Friday, May 27, 2005

New PokerStars SNG levels

Much to my delight, PokerStars has introduced $1 sit and go tournaments. The $5 tourneys are a bit risky given my limited bankroll, and the cash is a bit pointless - limit bores me and NL seems ridiculous playing $0.01/0.02 - the nickel-dime game needs to be bought in for at least $5 and I don't want to play with just four buy-ins. Only thing is that the $1 games are 45 runner affairs. I think I'll have an edge in these, especially at 10 minute levels. They've still got that big 100/200/25 to 200/400/25 jump though. One's going to kick off in a minute, let's see how it goes :-)

edit - first hand, three people all in on Q-J-8 rainbow flop. A-Q vs. 8-8 vs. K-4! Even the K-4's backdoor flush was drawing dead to the A-Q, of the same suit. These could be fun. 20% juice is a bit much though...

edit - 11th/45. Damn that lasted a long time, wasn't quite as wild as expected. Got short but built myself up to about 4K before forcing someone all in with 10-9s when they had 4BB left, only for them to call in an instant with J-10s... then this happened - note my value call all-in [warning - bad beat follows]:

PokerStars Game #1773720446: Tournament #8326011, Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2005/05/26 - 20:59:19 (ET)
Table '8326011 5' Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: flyrooster (8835 in chips)
Seat 2: jaytee2 (2331 in chips)
Seat 3: gordocheese (6726 in chips)
Seat 6: strght---->> (7407 in chips)
Seat 7: Rick Card Z (6528 in chips)
Seat 8: Jared_Dye (2386 in chips)
flyrooster: posts the ante 25
jaytee2: posts the ante 25
gordocheese: posts the ante 25
strght---->>: posts the ante 25
Rick Card Z: posts the ante 25
Jared_Dye: posts the ante 25
flyrooster: posts small blind 200
jaytee2: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jaytee2 [2h Ad]
gordocheese: calls 400
strght---->>: folds
Rick Card Z: folds
Jared_Dye: folds
flyrooster: folds
jaytee2: checks
*** FLOP *** [2c 7s 2d]
jaytee2: checks
flyrooster said, "jared - youre like an STD"
gordocheese: bets 2000
jaytee2: calls 1906 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [2c 7s 2d] [9c]
*** RIVER *** [2c 7s 2d 9c] [Tc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jaytee2: shows [2h Ad] (three of a kind, Deuces)
gordocheese: shows [4c 3c] (a flush, Ten high)
gordocheese collected 4962 from pot
jaytee2 [observer] said, "JOPKE"

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