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Name Doctor Straight
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| Showdown etiquette: no-rolling | 2010 07 26 02:56 pm | I was no-rolled in a big cash pot recently. I held J9 and the final board was Q9872. I'd bet every street from the button with my second pair, and on the river I put out what I thought was a value bet of $35. One player folded but the player on my right check-raised me to $120. After a lot of thought, I considered that I was ahead in the hand and also that the two on the river didn't change anything. The player who check raised liked to bet out when he had a strong hand, so I thought it was unlikely he'd held a Queen or a straight. I made a crying call. "Queen" he said. "It's good" I grumbled, cursing my horrible call, but I held onto my cards. I still haven't seen his Queen. "Where's your Queen?" I asked. "Actually it's King high". I showed my pair of nines and the Cheat folded face down. Two hands later he's all-in in a big Omaha pot against another player. "Make sure you see his cards" I advised the other player, who soon has the rest of the Cheat's stack. I was happy to see the back of him. |
| Vauxhall relaunch night winner: Doctor Straight | 2010 06 27 11:19 am | Friday night I attended the hugely successful Vauxhall Poker Room relaunch, and made the night even more successful by winning the 100 player $50 event, scoring an even $2000 for my efforts. The Vauxhall has recently been redeveloped and while there's still some work to do in other parts of the hotel, the new poker room and pokies area are finished. Like many hotels around Sydney, Vauxhall have responded to the "no smoking" rules by developing an outdoor pokies area, and this design has extended to the poker room itself which has an outdoors feel. On Friday night, smokers had to go outside the area, but UPT plan to perhaps establish a chip chop table where players are allowed to smoke. UPT have taken over the management of Vauxhall from the old Hanna's Poker Room. Showing a lot of class, Hanna and some of his regulars were playing in the event that night. Onto the game itself. Everyone started with a 20k stack, and the levels were 20 minutes, so it was going to be a long night of patient poker. I got a good start turning a straight early on and getting paid off by a calling station lady who was unable to fold to a big bet as she had KK, even though there was an Ace on the board. My stack went up and down between 30k and 13k for a few levels, I did better when I made hands and got them paid off, then when I ran double-barrelled bluffs against callers with made hands. In another interesting early levels hand, my TT got a great flop of T93 and there were a lot of players in the hand. My late position bet got just one caller, and the turn was a repeat 3. The caller suddenly bet at me, and I was hoping he had the 3. I min-raised him, but he folded. Shame he didn't have a 3 there. It's often said by tournament pros that there's good chip increases to be made before the bubble bursts and that was certainly my experience. With blinds starting to bite at 10k/20k (100 starters at 20k = 2 million = 2000k in total chips) and 15 players left, I was able to increase my stack from 65k to 300k by the time the final table was reached. This began with an Under the Gun shove of my 65k, when there was a big blind only posted that hand. Three players folded but the player on the button agonised. I was holding a "needs to get lucky" T8 offsuit, the button kept saying "I don't want to race" and eventually folded. The big blind folded as well, giving me the 20k big blind. The button showed that he'd laid down AQ, and I said "should've played" and showed my T8. Some railbird said "that's the play that will win you the tournament" and while it wasn't a huge addition to my chip stack, I did go on to win the tournament! A few hands later I called a shorter stack's all in with KK. The flop was K73 all hearts and the turn was also a heart. There was a risk I'd have to chop if the river was a heart (neither of us holding one, but we'd both be playing the board). The river was the final King, making me Quads, and giving me a chance to make my lame quads joke ("I'm got two pair, Kings and Kings"). The final table started at 10 players, all of whom made the money. The payouts of the 5000 prize money were 100/100/100/100/100/250/500/750/1000/2000, and no deals were done, because after the first 6 hands of final table action I'd busted 4 players and was sitting with about 60% of the total chips. Some shortstacked guy still in piped up and said "I guess you don't want to consider a deal?" and I replied "Correct". Normally I like to think about a deal and in fact agreed to a 3 way 2nd/3rd/4th all get the same money in my $100 game last week, but this time I was the Chip Commander and it was better for me to shoot for that $2k first prize. The deck really loved me at the final table, which was great as the blinds were now 30k/60k and everyone was feeling the pinch. OK the game was ending up as a bit of a crapshoot, but when I'm the one hitting the cards I really don't care! I busted at least 8 of the other final table players myself and I might indeed have busted all of them. 10th player: goes all in, I hold 99 and raise, everyone else gets out of the way. He holds 44, and gets no help from the board. After the hand I remark "I don't mind if I win the tournament like this. Just give me fantastic cards, I'm happy to win on great cards". 