I play lots of poker torunaments, here is a play, what would you do
after i see the replies i will tellyou what i did and what the result was
late in a $15000 game, blinds were $12,000 and $6000, i was big blind, I had
$45,000 left after big blind post. I had ace 7, everyone folded to small blind, she
made what seemed to be automatic raise of $25,000.
There were only 7 of left out of 100, so every spot up was worth a few hundred
hundred more in prise money. Out of the remaining players there was only 1
guy with a similar amount of chips, other had more.
Choices were to fold, at which case i had 7 more hands to make the final
decision, or play. the play had to be all in or fold.
What would you do
gman
Replies:
Posted by: TommyC on January 27, 2014, 5:14 pm
Posted by: Chuckman on January 27, 2014, 5:44 pm
I agree. All in. Wizard of Odds has an unsuited A7 winning 57.17% of the time heads up. Your use of the term "seemed automatic" made me think she was trying to steal the blind. Without knowing more about any patterns or trends you detected in her betting over the course of the tournament makes that a gut reaction for me as an outsider.
Posted by: Pit Boss on January 27, 2014, 6:18 pm
You will not be blinded out when the button comes to you, but A7 with about 3 big blinds is certainly qualified as an auto shove in my book.
I also don’t like to play for cash positions, if you have the right card and position, I don’t want to think about letting someone else bust out so I can advance 1 position. If this hand pans out, the player would be in a much higher payout position than the single payout advance of the next lowest chip-stack busting out. If this hand wins against the SB, then this situation will give the player just short of 10 big blinds with the button coming in one more deal.
I just texted Not2Soon, I would love to see his reaction to this as well
Posted by: the gman on January 27, 2014, 9:20 pm
buy the blind. I felt i had her beat.
She had JQ and caught a J on the river.
such is life, had i won the hand i would have had $110,000 in chips and should have
been able to make it to the final 4 easy.
Oh well but have been doing fine, last 4 tournaments i had a 1st, 2nd 8th and 11th
as long as i get paid a little to play, i am a happy camper.
gman
Posted by: Not2soon on January 27, 2014, 10:06 pm
You played this correctly. My only concern is that you were left with 5 big blinds before this. Did you make another play in the last five rounds or so that did not work out? Did you have no opportunities in the last 5 rounds or did you allow yourself to blind down?
Allowing yourself to blind down too low in a tournament is a common mistake. You must play these more aggressively than cash games and take more risks.
It is better to go broke at spot 15-20 out out of the money two out of three times if that one time that works puts you at the final table with 20-30 big blinds rather than 5. This will give you a huge opportunity to go deep the one time rather than make place 7-10 three times. Getting first or second place once is usually much more profitable than making the final table three or four times.
Just something to think about.
Not2soon
Posted by: Pit Boss on January 27, 2014, 10:38 pm
Posted by: the gman on January 28, 2014, 2:52 pm
This particular tournament is terrible, they raise the blinds so big and so fast that only 1
or 2 people have enough chips to play after they get to the final table.
As an example the first round at the final table had blinds of $6000, $12,000 and
I had the 7th amount of chips at about $55,000. They have only 760,000 chips in play
for the entire tournament, that is an average of 76,000 per 10 players.
The only reason anyone plays in this nonsense is that this casino does not report any
wins to the government. I have won it twice so it is a consideration.
gman
