There were three players on my table. To my left was a sitout. To my right was a true donk. He raised every hand preflop and followed with a c-bet. That is fine, but he also showed me his cards every single time he won! If I raised, he would call my raise on every street then reraise all in on the river ending the hand by flashing his hand to me. I had plenty of chips and could afford to be patient. I value raised preflop, but let him have the pot if I missed the flop. Finally after about thirty hands I picked up AQo on the button and made a standard preflop raise. The villian called. The flop was A10J rainbow. I c-bet half the pot and he called. The turn was a K giving me the nut straight. I bet about 30% of the pot and he called. The river was another low card. I checked, he shoved holding two pair with KJ and I stacked him - nice! After that I just needed to finish off the autofolding sitout guy. Once I had won my table I started watching the Pokerstars pros playing in this tourney.
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| Battle of the Sitouts! |
By the time round two started it was one in the morning. A ten man table was going to take more time than I cared to invest. I waited until I picked up a premium hand and made a move. I reraised all in preflop holding QQ vs a guy that had played 60% of the hands thus far. He called holding K9o. The board rand K9x9x - LOL! I won a $11 ticket and could finally go to bed.
This WBCOOP has been fun!
Roland GTX
Good one Roland! 11,- ticket is fine when u need some sleep. I had a similar experience a couple of years ago in a 11,- 2x shootout for a Sunday Million ticket. 2 Seats were guaranteed, but only 30 "or so" players regged, thus creating a small overlay. That means only 3-4 players pr. table in the first shootout (10 tables). We were only 3 at my table and there was 1 sitout. I suggested to the "playing guy" at my table that we blinded out the sit-out in order to create a fair HU since it would take a looooong time when levels were at 15 minutes. He didn't understand and kept playing similar to your villain Roland, but fortunately I knocked him out early. My sit-out guy woke up with less than 3 bb's and doubled up twice, then he lost his connection again and I saw him off. At the FT I met a famous Norwegian skier and he knocked me out in 4th. place with 99 vs AJ. He won one of the 2 tickets to the Sunday mill and is now a Supernova and has played the WSOP main event + cashed! Strange to think that we were on quite equal terms 2 years ago.
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