£5+0 SNG 29/5/07

Uni Bankroll

Current win/loss : -£25
Number of entries: 3
Cashes : 0

Smaller buy-in than usual this week. End of the month, feeling the pinch a little.

It started out well. I identified my main candidate for extracting chips (I guy on the other side of the table who was very active). I knew if I could get a strong hand he'd hang himself, and it worked the first time (nut flush, although he laid down whatever he had when I reraised the river by 600 with about 1800 in there).

My next chance to hit him was when I was holding AJ. Blinds at 50/100, I have about 3000, he has about 2600 (I have him covered by 400). One limper, I make it 350 to go and he makes it 550 (I know, technically an underraise, but I didn't want to make a thing out of it. I was already being the guy who complains when people don't post blinds or take ten minutes to shuffle a frigging deck). Flop comes Ax6h7h. He bets 200, I raise to 700 and he goes all in.

So we're clear, I hoped he had a pocket pair less than the ace, an ace smaller than mine or a naked flush or straight draw (something like QhKh). Of course, AQ or AK was also possible, as was A6 or A7. I decided to call because, well, I'd been wanting him to bet big at me when I had a strong hand (top pair with no redraw on a flush-draw board counts as strong, evidently. No I didn't really have a strong hand). The structure is pretty brutal (2500 chips, 20 minute blinds with people who'd deal faster if they did it with their feet, levels of 50/50, 50/100, 100/200, 150/300 200/400, 250/500 etc.) and you don't really get many chances to make plays except for the very beginning and the very end.

He flipped 8h9h for a monster, hit the Qh on the turn and I was dead. I fold the next hand, then it'smy big blind. Some guy raises to 300, I push blind and the same guy as before wins the pot. Bastard.