2010 Last Sit & Go [Knockout]

Played my last sit & go [knockout] yesterday. not that i want to brag my winning, juz that im very happy. I won first this time, although i did lost my buy-in on cash game before this short tourney. I can say they were not the most aggressive opponents (last 2) I have encountered, I played with a lot of focus. Below are the last 7 hands of the tournament which changed the tide for me.

Enjoy and happy new year 2011!!

Black.

Drawing Outs on the River

Played about short 100 hands tonight and that was it. First table, I cleared my stack. So I moved on to another table fresh, where every one was playing tight. Until my opponent below came. He was pretty loose and aggressive. He called on every flop. Basically whoever one of us is playing the hand, it will be against him. He had cleared a few stack before this.

One of my encounter with him below. I didnt expect him two have two pairs on flop (due to his past aggressiveness), but probably wan to chase me away with a huge bluff, or made two pairs on river.

With his All-in on the Turn, give me a hard but straightforward decision. I was on both open-ended straight and flush draw. In total, I had about 9 (spades) + 6 (8s and kings excluding spades) + 3 (aces) = 18 outs? Right? 15 of them for the nuts. Although I seem passively calling, but I think I made a pretty good call here when the fifth spade came. And so that was it for me.



Black.

Just A Short One Today

Played only a few hands today and I left after I meet my target. Thanks to L&W who shared with me a site so that I can post visual of the hands I played instead of tons of words like the matrix movie. I will be exploring SharkScope.com. Really appreciate the things you guys shared.

I won this pot below and left. I wanted to get him out of the pot at turn but he had a flush draw (I didnt read, I thought he had two pairs). river queen made us a pair and I scoop the pot with an ace kicker.



Maybe I left quickly because I dont want my winnings taken away as usual so that I can finally say "hey I won tonight"!

Happenings

Many miracle happened tonight, but thats poker. AA lost to TT when the board shows four clubs in the TT's favour. TT won QQ when the board shows 789 A 6. I won a sick hand myself too.

Table 'Cottrell II' 6-max Seat #3 is the button

Seat 1: KILHOFFER ($5.45 in chips)

Seat 2: QProQuo ($2 in chips)

Seat 3: Nmbee10 ($10.87 in chips)

Seat 4: e3fkaa ($5 in chips)

Seat 5: issaru07 ($13.59 in chips)

Seat 6: hxh147 ($4.05 in chips) <-- me

e3fkaa: posts small blind $0.05

issaru07: posts big blind $0.10

*** HOLE CARDS ***

Dealt to hxh147 [Qs Ah]

hxh147: raises $0.10 to $0.20

KILHOFFER: raises $0.40 to $0.60

QProQuo: raises $1.40 to $2 and is all-in

Nmbee10: folds

e3fkaa: folds

issaru07: folds

hxh147: raises $1.40 to $3.40

KILHOFFER: raises $1.40 to $4.80

hxh147: calls $0.65 and is all-in

Uncalled bet ($0.75) returned to KILHOFFER

*** FLOP *** [7s 5s 6s]

*** TURN *** [7s 5s 6s] [3c]

*** RIVER *** [7s 5s 6s 3c] [Ts]

*** SHOW DOWN ***

hxh147: shows [Qs Ah] (a flush, Queen high)

KILHOFFER: shows [8c 8s] (a flush, Ten high)

hxh147 collected $3.89 from side pot

QProQuo: shows [Qh Qc] (a pair of Queens)

hxh147 collected $5.85 from main pot

Four spade on the board, and I held the most beautiful queen of the hand.