That sure was a tough one for last week's
Hand of the Week #17. ToddCommish actually came close with his Hammer guess, but I'm waiting for the one week no one guesses 27o before sneaking it in.
Nope, the oddball Button had a truly oddball hand. Compared with a lot of showdowns at Party, even this one was surprising. And just when you think you've seen it all.
Button had...
Are you ready?
He had...
Are you sitting down?
Still in level 1, the Button raised preflop and called a 3bet (including one all-in) with...
2
5
.
Yep, you read that right.
Go back and check
Hand of the Week #17 and see how truly insane this call was. He raised from the Button trying to steal. When BB reraised and UTG reraised all-in, I suppose he was looking at a big
gamblin' pot where any two cards could win.
And he did.
With a pair of 2s.
And it's a 50+5 SnG.
Jeesh, to think I folded the winner. Maybe I should start making calls like that. Goodness knows my big pockets were continually pummelled by small pockets that hit their sets all last week. Would he have called if his 2-5 was unsuited? It boggles the mind.
I dug up the stats on him in PokerTracker and he busted out three hands later. No big surprise. He was raised T175, and he went over the top with... A4o. The raiser called him with 22 and won. How's that for just desserts?
Okay, that week's behind us. Let's move on to better play... ah c'mon, this is Party, who'm I foolin'?
Extra $5 in the HoW kitty, and compared with the above hand, this is a piece o' fishcake. It won't be the first thing you think of, so discard that one. The second and third obvious guesses will also be wrong, but in the general ballpark. If you pick what you would've chosen as fifth or sixth -- probably seventh down the list -- I'd say that's a better guess and I would go with that. Make sense? (And no, that isn't some veiled code for Sklansky rankings... or is it?)
I'm so sure that someone will win this week that I'm guaranteeing a winner because if there's no correct answer, I'll pick randomly out of all the guesses. But don't let me down and post some random hand! Where's the fun in that?
Grubby's Hand of the Week #18
for Monday, September 20, 2004
Prize: $35
The first person to correctly guess my opponent's hand before next Monday wins. Suits may or may not matter. One guess per person, please. Winner will be declared here that Monday. If there's no winner, I'll pick one randomly out of all the guesses and award him/her $35. Next week will reset to $20.
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Leave your guess in the comments section below. You can be Anonymous without registering through Blogger, but do include your name so I know whose guess is whose.
If you don't include contact info and you're the winner,
email me after the quiz is over.
Good luck and good skills,
Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) converter
grubby (t1000)
SB (t1000)
BB (t1000)
UTG (t1000)
UTG+1 (t1000)
UTG+2 (t1000)
MP1 (t1000)
MP2 (t1000)
MP3 (t1000)
CO (t1000)
Preflop: grubby is Button with A
T
3 folds,
MP1 raises to t30,
3 folds, grubby calls t30,
1 fold, BB calls t15.
Flop: (t100) J
9
7
(3 players)
BB checks,
MP1 bets t80,
grubby raises to t160, BB folds, MP1 calls t80.
Turn: (t420) 3
(2 players)
MP1 bets t150,
grubby raises to t300,
MP1 raises to t450,
grubby raises to t600,
MP1 raises to t750,
grubby raises to t810 (All-In), MP1 calls t60 (All-In).
River: (t2040) Q
(2 players, 2 all-in)
Final Pot: t2040
Main Pot: t2040 (t2040), between grubby and MP1.
My 50+5 SnG September madness continues. I'm in the home stretch at exactly 100 more to go in 10 days. I've been ahead of pace (at least in quantity), so I expect to complete all 400 by next HoW. My ROI is all over the place, beginning at the highest I've ever seen (and too much to hope for, sadly) and is currently at the lowest (double sadly). A hunnert more SnGs and this stat had
better not dip lower, or Poker Grub will become Slots Grub and I'll be all the more happier living the rivered-free life of slots. But I'll save that discussion for month's end.
I'll
try to play better, but after the hand above, you see what people call and get lucky with. This is why I pump preflop to make it too expensive for them to even try to flop the
chance to draw. Mostly I hope I'm not involved in that hand when it comes down (because there's always one hand like this in every SnG).
Yeah yeah, odds will eventually work in your favor when you're a 65 percent better-than-a-coinflip favorite going in. But imagine several at the table gunning for their draws and you're left holding top pair/top kicker. Sometimes AKs just isn't worth it.
Must.
Learn.
To.
Fold.
This hand is from another $50+5 SnG. Nice to flop the nut flush on the very first hand and get bet into every step of the way. (Alas, I came in 6th in this tourney... I did not do his chips justice.)
I easily call a 2x raise here at the Button. 2x BB is for wimps. It means nothing and you might as well call. It's the rare Party player who does the minimum raise hoping for a reraise. And if he's raising this little with a big pocket pair, I'm just itching to crack 'em. With this hand and this early where the BB isn't too high, I'd probably call as high as 5x (too loose territory, that's me). Having A
T
on the Button is a much different story than from early position.
I admit I had to check under the bed for monsters, but no made straight flush was in sight, thanks to my bad 10
kicker.
What could MP1 have had?
Remember the hint I said earlier, but here's another one: his hand contained neither a 2 nor a 5.
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