Saturday, 28 May 2011

Challenge donkey-multitabling sit and gos plus higher stakes adventure!

Like an idiot I cured my boredom this afternoon by playing two tables at once and to kill two weekend challenges with one stone I decided to play a higher stake sit and go at one of the tables! I was frantically tapping buttons and realised too late that to start both sit and gos at almost the same time is total madness. All the quick higher blind decisions happen simultaneously and you miss opportunities to exploit people who are trying to fold their way to the money. If I repeat this experiment I will load up one table a few levels behind the other, since my nerves just cannot take the pressure of quick decisions on auto pilot! I ended up slightly down in profit on the experiment because I won the cheap sit and go and crashed out in 5th in the more expensive one. The higher buy in game was less wacky than my usual stakes and the players seemed more evenly matched: an early raising war resulted in two players getting it all in, both with AK. I only played one hand in the game, raising with pocket tens to receive one caller on the button. The villain on the button floated my cbet on a scary middly texture flop,  but folded to a second barrel. Thinking about this hand again I am still fairly happy with my second bet as it was strictly for protection against AQ, KQ, QJ type hands, although I could have thought about pot controlling and check-calling turn and/or river to that range since I was crushed by small pairs that were slow playing trips and strong draws anyway.  From the slightly higher buy-in game I also noticed that fewer hands are shown down, more people vary preflop bet size creatively and that wider shoves could be the way to crush these seemingly very tight games. The giant stack at the table, playing a very tight aggressive-ish style, spent most of his time bank before calling my 4bb shove, holding 109 which given the pot odds, his chip position and the J5 I had recently shown down should have been more or less insta-call. The fact that I was holding 108 makes this move even more profitable, so I typed a toungue-in-cheek 'nh' to the fellow as I left the table lolz:) As a footnote I pulled a glorious reverse float on a weak tight player in the cheap game when 3-handed. I called BB with a low ace and then checked the flop almost nit-instinctively without thinking. I decided to call his inevitable cbet planning to raise any low cards on the turn since the middly dryish flop missed his high-aces, pairs-and decent broadways range by miles, plus the precisely 50% bet size looked hella bluffy. The turn paired the board and one smallish value bet later I picked up enough chips to effectively prepel me to the victory. Granted I should have donked the flop in the first place, but after the fishy cbet I realised the door was open and stepped in.

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