Annette_15 in European Poker Tour Prague
Although this intensive online poker diva has achieved many things, the main event in Prague caught her off guard. She competes very well in virtually everything she plays in, but earlier today, she discribed how she busted on the first day of the EPT Prague Main Event.
Excerpt from her blog shows she is going to continue to be a formidable poker player, online and off. In her own words:
About an hour or so later and 3k chips shorter from having to fold a lot to reraises and missing a lot of flops with my strong hands, this is how I bust: A guy in the 40s limps in the CO for 200. Don’t have a very good read on him yet, but 90% of the time when someone limps in LP they have trash and just wants to see a flop. The button, who is a very very good online player makes an isolation raise of 800 trying to get the pot HU with the limper. I’m pretty sure his range there is prolly about 50% of the hands, so this is free chips for me. I reraise to 2800 with 95o. Again, the cards don’t mean anything because I know pretty well how he plays and he’s never gonna just flatcall this without a monster hand. Maybe JJ+AK. If I do get called by him I’m shutting down completely. What really threw me off was that the limper cold called! The reraise and the raiser folded as expected. I didn’t really know what to think of this since I had already put him on a weak hand. Figured maybe he had a hand he wanted to see a flop with like QKs cuz ppl never fold that hand. Maybe even AK, small pair etc. No way I put QQ+ in his range playing the hand the way he did. The flop 8c2x2c. I check with the intention of check raising all in if he bets or trying to represent a big pair slow playing on a dry flop. If I bet I’m giving him a chance to push me off my hand with something like 66-TT which will fold to a check raise for sure. So I just decided I wanted to have the last word here and try to make my hand look very strong. He checks behind. The turn is a J. Good card for me to bluff at so I lead for 3800 leaving myself with about 10,000 behind so I have a good stack to shove river if he calls. He does call rather quickly which again really smelled like a draw to me cuz I had no clue what to put him on. The river was a blank 3 I think. I ship in the rest not wanting to give up on the pot after putting in that many chips, and all draws missed so he’d have to fold a fair amount of the time. He calls and flips KK and I just mucked and left the table. The whole hand was just weird and his line made absolutely no sense to me so I can honestly say I got owned really hard there lol. I’m not the type to sit around and grind at 10k the first day just hoping to make it to day two so busting early isn’t necessarily a bad thing as long as I do good when I do make it deep 
Annette_15 blog
Even with one early bust, anticipate further tournament domination from this young woman!