9th and 8th: An all in and a raise all in (but not a full raise, the raiser was short as well), I call with 66. The other hands are AK and AT. Flop is T62, and my well-timed set sends two more players to the rail. 7th: Pocket TT against my A7 suited. This player was short stacked (almost everyone except me was by now) and all I had to do to call was complete my small blind. Flop was two of my suit, turn made me the nut flush, TT was drawing dead but the river was an Ace anyhow, as if the deck was telling me "I love you so much that I'll show you that even if I hadn't made you that flush on the turn I would've paired your Ace on the river". Good deck, this one. 6th: With so many chips, I take a chance with Q7 against someone's allin. He holds AT. 7 on the flop and nothing else for either player sends AT home. 5th: I'm in the small blind and there's just me and the big blind. I complete with JT and the big blind pushes all in. Well, the deck has loved me so far and JT is certainly playable so I call. Big blind shows AA but in truth I'm not worried. It's a bit like Stu Ungar winning his third world series main event by making his wheel on the river. Sometimes you just feel that the deck is helping you out. I get a Jack on the flop and a Ten on the river, and my two pairs sends the AA packing. 4th: Q7 does it for me again. Big blind is all in no look and all I have to do is complete the blind. Big blind was 43, and although the board comes pretty low he hits no pair and my Queen high wins. 3rd: A9 runs into my AK. 2nd: The heads up confrontation is interesting. I push all in with K2 first hand, he calls with J4. There's a 2 on the flop for me, which doesn't really change much, but the river is a 4, keeping him in the game and making his chip stack more competitive. Come on deck, we're supposed to be friends here. There's a big crowd standing around, some cheering for me and a few friends of the 2nd place player, who has pretty much been able to fold his way into 2nd place as I've been busting every other player. He shoves from his button in another hand and I fold. 2 hands later he just limps, and I hold Q9 suited. Because of his earlier raise, I think "he'll raise if he's got something, so this limp is weak." I raise him and he thinks for a moment then comes over the top all in! This pattern seems wrong to me, and I'm a bit confused, but after some thought I stick with my original feeling and make the call. He shows Q6 offsuit and he's up against it versus my Q9. The flop comes T92, with two of my suit! I can win it next card by making my flush, and if the card is a nothing I've also won it (since I've already paired my 9). The turn card is a sneaky offsuit 8, meaning a offsuit J on the river will split, and a offsuit 7 on the river will win the pot for my opponent. One card to come, and if it's not a perfect card for my opponent, I'm the winner. The final card comes a offsuit 6, and I'm the winner. "Send it!" I say, and not for the first time that night. |
| Safe from Parkinson's Disease | 2010 06 07 12:55 pm | Nobody who reads PNW needs to worry about getting Parkinson's Disease later in life. Parkinson's medication 'causes sex, gambling addictions' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) *** The writ claims some people taking the drug are alleged to have become addicted to pornography and lost their life savings to gambling, and that the compulsive behaviour ceased once they stopped taking the drug. *** actually the compulsive behaviour ceased once they ran out of money. |
| Fevola's gambling problems include poker! | 2010 04 16 03:06 pm | Brendan Fevola of the Brisbane Lions admits gambling addiction Apparently he managed to hit the Crown Poker room just 20 minutes after the final siren in one game. |
| Doctor Straight in Sky City Auckland | 2010 04 04 11:56 pm | Having a week away with Madam Straight and Inside Straight this week, but the hotel Madam Straight booked turned out to be 1 block down from Sky City Casino. Actually most hotels in Auckland seem super close to Sky City. Played 2/3 NL for 5 hours and waltzed out with a $60 win, which isn't a great hourly win rate but a win is a win is a win. I'm travelling elsewhere in NZ during the week but hope to be back at Sky next Friday night. I think Lee Nelson and the good players have escaped to some tourney in Christchurch to avoid facing me on my holiday. |
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