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  1. XTMoney21X XTMoney21X is offline

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    Jul 23rd, 2007 (7/23/2007 1:27am)

    Alright so I was playing in a $125 charity tournament today...there were 7 qualifying tournaments for it (5 giving 14 seats, 2 giving 15) to come up with 100 people starting today..10 cashing and 5k to first.

    <span>If you don't want to read the whole tournament summary, just skip down to the bolded part, which is the hand in question. </span>

    Everybody starts with 10k chips today, 25/50 blinds. I start accumulating a little early on by picking up JJ twice and continue when I was card dead for a long time just by making position raises and never getting called...I hadn't shown down a single hand for the first 4 or 5 hours of play today while building my stack close to 20k.

    Finally, someone realizes I haven't shown a hand down and says something about it and people start wondering...shortly thereafter a couple guys finally play back at me, pushing all in after I made a raise just over 3x the BB. I hollywood on the first one, taking a bunch of time and saying "I can't believe I'm laying this down" before mucking it. I figure it's probably time to slow down but I make another raise to 2500 at 400/800 blinds in mid-position and get played back at and it's definitely time to slow down with the position raise because these guys all want blood now.

    I'm at about 17k when I push AJ after UTG+1 limps, looking to just take down the blinds/antes and get a little healthier. Obv the guy directly to my left (who had 5 too many at this point) beats me into the pot with 88...we're racing and I don't catch up and I'm pretty short...I play a very solid short stack although I struggled at first because pots kept being opened in front of me. I get dangerously short after only being able to pick up 1 pot and posting blinds/antes. It gets folded around to me on the button and I shove K2..get called by the BB who has 44. Two higher pair on the board counterfeit his 4s and I double up but am still very short. I still am pushing any ace, etc. and after picking up a few pots I'm around 12k when I pick up AKs on the button...a tight, passive player in EP makes it 4k to go but then folds when I shove over him. Shortly after this my table breaks.

    We go to 3 tables with 29 players left, I'm on the table with 9 players. First hand I'm there I pick up AT UTG+1 and mean to make a standard raise hoping to show strength so I say "I raise, make it 3k" because I was mistakenly thinking the blinds were at 500/1k 200 ante (the last level), when they were actually 1k/2k 300 ante..the table corrects me and says I have to make it at least 4k...I ask the dealer if I'm allowed to raise more than that or if all I can do is make it double the BB, I'm told that's my only option so I do, and everyone still folds.

    I play 1 orbit without getting involved further, and I find myself sitting on a stack of 17,700 with blinds at 1k/2k 300 ante. Still 29 players left, average stack is 34,482. Table appears to be tight and passive in my limited time.

    <span>Hand in question:</span>
    <span>UTG+1 limps, as does skinhead in seat 6 directly to my right. Skinhead is a solid player but from playing with him at my last table I'm confident he raises all his premium hands, and I put him on a weaker, speculative hand. No real solid reads on UTG+1, though I do not think he's limping a strong hand either. It gets to me in the cutoff, and I announce a raise and then shove. My thinking is I'm getting awfully short with about 9xBB (not factoring in antes) and half the average stack, and I want to accumulate and get back into it and off the short stack. There is 9,900 in the pot before I act, which is more than half my stack. I'm pretty sure I only have to worry about the button and the blinds, all of whom appear to be pretty tight and would likely need a premium hand because even though I'm short I still have a decent amount of fold equity with a shove. </span>

    <span>I was rocking out with 93o but I was making that move with any 2 after the limpers. I think at that point I'd basically been reduced to all in or fold poker as I wouldn't have much fold equity if I made a standard raise with a real hand and saw a flop. With the blinds coming around and antes every hand, I'm only going to keep getting shorter unless I pick up a big hand so I have to make some kind of move, and this looked like a perfect spot to me. I wanted to get off the short stack and get back around average so I could start playing my normal TAG game and continue accumulating, looking to go deep. </span>

    <span>Anyway, obv the SB wakes up with AA and it's gg me after the river couldn't bring me a 5th spade. I'm not being results oriented though, I wasn't too upset after busting because I'm still convinced it was a good play and one that would definitely be +EV in the long run. So yeah, that's my first real live poker experience outside of small .25/.50 cash games and $10 tournaments with friends, I'm really interested to hear some thoughts on that hand. </span>
  2. Jack_Diamondz Jack_Diamondz is offline

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    Jul 23rd, 2007 (7/23/2007 12:59pm) in reply to XTMoney21X

    If your stack is going to cripple the other two players then yeah shoot away.

    I think that your better off waiting for less involvement in the pot though, shoving with Q, K, or A and stealing the blinds to build your stack back.
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