Live by The Jimmy, Die by The Jimmy
So today was an up and down day in poker for me. Down in the cash realm, and nice and up in the Tourney realm. I started at the 1/2 limit tables, but really didn’t get too many good starting hands, and many of those good ones went sour on the flop. But being down by 16 big bets isn’t that horrible… it’s just poker.
I later played in the wwdn blogger tourney, with 48 entrants tonight. I went out in 42nd after my flopped set ran into an 8-high flush on the turn. I checked the turn, he min bet, and I raised him by 4. He called, and when the flush card came on the turn, I was dumb. I bet big, and then was basically committed to call his raise. I could have played it safe. I had redraws. One of my Tens was a diamond. Alas, none of them came. And I left. Because I didn’t know when to let go. Oh well. Live and learn. All that.
Afterwards I tried a $10+1 3 table SNG. I was up big early, but made a mistake with a misread, and ran my AQ into KK. That dropped me down, and I suffered a slow death to be out in 7th, 2 places out of the money.
After getting some things done around the apartment, I decided to go for one more $10+1 3 table. This time, I was focused. I had my plan. I played cautiously, but not scared. As we got down to the final 9, I was in 7th place with about 15 big blinds left. I managed to work it up and found myself in the final 3. When we got there, there was one huge stack, and 2nd place was only a couple of BB ahead of me. He went up and down a bit, but eventually ran his silly All in to a much better hand from the big dude.
When I find myself heads-up, I’m in trouble. I’ve got about 6K to his 34.5K, with blinds at 400/800. There were really only 2 key hands in heads up play… and they both involved The Jimmy (The Jimmy, as you may recall is 24o, named after what happened in this particular instance).
I’ll post them below, for your reading pleasure, with my opponent’s name changed for etiquette reasons. All I can say is this:
Live by The Jimmy, die by The Jimmy.
PokerStars Game #5850510153: Tournament #29616611, $10+$1 Hold’em No Limit – Level X (400/800) – 2006/08/09 – 00:36:47 (ET)
Table ‘29616611 3′ 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: ISS Spock (4930 in chips)
Seat 4: OTHER DUDE (35570 in chips)
ISS Spock: posts the ante 50
OTHER DUDE: posts the ante 50
OTHER DUDE: posts small blind 400
ISS Spock: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ISS Spock [2h 4c]
ISS Spock said, “man”
OTHER DUDE: calls 400
ISS Spock said, “glad I didn’t try at that”
ISS Spock: checks
*** FLOP *** [7h 4d 2c]
ISS Spock: checks
OTHER DUDE: bets 1600
ISS Spock: raises 1600 to 3200
OTHER DUDE: raises 31520 to 34720 and is all-in
ISS Spock: calls 880 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [7h 4d 2c] [4h]
OTHER DUDE said, “nh”
*** RIVER *** [7h 4d 2c 4h] [Qs]
ISS Spock said, “thanks”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ISS Spock: shows [2h 4c] (a full house, Fours full of Deuces)
OTHER DUDE: shows [7c 6s] (two pair, Sevens and Fours)
ISS Spock collected 9860 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9860 | Rake 0
Board [7h 4d 2c 4h Qs]
Seat 2: ISS Spock (big blind) showed [2h 4c] and won (9860) with a full house, Fours full of Deuces
Seat 4: OTHER DUDE (button) (small blind) showed [7c 6s] and lost with two pair, Sevens and Fours
PokerStars Game #5850534594: Tournament #29616611, $10+$1 Hold’em No Limit – Level XI (600/1200) – 2006/08/09 – 00:38:57 (ET)
Table ‘29616611 3’ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: ISS Spock (1610 in chips)
Seat 4: OTHER DUDE (38890 in chips)
ISS Spock: posts the ante 75
OTHER DUDE: posts the ante 75
ISS Spock: posts small blind 600
OTHER DUDE: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ISS Spock [As 8c]
ISS Spock said, “can’t do anything with these”
OTHER DUDE said, “tuff one .. no cards eh”
ISS Spock: raises 335 to 1535 and is all-in
OTHER DUDE: calls 335
*** FLOP *** [4d 3d 4h]
OTHER DUDE said, “whoops”
ISS Spock said, “nh”
*** TURN *** [4d 3d 4h] [7c]
OTHER DUDE said, “gg”
*** RIVER *** [4d 3d 4h 7c] [6c]
ISS Spock said, “indeed”
*** SHOW DOWN ***
OTHER DUDE: shows [2d 4s] (three of a kind, Fours)
ISS Spock: shows [As 8c] (a pair of Fours)
OTHER DUDE collected 3220 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3220 | Rake 0
Board [4d 3d 4h 7c 6c]
Seat 2: ISS Spock (button) (small blind) showed [As 8c] and lost with a pair of Fours
Seat 4: OTHER DUDE (big blind) showed [2d 4s] and won (3220) with three of a kind, Fours