Raising the Freeroll on FullTilt

[GloBug]

hey im watching u; good luck

[taylovesthebeatles]

Finished third. Man what a great game. Thanks so much to everyone who supported me, and :P to eejit for not railing me in the first place. I love you guys and once we finish reading the book I'll start a thread and send it round to those who want to read it.

Full Tilt Poker Game #12803186974: Check-Raising the Freeroll (95070347), Table 194 - 60K/120K Ante 15K - No Limit Hold'em - 4:08:42 ET - 2009/06/14
Seat 2: beatles1964t (1,300,776)
Seat 3: Frank Hough (2,131,681)
Seat 6: RAFI52 (932,699)
Seat 9: macdaknife99 (2,407,344)
beatles1964t antes 15,000
Frank Hough antes 15,000
RAFI52 antes 15,000
macdaknife99 antes 15,000
macdaknife99 posts the small blind of 60,000
beatles1964t posts the big blind of 120,000
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to beatles1964t [6s Ac]
Frank Hough raises to 240,000
RAFI52 calls 240,000
macdaknife99 folds
Frank Hough: yeah for sure
macdaknife99: raf on tilt fo sho
beatles1964t raises to 1,285,776, and is all in
Frank Hough raises to 2,116,681, and is all in
RAFI52 folds
Frank Hough shows [Ks Kh]
beatles1964t shows [6s Ac]
Uncalled bet of 830,905 returned to Frank Hough
*** FLOP *** [7h Js Qc]
*** TURN *** [7h Js Qc] [Kc]
*** RIVER *** [7h Js Qc Kc] [2d]
Frank Hough shows three of a kind, Kings
beatles1964t shows Ace King high
Frank Hough wins the pot (2,931,552) with three of a kind, Kings
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2,931,552 | Rake 0
Board: [7h Js Qc Kc 2d]
Seat 2: beatles1964t (big blind) showed [6s Ac] and lost with Ace King high
Seat 3: Frank Hough showed [Ks Kh] and won (2,931,552) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 6: RAFI52 (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: macdaknife99 (small blind) folded before the Flop

[GloBug]

that last hand was a bad one. good job though. kinda sucks u get nothing for finishing in 4th. still a strong finish. im impressed.

[taylovesthebeatles]

that last hand was a bad one. good job though. kinda sucks u get nothing for finishing in 4th. still a strong finish. im impressed.

I got more than nothing- I got the book, just not the signed copy. Still a win in my book! lol. Thanks Glo you're the best!

[GloBug]

I got more than nothing- I got the book, just not the signed copy. Still a win in my book! lol. Thanks Glo you're the best!

wow i thought only first got something. well im not sure a matesow book will get u will get anything out of his book. maybe u could learn how to BLOW UP like him . lol as for the hand i would have probably done the same but he just had a good hand at the right time. lol better luck next time.

[eejit101]

Hand advice - On the TT hand with a limp in preflop make it 48k to go (4xBB). Otherwise the raise becomes easier to call for ppl with the extra odds on top with a limp already in, more outs e.t.c

On the last hand - FOLD!! Youve got a raise and a call, so your ahead of utterly nothing. With the chips as they are and you with 10x BBs, id MUCH rather see you going all in yourself with something like 910 or 56suited on a steal attempt, and then getting called by ATish and having a 60/40 race for it, than call with "any ace" when your 99% of the time drawing to 3 outs, nd 1% of the time drawing to half an out.


Tourney thoughts - GOOD GAME!!

[eejit101]

As an afterthought on the last hand.....

An arguament i can see you making when you get here is "It was a squeeze play". A bet designed to feign huge strength to pick up a big pot preflop without it going any further, hoping for folds etc.

If this is true, this is an impossible spot to squeeze, as one of them is guaranteed to have a biggish hand, AJ+ at least. 4 handed any Ace is gonna call your push here. With a min raise and a call your guaranteed to be behind to one of them, and if they both call odds wise against possible hands your at about 7-13% to win the hand.

Also if your assuming they might fold, with 240k each in the pot, along with blidns and antes, and then your push of just over a mil, they are easily getting 2-1 to call, with 3-1 implied if the other player does.


Good hand to discuss tho