{"id":4708,"date":"2010-05-21T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:12:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:12:17","slug":"the-grim-reaper-of-tournament-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/the-grim-reaper-of-tournament-poker.html","title":{"rendered":"Tyron Krost: The grim reaper of tournament poker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I ended up coming 7th in the lead-in event<\/a>. The structure, which was quite good on the 1st day, went into super-turbo mode for the final table.<\/p>\n

Still, I was going quite nicely and had a good shot at one stage, but when the average stack is around 10x the big blind, you can usually only lose one hand. Or a couple, as is the case with the following gem:<\/p>\n

I’ll just stick the whole pile in<\/h3>\n

Blinds were 1500\/3000 with a 400 ante. My stack 35k, opponent covers with about 50k.<\/p>\n

I found AA in the cut-off and decided to put in a 7.5k raise. Usually, I’ll just stick the whole pile in, but no one at the table was calling all-ins anywhere close to near enough and there was a lot of calling going on otherwise.<\/p>\n

Everyone folded to the big blind who called. The flop was AhQh4. He checked, and because I feel like I’ve got the deck crippled now, I decided to check back and hopefully get him to bet out on the turn.<\/p>\n

Turn was the 10s. Opponent checked and I have to bet it now. I threw out 9.5k, he took some time then called.<\/p>\n

River was the Jc. As the river hit he jerked back and almost fell off his chair, then he pushed me all in. I whinged to myself for a bit then mucked leaving myself with around 18k. So somehow I found\u00a0 a way to fold top set with around 1\/2 my stack in there and only 12 big blinds to start the hand. Guess the curveballs keep the game interesting…<\/p>\n

I lost most of my chips in this unlucky situation<\/h3>\n

After that I doubled up with K5 to Q8. Then I won a small pot with 66 against Q10 to knock out a short-stack. I took a few more pots before I lost most of my chips in this unlucky situation:<\/p>\n

Blinds were 3000\/6000 with a 500 ante. The button shoved all in for 52k, I had 57k in the SB and over-shoved with A10, he had the AK and I got no help.<\/p>\n

That left me with 5k. I was feeling lucky though and if ever there’s a time to come back from one big blind, this was it. I won my first all in with Js10s to A10 after I made the flush, but I couldn’t complete the comeback on the next all in, going out with Jc8c to AJ.<\/p>\n

I went straight from that event into Partypoker’s Celebrity Charity Tournament<\/a>. It was great to see the amount of celebrities they got – although to be honest I only recognised Albert Costa. Still, all the Spaniards were having a blast playing with their Pep Cruz (not Penelope Cruz…sigh) and other such celebrities. Unfortunately, I went out quite early though to some nondescript bad beat.<\/p>\n

The grim reaper of tournament poker<\/h3>\n

After that, I had the main event to look forward to. Though, that was also short lived. I more a less was involved in only a couple of hands up till level 4 when the grim reaper of tournament poker appeared and crippled me with a KK to AA deal. We got it all in on the Q66 flop and I wasn’t helped.<\/p>\n

The good news is that one of the Partypoker qualifiers<\/a> now has a greater chance of winning an extra $1m if they win the event! Seriously, how good is that promotion? There are only about 300 players and the tournament buyin is \u20ac3500.<\/p>\n

For myself, I’ve got a few weeks to hang out on the beach now and unwind before the month of the WSOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I ended up coming 7th in the lead-in event. The structure, which was quite good on the 1st day, went into super-turbo mode for the final table. Still, I was going quite nicely and had a good shot at one stage, but when the average stack is around 10x the big blind, you can usually<\/p>\n

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