kalkaan - Custom Event - 25 times 11$ Razz tournaments in FT

Starting first tournament now. ID 107925257.

17 out of 50 and had no oportunities. Fell slowly down and didn’t find any spots. Had two card hands in MP and all the time after me baby cards at least for 2 players. Nice starting hands got bricked. A player at the table didn’t believe my bets and caught good, when started with open 8 and so on. At least the players are not as good as I thought there will be.

That is sick! 20 out of 49.
2 important hands in tournament:
I was bring in with 25Q and UTG limped with 8 showing.
4th street he paired 8 and I got 7 so I was ahead definitely, he bets and I call. 5th street He gets another 8 and T to us so I was more than 70% favourite. So I bet and genius calls.
6th street ugly T to us to open pair and he gets 9. So he becomes a favourite there and villain bets – there I can’t fold with that pot.
Last card 6 improves my hand and I check/call.
Obviously villain caught good the river and I lost that pot vs his 34689 vs mine 2567T. I had to play it that way, because needed chips, the play is questionable but I am sure that I played it the right way.

And weee, the last hand of the tournament:
I had 3 big bets UTG holding 247 and behind me 8, T, A, A and Q. So it is an obvious complete with that stack. One of tha aces rises and I call.
4th street I get nice A vs his 5 so I raise his bet to get a call. 5th street I get J vs his T and he bets 300 and obviously my last 330 chips go in.
So it was my A247J vs villains A458T and me favourite to win it 57/43. But as always I get raped by lady luck, since get K vs his 9 and he becomes 60/40 favourite. Last card I do not know, what to say – I pair my 2 vs his Q and fly aout.
On 3th street it was 50/50 flip and on 4th I was 62/38 favourite.

I do not ask much. I don’t even ask to get any luck. I just want that my good hands would hold up and I could show very good results.

Forgot that 1st hand in previous post the possibility villain doesn’t improve his hand is high enough, that the call on 6th is justified.River is bluffed pretty often with that pot so it is a must call for me. Very rarely it can be folded. Calling with made J it could be a fold, but I can’t imagine folding rough T low in that situation.

And aout we go again 34 of 61.
I put my hands here, so you could make your conclusions:
First 19 hands you see guys playing stud and spewing about 4500 chips on the table. Obviously getting unplayable hands and can’t get a piece of the pie. Best hand was A86, but 2 baby cards acting after me and one was very loose agressive. Other cards were way worse of that.
I wont post opponents hands, obviously they caught good, otherwise I would have got that pot with my bets.
Hand 20 – 435 vs bring-in extra 4 and 5 for me
Hand 21 – 62A vs 2 players T and J comes
Hand 22 – A34 and 3J comes
Hand 30 – Weee, my bring in and everybody folded – my first pot I won
Hand 31 – I must be luckiest guy on the earth: with 283 I bet into smallstack K open, next I get 8 and he T – his chips go in and I’m 57/43 favourite and cards hold up.
Hand 38 – 372 vs 2 players and I pair my 2 after that 4JJ and was very disappointed. Luckily villain had J low made also and that pot came my way.
Hand 61 – A93, I steal in LP and get a caller with 7. 4th street get 5 vs his T and take the pot down.

THE WORST HAND I REMEMBER EVER GOT SUCKED OUT WITH:
874 I want to take pot down completing MP, through 9 and T, bring in defends with K showing. Me favourite 67/33.
4th I get 4 and he J, Cbet is being called. Me favourite 63/37.
5th street I get T vs his another J. He calls my bet with showing KJJ, WTF. Me favourite 87/13 !!!
6th street I pair my T also FFS, he gets 3 there. Me favourite 61/39.
River I pair my 7 and have only 4 card hand. The superidiot leads into me showing made J low at the best!!! I represented made T, what my board also showed and raised him but the genius calls me and takes the pot down. How in the hell can a hand be played so badly and get rewarded by Full Tilt – I don’t understand that. He had to fold it on 5th street 100% of the time, but donk just couldn’t fold A2KJJ. Interesting is that he is a winning player in Razz over 33 tournaments and not being lucky 1 tournament but having pretty nice results. I wonder, how is it possible with that kind of play. There was no reason he needed to play that hand.
That was the key hand of the whole tournament! And was getting just pwned there by lady luck!
Hand 66 – I call EP complete showing 2 with 6A5. That was a possible steal attempt, looking at the other open cards. And what happends – I pair my A and had to let it go when on 5th street Q came to cheer me up.
Hand 70 I was the bring in 73K and 131 chips left after posting. Chips went in holding 73K and ofcourse lost that one.

So look at my hands and if anyone says, that I don’t get ITM for not playing well. Hmm, he could give me lessons. In Razz cash game I am running -10 big bets/100 hands over 400 hands now. Whats the reason, one is ofcourse I am a donk in Razz, another reason is that about 8 out of 10 BIG pots I get rivered hard time. I sucked out vs one guy on the river and he just couldn’t believe, how bad he got beaten. ROFL I get these beats so often that it ain’t even funny any more.

I must get myself a lucky rabbit-paw. Maybe it finally turns luck my way.

