A weird spot and then 91% on the river and lose.
I'm just recently back playing regularly again after a few years doing other things. Still ironing out some of the deficiencies in my game etc.
Been playing $60 live MTTs in the local circuit in my city. For around two months now. Made a few finals tables and even binked a second a week or so ago.
Decided to hit local casino for the $400 Friday freezeout. We had 98 runners with a prize pool of 33.3k.
I'm cruising along. Building my stack. From the 30k starting to around 70k. Were getting down below 40 runners. The blinds are getting up to 1,500/3000... With a BB ante.
And this is the weird spot. Old man has been moved to our table. He's on my immediate left. He limps UTG. Im in the BB. Already I'm thinking this is odd... What's happening here?
It folds around I check the option with 85o and the flop is 358 rainbow. I check. And the old man bets 25k into a pot of 10.5k.
My immediate thought is he has a set of 3s. What else does that? He has me covered. I think a bit and don't see a world he has anything but 3s and i fold face up. The table loses their minds. And he shows two red Aces. Excuse me??? Apparently he limps every hand and shoves every flop. But I didn't now. Never seen this man before.
Anyway, orbit later. In in the SB.
It's raised from the HJ and I see ATo... I stupidly call .... When I've been studying up on 3betting from the blinds.
The flop is AT2 two clubs and I bet half the pot... PFA shoves and I call of course.
Turn is a 7 and the river is the K of hearts for the Broadway gutty.
So I learned two lessons last night that I hope serve me well moving forward.
There's probably less monsters under the bed than I think in the two pair scenario and always 3 bet from small blind against a late position open.
I've been getting the worst of it with my all ins in late game scenarios. But I guess all you can do is get it in good.
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My first thought was that old guy's early limp is AA or KK, waiting for someone to raise. Common play online in micro mtt. Then you raise, he puts biiig reraise and you fold : ))
My first thought was that old guy's early limp is AA or KK, waiting for someone to raise. Common play online in micro mtt. Then you raise, he puts biiig reraise and you fold : ))
It totally makes sense in hindsight. But, I'm so obsessed with getting coolered that I couldn't get past him having a set of 3s there. He probably hits his high card on the turn if I don't fold anyway *vomit noises*
And then the Broadway gutty hitting was just continued silliness.
I'm happy with how I'm getting my back though. Feel like I've improved more in the couple of months I've been back playing than I had on the 15yrs I played consistently before that.
In mtt's against weak players it's more psychology and exploit Hellmuth style, when fishes are gone, then your fancy GTO or whatever is now buzzword. Surprisingly it still works on iPoker up to $20 mtts. Coolers are part of course. But I lost patience to sit eight hours in tourney long time ago, today when I play two times in month I have feel of wasting life.
