand I get frisky and button shove w/ A4s.  No takers.  Again.
* Right after that I cutoff shove with AQo.  Seriously, isn't someone at least starting to think I'm playing like a maniac here?  Guess not.  All folds.
* At 46 minutes in, this one hurt.  I limped UTG w/ AJ - probably a mistake.  On an AT8 rainbow flop, the SB leads out, after having limped preflop.  I put him all-in and he calls w/ AK.  Dammit, that's my play - limping from the blinds w/ AK.  Grrrrr.  Back down to 3500 chips.  More importantly, the rebuy window is closing fast and the big stacks are now playing like complete rocks.  I really need to double up before the window closes.
* The very next hand w/ JTo in the BB, the SB limps, I repop it and take it down there.
* 48 minutes in, I have KK UTG+1.  I tease a 4x raise out there hoping and praying to get action.  Again - nothing.
* Three hands after that, I have 88 in the BB.  UTG goes all-in for about 2500.  It folds to me.  I sit and think and finally muck, respecting the position of this move.  Mistake?  Probably.
* Then I get AQo in the button.  Hopefully a 4x raise might look like a steal.  Nah.  All folds.
* Now it's 50 minutes in and I have JJ UTG.  I shove and gawdammit it folds around.
* Ah, wait, 53 minutes in it's AA UTG.  Once again a 4x raise hoping to induce action.  All folds.
* 55 minutes in, I screw up.  I have Ad8d OTB.  UTG+1 makes a 3.5x raise and I just call.  The flop is Ks 8s 5h and he leads for 400 - a smallish bet.  I think and call.  The turn is a blank but he makes a pot-size bet.  I'm either shoving or folding and I can too easily see him having a K or a pair > 8s so I fold and am down to 3k.  Not the short stack at the table, but much shorter than I'd like with the window closing fast.
* Two hands later I shove w/ 88 in MP.  Again, no action.
* 57 minutes in I have AK in the SB.  The button calls, I raise it from 100 to 1000 - hoping it looks like an odd bet.  Fold.
* 58 minutes in it's KK UTG+1.  I shove.  Everyone.  Just.  Folds.

And that's it.  After the rebuy period, I have a pittance of 3452 chips. The good news is that I never rebought - just did the original max buy-in plus the add-on.  The bad news is that I'm short stacked into the deep stack portion of the event.

At 18 minutes into the 2nd hour, with AK UTG+1, I got no action.  Five minutes later, same story with AQ from the cutoff.  After that I raised w/ J9o from the button.  Again.  Nothing.

It took until 10:35 to finally get something going:
Full Tilt Poker Game #6592077896: CHIMPS 3 - Event #3 (48190880), Table 1 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:34:56 ET - 2008/05/27
Seat 1: djm182 (2,582)
Seat 2: warrendc73 (8,028)
Seat 4: khanwoman (10,006)
Seat 5: rascony (10,380)
Seat 6: SmBoatDrinks (8,880)
Seat 7: scottc25 (3,624)
rascony posts the small blind of 100
SmBoatDrinks posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to djm182 [Kc Ks]
scottc25 folds
djm182 raises to 700
warrendc73 calls 700
khanwoman folds
rascony folds
SmBoatDrinks folds
*** FLOP *** [8c 2h 9h]
djm182 bets 1,882, and is all in
warrendc73 calls 1,882
djm182 shows [Kc Ks]
warrendc73 shows [9s As]
*** TURN *** [8c 2h 9h] [3s]
*** RIVER *** [8c 2h 9h 3s] [2s]
djm182 shows two pair, Kings and Twos
warrendc73 shows two pair, Nines and Twos
djm182 wins the pot (5,464) with two pair, Kings and Twos

For the life of me, I don't understand why I did what I did in this next hand.  I'm in the BB w/ QTo and see a free flop of T86 rainbow.  I check to see what the UTG preflop caller will do.  He makes a pot sized bet at it...and I fold?  WTF??  Top pair w/ a decent kicker when I need the chips.  I can't kill myself if I go out on this hand if he's got a monster.  Bad play. 

And now the antes kick in and they're quickly killing me.  We're playing five handed for most of this time and the ever increasing blinds are racing around the track quite fast.

At 10:47 I pick up 44 in the BB.  It folds to the SB (now SmBoatDrinks) who makes a 3x raise.  This wasn't the first time. I shove, he thinks and thinks and folds.  He probably had two overs at worse - maybe a better pair. 

Then I pick up a couple of smallish pots and am back to 6500 chips at the 150/300/25 level.  I turn a free flush draw from the BB w/ 72s, connect on the turn and take a decent pot thereafter to get up to 7200 chips.  I'm *thisclose* to being back in business. 

Then with 78 in the BB, I see a free 3c 5s 7c flop.  I check-call a standard bet.  Turn is a K and I get called this time.  We check down the river and he hit the K.  Grrrrr.  Back to 5k chips.

Finally I get it in w/ a flopped 2nd nut flush draw, but it never connects.

Full Tilt Poker Game #6592445409: CHIMPS 3 - Event #3 (48190880), Table 1 - 200/400 Ante 50 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:02:37 ET - 2008/05/27

Seat 1: djm182 (4,209)

Seat 2: warrendc73 (14,255)

Seat 4: khanwoman (4,861)

Seat 5: rascony (10,450)

Seat 6: SmBoatDrinks (9,725)

djm182 antes 50

warrendc73 antes 50

khanwoman antes 50

rascony antes 50

SmBoatDrinks antes 50

SmBoatDrinks posts the small blind of 200

djm182 posts the big blind of 400

The button is in seat #5

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to djm182 [Kd 5d]

warrendc73 folds

khanwoman folds

rascony folds

SmBoatDrinks calls 200

djm182 checks

*** FLOP *** [4d Jd 9h]

SmBoatDrinks bets 1,050

djm182 raises to 3,759, and is all in

SmBoatDrinks calls 2,709

djm182 shows [Kd 5d]

SmBoatDrinks shows [8h 9d]

*** TURN *** [4d Jd 9h] [8c]

*** RIVER *** [4d Jd 9h 8c] [Kc]

djm182 shows a pair of Kings

SmBoatDrinks shows two pair, Nines and Eights

SmBoatDrinks wins the pot (8,568) with two pair, Nines and Eights

djm182 stands up