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$3.30 90 Player KO SNG. Early on. KK in SB. READ ME

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  1. CHAOS4481 CHAOS4481 is offline

    Chicago, IL
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    Jul 27th, 2008 (7/27/2008 2:56am)

    I've already shown a couple good hands and then this happens. Can I get away from this? I said to myself, "If he has AA then I'm meant to go broke." What do you do?

    Full Tilt Poker Game #7392469021: $3 + $0.30 KO Sit & Go (56215779), Table 3 - 20/40 - No Limit Hold'em - 2:45:19 ET - 2008/07/27

    Seat 1: J_Spades_15 (2,985)

    Seat 2: HolyBabyJesus (3,120)

    Seat 3: mousmer (2,895)

    Seat 5: MickRen1980s (2,730)

    Seat 6: gunner610 (2,895)

    Seat 7: CHAOS4481 (2,865)

    Seat 8: squeekgee (3,000)

    Seat 9: peter biaz (6,510)

    CHAOS4481 posts the small blind of 20

    squeekgee posts the big blind of 40

    The button is in seat #6

    *** HOLE CARDS ***

    Dealt to CHAOS4481 [Kc Kh]

    peter biaz folds

    J_Spades_15 has 15 seconds left to act

    J_Spades_15 is sitting out

    J_Spades_15 has timed out

    J_Spades_15 folds

    HolyBabyJesus folds

    mousmer folds

    MickRen1980s calls 40

    gunner610 folds

    J_Spades_15 has returned

    CHAOS4481 has 15 seconds left to act

    CHAOS4481 raises to 180

    squeekgee calls 140

    MickRen1980s calls 140

    *** FLOP *** [Qc 4h 4s]

    CHAOS4481 has 15 seconds left to act

    CHAOS4481 bets 400

    squeekgee raises to 2,820, and is all in

    MickRen1980s folds

    CHAOS4481 has 15 seconds left to act...

    Results later....
  2. gguk2008 gguk2008 is offline

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    Jul 27th, 2008 (7/27/2008 3:31pm) in reply to CHAOS4481

    I love this flop if I have KK. Though I bet he has either A-4 or 4-4 and has played it super-crazy and you're wondering why he didn't even both with value-betting and just shoved it?
  3. woertink woertink is offline

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    Jul 27th, 2008 (7/27/2008 10:58pm) in reply to gguk2008

    get ur chips in uber fast.
  4. CHAOS4481 CHAOS4481 is offline

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    Jul 28th, 2008 (7/28/2008 3:15pm) in reply to woertink

    Results:

    I took every possible second to make this decision. I like this tournament and have won it a few times. I hate getting my chips in this early in this tournament so I really had to think about this. I convinced myself that since he called the 4.5x raise pre, he must have either AA or mayyyyybe QQ. After nearly hitting the fold button several times, I called. Of course he turned over A4off for the set. To make matters even worse, the turn was an A for a boat. I just dont understand how people can call a 4.5x raise pre with A4off this early in a long tournament.

    Can someone explain this to me? Could I have possibly played this differently and given myself a better chance of getting away? I'm not always results oriented. In this case I feel like I played the hand correctly and a weaker player just got lucky...
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  5. rjakub rjakub is offline

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    Jul 28th, 2008 (7/28/2008 3:21pm) in reply to CHAOS4481

    Call! GL
  6. shady1128 shady1128 is offline

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    Jul 28th, 2008 (7/28/2008 5:56pm) in reply to CHAOS4481

    I played in a tournament yesterday where I played very patiently, picked up the pots I needed to and put myself into a position to set up a nice stack. It came down to me re-popping all-in with JJ after a guy with an equal stack raised enough to make my re-raise realistic. He made the call and turned over KQ, albeit we were in a race situation he couldn't possibly have known this and more then likely I'm going to have him dominated in this situation. I'd only shown down KK so far at this table. (we were down to 51 players/27 made the money). The board ran 7 4 7 K 7. I lost the race which in itself wasn't a big deal, but I couldn't get over the fact that this guy had called with KQ when he could have folded pre-flop and hadn't been totally pot committed by any stretch. It would have cost him 7000 to call a pot of 10000.

    The bottom line is this: Sometimes you're going to lose no matter how well you play. Sometimes you will put your money in with the worst of it and sometimes you're going to get shafted so hard you'll never feel like you can look at cards again, but that's why we play the game. Your play was fine and most of the time you'll see AQ or KQ get turned over there in my experience. It was a weird push with A4 considering the size of the pot.
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