Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Poker: I wanna be on TV again

Played in the Late Night Poker Ace2 qualfier satalitte tournament tonight, to try and get to the weekend qualifier for the TV appearances..... (see http://www.partypoker.com/news/items/lnpa2.html for details)

I felt I played really steady, had a good double up when I needed it, then got hit with 2 bad beats from the same player !! I am not happy......

Here are the key hands (my player name is "sceaga")

Level 2
Double up ! against chip leader who bullying all over the shop

***** Hand History for Game 4349700043 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:23999797 Level:2 Blinds(30/60) - Wednesday, May 24, 12:46:30 ET 2006
Table LNPA Qualifier(704959) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 8
Seat 1: ZINNER42 ( $3354 )
Seat 2: WINSTON412 ( $3641 )
Seat 4: Sceaga ( $2564 )
Seat 5: hitchchops ( $4461 )
Seat 6: camata ( $2670 )
Seat 7: SBASSMAN ( $6360 )
Seat 8: wcatman19 ( $12067 )
Seat 9: frogg867 ( $3882 )
Trny:23999797 Level:2 Blinds(30/60)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Sceaga [ Kc Kh ]
hitchchops folds.
camata folds.
SBASSMAN folds.
wcatman19 calls [60].
frogg867 calls [60].
ZINNER42 folds.
WINSTON412 calls [30].
Sceaga raises [190].
wcatman19 calls [190].
frogg867 calls [190].
WINSTON412 calls [190].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Td, Qh, 8h ]
gminer has joined the table.
Player gminer has been moved from table 2 to this table
WINSTON412 checks.
Sceaga is all-In [2314]
wcatman19 calls [2314].
frogg867 folds.
WINSTON412 folds.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 6c ]
Sceaga shows [ Kc, Kh ] a pair of kings.
wcatman19 shows [ 7d, Qd ] a pair of queens.
Sceaga wins 5628 chips from the main pot with a pair of kings.

Level 3 (20 players left)
At this stage I am 2nd on table (6th overall)

Bad beat number 1
***** Hand History for Game 4349747958 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:23999797 Level:3 Blinds(50/100) - Wednesday, May 24, 12:59:22 ET 2006
Table LNPA Qualifier(704959) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: ZINNER42 ( $4164 )
Seat 2: WINSTON412 ( $3261 )
Seat 4: Sceaga ( $6538 )
Seat 5: hitchchops ( $6058 )
Seat 6: camata ( $5742 )
Seat 7: SBASSMAN ( $6480 )
Seat 8: wcatman19 ( $7402 )
Seat 3: WorldChampSc ( $4240 )
Seat 9: cdobrin ( $4272 )
Seat 10: st4n18 ( $2637 )
Trny:23999797 Level:3 Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Sceaga [ Ah 8h ]
Sceaga raises [300].
hitchchops folds.
camata folds.
SBASSMAN folds.
wcatman19 folds.
cdobrin folds.
st4n18 folds.
ZINNER42 folds.
WINSTON412 folds.
WorldChampSc will be using his time bank for this hand.
WorldChampSc calls [200].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ad, 8s, Th ]
WorldChampSc is all-In [3940]
Sceaga calls [3940].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Tc ]
** Dealing River ** [ Jc ]
WorldChampSc shows [ Qc, Kd ] a straight, ten to ace.
Sceaga shows [ Ah, 8h ] two pairs, aces and tens.
WorldChampSc wins 8530 chips from the main pot with a straight, ten to ace.

I am the lowest chip stack now (20th of 20!)

Level 4
now 15th of 17

Its all over - bad beat number 2
***** Hand History for Game 4349856454 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:23999797 Level:4 Blinds(100/200) - Wednesday, May 24, 13:22:23 ET 2006
Table LNPA Qualifier(704959) Table #1 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 1: ZINNER42 ( $3353 )
Seat 4: Sceaga ( $3630 )
Seat 5: hitchchops ( $6217 )
Seat 6: camata ( $5692 )
Seat 7: SBASSMAN ( $4764 )
Seat 8: wcatman19 ( $6571 )
Seat 3: WorldChampSc ( $8293 )
Seat 9: cdobrin ( $9987 )
Seat 10: st4n18 ( $2287 )
Trny:23999797 Level:4 Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Sceaga [ Ah Qh ]
camata folds.
SBASSMAN folds.
wcatman19 calls [200].
cdobrin calls [200].
st4n18 folds.
ZINNER42 folds.
WorldChampSc raises [400].
Sceaga is all-In [3530]
hitchchops folds.
wcatman19 folds.
cdobrin folds.
WorldChampSc calls [3230].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc, 4h, 5d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5c ]
WorldChampSc shows [ Ad, 3s ] a straight, ace to five.
Sceaga shows [ Ah, Qh ] two pairs, queens and fives.
WorldChampSc wins 7860 chips from the main pot with a straight, ace to five


Sceaga finished in 16 place (there were 38 entries)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like you've taken over the two pair mantle from Roger :)

That's gotta hurt !

Mike Shaw said...

tell me about it.....