When pocket pairs go wrong

This has been one of my quickest tournament exits - I'll paste ALL BUT TWO hands of the tourney.


PokerStars Game #6694257695: Tournament #34047305, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2006/10/19 - 19:31:04 (ET)
Table '34047305 1' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: coolbean1 (1480 in chips)
Seat 2: jfroeschke (1480 in chips)
Seat 3: jjakk11 (1480 in chips)
Seat 4: ctanner (1500 in chips)
Seat 5: Hobbiticus (1480 in chips)
Seat 6: scifidonnie (1620 in chips)
Seat 7: Walleye25 (1480 in chips)
Seat 8: dpsaz5 (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: Romyro1182 (1480 in chips)
jjakk11: posts small blind 10
ctanner: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hobbiticus [Ac Ah]
Hobbiticus: raises 20 to 40
scifidonnie: folds
Walleye25: folds
dpsaz5: folds
Romyro1182: calls 40
coolbean1: calls 40
jfroeschke: folds
jjakk11: calls 30
ctanner: folds
*** FLOP *** [5c 6c 5d]
jjakk11: checks
Hobbiticus: bets 120
Romyro1182: calls 120
coolbean1: folds
jjakk11: folds
*** TURN *** [5c 6c 5d] [6h]
Hobbiticus: bets 240
Romyro1182: calls 240
*** RIVER *** [5c 6c 5d 6h] [8h]
Hobbiticus: checks
Romyro1182: bets 200
Hobbiticus: folds
Romyro1182 collected 900 from pot
Romyro1182: shows [Kd 6d] (a full house, Sixes full of Fives)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 900 | Rake 0
Board [5c 6c 5d 6h 8h]
Seat 1: coolbean1 folded on the Flop
Seat 2: jfroeschke (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: jjakk11 (small blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: ctanner (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Hobbiticus folded on the River
Seat 6: scifidonnie folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Walleye25 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: dpsaz5 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Romyro1182 collected (900)



PokerStars Game #6694290453: Tournament #34047305, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2006/10/19 - 19:33:40 (ET)
Table '34047305 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: coolbean1 (1440 in chips)
Seat 2: jfroeschke (1400 in chips)
Seat 3: jjakk11 (1440 in chips)
Seat 4: ctanner (1470 in chips)
Seat 5: Hobbiticus (1060 in chips)
Seat 6: scifidonnie (1600 in chips)
Seat 7: Walleye25 (1160 in chips)
Seat 8: dpsaz5 (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: Romyro1182 (2430 in chips)
Hobbiticus: posts small blind 10
scifidonnie: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hobbiticus [Ks Kc]
Walleye25: folds
dpsaz5: folds
Romyro1182: calls 20
coolbean1: calls 20
jfroeschke: folds
jjakk11: calls 20
ctanner: calls 20
Hobbiticus: raises 120 to 140
scifidonnie: folds
Romyro1182: folds
coolbean1: calls 120
jjakk11: calls 120
ctanner: raises 1330 to 1470 and is all-in
Hobbiticus: calls 920 and is all-in
coolbean1: folds
jjakk11: calls 1300 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [6h 6s Ah]
*** TURN *** [6h 6s Ah] [5s]
*** RIVER *** [6h 6s Ah 5s] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
jjakk11: shows [3d 3c] (two pair, Sixes and Threes)
ctanner: shows [9c 9h] (a full house, Nines full of Sixes)
ctanner collected 760 from side pot
Hobbiticus: shows [Ks Kc] (two pair, Kings and Sixes)
ctanner collected 3360 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4120 Main pot 3360. Side pot 760. | Rake 0
Board [6h 6s Ah 5s 9s]
Seat 1: coolbean1 folded before Flop
Seat 2: jfroeschke folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: jjakk11 showed [3d 3c] and lost with two pair, Sixes and Threes
Seat 4: ctanner (button) showed [9c 9h] and won (4120) with a full house, Nines full of Sixes
Seat 5: Hobbiticus (small blind) showed [Ks Kc] and lost with two pair, Kings and Sixes
Seat 6: scifidonnie (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: Walleye25 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: dpsaz5 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Romyro1182 folded before Flop


Did I do something wrong or is this some of the worst luck you could ever get? I tried to somewhat slow play the aces since people in the early low stakes are generally very loose and you can usually bust them right away with a good pocket pair. Needless to say, I'm done with poker for today.

Just need to vent after such a thing. I'm not the best player in the world, so any advice would be appreciated.

first, you mini raised with aces, you're going to get a lot of bogus callers doin that..


2nd hand.... your kings got cracked.. oh shit it happens

What Daredevil said...

Since people are loose early on, take advantage of it and get some chips in the pot pre-flop.

:mecry: at the mini raise.

I kinda wanted a lot of callers with the aces because you're going to win most of the time with them. Hopefully someone hits top pair then turn around and get creamed. That's basically what happened except he hit a full house on the turn. Is that such a bad play?

I kinda wanted a lot of callers with the aces because you're going to win most of the time with them. Hopefully someone hits top pair then turn around and get creamed. That's basically what happened except he hit a full house on the turn. Is that such a bad play?

aces are great against 2-3 players once a lot of money is in the pot

mini raising was your mistake

:mecry: at the mini raise.
mini raising was your mistake

qft

what the ell is qft?

quote for truth

4-Handed Preflop - Aces have like a 45% victory rate. So no, you didnt have a great chance of winning there. The hands you want to be in with lots of people are suited connectors. Increase your pot odds dramatically.

not your pot odds but a somewhat loose term, your implied odds

never ever min raise, noobs like me ( :) ) will call for sure if we have anything, and on experienced tables they will call/raise and then hammer you when they make their set.

Pick a raise from 2 and 1/2 to 4xs the BB and raise that much the entire game. Then you cant get blamed for unexcusable betting patterns. :)

At least you folded on the first game, although you probably should have folded right after the turn considering there was a DAMN good chance he had 3 of a kind. (and subsequently a full house)

Yeah, that's why I folded. After he calls when there's a pair on the board and then the board pairs again, there's a very good chance I'm beat. But people play really dumb so I wanted to bet the turn to make sure he had something.