My wonderful bank refuses transactions to Full Tilt, which is a shame because I have a rakeback deal and wanted to take full advantage of using it. Here is how the session played.
I decided to take advantage of some of the freerolls and registered for the Late Night Poker freeroll for UK players. I played fairly tight to begin with, was unlikely to raise at 15/30 to 90 and get no callers with AA. I overplayed 9h 10h with 10 high flop rainbow and did some of my stack. Stupid move. Several slaps later I decided no more of this type of rubbish.
On a drawy board I made a nice fold with top two pair and good kicker and my opponent showed me the straight which was nice as I knew he had it. Doubled up when my pocket 10’s beat my opponents 99. Managed to hit a runner runner flush on the last hand before the break to go up to 6100!
The play in this tournament was pretty bad considering Full Tilt has a reputation for playing better than the average poker room. With blinds at 150/300 with a 25 ante the 165 player field involved 50 players with less than 4 tournament M’s!
I finished in 154th position to a bit of a beat. The hand in question I was given 66 with 3600 or so left. I raised to 1200 with blinds at 200/400 25 and received 3 callers all of whom had middle sized stacks. The flop came down 2h Kd 4d which gives me middle pair. I shoved my remaining 2400 and received a call with Q 2 offsuit. The turn is a 2 and just to rub salt into my gaping wound the river is also a 2 giving the guy quads and kicking the crap out of my pocket pair. I had some fold equity there and the play was ok, just bad cards. 154 is not bad out of 912 and if luck was there I had a 6000 pot up for grabs which against a decent player (whom I believed my opponents to be somewhat) I would give folds here to anything apart from a king and because I was not re-raised I did not fancy them to have it.
Enjoyed the tournament and look forward to the next one.