Just to illustrate my run overall:
Took another Razz tournament not counting in this event. 64 hands played and what do I get: I won 1 hand on 6th street, one succesful steal attempt and one bring in was left to me and thatsd all for the whole tourney. Couple of premium hands brick terribly
2 hands from that tourney:

I’m bring-in with J68 and it is limped. We check it down all the way – look at the cards I get:
J68 A 8 6 A. Oh yeah, 3 pair and 4 card hand.

3 hands later I raise A42 and get a loose caller, lol he had 6K2 there.
What the board brings to me:
A42 4 A A K. WEEEE full house and 4 card hand again.

WTF, I give up, mindset is destroyed and I really do not know any more, how to play that game.
AAAAAAARRRRGGHHH

Just the last hand, what illustrates my whole tournament:
got 236 and complete from 120, guy after me raises with oopen 9, I reraise again and he caps the betting. 4th I get J vs his K and I cbet ofcourse, he calls. 5th street 6 makes me open pair and last chips go in, since hes got A.
I show 236J6 and get 2 and 5 – makes my hand 2356J
He shows 459 (what a hand to cap vs tight player, who shows that will never fold his hand, ROFL) KA and get 4 and T – makes his hand A459T.
Way to go!!!
He was very loose and ofcourse vs me hit earlier in the tourney another big pot. Most of the time he showed very funny hands.

So far 5 tournaments played and none of them got ITM. 20 tournaments to go and it cant go any worse that so far.

Finally got ITM. 61 players and 5th place. Made it to the final table with healthy stack, but CL, whose fold button was broken I guess, was at my left and I almost got the bubble there. Last hand got full house, when flew out. Money shipped to the staker. 8 tournaments played, cost 88$ and return 42.70.

Razz tourney #9 id 109389342

1000 chip pot second hand: with 237 3d street I was ahead 48% vs 3 players, 4d street I catch good and 67% ahead vs 3 players, 5th street 53% me vs 3 players and idiot, who plays stud reraises.
6th street I am ahead 58% vs 26% vs 15% and vs 0%.
Ofcourse river pairs me and 26% guy gets his card.

Another ITM.
Last hand was very dissapointing.
Me and other guy were allin with 3rd caller. I got the second guy covered, so it was enough for me to win there or big stack, I would have got some extra $ there.
What happends:
idiot is bring in with 8 open, MP completes and I raise with A35, idiot with 5500 stack calls both complete and raise risking half his stack, MP reraises and we both call.
4th street gives me A354 I raise and all chips go in, idiot has the weakest hand there showing 85.
pot is 20500 and we show:
me A345 57%
MP A357 28%
idiot 4685 15%
And cards come:
me A345 awsome 5, then super J and even more liked K, FFS
MP A357 awesome T, then another T and then A
Idiot gets 4685 A POW, WP sir got rewarded again, not good J and river improved the idiots hand with 7.

So in order to win you must play like an idiot. I must learn to play like that. They get rewarded all the time for premium playing.

Shipping staker 33$.

Now its 99$ on tournaments and 75.70$ return. I’m pissed!

10 tournaments played, 110$ in buy-ins and 75,7$ return.
I wont even bother writing last hand – just 3 streets got bricked and lost that hand.

id 109535977

id 109825958 starts in 45 min

31.35$ shipped to staker. So far 132$ buy-ins and 107.05$ return. Almost half of the tournaments played.

id 109967854 starts in 35 minutes

When playing with goofballs, funny things happend.
Had A24 and 27T pushed me allin.
Cards dealt to me A24 JJQ8. The more I play it, the more I like Razz. The game proves, that even idiots have got a chance.

id 110058450
1st break 39 of 50.
Tournament has lasted 39 hands. Best hand so far 357 got bricked vs 3 players and had to fold. Second best hand 28A got me first and the only pot won so far on 5th street. Other hands are not even close to these two.
Running hot.

And we are out. 45 place out of 58 players.
Tournament lasted 53 hands for me and I took down only one 270 chip pot.
Best hands in tournament were: 357 and 28A before break and after break 7A8, 837, 872.
Last hand and the best starting hand for the whole tournament:
with 679 chips remaining I complete with A74, when after me K 6 5 6 K are showing.
Both 6 holdings call.
4th street I get 3 and lead 100 chip bet. xx62 folds, but xx6A raises and I call.
5th street I pair my 3 vs villains 9. He bets and obv I call. Now, when I think about it, I made a mistake not raising allin. Since I was left with 179 chips and not folding anyway.
6th street I pair my A and villain gets 7, he bets me allin.
So we are A7433A vs 286A97.
River pairs me AGAIN A7433A4 – lol 3 pair vs villains 286A97J

started another, id 110402332

Nice tournament.
Hands I played:
276 gets 9Q, 2 bricks against 3 players.
1 succesful steal with 334, awarding me 60 chips – the only pot I took down whole tournament.
235 gets T52 3 bricks vs 3 players.
A24 I cap on 3rd vs 3 players, I get TQ79 – again 3 bricks.
defended bring in with A3K, but 3 bricks again on 4th.
746 bricks AGAIN Q64
I did not get even a mediocre hand after that, to get chips in the middle for gamble.
J7J I see 4th street being bring-in and 4th is J, rofl.
last hand 582 vs 864 – what do I get:
582 QAK2 – 3 bricks AGAIN.

