Owning Luke Schwartz

Obviously I'm never really going to be crossing paths with Luke Schwartz at the poker table that often, he's a high stakes cash game player and I'm a $20-$40 MTT grinder. However I did get tied up in a hand with him in the recent $216 FTOPS Rush Turbo Event.

I used a step ticket to enter and ended up busting 102 out of 1,907 runners for about $520, gutting as I lost a huge race with KK vs A9, A on the river :( But still a nice return on a ticket.

The Hand

So the hand in question started with me picking up KJo in the bb, he min-raises and I flat from the bb. The flop comes down 8TJ with two spades and I check call a bet of 300. Due to the nature of Rush you are unable to build up notes on players (within reason) and at this point I didn't realise who I was up against, so I decide to check call a 600 bet on the 4 turn. The river is a blank and at this point I figure I'm ahead most of the time as the flush has also missed. I decide to value check as he's folding his AK and smaller pocket pairs to a value bet and he can't bluff 3bet shove as I'm commited to the pot.


However once I check he shoves allin. This threw me off slightly however once I realised it was FullFlush I figured his range was huge and the shove screamed a missed flush draw.

I elect to call and was right when he showed down QTs.

Other News: Nothing major to report, had another Rush final table last night in a $12, busting 3rd out of 200ish for $320. Have the day off work Friday so will be playing a full day of MTTs on Stars and Tilt, hopefully ending the session by playing the $216 6-Max FTOPS event. Will post up full schedule nearer the time. Taking tonight and Thur off poker as I'm watching/playing footie and catching up with mates both nights and hopefully get motivated for a day session on Friday.

Full Tilt Poker Game #28203336536: FTOPS Event #26 (209402890), Table 203 - 50/100 - No Limit Hold'em - 17:20:03 ET - 2011/02/14
Seat 1: TheDzuu (2,137)
Seat 2: madeleine88 (1,900)
Seat 3: FezioJnr (3,240)
Seat 4: Kimmo84 (2,570)
Seat 5: mlagoo (4,141)
Seat 6: Farsjer (3,495), is sitting out
Seat 7: Nice hAnd ok (3,940)
Seat 8: __FullFlush1__ (3,705)
Seat 9: CrystalBalla (2,526)
madeleine88 posts the small blind of 50
FezioJnr posts the big blind of 100
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to FezioJnr [Jh Kc]
Kimmo84 folds
mlagoo folds
Farsjer folds
Nice hAnd ok folds
__FullFlush1__ raises to 200
CrystalBalla folds
TheDzuu folds
madeleine88 folds
FezioJnr calls 100
*** FLOP *** [8s Td Js]
FezioJnr checks
__FullFlush1__ bets 300
FezioJnr calls 300
*** TURN *** [8s Td Js] [4c]
FezioJnr checks
__FullFlush1__ bets 600
FezioJnr calls 600
*** RIVER *** [8s Td Js 4c] [5c]
FezioJnr checks
__FullFlush1__ bets 2,605, and is all in
FezioJnr has 15 seconds left to act
FezioJnr has requested TIME
FezioJnr calls 2,140, and is all in
Uncalled bet of 465 returned to __FullFlush1__
*** SHOW DOWN ***
__FullFlush1__ shows [Qs Ts] a pair of Tens
FezioJnr shows [Jh Kc] a pair of Jacks
FezioJnr wins the pot (6,530) with a pair of Jacks
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [8s Td Js 4c 5c]
Seat 3: FezioJnr (big blind) showed [Jh Kc] and won (6,530) with a pair of Jacks
Seat 8: __FullFlush1__ showed [Qs Ts] and lost with a pair of Tens