Over all i like playing on spade club but you do get off players that crush you by lucking out with bad calls. Spadeclub if you didn't know is a poker subscription site where you play freerolls with a chance to win prizes up to 30 k. They also have 3 stages to win tickets and money to Belagio tournaments which is cool. But the reason i play mostly is to try to win the yearly spoy ranking contest. To get ranking points you have to get on the final table to any of the cash freerolls or the Belagio or Caribbean tournaments.
Today i tried the 500 sit and go's because i wanted to use the points i win to enter the 2Nd stage of the weekly Belagio tournament which is 2,700. Last time i entered it was so annoying there was 380 something people so 38 people get tickets to the 3rd and final stage but i went out at like 40th or something with jacks to king 4 pre flop. Was horrible because the start of the tournament was 4 a m for me and so i wasted hours and hours with no sleep. i cant remember exactly but i think i finished at like 7 or 8 in the morning and didn't get much sleep because i had a live tournament at 3. 30 that day.
So i played 2 500 point sit and gos and usually they are actually pretty good players so i don't know why i got these 2 bad callers which lucked out on me which were in similar situations.
In both i was chip leader and the other guy was just under me, one was a couple of hundred less then me and the other was like 80 less. In both there was like 5 of us left and 3 get paid. Now for one of them this guy would raise 300 throughout the game if he had aces or kings and less with queens or lower. so pre flop he raises 300 so i immediately knew what he had and no one else was in the pot so i called wth queen 5 suited. the flop comes qD 5H 5C. so i flop a house. i knew this guy would raise so i checked. he raised 200 so could see he was scared of the 5 any way, so i just raised to 600. the guy thought about it for a while and i thought i should of bet smaller but then he re raises me to 1500. So I'm obviously all in and I'm thinking did i get it wrong does he have set queens giving him a bigger house.This guy should know all through this sit and go when i bet big i have everyone beaten it was obvious. HE CALLS! I'm a little scared but then just as i thought he has kings. I know poker so i didn't celebrate yet but still what comes on the turn A KING! and if it wasn't bad enough what comes on the river A KING!. Its times like this that i question myself, is poker really a game of skill? But to be honest in the long run where the stats do make sense good play triumphs you just got to hope that the stats hold out in bigger games lol. That's why i prefer playing multi tables on cash games online, because it levels the playing field so you win more then getting bad beats. If bad beats were always happening then there wouldn't be a bad beat jackpot in certain places because the prize wouldn't be worth it. And i know everyone including myself sometimes thinks, the bad beats only happen to me!
For the other 500 sit and go like i said it was all pretty much the same situation accept pre flop the guy just calls the blind and I'm big blind with ace 3. Just like the other game i flop a house. The guy raises quite large like 700. I know hes probably just trying to take the pot maximum an ace with a good kicker so I'm in good shape to go all in. HE CALLS! shows and shows a pair of jacks. The turn card comes its a 5 I'm good the river card comes I CRY! its a JACK! giving him a bigger house. Terrible.
I just wonder sometimes do they realise its not worth doing that up against a stack that will take you out, the only stack that can take you out so close to getting paid.EVEN with kings on a flop like we had. Sigh... i don't know
well till next time!
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