As you can see there was again not a chance for me.
How can the run be so horrible in every form of poker.
In Razz tournaments last 109 hands played in 8 player table, I had 1 succesful steal for 60 chips and 1 small 270 chip pot won. In 8 player table it is not poker any more – 2 hands out of 109 WTF.
I get crushed everywhere, no matter what I play right now.
Some examples from Razz cash game:
Last 400 hands I have lost almost all big pots, have got rivered so many times and when I played hands, analysing opponents open cards, got crushed all the time. I have won 6 big pots last 400 hands and believe it or not, 4 times of them, being on tilt I capped or bet every street, I did not even look, what villain had or I got, I just pressed the raise button all the time. The result – I won all 4 of them. Later I looked those hands and 3 of them were obvious folds on 5th street, when you are a thinking player. Do I have to start playing tournaments the same way? For some reason all the time donk play is being rewarded lately.

id 110555334

And out 42 out of 63.
Key hand of the tournament.
Blinds 100/200 and I’m bring in with 959 chips.
Defended 35K vs Btn 8 showing.
4th street I get 4 vs his 3 and I call the bet
5th street I get 6 vs his 2 and I call again with a good draw 3456. Should have bet there, he either paired his 2 or got crap hidden cards.
6th street I pair my 5 and he gets A. Never can fold there with that stack size.
And 7th street 5 again comes and I have 345556K for made K low and have to fold there.
Last hand allin on 3rd A38 vs 578.
My cards come A38 QTTT, lol.
This tournament 3 succesful steals, 2 mediocre pots won and got crushed 9 times. Its starting to get better slowly.

2 important hands of this tourney just lost:
A4K I’m bring in and SB calls with 5 showing.
4th street 2 for me and 3 for villain, I call his bet.
5th street 6 for me giving a very good draw A246 and villain got 4.
6th and 7th street ofcourse bricks J and T and I fold on 7th.

Last hand vs same guy:
He limps UTG showing 8 and me with 24A complete. Everybody else folds and we cap it.
4th street I get an ugly Q, but he pairs 8 and I’m still ahead. I go allin there:
It’s 24AQ vs 2488, 56/40 in my favour (60/40 in my favour on 3th street), pot is 1701, what is decent stack size there.
I get 24AQ 2KT, getting A24TQ
He gets 2488 J3K getting 2348J
Nothing to add!

id 110714637. 1 to go to final table. 9 left, 2 tiny stack. 6 gets the money. I am 7th at the moment and if things go well, will make it.
CL of the tourney has played almost all the time at my table. I think he played almost 90% of hands and he is on incredible heater. According to stats, its his 1st Razz tournament. He has rivered about 6K chips from me, in 3 pots, luckily has given some double ups too. Now can only hope for the best. :P

5 out of 51 and 38,25$. Last 13K pot got rivered.
Shipping $ to staker right after posting this. Cant get the first places, but at least got some $ now and then.
18 played, 198$ in buy-ins and 145,3$ return. 7 to go and aiming to the first place.

id 110803321
I showed A in EP and raised, guy after me capped with 8 showing, he got good cards and I lost nice pot there.
Last hand I flew out with A2367, vs A2345 – he got it on 6th or river.

id 110869894

2nd place.
Lol, had both villains allin on 6th street, holding A2356 vs A2457 vs A2347, me 81% favourite vs 13% and 6%, but river came 5 to the 13% guy and we were left HU.
My top lead was 54,5K vs his 13K chips. But deck freezed and he made nice comeback.
Last hand last chips went in A5699 vs A267T. 6th and 7th bricked 6 and 5 and lost that one. Villain played that tourney very well.

5 tournaments to go. So far 220$ in buy-ins and 262,8$ in return.

id 111022467

Had nice stack, when about 20 left, but it just flew away with bad cards. 3 tournaments to go.

id 111178401

4/7 in final table. Got pro bounty with suckout. Not proud with that hand, on 5th was behind, but pot was so big and had to call there. 11$ reward for that play.

4th place and 60,50 return here with bounty. Can’t be very happy, but got lucky myself too in 2 hands.
But last very important hands of the tournament:

1st one: last chips went in 233478 vs A3479J so it was 73/27 in my favour and 19K chip pot. He rivered 2 and I K :(

Last hand: Villain limps UTG 7 showing, me with A34 complete, he calls. 4th street he gets 5 vs my Q and he leads out, I raise and he puts me allin.
The cards are my A34Q vs his 557T; 62/38 in my favour.
I get A34Q 5 weee, smells good, but 6th and 7th brick 3 and Q. He is still behind in 6th, but rivers an 8 and out we go.

Freerolling last 2 tournaments now and shipping staker 36,35$. Stakeback is returned and I got a little piece of this one.

id 111493995

id 111586453

Key hand A35 gets 4 and then 44A