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Joe Hachem Deep Stack Series Event 1: $230 No Limit Holdem
March 08, 2009Finding myself surprisingly refreshed after a four-sleep on a mate's futon mattress out in the 'burbs of Melbourne; Box Hill North, following a quiet (as in limited alcohol consumption) night on Chapel Street I was ready to tackle Event 1 of the Joe Hachem Deep Stack Series!
Since I bought my ticket the night before to avoid the early rush to the tournament booth I had no need to make tracks to Crown but still found myself arriving well before the first card would be dealt. Met up with a few mates before I settled in and found my table and seat up in the high stakes area.
Sitting down on the table I had Jozef Berec down one end, but no-one else of note. Even though this may be a deep-stack tournament and championship series, the structures are fairly fast at 25 minutes and beginning at 50-100. The table began fairly limp happy and I didn't pick up my first hand until I was dealt
in the small blind and completed for 50 more following a few limpers. The flop fell down 
and I led out for 250 and got one caller on the button. The turn landed the 
and I made it 550 to go with the button player again making the call to see me check the fairly insignificant 
on the river prompting a 1,100-chip bet which I quickly called.When showed the losing
to see me chip up to 12,175 I thought about the hand and how I played the river badly, not putting in a check-raise; even though it most likely would have yielded nothing. A few hands later in the hi-jack I saw two weak players limp ahead of me before raising to 350 with my favourite hand (disregarding the suits - diamonds one time!) . The blinds both passed as did the limpers and right there I decide to try and use this play regularly when in position against a few of the players that oozed weakness.The start of the 75-150 level saw me sitting with 12,400 and a few hands in I limped the button with
following nearly half the table coming along for the ride, and was able to take down the pot with a 600 bet on the flop of 
to jump to 13,225. I unsuccessfully opened with 
but was able to take a nice pot against what I perceived to be the best player on the table.Bit of background first. Later learning that he was Michael 'Shuffleupagus1' Bancroft from our mutual mate Andrew 'Adgee' Jeffreys, Bancroft final tabled a PokerNews Cup event finishing in second and had taken the first few steps to repeating that following a strong start to see him placed on around 15,000 in chips and the only one on the table to have me covered. He played one hand to the river that set off some lights in my head when he raised a flop bet in position with a flush draw and raised on the river when the board paired but also brought the flush. His
for the nut flush was good for the pot, and on a few other occasions I saw him play similar.Bancroft limped under the gun as did some others as it was folded round to me in the small blind and I completed for 75 more holding
and followed it by leading out for 600 on a flop of 
. With the action on Bancroft he made it 1,500 to go which put me to a decision once everyone passed. I thought that calling here would really leave me out in the dark, because if a spade falls on the turn I can't really fold to bet due my re-draw nut-flush draw and book draw, so consequently (after considering some of his previous play) made it 4,200 to go. He mulled over it for a little before folding and I decided not to table my hand to the disappointment of the remaining players on the table as I stacked up to 15,075 as we jumped to the 100-200 level.I was unable to play a hand in this orbit seeing Ace-rag twice and four suited junk hands before me moved into the last level before the first break of 100-200 with a 25 ante and I still fairly healthy 14,775 in chips. I opened with
to 550 to take the pot down uncontested before my final hand came up.Dealt
in early position I opened to 550 and was called by Bancroft and a short-stack in the big blind. The flop fell down 
and the big blind moved all-in for his last 1,700 putting the action on me before I just made the call. Now this can be seen as bad play just flatting the all-in with someone else to act, but there isn't a whole lot I'm scared of, and it kind of works as a trap if Bancroft wants to get tricky with one of his many possible holdings. Bancroft now sat with 20,000-plus following a nice double with bottom set and put in a raise to 4,500 immediately putting me to a decision for my tournament life.Tournament life you may say? Well yes, because it is terrible to just call here so my decision is either to fold or to raise all-in. Now after my 1,700 call I have 12,950 behind so folding leaves me with an above average stack, moving all-in will see my double to three-times average or send me to the rail. Considering what to do I played out all the hands that Bancroft may have and how he would have played them - a set is likely, and he is even capable of playing Aces, Kings or Queens in the same way, but I felt that he was more likely to be holding something marginal such as a straight-draw or flush-draw or maybe top-top with Ace-Jack or King-Jack. Eventually made the decision to move all-in hoping that I could sweat out a draw, get lucky or stay ahead in a tournament where 100,000 chips would see you cash and a further 500,000 to make the final table.
The short-stack player held
and Bancroft was in the lead with 
. The turn was gin, but not for me, landing the 
and unable to catch one of the eight outs in the deck to stay alive with the 
peeling on the river I said Bon Voyage in 428th place out of the 500 runners.* * * * * * * *
Looking back on the hand if I made that flop raise to say 4,500 and Bancroft re-raised me, I think I would have been able to lay the hand down, but apart from that I played fairly solid and tried something different this tournament by monitoring my chip stack fluctuations and hands dealt in sort of a written live hand history record.
Joe Hachem Deep Stack Series - Event 1 Chip Stack GraphThe blue line is obviously my chip trends during the 48 hands (sigh!) I played with the red vertical lines indicating the blind level increases. I'm going to continue to record a live hand history in tournaments and push past the tediousness of the process so as I can continually review my game as move closer and closer to the 2009 WSOP!
Next event isn't till Thursday's Event 6: $340 Terminator where every person you knock out entitles you to $100. For the meantime it will be back to the online grind, but if you haven't already come get a piece of me at ChipMeUp where I have a few stakes left.
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Chipped Up at ChipMeUp
March 01, 2009As the calender ticked over into 2009 PokerNews purchased poker staking website ChipMeUp, and following in the foot steps of good mates Andrew 'Adgee' Jeffreys, Michael 'TheBigSiCkO' Guzzardi and Heath 'TassieDevil' Chick I decided to jump on the ChipMeUp bandwagon!
Players worldwide can buy and sell shares of themselves in all poker disciplines, a variety of buy-in amounts and from the online felt to live events such as the Joe Hachem Deep Stack Series, ANZPT and WSOP. Players sign up for free and create their own user profile. To purchase a stake in a player; simply browse through the extensive list of events, choose the amount or percentage you wish to stake, and then transfer the funds accordingly. All the funds used to purchase a particular stake will go towards the player’s buy-in. While ChipMeUp does not charge for shares purchased, they do however charge a listing fee for when you sell a percentage of yourself.
With the strong online community that ChipMeUp and PokerNews now attracts - along with the ChipMeUp feedback service, all transactions are legitimate and actioned properly ensuring players receive their entitled share.
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With the Joe Hachem Deep Stack Series only a week away I thought it would a good time to create a profile and post some events where people can buy a piece of me. I've decided to only play four events totalling a very affordable $1,460 as we have the ANZPT Sydney, Melbourne Champs and the WSOP ahead of us in the next few months.
On ChipMeUp it is expected that you sell shares of yourself for over market value, but it was very common to see people selling a share at 130-140% plus. So consequently I decided to sell mine cheaper varying from 112-120% so I can start creating a profile on a site that heavily relies on statistics and community support.
To grab a piece of me during the JHDSS or any future events check out my profile before all my shares are snapped up!
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For those that are interested The Race To 10k is still kicking strong with Heath logging the first (official - as my PLO final table occurred before the full conditions were finalised) final table of the race winning a $22 PLO tourney on PokerStars for a little over $370 to take the current results to:
thkcduckworth: $2,970
Tassie Devil: $2,749.35 (1 FT bonus)To catch any further action jump on Facebook: The Race To 10k, Tassie Devil Poker and Tilted Behaviour for every little score and brag!
