Anthony Martino
Royal Flush
First played the $70 Super Stack Blitz, start with 30K chips, 25/50 blinds and 15 minute levels.
Early on I was chipping up and throughout the early and middle stages of the tourney I saw myself with twice the average stack and doing well.
Eventually I get moved to a new table and that's when things turned south. Came to the table with 100K in chips, average at that point I believe was around 60K
Saw my AK UTG raise get called by a fish in the cutoff with A9 offsuit who hit her 9 against me.
Then that same lady limped
from EP when the blinds were really large and I had 
in the BB, flop is 
, turn a 
and river the 
and I check-called her 10K bet and saw the bad news.
Blinds were 3k/6k with a 1K ante, and out of 81 entrants we were down to 21 (top 9 paid). My stack was at 51K and the UTG player who was also short-stacked at 49K shoved all-in.
I'm in LP with
and get it in, he has 
and the flop comes 
and that left me with a whopping 2K which was gone the next hand, out 21st, doh!
Here's some chip porn before we move on to my cash game shenanigans!
Oh shit, I almost forgot! So earlier in the tourney the blinds are 600/1200 with an ante, and the UTG player raises to 6500. I'm on the button with
and make it 20K. He folds 
FACE-UP and tells me he knows I have Aces!!!!! 
So I guess I was fortunate to make it as deep as I did. I took his massive overraise from UTG to be a hand that didn't want action like AJ or a small pocket pair and would've been willing to gamble with my AK in that spot.
Anyhoozen, on to:
CASH GAME
Sit down in a 1/2 game, max buyin is $200. There's a drunk couple in the game and a few other bad players, plus a few nits just trying to take the drunks to valuetown.
Anyway, suddenly a new kid shows up at the table looking to gamble. He's yapping about how much money he has, and proceeds to shove all-in EVERY HAND for $200 essentially.
I mean, he would raise half his stack $100 BLIND everytime, and then be willing to get it in, he just didn't care (he was waiting for a 2/5 seat it turned out)
So anyway, he's going nuts, losing some all-ins and rebuying, winning by sucking out against stronger hands with his shit, and I'm just waiting to have a hand that has equity to get it in.
Finally he raises UTG to $100 and I'm in MP with
and get my $200 into the pot. A drunk guy on the button is hemming and hawing and the maniac is egging him on to get his money in, which he decides to do.
So we've got a $600 pot all-in pre three-ways and I'm up against:
drunk:
(18% equity, ties 5.5%)
maniac:
(bear in mind he never actually looked still, 25% equity, ties 1%)
me: (51% equity, ties 6%)
Of course the flop is Ten-high and the drunk wins a massive pot, maniac and I rebuy
Eventually the maniac leaves after dumping about $1,000 into the game to take his 2/5 seat.
New guy shows up, buys in for $100 and immediately straddles to $4 on the button. Drunk guy, now flush with chips, raises to $15 from the BB, EP player calls, I call with in MP, cutoff calls $15 and then the new guy who just straddled shoves for $100
Drunk cold-calls, EP folds, I make the call and have another $80-90 behind with position on the drunk and I figure to have the best hand the way he's been playing (ever since the maniac was playing, well, maniacally, the drunk has decided to try and emulate him, so his hand selection is super wide)
Anyway, we see a flop of
and the new guy that straddled is all-in and drunk is first to act and bets enough to put me all-in. I call off the rest of my stack.
Turn (drunk exclaims YES!), river 
I turn over my 9's and the drunk flips over
The straddler doesn't show, but against this guys A5 on the flop I was 88% equity and he three-outered me for another massive pot.
I buyin for another $100 and manage to get it all-in preflop against the drunk with, he doesn't reveal his hand at showdown and I wind up taking it down.
Eventually our table is 5-handed and they manage to combine us with another 1/2 table to give us full action again.
Drunk is still playing crazy, raising almost every hand preflop to anywhere between $30-60 and he's just got racks of chips compared to most of the other players.
A kid sitting on $700 tries to pick him off with
and manages to go broke when the drunks 
makes two pair on the turn (he flopped a 3 and they wound up getting it all-in on the river on a board of 
)
So the kid with $700 goes bye-bye and the floor comes over and starts changing some of the drunks stacks of $5 chips into $25 chips.
I wind up limp-calling drunks raise pre to $20 with
and we see a flop three-handed of 
and he leads for $30, I call, the other player folds. Turn and the drunk checks, I bet $50, he thinks for awhile and calls. River and drunk glances at his chips and opts to check. I wind up checking behind and his 
is no good.
