Grubby at PokerWorks

We’re now coming up on T500/1000 blinds with T125 ante.  Average stack is T27,089 with 701 remaining.

Top 522 pay.

And I have to pee.

Six pros remain:

Aaron Bartley, 172,231 chips and chip leader by a wide 3:2 margin
Erick Lindgren, 56,193 chips
David Singer, 17,868 chips
Paul Wolfe, 17,680 chips
Gus Hansen, 27,329 chips
Lee Watkinson, 7,330 chips

And me with a paltry T11,958.

Saw yet another pair of AA go down to JJ.  And someone else’s AA held up against KJ.

Not me so far.

This stage is nerve-wracking.

Playing live, I can more visually tell when someone (particularly the blinds) is getting ready to fold and can act accordingly.

Online, you just raise and hope for the best.  But not raise too often because of your image (hence the guy who had KJ who called the AA guy who kept raising before).

I’m disappointed with my play this hour.  I’m normally not as tight with seeing 7 percent of flops in the past 261 hands, and I’m usually the one making the all-in moves to avoid getting blinded out.

Instead, lack of cards plus people pushing behind me is turning me into a blind bleeder.  At some point I’m going to have to call one of these raises and hope to get lucky.

Meanwhile I tried stealing one set of blinds and antes per round to keep me afloat, but I have to fold to a reraise.

Called an unfortunate 3x raise in the SB with A6s (spades).  Never a good idea to just call.

Flop was Q-8-4 (two clubs).

Preflop raiser bet slightly under pot and I thought about reraising all-in, which is what I should’ve done while I still had chips, but I wimped out and folded.

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My best hand this round was AKo.

Blinds T250/500 ante T50, guy raises all in 8x at T3947.

I was planning to raise but now I folded.  Didn’t want to get involved with a coinflip when I wasn’t the one raising.

Too many times I’ve lost these situations, but really, if I’m not testing AK here when will I?

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Other than that, hands have completely dried up. and the only face cards I’m getting are paired with low cards.

Seeing the Hammer an awful lot, with 23 and 95 close seconds.

Next round, I’ll be raising all-in in early position rather than late or on the Button, hoping other players will take it as a sign of a strong hand rather than a steal.

When the Button passes, I’ll have 10x the blinds.

I don’t expect to last much longer, but here’s hoping to double up in time to cash, which I expect to occur this round with or without me.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 20th, 2007 at 8:38 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.