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Name Murphmaester
PNW Forum Status PNW Amateur
Location That's me in the corner
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| What to do with aggressive players on your left | 2010 02 01 06:41 pm | I had a situation yesterday that was really pissing me off and I had no idea what to do about it, I was wondering what others would do in the same position. I was getting fairly deep into a tourney, had a good stack of around twice average and was playing a fairly solid tight aggressive game, when this guy appeared on my left with a similar sized stack to mine. Whenever it was folded to me in the button and I threw in a 2.5x to take the blinds (hands irrelevant) he shoved all in over the top of me. This happened every single time I was on the button and it was folded to me. Thing is he was not playing aggressive at any other time, I don't remember him opening too many pots, or making any 3bets and he certainly did not try to steal any blinds, ever, as I was watching him closely. Of course I folded every time, my hands were usually crap, although with A9h I did tank for a little while seriously contemplating calling - I was getting that fed up. I even called him out on chat and asked if we had played together before and whether he had something personal against me, which he denied, but he never answered me as to why he was shoving over me every time. What do I do here? I thought about open shoving from the button to steal but it seemed stupid, that would no doubt be the time the BB had AA. But I was stuck in a rut, unable to steal blinds and getting very tilty. | |
| Risk Intelligence | 2010 01 19 06:47 am | Thought this was interesting enough to share, I did actually assume that gambling, especially poker was linked somehow to general intelligence - but after a few months on these forums I changed my mind!  The link to the test is below the quoted text I have stolen from the Times. Quote:
TEST: Projection Point - Risk Intelligence Testing "> | |
| What to do with QQ here... | 2009 12 30 01:18 pm | Am posting the full hand because as you see there is no result and my question is linked to my decision here post flop. Sorry if this is another stupid question but there are decisions I make that while I am sure are correct I am never 100% sure I am making the best play, and if i don't bother to check now and again I am going to continue to make the wrong decisions. Q1 - I think I should have raised pre, my thinking was trying not to make the pot too big I am forced to call after the flop as I find QQ, like JJ very difficult hands to play post flop. A couple of hands before the initial raiser won a pot after calling a raise with A 10, I have to assume any half decent Ace is in his range. My real question though is with four in the pot am I right to be folding this? or should I be raising to see if he actually does have an Ace? Heads up I would probably raise him, but with four players seeing the flop surely I am right to assume someone has an Ace? What do you guys do here? PokerStars Game #37355744614: Tournament #242010202, $5.00+$0.50 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXII (4000/8000) - 2009/12/30 3:23:12 AEST [2009/12/29 11:23:12 ET] Table '242010202 36' 9-max Seat #8 is the button Seat 3: Murphmaester (473715 in chips) Seat 4: BJDarter (313299 in chips) Seat 5: Sekkingstaad (454324 in chips) Seat 6: hahnetwh111 (486944 in chips) Seat 7: b4bmm (519691 in chips) Seat 8: kommonsense (537428 in chips) Murphmaester: posts the ante 800 BJDarter: posts the ante 800 Sekkingstaad: posts the ante 800 hahnetwh111: posts the ante 800 b4bmm: posts the ante 800 kommonsense: posts the ante 800 Murphmaester: posts small blind 4000 BJDarter: posts big blind 8000 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to Murphmaester   Sekkingstaad: folds hahnetwh111: calls 8000 b4bmm: folds kommonsense: raises 19000 to 27000 Murphmaester: calls 23000 BJDarter: calls 19000 hahnetwh111: calls 19000 *** FLOP ***    Murphmaester: checks BJDarter: checks hahnetwh111: checks kommonsense: bets 56000 Murphmaester: folds BJDarter: folds hahnetwh111: folds Uncalled bet (56000) returned to kommonsense kommonsense collected 112800 from pot A couple of hands afterwards with only 16 players left in I was SB with   , a couple of re-raises and I found myself all in against the BB with Of course the board came down      and I cried myself to sleep last night. | |
