i was disgusted last night, but this is how it went after the 2nd break:
I pick up A/9 on the button, it gets folded around, and I raise. The SB shoves instantly. He'd been playing like a wild man and was chip leader at the table, and i called, putting him on something like K/J or that type of range. He turns over pocket 8s. I rivered a straight when a 3 came. A couple hands later I pick up pocket Queens, come in for a raise, and the same guy shoves all in. I call and he turns over pocket deuces. My hand holds up, and 5 minutes out of the break I've quadrupled up and am in a good position. I get into one more head's up match against the same guy (at this point, he's still fuming over the beat with his 8s) and take his last 4,000 chips -- don't remember what the hands were.
So any way, the blinds were 200/400 with a 50 ante, I have roughly 20k in chips (about 7k above average), and the table is playing pretty solid poker now that the fish have gone home. There were a few deep stacks playing tight and the short stacks were folding everything, waiting on a hand.
So anyway, I pick up A/Q in 3rd position, raise 4x the BB, and it gets folded to the BB, who moves all in. He had roughly half the stack as me. I debated, feeling sick about it. I call, not really thinking I should fold in this spot. He turns over pocket 7s (which was the range I put him on)and his hand holds up. There went half my stack. A couple hands later, feeling crippled and desperate, I was all in against the same guy with A/J suited -- he had A/K and knocked me out.
So within 30 minutes after the break, I went from severely short stacked, to chip leader (at the table), to bust. I really don't think I could have done much stealing early on, as I had a crazy man to my left the whole time. Should I have folded A/Q at that moment? I was on a nice high, and losing that hand was a crusher. Maybe I should have avoided playing a big pot for a while, allow myself to get back into the flow of things, but at the same time, it's hard to stay out of it when you see a chance to build your stack -- if that goddamn A/Q could have held up, that would've put me to 30k and I could've started leaning on the short stacks.
anyway, finished somewhere around 6500th place, but feel like i was so close to finishing much deeper.
I pick up A/9 on the button, it gets folded around, and I raise. The SB shoves instantly. He'd been playing like a wild man and was chip leader at the table, and i called, putting him on something like K/J or that type of range. He turns over pocket 8s. I rivered a straight when a 3 came. A couple hands later I pick up pocket Queens, come in for a raise, and the same guy shoves all in. I call and he turns over pocket deuces. My hand holds up, and 5 minutes out of the break I've quadrupled up and am in a good position. I get into one more head's up match against the same guy (at this point, he's still fuming over the beat with his 8s) and take his last 4,000 chips -- don't remember what the hands were.
So any way, the blinds were 200/400 with a 50 ante, I have roughly 20k in chips (about 7k above average), and the table is playing pretty solid poker now that the fish have gone home. There were a few deep stacks playing tight and the short stacks were folding everything, waiting on a hand.
So anyway, I pick up A/Q in 3rd position, raise 4x the BB, and it gets folded to the BB, who moves all in. He had roughly half the stack as me. I debated, feeling sick about it. I call, not really thinking I should fold in this spot. He turns over pocket 7s (which was the range I put him on)and his hand holds up. There went half my stack. A couple hands later, feeling crippled and desperate, I was all in against the same guy with A/J suited -- he had A/K and knocked me out.
So within 30 minutes after the break, I went from severely short stacked, to chip leader (at the table), to bust. I really don't think I could have done much stealing early on, as I had a crazy man to my left the whole time. Should I have folded A/Q at that moment? I was on a nice high, and losing that hand was a crusher. Maybe I should have avoided playing a big pot for a while, allow myself to get back into the flow of things, but at the same time, it's hard to stay out of it when you see a chance to build your stack -- if that goddamn A/Q could have held up, that would've put me to 30k and I could've started leaning on the short stacks.
anyway, finished somewhere around 6500th place, but feel like i was so close to finishing much deeper.
I was watching a traing video last night from a pretty good player...he was actually going over someone elses hand history....They were prolly around the bubble and the guy had a decent stack.
What he said was at this point he didnt really want to open with a hand he had to fold if reraised. The guy had 77 UTG, he said fold it, to many to act behind with to deep of stacks. AQ he said fold it....same thing, with no real short stacks left to act a lot of things can happen with AQ/77 and none of them are good...for 1 u will b OOP to anyone that calls....if u miss the flop you'll more than likely have to Cbet and fold THAT to a reraise compounding the situation even more.
At those stages of a tourny you must be looking to build ur stack without a showdown and playing hands almost exclusively in position...
Ill let you know how that works....one of these days...lol
What he said was at this point he didnt really want to open with a hand he had to fold if reraised. The guy had 77 UTG, he said fold it, to many to act behind with to deep of stacks. AQ he said fold it....same thing, with no real short stacks left to act a lot of things can happen with AQ/77 and none of them are good...for 1 u will b OOP to anyone that calls....if u miss the flop you'll more than likely have to Cbet and fold THAT to a reraise compounding the situation even more.
At those stages of a tourny you must be looking to build ur stack without a showdown and playing hands almost exclusively in position...
Ill let you know how that works....one of these days...lol
uppy:Well just lowered the avg a lil more....Out on the very 1st hand!!!!!!! Decided to play the $10 100 seat at Stars. i get 42s very 1st hand in the SB. 1 limp, i call.....flop comes 24K with 2 spades, we all ck, BB bets 100...limper folds, i make it 300 and BB shoves....i call...24 vs..K2...Im out........
