Had a good run in the Full Tilt 750K Guarantee yesterday. Had a top 5 stack with about 26 left to go.
Unfortunately, I was assigned a pretty tough table/seat assignment where I had the overwhelming chip leader "Chad Eveslage" on my immediate left and two other aggressive players with good stacks on his left. So I was handcuffed a bit, especially compared to my previous table.
I had won a few decent sized pots against Chad and established a short history with him before the following hand came up.
saw flop | saw showdown
Hero (SB) (t763573)
Chad Eveslage (BB) (t1286110)
UTG (t439712)
UTG+1 (t276462)
MP1 (t406831)
MP2 (t718029)
CO (t317264)
Button (t515014)
Hero's M: 19.09
Preflop: Hero is SB with A
, 9
6 folds, Hero bets t48000, Chad Eveslage calls t32000
Flop: (t112000) Q
, A, 8 (2 players)Hero bets t60000, Chad Eveslage raises to t151550, Hero calls t91550
Turn: (t415100) 3
(2 players)Hero checks, Chad Eveslage bets t303075, Hero raises to t562023 (All-In), Chad Eveslage calls t258948
River: (t1539146) A
(2 players, 1 all-in)Total pot: t1539146
Results:
Hero had A
, 9 (three of a kind, Aces).Chad Eveslage had 8
, 8 (full house, eights over Aces).Outcome: Chad Eveslage won t1539146
I ended up weighting Chad's range more towards a bluff because he was a good aggressive player, the chip leader and our history at the table to that point.
I felt like preflop he would reraise with bigger aces, pocket queens and also pocket eights, so I could discount those hands from his range when he raises me on the flop.
Hands he can have that beat me:
AA: The number of combinations are reduced due to having an ace in my hand.
88: I felt like most of the time he would raise with 88 in this blind versus blind situation, but would call some small percentage of the time.
A8: This is the hand I was most concerned about since there are the most combinations and I felt like he would definitely just call preflop with this hand.
With that in mind, I really felt like bluffs made up the majority of his range when he raises me on that flop. So I decided to call him down (shoving once the call on the turn is pretty much pot committing myself).
He showed 88 and I thought he played it really well. I did feel pretty unlucky though as that flop texture led to me calling off my whole stack. There are a bunch of other flops that probably let me get away a lot easier, but that flop has such a narrow range of hands he could have that beat me given the action.
Oh well, good deep tourney practice heading into the World Series of Poker this year.
Shout out to Pat JONES...
Shout out to Turkey BACON....
Shout out to Papa ANIMAL...
Holla!
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