I am fed up
Posted by Viktoria | Filed under Live Tournaments
I played a satellite for the Monte Carlo Main Event last night and came 37th out of 171. Honestly, it is a miracle I got that far. The best hand I saw in 6 hours of play was 77. I doubled up with AJ vs 99, but I haven’t seen any reasonable other aces either (nothing better than A7o).
I just don’t think it is normal… 6 hours of play… No pairs, no AK-AQ-AT or anything remotely playable. I got my chips from a hobby player who pushed all-in against me with bottom pair and I had a relatively easy call with top pair.
The hand went like this: I had 20bb, found A5o on the small blind. I am not willing to raise-call with this, but I am absolutely happy to limp-reraise all-in with it. So I just call, the big blind checks. Flop comes AT7, all clubs. I don’t want to build a big pot, especially he is never folding a reasonable club here and I am pretty certain I have the best hand right now. I am willing to call 3 streets of betting.
The blind was 600, he bets 1k, I quickly call. Turn is the 2 of diamonds, check-check. River is the 4 of spades. I bet 1k just to get some value for my ace. I suppose I could have bet 2k and still get called by any pair. However he raised me all-in.
I had been playing with this guy for 4 hours by this time and my first reaction is to insta-call. However, I was really happy with my play that first I thought it through. Is there anything he could have hit with the 4? (Not really.) From what I saw from him, would he be trying to get value and raise smaller if he hit two pair? (Yes.) Does he think that big bets are the way to bluff? (Definitely.) So I call 
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He shows K4 for bottom pair – funny play. Anyway, I was happy with the way I played, it is just not possible to make in such a fast structure if you never have a hand. Finally I pushed KTo from the cut-off for 12 BB and the dealer found QQ (same guy). He had several (3 or so) AAs during the tournament and tons of other good hands 
Whyyyyyyyy….. I hate to feel unlucky.
