After a 3rd place finish in an 18 player Sit-N-Go, I’ve covered my previous 4th place losses and are now even for the day, which ain’t bad. I think I have played well for the day and was just unfortunate not to make any progress.
In the final game, I was unfortunate to be very low on chips, even after doubling up by busting the 4th place finisher, both of my opponents had commanding chip leads and my luck ran out before I could outlast or bust one of them.
Not winning the tournament came down to an earlier hand though, where I lost a huge pot with AT. I had top pair, but a weak kicker and would usually play this soft, but with a flush draw on the flop I felt I had to bet out in case he was on the draw.
Here’s a link to a thread on HPT about this problem, with a link to this particular hand :
http://forums.homepokertourney.com/index.php/topic,12894.0.html
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December 3rd, 2007
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LuckyStraights |
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Just been railed in 4th in my first game. I got lucky very early with AQs and doubled up through a busted flush draw and held onto a similar size stack all the way to 4 handed.
I felt like a bit of a rock though, at one point, I only saw the flop 6% of the time, but with a healthy stack, although not a huge one and no cards I didn’t feel the need to gamble. When it came down to 4 handed though, I think I left it a little too late and should have picked up more pots as I was now the short stack.
I think I played the final hand OK, but I have ran into the same situation several times before so I’m not sure. My reasoning on this hand, where two fold, I couldn’t check on such a safe flop, I was certain he didn’t have trips and give a free card to hit a king, queen or ace, and a standard raise was surely getting called by AK / AQ, so I thought pushing here was my best option.
I hate my minimum re-raise, but I guess I played it scared and wanted to take a look at the flop before I pushed, in hindsight I was probably better just jamming pre-flop instead of being overly worried about a rag ace calling, given this fact I was probably better simply calling his raise rather then re-raising the minimum.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1764363
December 3rd, 2007
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LuckyStraights |
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