| Satellite final table spot.... | 2009 12 26 07:12 pm | Five left, two win a seat. Fold, Call or Shove? Be mindful that I am trying out my new tactic of not doing stupid donk things. PokerStars Game #37197105755: Tournament #223722015, $10.70+$1.00 USD Hold'em No Limit - Match Round II, Level III (25/50) - 2009/12/26 18:46:07 AEST [2009/12/26 2:46:07 ET] Table '223722015 1' 10-max Seat #8 is the button Seat 3: MadGeeker (740 in chips) Seat 4: gdubc1982 (690 in chips) Seat 6: lmrelvas (6140 in chips) Seat 8: Pb&Jam (3860 in chips) Seat 9: Murphmaester (3570 in chips) Murphmaester: posts small blind 25 MadGeeker: posts big blind 50 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to Murphmaester   gdubc1982: folds lmrelvas: folds Pb&Jam: raises 100 to 150 Murphmaester: raises 200 to 350 MadGeeker: raises 390 to 740 and is all-in Pb&Jam: raises 390 to 1130 Murphmaester..... | |
| Two hands that will haunt me for weeks.... | 2009 12 13 08:39 pm | Daily Eighty Grand, had been shortstacked for the whole tourney and somehow, amazingly got myself to 1/12 and can maybe be forgiven for starting to think I was going to ship this for $21k. What I need to know, honestly, is am I guilty of making an absolute mess of this? I ended up finishing in 8th and really hate myself at the moment. I need to learn from this.  Both hands are quite similar in reasoning really, both fairly shortstacked, both stealing blinds regularly, the first I felt I was justified to call pre flop with the villain stealing with any half decent hand. Would anyone call this post flop re-raise? Should I have just checked the flop or more likely I guess just folded pre? The thing is I am not sure how I should of played this and that is pissing me off because I really should do. What would be the plan with the second hand? Anyone folding here? If you are not folding what would be your plan? Call, or shove to try and isolate? * On another note, considering I was just off the back of a bit of a rush where I had won some great hands and more than doubled up to take the chip lead in a very short period of time, My heart was going a bit and adrenaline was flowing. Does anybody here sit out for a moment and go and get some air? Should I have just sat back a while do you think? Sorry for all the questions. PokerStars Game #36615162785: Tournament #237010576, $50+$5 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXV (8000/16000) - 2009/12/13 13:40:03 AEST [2009/12/12 21:40:03 ET] Table '237010576 102' 9-max Seat #6 is the button Seat 3: gabo05 (612876 in chips) Seat 4: MaIevich_ufa (447082 in chips) Seat 5: rahulr (1104372 in chips) Seat 6: Senterpied (652400 in chips) Seat 8: Krycon (358390 in chips) Seat 9: Murphmaester (1411386 in chips) gabo05: posts the ante 1600 MaIevich_ufa: posts the ante 1600 rahulr: posts the ante 1600 Senterpied: posts the ante 1600 Krycon: posts the ante 1600 Murphmaester: posts the ante 1600 Krycon: posts small blind 8000 Murphmaester: posts big blind 16000 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to Murphmaester   gabo05: folds MaIevich_ufa: raises 64000 to 80000 rahulr: folds Senterpied: folds Krycon: folds Murphmaester: calls 64000 *** FLOP ***    Murphmaester: bets 96000 MaIevich_ufa: raises 269482 to 365482 and is all-in Murphmaester: PokerStars Game #36615461883: Tournament #237010576, $50+$5 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXV (8000/16000) - 2009/12/13 13:49:45 AEST [2009/12/12 21:49:45 ET] Table '237010576 102' 9-max Seat #3 is the button Seat 3: gabo05 (502701 in chips) Seat 4: MaIevich_ufa (1065241 in chips) Seat 5: rahulr (1260570 in chips) Seat 6: Senterpied (334950 in chips) Seat 8: Krycon (596115 in chips) Seat 9: Murphmaester (826929 in chips) gabo05: posts the ante 1600 MaIevich_ufa: posts the ante 1600 rahulr: posts the ante 1600 Senterpied: posts the ante 1600 Krycon: posts the ante 1600 Murphmaester: posts the ante 1600 MaIevich_ufa: posts small blind 8000 rahulr: posts big blind 16000 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to Murphmaester  Senterpied: raises 317350 to 333350 and is all-in Krycon: folds Murphmaester: |
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