Tough Decisions
Tonight I played in another 20 rebuy, quite fast structure with blinds up every 20 mins and TC only 2000.
I was on a sound table , thought I'd play only good cards tonight though and did, I worked my stack up to around $13,000 by the end of the rebuy which made me the chip leader on my table, I had a few good hands KK and AA. Then with my stack starting muscling the table and worked to good effect as without realising it I had around $27,000 when they broke my table up.
Here are a few tough decisions I had, I pick up KK utg, i limp in hope of a raise...pretty standard really. However the raise doesnt come and 2 people limp in with the blinds.Flop comes Q 2 4 (2 diamonds) I bet 2,000 into the $2500 pot and get one caller whom I consider to be tight. Right now I'm thinking a Q or a diamond. Thought hed prolly re raise with a Q. Turn Q. I check, he checks, hmmm what would he check behind me with? A full house most definitely a Q perhaps, a flush draw yes. River 8. I check and he fires out $3000. I do the fake call and bring my chips back to me to think.Its a good bet to be fair , $3k into around $6500. Id do a similar bet with a good hand, plus hes tight so i eliminate the bluffing chances a wee bit. Well , ive checked it to him twice - hes gonna fire out either way on river imo, I call. He announces good call and shows 6d7d. Some people would call alot faaster i did have overpair but I like to think my decisions through carefully I can pass KK there if there is a greater chance in my mind he has me beat.
Another I have 8c6c on button, late calls. I call. Flop 8 10 A. check,check, late bets $1k.I think , hmm at best hes got a Ten (hed raise in late with Ax) so im prolly ahead. Why re raise? Im comfy with my hand I call. Turn 7, he checks and i decide to fire before the board helps him, I raise $2500 and he quickly folds.
I get moved and soon realise my table has a table with many more rebuys then mine and a im no longer the leader on the table. I dont like jumping in and raising when I dont know all knowthe players yet, so I observe for a bit. First hand I play really is 10h 7h, A loose guy in early just limped. Flop comes 10 6 5. He fires out a pot bet of around $5600, I think gees, he could be flushing I dont think he'd bet that much with fuck all but my kicker stinks so I pass. He flips over just a Ten, Phew I was right.Even if i was wrong I didnt need to get involved there with a marginal hand.
Hand I bust out with - BB 9 9. Blinds $1500/$3000. I have around $14000 after I put in the call of the min raes from ep. One guy outside blinds called. Flop falls J 4 2. I check, he fires out big , 10,000 , limper passes. And I debate in my head what he may have, well it was min raise , I am htinking its one of the following QQ,KK,AA,AK.These are the hands I felt he would do taht mvoe with , he was a tight player who is unlikely to invest $10k into a pot with nothing. But I am short stacked...I think longer, okay he wouldnt raise that much on flop with As or Ks he could afford to slowplay them a bit , rainbow flop.Hmm j hi board , he doesnt have taht though. He wouldnt do taht with KJ or AJ, doubtful with JJ and even if he would he wudnt fire out so much. QQ though, there is 2 overcards that could still come, and only slight overpair, that is a hand he wouldnt slow play and same goes for AK. He may fire out with AK, id say 70% of time he would. I move in for the additional $4k and he calls and turns up QQ. And I am out. Bit of a silly move some might think, but I am happy with my conviction ,and if I would win that pot an even amount of times its a sound move if I am short stacked. I felt it had to be QQ or AK.So I was wrong, and finished around 2oth, not too bad, wasnt completely satisified wiht my performance but certainly not angry either. I played quite well, the blinds got up a bit too fast for my liking today as they often are in the 20 rebuy but eh, thats the nature of these low buy in mtts. Thing that was re enforced tonight is to have conviction and not be afraid to make what appears to be unorthodox moves, providing im going with what my read is, true I was wrong this time (though I did narrow it down to AK orQQ ) but at least I had a reason for my call/push. That is something for me to be happy with and maintain i hope.
