SuperStack Aftermath

3rd place isnt so bad...but it probably should have been a lot better.

i had almost half of the ~900,000 chips in play when we were 6 handed but went totally and completely card dead for the next hour or so. as much as i was getting shalacked from the rail for not playing aggressively enough i found it difficult to defend with hands i should be doubling down with nevermind re-raising or defending. in retrospect, i suppose its irrelevant what my cards are, i should just re-raise anyway because i am the bigstack, but the flipside is that i could lose more that way and i think i chose to coast into the money and let the smaller guys duke it out.

it didnt quite work out the way i thought it would.

John and Alex went down in blazes of glory when a truly awesome hand developed 6-handed

Andre (new guy, friend of Ryan) and his brother Will were the other players at this point with myself and Eman. Anyway here is how it went...

Andre limps UTG, Will folds, Eman folds, JV pops it up to 4xBB or so, Alex in the SB jams, i fold.
Andre then jams and JV does the same.

up and over:

Alex: 44
Andre: AA
JV: KK

Alex tries to squeeze but runs into 2 unfoldable hands.

flop is A-4-A, your standard flopped Quads.

Andre had the same stack as JV and Alex was covered by both so now we are down to 4 and Andre finds new life after treading water for a while.

this is where i go fold, fold, fold, fold fold, fold, fold.........fold, fold, fold, fold.......rail cheeses me........fold, fold, oh AK!!! raise.....fold, fold, fold.......

then im shortstack!

blinds are monstrous now 5,000/10,000 - 3,000ante

i win with A5 vs Andre's 33 and i quickly get into 2nd place. thats how volatile the hands were, you could win or lose a hand and vault to the chiplead without seeing the turn or fall down to critical.

Eman unfortunately was the bubble boy when he had to jam his final hand in vs Will's JJ.

3 handed i was doing ok until i saw Will rekuctantly call form the SB with 35o. i should have raised but i didnt with J9

flop was 3-J-3 and i figured i had the best hand and eventually went broke. he turned a boat too!

i collected $200 for 3rd. brothers Will and Andre split the remaining $1000

all in all a great game, good structure and the usual great banter from JV.

as far as my predictions go, we had 4 late joiners so im happy i was able to get 1/3 correct. Bill was first out after playing 110% of the flops at our table.

next SuperStack in 2009! see you then

SuperStack #3

the time has arrived for the 3rd installment of our SuperStack series. this is the game totally engineered for this guy who always finds a way to crap the bed.

currently we only have 8 players involved but i have a sense we may get up to 10 by game time.

the SuperStack is our highest buy-in game usually of $150. however, for this game it's a $120 buy-in with $20 bounties on everyone just to spice it up a bit. blinds run at 40 minute intervals and as usual there will be plenty of time and chips to make plays without screwing yourself up.

$120 buy-in
40 minute blinds, starting at 100-200
75,000 starting stack

there should be no arguments about the setup, its designed to make you feel very comfortable.

so, who will make the money? always a tough thing to predict but nevertheless i will take a shot.

assuming we start with these 8 players: simon - jv - grant - bill - ryan - alt delete - bob - frenchie

money finishers: SIMON (of course) - BILL - JV

Simon - i cant go against myself in this field of spewers and donaters. ive figured out most of these chumps by now and i figure i can find a few spots to milk Bill and AltDelete and Frenchie and Grant and JV and maybe Bob. i expect no worse than 3rd

Bill - this is a bit of a gamble because he will either be first out or he'll get to the money. there is no middle ground with Bill as he proved once again last week. when he gets short he always seems to find a way to double up huge and get comfortable again. i think his lack of "simon knowledge" will be his undoing somewhere along the lines though. Bill likes to think he is "simon-smart" (like he can figure me out) but we all know otherwise, ill trap his ass so good he will have no choice but to pay the master off

JV - this is a total 649 ticket. im gambling hard here! this guy talks the talk but cant seem to walk the walk. this week i have a funny feeling he might just squeak in there. his recent form and style of spewage doesnt really lend itself to making money in poker but every blind squirrel finds a nut at some point...right?

good luck to everyone, this game is going to be FUN!

Results of Nov 14

So, i predicted money finishes for myself, Bill and Jane. unfortunately, Jane bubbled in 4th but Bill and I did our part and grabbed 3rd and 1st respectively.

The Professor took a chop for 2nd ($160) and we were done at 12:15am.

A few hands of note:

a shortstacked Bill finds 99 in the BB and re-raises all-in vs Kerry Lee who happens to have opened the action with AA. before the flop is even dealt JV moves the chips towards Bill and says "Here you go Bill" assuming of course that Bill will find a way to stave off elimination

the flop comes: 3-6-9...standard

Bill survives and rides the roller coaster all the way to 3rd place.


I have 18BB left and jam KJss in the SB vs Bill who instacalls with A5 (the special Ace though)

flop: K-J-5 turn: Q river: blanks

whew, i survive!


not much else i can think of this late after the game. if you can think of any hands worth mentioning lemme know

Let's do a prediction

tonight we have an 11 person game going on. its only $40 to enter with 10,000TC to start

here is the lineup:

* Simon - JV - Jane - Alex - Bill - Julia - Dave - KerryLee - Eman - The Professor - Grant *

top 3 (in any order):

Jane
Alex
Simon (of course)

i have a $20 bet with JV for the first person eliminated. if either of us is eliminated first then $20 changes hands

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