We started with 5000 chips and 40 minute levels.
Level 1 25/50.
During this level I was dealt 4 pairs : 33, 55 (twice) and TT. I dutifully called with each one and then had to fold on the flop. The most annoying was TT - the flop came A89 and I could not call a pot sized bet - of course the turn was a T but I had to look on from the sidelines. At the end of Level 1 I was down to 3500.
Level 50/100.
This is the level where we discover some of the new rules. For those of you who remember Dallas from the eighties, I believe there was a short blonde girl known as the poison dwarf (Lucy Ewing) - well we get the poker equivalent as our new dealer. I am sat in seat 8 which is at the far end of the table. I've limped in late position with some filth and on the flop the big blind leads out for a reasonable bet. I glance to my right and somehow the fellow in seat 5 manages to have his hands perfectly positioned so I can't see his cards - yet he looks like he has given up. I think he has folded so I toss my cards in. Unfortunately he is still thinking so after he does fold I apologise and explain that it was difficult to see his cards. The dealer says that she has to call the floor man to report my folding out of turn and I get a warning. We will return to this later...
As to the cards - in this level I get a bit of a result in the SB. I am dealt 84 clubs and after 2 limpers I complete. The flop is AT6 with two clubs. I decide to try to nick the pot by betting 300 and there is one caller. The turn is the beautiful 2 clubs. I bet 800 and when I am raised all-in I insta-call - he is drawing dead with a red Ace and a rubbish red kicker.
A few hands later I rereraise with KK and am happy enough not to see a flop. So I have motored on to 9000 chips.
Level 3 - 75/150.
Absolutely card dead. Limp with 55 and have to fold on an Ace high flop. Finish at the break at the end of this level with 8000 chips which is about average.
Level 4 - 100/200
Raise with JJ under the gun. Get 3 callers so when the flop comes with AK7 I don't bother with a continuation bet and I fold to a bet and call. Down to 6000 chips
Level 5 - 100/200 25 ante
Chatting to the man to my right after he has raised pre flop and then folded showing T8 he explains that this is his favourite hand. This reminds me that I used to play "the dog" as my favourite hand and then a few minutes later I get K9d in late postion. So I call a standard raise and call. Flop is 7TJ giving me a double bellybuster (either an 8 or Q will make me a straight). The original raiser leads out for 600 and the limper folds. At this point I make a bit of a mistake. I decide to raise by 2000 but I don't really consider his stack. He has got about 5000 left so when he goes all in I have to call - I thought my K might be an overcard. If I was going to be priced in I should have just gone all-in - however he had KK so would have called anyway. I hit an 8 to knock him out so at the end of Level 5 I have got back to 9000 chips.
Level 6 - 150/300/50
I make steady progress. Win a couple of nice pots when I get K9 matching nicely a 988 flop and having raised with QQ when the flop comes down Kxx my continuation bet is enough to discover there is no K. So at the second break I have 11,000 which is average for the remaining 160 players.
Level 7 200/400/50
I don't get any proper hands but now the antes have arrived it was worth trying to steal and I do manage to nick a couple from late position - up to 13,000.
Level 8 300/600/50
This level is where disaster stikes. The poison dwarf returns and a couple hands in at the new level I am in mid position. I have ATs and I am trying to decide what my standard raise should be, I don't want it to be too much, so because the level has only just changed I think 1600 might do it and I lob the chips out - not noticing the man directly to my right has not folded. So double wammy - the fact he is thinking of betting and then still calls must mean my AT is a load of rubbish - but worse, poison dwarf calls over the floor man to tell them I acted out of turn. It is a different floor man to before, so she points out this is my second offence. Several more floor persons come over and tell me that becuase of this I am sin binned and have to miss an entire orbit. So I have to go into a corner and put on a hat with D on it. This faux-pas costs me 300 in chips.
When I get back I get no hands at all (presumably I missed my AA) and so by the end of this level I am down to 9,500
Level 9 400/800/75
I am now a short stack so when I get K8 in late position I ship them in only to be called by the BB with 99. I don't get lucky so I am out.
This 2 warning thing seems a farce. If I had not had the same dealer twice how would they know I'd transgressed twice? Seems crazy....
Level 3 - 75/150.
Absolutely card dead. Limp with 55 and have to fold on an Ace high flop. Finish at the break at the end of this level with 8000 chips which is about average.
Level 4 - 100/200
Raise with JJ under the gun. Get 3 callers so when the flop comes with AK7 I don't bother with a continuation bet and I fold to a bet and call. Down to 6000 chips
Level 5 - 100/200 25 ante
Chatting to the man to my right after he has raised pre flop and then folded showing T8 he explains that this is his favourite hand. This reminds me that I used to play "the dog" as my favourite hand and then a few minutes later I get K9d in late postion. So I call a standard raise and call. Flop is 7TJ giving me a double bellybuster (either an 8 or Q will make me a straight). The original raiser leads out for 600 and the limper folds. At this point I make a bit of a mistake. I decide to raise by 2000 but I don't really consider his stack. He has got about 5000 left so when he goes all in I have to call - I thought my K might be an overcard. If I was going to be priced in I should have just gone all-in - however he had KK so would have called anyway. I hit an 8 to knock him out so at the end of Level 5 I have got back to 9000 chips.
Level 6 - 150/300/50
I make steady progress. Win a couple of nice pots when I get K9 matching nicely a 988 flop and having raised with QQ when the flop comes down Kxx my continuation bet is enough to discover there is no K. So at the second break I have 11,000 which is average for the remaining 160 players.
Level 7 200/400/50
I don't get any proper hands but now the antes have arrived it was worth trying to steal and I do manage to nick a couple from late position - up to 13,000.
Level 8 300/600/50
This level is where disaster stikes. The poison dwarf returns and a couple hands in at the new level I am in mid position. I have ATs and I am trying to decide what my standard raise should be, I don't want it to be too much, so because the level has only just changed I think 1600 might do it and I lob the chips out - not noticing the man directly to my right has not folded. So double wammy - the fact he is thinking of betting and then still calls must mean my AT is a load of rubbish - but worse, poison dwarf calls over the floor man to tell them I acted out of turn. It is a different floor man to before, so she points out this is my second offence. Several more floor persons come over and tell me that becuase of this I am sin binned and have to miss an entire orbit. So I have to go into a corner and put on a hat with D on it. This faux-pas costs me 300 in chips.
When I get back I get no hands at all (presumably I missed my AA) and so by the end of this level I am down to 9,500
Level 9 400/800/75
I am now a short stack so when I get K8 in late position I ship them in only to be called by the BB with 99. I don't get lucky so I am out.
This 2 warning thing seems a farce. If I had not had the same dealer twice how would they know I'd transgressed twice? Seems crazy....
You know what they're saying about that poison dwarf dealer,
ReplyDelete"SHE'S GOT THE JACK!"