Pokerstar's Sunday Football Tournament

I just played in one of the Pokerstar's Sunday Football Tournaments. Free entry with a reload deposit. It was A $11 buy-in and 5118 entrants and $51,180 prize pool. On top of that the winner receives 2 foot ball tickets to the biggest game on earth and $1000 for travel expenses.



I picked up some huge hands early on and was 2nd place in chips for most of the tournament. I bullied a lot of the table with my big stack and by the time they called I could take a hit to my stack or I had a good hand! Like in this hand, this guy finally took a stand with J9 suited but I had pocket rockets!



Then I have problems with my wireless internet connection, it kept cutting out every 2minutes for 40 seconds. I think the card was overheating so I'm trying to cool it down by blowing on it. That didn't help much. On 2nd break, I unplug the computer and take directly to internet router and try to plug it in but it doesn't work, break is over and continue to use wireless. It's working a little better..

With about 200 players remaining, I lose a coin flip, AK vs QQ. Then I win a big pot when I double up with 99 vs. AK. On third break, I clicked reset "repair internet conection" or something like that and now my wireless doesn't work either! I have something like 120k chips, in a good spot, blinds at 4k/8k. I turn off router and internet, it takes 15 minutes to get it working again..At this point I'm so mad because I had a good chance at a few thousand, if not 9k and 2 football tickets. When I log back in I have just over 16,000 chips. I triple up to 50k and next hand I pick up AJ. I go all in and instantly get called by QQ and I don't hit. If I win that hand, I'd have $125k and be in a good spot to win it.



So, I'm not really happy with 56th place for $84.44 when 7th place broke the $1k mark..But it was nice to play because I haven't played in a while. Maybe next time.

Anyway, here are 3 interesting hands:

First hand, two guys are always limping in so I go for the squeeze play with Ace 6 suited. I raise pretty big too, to 900 when they limped in for 200. They both call and I hit a nice flop! I go for a small continuation bet of 1200 hoping they reraise. I get 1 caller. Great turn card and I bet 2500 he goes all in with just a gut shot.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 11 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (9 handed)

saw flop | saw showdown

UTG (t1225)
UTG+1 (t5275)
MP1 (t1757)
MP2 (t4630)
MP3 (t2910)
CO (t8390)
Button (t3500)
SB (t1800)
David (BB) (t12760)

David's M: 42.53

Preflop: David is BB with A, 6
1 fold, UTG+1 calls t200, 3 folds, CO calls t200, 2 folds, David bets t900, UTG+1 calls t700, CO calls t700

Flop: (t2800) J, A, A (3 players)
David bets t1200, 1 fold, CO calls t1200

Turn: (t5200) 9 (2 players)
David bets t2500, CO raises to t6200, David raises to t9900, CO calls t90 (All-In)

River: (t17780) 7 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t17780
Main pot: t17780 between CO and David, won by David

Results:
David had A, 6 (three of a kind, Aces).
CO had K, Q (one pair, Aces).
Outcome: David won t17780


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I just won the last two pots by raising 1800 and I do it again with KQ suited. I get called this time and he bets out into me on the flop. I hit top pair of queens, great flop. I call because I have position, it's possible he has a better hand than me and I want to see what he does on the turn. On the turn he checks so I check to for pot control, I don't really want to bet and get check raised all in. And if I check the turn he may think I think I'm a lot weaker than I am. On the river he bets out 3000 and there is no reason for me to go all in because he's usually only calling with a better hand.



PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 11 Tournament, 300/600 Blinds 50 Ante (9 handed)

saw flop | saw showdown

MP1 (t7995)
MP2 (t4476)
MP3 (t15723)
CO (t1280)
Button (t6985)
SB (t14866)
BB (t6160)
UTG (t19464)
David (UTG+1) (t34450)

David's M: 25.52

Preflop: David is UTG+1 with K, Q
1 fold, David bets t1800, 5 folds, SB calls t1500, 1 fold

Flop: (t4650) 6, Q, 9 (2 players)
SB bets t2400, David calls t2400

Turn: (t9450) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, David checks

River: (t9450) 5 (2 players)
SB bets t3000, David calls t3000

Total pot: t15450
Main pot: t15450 between SB and David, won by David

Results:
SB had A, J (high card, Ace).
David had K, Q (one pair, Queens).
Outcome: David won t15450


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Here's another interesting hand. I should have check raised all in on the flop..Maybe he would have folded.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 11 Tournament, 1000/2000 Blinds 200 Ante (8 handed)

saw flop | saw showdown

UTG (t19647)
UTG+1 (t21310)
MP1 (t27677)
MP2 (t51148)
CO (t25920)
Button (t28734)
SB (t35128)
David (BB) (t77265)

David's M: 16.80

Preflop: David is BB with 5, 4
2 folds, MP1 bets t5000, 4 folds, David calls t3000

Flop: (t12600) 7, Q, 4 (2 players)
David checks, MP1 bets t6000, David raises to t14000, MP1 raises to t22477 (All-In), David calls t8477

Turn: (t57554) A (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: (t57554) 3 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: t57554
Main pot: t57554 between MP1 and David, shared by MP1 and David (t28777)

Results:
David had 5, 4 (one pair, fours).
MP1 had 5, 4 (one pair, fours).
Outcome: David won t28777, MP1 won t28777



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