4th WSOP Madness Post (Just When You Thought It Couldnt Get Worse)

Well this pretty much sums up the day. I decided to play this one more agressive from the start so i was raising most pots i came into and built my stack up slowly hoping to get paid for being active if i hit a monster.

To put this strategy into context i won both the pots before this one by limping and betting the flop and by raising and just taking the blinds:


Table "WSOP MADNESS 2 2966232 - 7" Seat 2 is the button.
Seat 1: tbpoker13 (850 in chips)
Seat 2: oreo (1525 in chips)
Seat 3: Graham5 (1250 in chips)
Seat 4: Madman911 sits out
Seat 5: Drunkfish (2065 in chips)
Seat 6: Animal (2360 in chips)
Seat 7: Lfc_cl_05 (2255 in chips)
Seat 8: Erica85 (3070 in chips)
Seat 9: Arissboy (5590 in chips)
Seat 10: 007apr (5405 in chips)
Graham5: posts small blind 25
Madman911: posts big blind 50
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Animal [As Ah]
Drunkfish: folds
Animal: raises to 150
Lfc_cl_05: folds
Erica85: folds
Arissboy: calls 150
007apr: folds
tbpoker13: calls 150
oreo: folds
Graham5: raises to 1250 and is all-in
Madman911: folds
Madman911 sits back
Animal: raises to 2360 and is all-in
Arissboy: folds
tbpoker13: folds
Returned uncalled bets 1,110 to Animal
----- FLOP ----- [Jh 9h 6h]
----- TURN ----- [Jh 9h 6h][7c]
----- RIVER ----- [Jh 9h 6h 7c][7s]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Animal: shows [As Ah] (Two Pairs, Aces and Sevens, Jack high)
Graham5: shows [7h 7d] (Four of a kind, Sevens, Jack high)
Graham5 collects 2850 from Main pot

Pot was to go 11th/122 with 3 x $14000 packages and residual cash to 8th in this one. Flaming joke after that flop increased my odds from 80% to 91.2%. OK so its just an ordinary beat u might say. 21 hands later after ive recovered my 1100 stack back up to a playable one:

Along comes the same guy and just to take the piss:

Game #3018076934: Hold'em NL (50/100) - 2006/07/16 - 01:50:12 (UK)
Table "WSOP MADNESS 2 2966232 - 7" Seat 4 is the button.
Seat 1: tbpoker13 (1100 in chips)
Seat 2: oreo (1350 in chips)
Seat 3: Graham5 (3125 in chips)
Seat 4: Swakopmun (1890 in chips)
Seat 5: Drunkfish (2315 in chips)
Seat 6: Animal (2495 in chips)
Seat 7: Lfc_cl_05 (770 in chips)
Seat 8: Erica85 (2995 in chips)
Seat 9: Arissboy (5240 in chips)
Seat 10: 007apr (5635 in chips)
Drunkfish: posts small blind 50
Animal: posts big blind 100
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Animal [Jc Qs]
Lfc_cl_05: folds
Erica85: folds
Arissboy: folds
007apr: folds
tbpoker13: folds
oreo: folds
Graham5: raises to 200
Swakopmun: folds
Drunkfish: folds
Animal: calls 100
----- FLOP ----- [9c 6c Jd]
Animal: checks
Graham5: bets 400
Animal: raises to 2295 and is all-in
Graham5: calls 1895
----- TURN ----- [9c 6c Jd][4c]
----- RIVER ----- [9c 6c Jd 4c][9h]
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Animal: shows [Jc Qs] (Two Pairs, Jacks and Nines, Queen high)
Graham5: shows [8c Ac] (A Flush, Ace high)
Graham5 collects 5040 from Main pot

Summary , his gay raise forces me to take a flop. Im happy to lose if he has an overpair and check raise to block him out as he has made the pot big enough. He still calls for nearly all his stack and of course hits. That pot would have put me 10-15th/109 as well so in the end i take 2 beats from the same player both for big pots.

What a night, i cant fault my play at all and because of this im not as pissed off as i normally would be. In fact i think ive played almost my "a" game and just wish i had been given a chance to get closer in 1 of them. Pretty much got my chips in when in front in all 5 and lost some big pots in a lot of them. Its a dent to the monthly bankroll that i know i could afford so hopefully my luck will be better tommorrow and im glad to have blogged this lot out of my system.