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  1. DaneW DaneW is offline

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    Jul 23rd, 2007 (7/23/2007 1:44am)

    I have only played in one live poker tournament prior to this afternoons 55+5$ buy in at the Century casino in Edmonton. (The first live tourney I played I won) So I went into this one really confident. It was a well organized tourney with about 60 players or so. I make it to the final table and the first couple hands I steal the ante's with mediocre hands on the button/cuttoff. Every other hand the chipleader was raising with a9os, kjos and calling re-raises and re-raise all-in's. Anywho... he raises his standard raise 3XBB which is like 18K at this point in the tourney and it's folded to me... I look down at Ac Jc and re-push for like less then his raise... he had to call like 12K more, he flips over AQos and hits top 2 on the flop and I bust, walk over and give him the old left handed shake and say NH.

    Also... there were 9 left and top 6 got paid and I am about 3'rd in chips.

    Was this the right play? Should I have folded. I haven't played much live and I am looking to play more of it.

    ANY INPUT is needed.... thank you sirs.
  2. dank773 dank773 is offline

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    Jul 23rd, 2007 (7/23/2007 2:07am) in reply to DaneW

    Well, you need to take a stand eventually if he's raising the majority of the hands. And with the blinds being so high, it gives you almost 0 fold equity. It depends on what's important to you, if you're looking to make the cash, you can fold. If you know he's been raising light, then you can stick your last chips in there and know he's going to call and at you're probably a 65-35 favorite.

    The push is probably the right play, just unlucky that he woke up with a hand that dominates yours.
  3. pageh656 pageh656 is offline

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    Jul 23rd, 2007 (7/23/2007 2:16am) in reply to DaneW

    need more info on the chip stack situations of the table, i dont liek folding vs vv active players when i have legit hands late tho, probly fine.
     
  4. DaneW DaneW is offline

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    Jul 23rd, 2007 (7/23/2007 2:58am) in reply to pageh656

    I was in the cutoff, there were 3 more people to act after me. Blinds were 3K/6K... I was third in chips with around 35K, he was chipleader with about 55K total. I thought about going for the win that is the only reason I called... I didn't want just like a small profit I wanted the whole thing. I thought my hand was good so I called. Yeah. I think I played the whole thing 99.89% perfect.
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  5. skeeze666 skeeze666 is offline

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    Jul 23rd, 2007 (7/23/2007 10:58am) in reply to DaneW

    I fold every day and twice on Sunday. Just because he is raising a lot does not mean you have to take AJ to war for all your money, which from what yous aid he would not be folding for your re-raise amount.

    AJ in general really isn't that strong - if it was folded to you, yeah, open the betting, but being 3rd in chips you could have waited for a better spot most likely.

    Yes, blinds are high, but this common in these types of tourneys. I play quite a few live $50 buy ins where the final table is all in your situation. I'm not saying to wait and blind out or just squeek into the money... but taking AJ against a guy who could have any two, including AQ/AK or a pair, is not ideal, in my opinion.
  6. Flightless Flightless is offline

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    Jul 24th, 2007 (7/24/2007 12:37am) in reply to DaneW

    Let me see if I've got this right...

    You were 3rd in chips.. with approx 30k (18k+12k) with blinds at 3k/6k?

    So there were 6 people who had less than 30k?

    What an insane tourney structure...

    anyway.. I dont think that play was bad - just got unlucky. However seeing as you were ~3rd, there were probably people with less than a blind or two so I might have waited.
  7. Admiral Admiral is offline

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    Jul 24th, 2007 (7/24/2007 12:45am) in reply to DaneW

    wow worst tournamnt structure ever, there is nothing you can do besides push and hope to be ahead in the kind of tournament
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