DEAL ME IN; Boylepoker.com.Byline: By MARTY SMYTH Marty Smyth is a professional poker player from Northern Ireland. Career Irish Poker Open Smyth has placed in the Irish Poker Open, Europe's oldest and largest poker tournament on four occassions. He placed 7th in 2002 and 6th in 2003. POKER poker, card game, believed to have originated in Asia and first played in the United States in the 19th cent. A traditional cutthroat gambling game at first, it is now also an internationally popular social pastime. pro Marty Smith Marty Smith (born November 26, 1956 in San Diego, California), is a former professional motocross racer. He won three AMA National Motocross championships, all aboard Hondas, and was runner-up twice. on his exit from the Aussie Millions tournament I WAS playing 57k when I was dealt Ten Ten for the second time in the tournament. A loose aggressive player opened with a standard raise to 2,500 in first position (blinds were 400-800 with a 100 ante). I was a couple of seats after him and decided just to call. The flop FLOP - 1. An early system on the IBM 701. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. came Jack of hearts Ten of hearts, 7 of spades, and the initial raiser bet 5k. I know this is a bit risky as there are a lot of bad cards that could have come but I had position on the raiser and I wanted to gamble to try to win a really big pot. The turn was another Jack and my opponent checked. I bet 8k and he thought for a moment and raised me to 20. There was pretty much no doubt in my mind that I was winning at this point and I was just thinking about how to get his last 20k. I was pretty undecided as to whether he had a Jack or whether he was bluffing, but I reasoned calling was the best move for me. There weren't were·n't Contraction of were not. weren't were not many cards I didn't want to see on the river, but one of them arrived - in fact the worst one of all. The board now read 7, Ten, Jack, Jack, Jack, meaning that I was now losing if he had Ace Ace, King King, Queen Queen, or a Jack, and only splitting the pot if he had the other Ten. He moved all in for his last 22k or so, and obviously I didn't really like things much now. I thought that it was more than likely I was losing, but I couldn't be totally sure that he wasn't continuing with a bluff. There was 80k in the middle and I was having to call a 22k bet. I made the call. When I saw his hand I actually felt a little bit better. If I had re-raised him a decent amount preflop then I would have won the pot, but after it got to the flop then I think the money was always going to go in. He had raised with Jack Ten and I was already drawing dead on the turn. I don't think I played this hand terribly well but it was still a very unlucky spot for me to find myself in and I'm not going to beat myself up about it too much. That left me with 7k and while I did make a brief recovery - doubling up with Ace King v Queen King - there was to be no Poker Million-style fairytale ending. Shortly into level two I raised all in for 11k from the button with Ace Queen, got called by Ace 9 and he rivered a 9. EVENTS BOYLEPOKER'S 'Be our Sponsored pro' promotion is ongoing, with the 'Stake a pro' tournament taking place tonight at 8pm. THE password for this week's Daily Mirror freeroll at 8pm on Boylepoker.com is cbet. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion