This is Gabrielle300. If you play on PokerStars, you may have met her. She is the one at your table doing the stupidest things imaginable. Why would I categorize Gabrielle this way, you ask? Well, let me provide you with a couple of hands from today's Stud Hi/Lo tournament. I did something dumb and decided to play the tourney even though it was $10, because it is my best game and there are so rarely any large tournaments that offer it. The following two hands are from the late stages of the tournament, close to the money bubble bursting, where most everyone, us included, had less than 10 big bets. During the first hand, we were pretty much even. The second hand busted me out on the bubble. They follow below:
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PokerStars Game #14706953488: Tournament #73423480, $10+$1 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo Limit - Level XIII (1000/2000) - 2008/01/20 - 21:16:20 (ET)Table '73423480 3' 8-max
Seat 1:(11774 in chips)
Seat 2:(15733 in chips)
Seat 3:(12003 in chips)
Seat 4: Gabrielle300 (11417 in chips)
Seat 7: (2237 in chips)
Seat 8: uscjess (10342 in chips)
*** 3rd STREET ***
Dealt to Meesy [Th]
Dealt to Malc [9s]
Dealt to lolisa [Ad]
Dealt to Gabrielle300 [4d]
Dealt to woodburst [Js]
Dealt to uscjess [Kc 4c Kh]
Gabrielle300: brings in for 300
Seat 7: folds
uscjess: raises 700 to 1000
Seat 1: folds
Seat 2: folds
Seat 3: folds
Gabrielle300: calls 700
*** 4th STREET ***
Dealt to Gabrielle300 [4d] [7c]
Dealt to uscjess [Kc 4c Kh] [6c]
uscjess: bets 1000
Gabrielle300: calls 1000
*** 5th STREET ***
Dealt to Gabrielle300 [4d 7c] [5d]
Dealt to uscjess [Kc 4c Kh 6c] [7s]
uscjess: checks Gabrielle300: checks
*** 6th STREET ***
Dealt to Gabrielle300 [4d 7c 5d] [3c]
Dealt to uscjess [Kc 4c Kh 6c 7s] [5s]
uscjess: checks
Gabrielle300: checks
*** RIVER ***Dealt to uscjess [Kc 4c Kh 6c 7s 5s] [9d]
uscjess: checks
Gabrielle300: checks
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Gabrielle300: shows [3s 4s 4d 7c 5d 3c Qs] (HI: two pair, Fours and Threes)
uscjess: mucks hand
Gabrielle300 collected 5200 from pot
Now, I can admit that I played this hand relatively passively, but let me explain my thinking. I have been playing virtually no hands. When I am raising in MP with a K up, to me, it is a given I have split kings. When Gabrielle calls, I put her on some sort of three card low/straight draw. The 7 gives her, in my mind, 4 to a low with a possible straight draw. The five pretty much kills my action because I am guessing she has a made low and I don't see the point in juicing the pot with a single large pair when her hand could potentially improve (or already be a straight).
It wasn't the worst play I had seen all day, but I still don't like calling a raise there when you only have five big bets. If I was in later position and it looks like a steal, maybe. Moreover, the call on 4th street isn't one I am particularly fond of either. Not to mention, she had been chastising other players for being big calling stations, so the split fours didn't ever cross my mind as a possibility.
After the hand, all I say was "interesting call" and leave it at that. Later, I get involved in a hand where a player has Aces showing on 4th st, but with 5 big bets, a 3 flush, 3 straight, 4 to a low and dead money from two other players who had called a raise, I felt like I needed to take off a couple of cards. She then begins to ridicule me for no particular reason talking about how stupid I am for not seeing aces. I am a lil peeved now and I type, "yeah, that must be it, I'm effing blind".
We are down to hand for hand and I have the bring in with 1600 or so left and here is what goes down:
PokerStars Game #14707054678: Tournament #73423480, $10+$1 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo Limit - Level XIV (1500/3000) - 2008/01/20 - 21:21:23 (ET)Table '73423480 3' 8-max
Seat 1: (19574 in chips)
Seat 2: (20020 in chips)
Seat 3: (10303 in chips)
Seat 4: Gabrielle300 (11967 in chips)
Seat 8: (1642 in chips)
*** 3rd STREET ***
Dealt to Seat 1 [Jh]
Dealt to Seat 2 [7c]
Dealt to Seat 3 [4d]
Dealt to Gabrielle300 [Qh]
Dealt to uscjess [Ad 9c 2c]
uscjess: bets 1342 and is all-in
Seat 1: folds
Seat 2: folds
Seat 3: folds
Gabrielle300: calls 1342
*** 4th STREET ***
Dealt to Gabrielle300 [Qh] [8s]
Dealt to uscjess [Ad 9c 2c] [Kd]
*** 5th STREET ***
Dealt to Gabrielle300 [Qh 8s] [6h]
Dealt to uscjess [Ad 9c 2c Kd] [7d]
*** 6th STREET ***
Dealt to Gabrielle300 [Qh 8s 6h] [7h]
Dealt to uscjess [Ad 9c 2c Kd 7d] [2s]
*** RIVER ***
Dealt to uscjess [Ad 9c 2c Kd 7d 2s] [3d]
Gabrielle300 said, "bye bubble boy"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Gabrielle300: shows [7s Tc Qh 8s 6h 7h 8c] (HI: two pair, Eights and Sevens)
uscjess: shows [Ad 9c 2c Kd 7d 2s 3d] (HI: a pair of Deuces)
Gabrielle300 collected 4184 from pot
No low hand qualified
7Q10 is just about the ugliest stud hi/lo hand I have ever seen. It is BEYOND me why you would invest 10% of your stack into knocking a player out with a hand that doesn't play EITHER way. You have no good high card, no good low card and I genuinely, sincerely doubt that I am going to stick it in there against a hand that you have beat. She just called to be a vengeful spiteful whore or she has absolutely no concept of how stud hi/lo works.
I know, I know, don't tap the glass. But, considering how badly I have been running, and considering I was ONE spot away from a $30 cash (which is unfortunately a huge amount for me) I have to rant. Because this person is not a skilled poker player, as her SharkScope stats may indicate. She has managed to donk off $100 bucks in a mere 18 sngs. I know these are unfair stats because of the small sample size, but she, herself, pointed out her "AMAZING" stats on poker db, when, in reality she has a few cashes in a very small sample side in very small buy ins.
So, in honor of my neverending frustration with bad play, I am not only going to make darling Gabrielle300 my inaugural donk of the week, I am going to name the award after her. Congrats Gabrielle for being both a bad player and a luckbox, earning such a fantastic honor. May all your suckouts be brutal and your learning curve steep, because you are in a world of hurt if you don't get better.
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