Aussie Trip - 2007/01/16 - Out on Day 2
I don't even make it to the first break...
I start on the farthest flung outpost - table 42. We only play 8 hands before the table is broken and I move to a table which has Chris "Jesus" Ferguson sat 3 to my left.
I have played a couple of hands when I pick up AK spades in the SB. Blinds are 500/1000 ante 50 and I have around 38,000 chips. There is a raise all-in from mid position of 9,500 chips so when it comes round to me I go all-in to make sure the BB does not play too. The raiser flips 44 and I do not hit anything so I am down below 30,000.
The cameras are on Jesus because he is short stacked. Then this happens:
Jesus Doubled Up
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson raised preflop with A-K. Bryan Clark re-raised and Jesus moved all in. Clark showed A-10. Jesus was ahead all the way and rivered a King to seal the hand. The pot was worth over 50K.
I thought this was rubbish play from Clark. Jesus made a standard raise, when Clark reraised and then Jesus moved all-in I think he did not need to call. Surely Jesus must have a better hand than A9? But I guess the appeal of knocking out such a well known pro was too much. However - wait to see what I do later with the same hand!
I am now getting pretty short stacked. The blinds plus antes are 1,900.I try to steal the blinds and get reraised all-in. Then I get good odds to call with KQ and then TJ in late position. On the KQ hand the flop comes 888 and turn K. I bet out and get called. We check the rag river and split the pot when the other player shows AK - he had not raised before the flop so I think this was a lucky escape for me. If it had been a K high flop I would have got all my chips in.
So I now have around 24,000 in chips when I pick up AT diamonds on the button. The small blind is a player I have seen before when I played Omaha hi-lo. Ironically I was chatting to him before we started today. He had been playing on the same table as Patric Antonius who he said had been bullying the table, so he had hardly been able to play a hand. From his accent and play I figure him for a solid logical east german and so when I put in a standard raise to 3,500 and he raises to 8,500 I have a long hard think. (Later, looking him up on the internet I find he is Marek Kolk who won the Pacific Poker UK Open earlier this year)
The pot contains around 14,000 chips and I have around 20,000. I have been raising quite a lot from late position, so I think that he is a good enough player to decide to raise me back with any reasonable hand. However I also think that he would not be prepared to put in all his chips on a coinflip. So he may well fold a small pair and perhaps as much as AJ. So I thought that an all-in move might work here - so I go for it. He does not quite insta-call but does not think too long before calling and flipping JJ. Unfortunately no Ace comes to rescue me so I am out.
On reflection, perhaps this was a rash move but it felt like the right thing to do at the time.
...and I don't even get the correct report on pokernews - I moved to Makary's seat!
Kolk Doubled Up
Andrew Makary EliminatedMarek Kolk was all in with J-J against Andrew Makary's A-10. Kolk's J-J held up and Makary headed to the rail.
I hope you have enjoyed reading about my trip and maybe might want to join me in Las Vegas in July for the big one.
I start on the farthest flung outpost - table 42. We only play 8 hands before the table is broken and I move to a table which has Chris "Jesus" Ferguson sat 3 to my left.
I have played a couple of hands when I pick up AK spades in the SB. Blinds are 500/1000 ante 50 and I have around 38,000 chips. There is a raise all-in from mid position of 9,500 chips so when it comes round to me I go all-in to make sure the BB does not play too. The raiser flips 44 and I do not hit anything so I am down below 30,000.
The cameras are on Jesus because he is short stacked. Then this happens:
Jesus Doubled Up
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson raised preflop with A-K. Bryan Clark re-raised and Jesus moved all in. Clark showed A-10. Jesus was ahead all the way and rivered a King to seal the hand. The pot was worth over 50K.
I thought this was rubbish play from Clark. Jesus made a standard raise, when Clark reraised and then Jesus moved all-in I think he did not need to call. Surely Jesus must have a better hand than A9? But I guess the appeal of knocking out such a well known pro was too much. However - wait to see what I do later with the same hand!
I am now getting pretty short stacked. The blinds plus antes are 1,900.I try to steal the blinds and get reraised all-in. Then I get good odds to call with KQ and then TJ in late position. On the KQ hand the flop comes 888 and turn K. I bet out and get called. We check the rag river and split the pot when the other player shows AK - he had not raised before the flop so I think this was a lucky escape for me. If it had been a K high flop I would have got all my chips in.
So I now have around 24,000 in chips when I pick up AT diamonds on the button. The small blind is a player I have seen before when I played Omaha hi-lo. Ironically I was chatting to him before we started today. He had been playing on the same table as Patric Antonius who he said had been bullying the table, so he had hardly been able to play a hand. From his accent and play I figure him for a solid logical east german and so when I put in a standard raise to 3,500 and he raises to 8,500 I have a long hard think. (Later, looking him up on the internet I find he is Marek Kolk who won the Pacific Poker UK Open earlier this year)
The pot contains around 14,000 chips and I have around 20,000. I have been raising quite a lot from late position, so I think that he is a good enough player to decide to raise me back with any reasonable hand. However I also think that he would not be prepared to put in all his chips on a coinflip. So he may well fold a small pair and perhaps as much as AJ. So I thought that an all-in move might work here - so I go for it. He does not quite insta-call but does not think too long before calling and flipping JJ. Unfortunately no Ace comes to rescue me so I am out.
On reflection, perhaps this was a rash move but it felt like the right thing to do at the time.
...and I don't even get the correct report on pokernews - I moved to Makary's seat!
Kolk Doubled Up
Andrew Makary EliminatedMarek Kolk was all in with J-J against Andrew Makary's A-10. Kolk's J-J held up and Makary headed to the rail.
I hope you have enjoyed reading about my trip and maybe might want to join me in Las Vegas in July for the big one.
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