Moving up blues, reprise

So Dr Zen, I hear you moved up to the 22s permanently. How has that been going?

Well, I got a third:


PokerStars Game #30004948785: Tournament #176205984, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level VI (100/200) - 2009/07/02 0:25:12 ET
Table '176205984 1' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 4: Vegaas (2220 in chips)
Seat 6: zewowwee (9254 in chips)
Seat 9: FR Vessant (2026 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 100
Vegaas: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Ah 2d]
zewowwee: calls 200

Has limped, I am not kidding, every single hand ITM since he took a big pot from the other fish.

FR Vessant: raises 1826 to 2026 and is all-in
Vegaas: folds
zewowwee: calls 1826

He has KJ.

*** FLOP *** [3s Qc Js]

Nice.

Next I just about bust when my AQ hits on a 557Q board against slowplayed 77, but I fight back until:
PokerStars Game #30004665227: Tournament #176206581, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/07/02 0:11:03 ET
Table '176206581 1' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Memahair (2985 in chips)
Seat 3: orange13 (1340 in chips)
Seat 4: FR Vessant (850 in chips)
Seat 5: Russ186 (3870 in chips)
Seat 9: CoachDamey (4455 in chips)
CoachDamey: posts small blind 75
Memahair: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Td Ac]
orange13: folds
FR Vessant: raises 700 to 850 and is all-in
Russ186: calls 850
CoachDamey: folds
Memahair: folds
*** FLOP *** [5d Qs 3s]
*** TURN *** [5d Qs 3s] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [5d Qs 3s Qc] [Th]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
FR Vessant: shows [Td Ac] (two pair, Queens and Tens)
Russ186: shows [Ad Ah] (two pair, Aces and Queens)

FML.

PokerStars Game #30005684747: Tournament #176215326, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/07/02 1:04:09 ET
Table '176215326 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 2: Ricardo Qu. (4050 in chips)
Seat 3: FR Vessant (1355 in chips)
Seat 4: jbashir111 (1810 in chips)
Seat 6: boonwatt (3685 in chips)
Seat 7: geminiJules (2600 in chips)
Ricardo Qu.: posts small blind 50
FR Vessant: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [6d Tc]
jbashir111: folds
boonwatt: folds
geminiJules: folds
Ricardo Qu.: calls 50

This guy's a winning player, but he will complete pretty wide.

FR Vessant: raises 1255 to 1355 and is all-in

Pretty standard.

Ricardo Qu.: calls 1255

With KJ. That's pretty indefensible. He is basically gambling because he has no reason to think my range isn't strong here. I find it truly astonishing that a guy can be a winning player at the 22s when he's willing to play so badly.

The standard, and correct, play is to just raise and steal the blinds. "Trapping" with KJ is retarded. You miss most flops and give away your chips.

*** FLOP *** [Jc 2h 3d]

Nice.


PokerStars Game #30005829843: Tournament #176215949, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/07/02 1:12:31 ET
Table '176215949 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: daveyjhiyo (4370 in chips)
Seat 4: FR Vessant (1495 in chips)
Seat 6: landonryan9 (1840 in chips)
Seat 8: BadBeat_Brat (1040 in chips)
Seat 9: geminiJules (4755 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 75
landonryan9: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Tc Kc]
BadBeat_Brat: folds
geminiJules: folds
daveyjhiyo: folds
FR Vessant: raises 1345 to 1495 and is all-in

Standard shove for 10BB. I've barely played a hand all tourney of course.

landonryan9: calls 1345

He has AT.

*** FLOP *** [Th 8c 8s]

Lovely to hit my pair.


PokerStars Game #30006560500: Tournament #176220013, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2009/07/02 1:56:43 ET
Table '176220013 1' 9-max Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: FR Vessant (1512 in chips)
Seat 2: dippo (2447 in chips)
Seat 3: expertkotlas (3800 in chips)
Seat 4: sniperjtubbs (3986 in chips)
Seat 7: JamesDoyle (1755 in chips)
FR Vessant: posts small blind 50
dippo: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [Qc Qd]
expertkotlas: folds
sniperjtubbs: folds
JamesDoyle: folds
FR Vessant: raises 200 to 300
dippo: calls 200

Fish, so he has a pretty wide range.

*** FLOP *** [6h 7d Kd]
FR Vessant: bets 1212 and is all-in

Hope to get called by 6x, 7x, straight draws, flush draws, pairs. My hand looks a lot like AQ/AJ that has missed, so these hands do call a lot. I could play it slower and not get stacked when he has...

dippo: calls 1212

K7. But he would have called with J7, so what can you do?

*** TURN *** [6h 7d Kd] [4d]

Can I resuck to the flush?

*** RIVER *** [6h 7d Kd 4d] [6s]

Are you fucking kidding?

Can these fish miss just once vs my big hands?

PokerStars Game #30006734585: Tournament #176220025, $20+$2 Hold'em No Limit - Level V (75/150) - 2009/07/02 2:07:49 ET
Table '176220025 1' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: FR Vessant (1445 in chips)
Seat 2: frofessor (2215 in chips)
Seat 4: RJ_3 (2635 in chips)
Seat 6: bobby198325 (2095 in chips)
Seat 8: bunest (2105 in chips)
Seat 9: greywôlf (3005 in chips)
greywôlf: posts small blind 75
FR Vessant: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FR Vessant [As 3s]
frofessor: folds
RJ_3: calls 150

Has limpfolded already and is playing a very wide range.

bobby198325: folds
bunest: folds
greywôlf: folds
FR Vessant: raises 1295 to 1445 and is all-in

I shove because he should fold most of what he has, and I'm going to be ahead if he doesn't.

RJ_3: calls 1295

He snapcalls with JT.

I mean, wtf. He claims he "knew it was a coinflip". Which is bullshit, because I can easily have hands that are much better than a coinflip against him, and even the hand I have is 57-43.

And even if he had a coinflip, he should fold ofc.

*** FLOP *** [3d Qc 8c]
*** TURN *** [3d Qc 8c] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [3d Qc 8c 7d] [Ts]

FUCK. THIS. SHIT.

And here are that guy's figures on Sharkscope: 1,217 $1 $5 13% $1,033.

How? How the fuck are these guys winning? And does that say something about me? If this guy can luckbox his way to a grand in 1K games, maybe I'm just luckier than I am good?

Is the A3s shove good? It seems good to me. I'd shoved over once before, but he probably didn't remember, and anyway, I was right that I was ahead of him. I shouldn't mind so much being called by JT. Well, I wouldn't, but every aggressive play I have been making seems to be leading to busting.

Oh well. This is going to happen, I suppose. I have to bear with it. I'm pretty sure that the occasional wild play makes me money, so I shouldn't stop doing it. I'd like to see them get punished when they make awful calls though, but what ever changed there?