Was down $400 at one point, but managed to claw my way back to only down $200 at least. But man, what a crazy night, I love me some drunk folks, but variance sure kicked me in the nuts in some key pots. I should have, like, Oprah money by now.
Early on I was chipping up and throughout the early and middle stages of the tourney I saw myself with twice the average stack and doing well.
Eventually I get moved to a new table and that's when things turned south. Came to the table with 100K in chips, average at that point I believe was around 60K
Saw my AK UTG raise get called by a fish in the cutoff with A9 offsuit who hit her 9 against me.
Then that same lady limped
from EP when the blinds were really large and I had in the BB, flop is , turn a and river the and I check-called her 10K bet and saw the bad news.Blinds were 3k/6k with a 1K ante, and out of 81 entrants we were down to 21 (top 9 paid). My stack was at 51K and the UTG player who was also short-stacked at 49K shoved all-in.
I'm in LP with
and get it in, he has and the flop comes and that left me with a whopping 2K which was gone the next hand, out 21st, doh!Here's some chip porn before we move on to my cash game shenanigans!
Oh shit, I almost forgot! So earlier in the tourney the blinds are 600/1200 with an ante, and the UTG player raises to 6500. I'm on the button with
and make it 20K. He folds FACE-UP and tells me he knows I have Aces!!!!! So I guess I was fortunate to make it as deep as I did. I took his massive overraise from UTG to be a hand that didn't want action like AJ or a small pocket pair and would've been willing to gamble with my AK in that spot.
Anyhoozen, on to:
CASH GAME
Sit down in a 1/2 game, max buyin is $200. There's a drunk couple in the game and a few other bad players, plus a few nits just trying to take the drunks to valuetown.
Anyway, suddenly a new kid shows up at the table looking to gamble. He's yapping about how much money he has, and proceeds to shove all-in EVERY HAND for $200 essentially.
I mean, he would raise half his stack $100 BLIND everytime, and then be willing to get it in, he just didn't care (he was waiting for a 2/5 seat it turned out)
So anyway, he's going nuts, losing some all-ins and rebuying, winning by sucking out against stronger hands with his shit, and I'm just waiting to have a hand that has equity to get it in.
Finally he raises UTG to $100 and I'm in MP with
and get my $200 into the pot. A drunk guy on the button is hemming and hawing and the maniac is egging him on to get his money in, which he decides to do.So we've got a $600 pot all-in pre three-ways and I'm up against:
drunk:
(18% equity, ties 5.5%)maniac:
(bear in mind he never actually looked still, 25% equity, ties 1%)me:
(51% equity, ties 6%)Of course the flop is Ten-high and the drunk wins a massive pot, maniac and I rebuy
Eventually the maniac leaves after dumping about $1,000 into the game to take his 2/5 seat.
New guy shows up, buys in for $100 and immediately straddles to $4 on the button. Drunk guy, now flush with chips, raises to $15 from the BB, EP player calls, I call with
in MP, cutoff calls $15 and then the new guy who just straddled shoves for $100Drunk cold-calls, EP folds, I make the call and have another $80-90 behind with position on the drunk and I figure to have the best hand the way he's been playing (ever since the maniac was playing, well, maniacally, the drunk has decided to try and emulate him, so his hand selection is super wide)
Anyway, we see a flop of
and the new guy that straddled is all-in and drunk is first to act and bets enough to put me all-in. I call off the rest of my stack.Turn
(drunk exclaims YES!), river I turn over my 9's and the drunk flips over
The straddler doesn't show, but against this guys A5 on the flop I was 88% equity and he three-outered me for another massive pot.
I buyin for another $100 and manage to get it all-in preflop against the drunk with
, he doesn't reveal his hand at showdown and I wind up taking it down.Eventually our table is 5-handed and they manage to combine us with another 1/2 table to give us full action again.
Drunk is still playing crazy, raising almost every hand preflop to anywhere between $30-60 and he's just got racks of chips compared to most of the other players.
A kid sitting on $700 tries to pick him off with
and manages to go broke when the drunks makes two pair on the turn (he flopped a 3 and they wound up getting it all-in on the river on a board of )So the kid with $700 goes bye-bye and the floor comes over and starts changing some of the drunks stacks of $5 chips into $25 chips.
I wind up limp-calling drunks raise pre to $20 with
and we see a flop three-handed of and he leads for $30, I call, the other player folds. Turn and the drunk checks, I bet $50, he thinks for awhile and calls. River and drunk glances at his chips and opts to check. I wind up checking behind and his is no good.Was down $400 at one point, but managed to claw my way back to only down $200 at least. But man, what a crazy night, I love me some drunk folks, but variance sure kicked me in the nuts in some key pots. I should have, like, Oprah money by now.
