Saturday, January 29, 2005

Welcome to the club?

I've been reading other poker blogs (Human Head, AlCan'tHang, Iggy, Texansbaby, etc) for a few weeks now. All the cool kids are playing the Hammer (72o), and I want to be like them...

Hand #4202243-37 at Fort Myers (No Limit Hold'em Sit and Go)
Started at 29/Jan/05 17:37:00
Phaser is at seat 0 with 2425.
Tophat is at seat 1 with 1050.
Catfish is at seat 2 with 410.
necro is at seat 3 with 790.
HPDrifter is at seat 4 with 1300.
partrobot is at seat 5 with 875.
costco is at seat 6 with 935.
blues is at seat 8 with 1495.
Fluffy is at seat 9 with 720.
The button is at seat 3. HPDrifter posts the small blind of 20. partrobot posts the big blind of 40.
HPDrifter: 2h 7s

Pre-flop: costco folds. blues folds. Fluffy folds. Phaser folds. Tophat folds. Catfish calls. necro folds. HPDrifter raises to 140. partrobot folds. Catfish calls.

Flop (board: Js 6d Tc): HPDrifter bets 320. Catfish folds. HPDrifter is returned 320 (uncalled). HPDrifter opts to show 2h 7s.
HPDrifter has 2h 7s Js 6d Tc: jack high.
HPDrifter wins 320.

In this UB 100-point SNG, I had been getting excellent cards in good position, raising 3x the BB, and picking up the blinds. This table was tiiiiiight. So I thought showing the Hammer would loosen things up a little. What I thought was funny was that everybody stayed pretty tight after that. My next raise was 3x BB in middle position with AQ sooooted, and ... everybody folded. There's just no shaking some people.

2 Comments:

Blogger Human Head said...

That's funny...show 'em the hammer and they are still tighter than nuns...

1/30/2005 11:37 AM  
Blogger High Plains Drifter said...

And it wasn't like my AQ sooooted raise was huge compared to chip stacks, either. Blinds at 30/60, raise to 180, most folks with 1200+ in chips. Nada. Oh well. I take this to mean I should've been even more liberal in my blind-stealings. Live & learn.

1/31/2005 1:54 AM  

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