Jonas Danielsson says...

Bust

Sunday 4 Oct 2009

I just have to press "b" and the word "Bust" comes up. It saves me a little time, lol.

I am fairly happy with how I played. Big pot which made me lose my stack was when the button limped, I completed with Qs-5s in the small blind and big blind checked. Blinds were 500-1000 with a 100 ante. The flop came Ah-Js-2s, giving me a flushdraw. I bet 2500, BB folded and the button raised to 7k. The button is a really loose player (looser than me actually) and even though I could see him limping an ace I still thought it was rather unlikely. This makes this flop a really good flop to be aggressive on since its unlikely he would limp any strong hands like A-A, J-J, A-J. He would probably raise 2-2 as well just to take the blinds. J-2 I consider is to weak to limp there. So there are not really many combos that can stand a push from me. A-2 is probably the only one and maybe he would raise that from the button as well. In short, I thought that he himself could have a flushdraw or just a pure bluff most of the time. My range from the SB is a little bit wider than his limping range since I get really good pott odds preflop with anything. Also I have seen him raise alot of top pairs with weak kickers on the flop just to take the initative so any type of weak ace I also put in his range but I thought I had fold equity over those.

I pushed for 35k into 13 500 basically repping only J-2, 2-2 and A-2 but I still kind of liked the play since in a tournament people are not that range conscious. He called with A-10 and I am not really sure about his play here. I would not push a flushdraw lower than a ten-high (because of the risk in bumping in a higher flushdraw) and that actually makes my range a slight favorite in this spot. There was however enough money in the pot for him to call but considering I had been playing pretty tight I think he could find a fold because he also has to consider that I might call with a good flushdraw instead of pushing. I guess its a pretty close spot all in all.

Now I am going to have a few guiness and tomorrow I will try to see some of those green litlle leprechauns the Americans come here to look for ;)

I heard that at the end of the rainbow is a good place to start.