Ciso.
I was on a sound table , thought I'd play only good cards tonight though and did, I worked my stack up to around $13,000 by the end of the rebuy which made me the chip leader on my table, I had a few good hands KK and AA. Then with my stack starting muscling the table and worked to good effect as without realising it I had around $27,000 when they broke my table up.
Here are a few tough decisions I had, I pick up KK utg, i limp in hope of a raise...pretty standard really. However the raise doesnt come and 2 people limp in with the blinds.Flop comes Q 2 4 (2 diamonds) I bet 2,000 into the $2500 pot and get one caller whom I consider to be tight. Right now I'm thinking a Q or a diamond. Thought hed prolly re raise with a Q. Turn Q. I check, he checks, hmmm what would he check behind me with? A full house most definitely a Q perhaps, a flush draw yes. River 8. I check and he fires out $3000. I do the fake call and bring my chips back to me to think.Its a good bet to be fair , $3k into around $6500. Id do a similar bet with a good hand, plus hes tight so i eliminate the bluffing chances a wee bit. Well , ive checked it to him twice - hes gonna fire out either way on river imo, I call. He announces good call and shows 6d7d. Some people would call alot faaster i did have overpair but I like to think my decisions through carefully I can pass KK there if there is a greater chance in my mind he has me beat.
Another I have 8c6c on button, late calls. I call. Flop 8 10 A. check,check, late bets $1k.I think , hmm at best hes got a Ten (hed raise in late with Ax) so im prolly ahead. Why re raise? Im comfy with my hand I call. Turn 7, he checks and i decide to fire before the board helps him, I raise $2500 and he quickly folds.
I get moved and soon realise my table has a table with many more rebuys then mine and a im no longer the leader on the table. I dont like jumping in and raising when I dont know all knowthe players yet, so I observe for a bit. First hand I play really is 10h 7h, A loose guy in early just limped. Flop comes 10 6 5. He fires out a pot bet of around $5600, I think gees, he could be flushing I dont think he'd bet that much with fuck all but my kicker stinks so I pass. He flips over just a Ten, Phew I was right.Even if i was wrong I didnt need to get involved there with a marginal hand.
Hand I bust out with - BB 9 9. Blinds $1500/$3000. I have around $14000 after I put in the call of the min raes from ep. One guy outside blinds called. Flop falls J 4 2. I check, he fires out big , 10,000 , limper passes. And I debate in my head what he may have, well it was min raise , I am htinking its one of the following QQ,KK,AA,AK.These are the hands I felt he would do taht mvoe with , he was a tight player who is unlikely to invest $10k into a pot with nothing. But I am short stacked...I think longer, okay he wouldnt raise that much on flop with As or Ks he could afford to slowplay them a bit , rainbow flop.Hmm j hi board , he doesnt have taht though. He wouldnt do taht with KJ or AJ, doubtful with JJ and even if he would he wudnt fire out so much. QQ though, there is 2 overcards that could still come, and only slight overpair, that is a hand he wouldnt slow play and same goes for AK. He may fire out with AK, id say 70% of time he would. I move in for the additional $4k and he calls and turns up QQ. And I am out. Bit of a silly move some might think, but I am happy with my conviction ,and if I would win that pot an even amount of times its a sound move if I am short stacked. I felt it had to be QQ or AK.So I was wrong, and finished around 2oth, not too bad, wasnt completely satisified wiht my performance but certainly not angry either. I played quite well, the blinds got up a bit too fast for my liking today as they often are in the 20 rebuy but eh, thats the nature of these low buy in mtts. Thing that was re enforced tonight is to have conviction and not be afraid to make what appears to be unorthodox moves, providing im going with what my read is, true I was wrong this time (though I did narrow it down to AK orQQ ) but at least I had a reason for my call/push. That is something for me to be happy with and maintain i hope.
Ciso.
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