Pogo27
Okay, it's a bounty tournament. You get a $25 chip (live play, not tournament) for every player you knock out.
Blinds are 150/300. I'm in the SB. BB is pretty short stacked. He's got about 1350 after posting, I think. UTG player is super-stack. I'm medium stack, got somewhere around 5000.
UTG player limps. Folds to me, I look at KJ:hearts: and call. BB checks.
Flop comes T85 with two hearts. I check. BB moves all in. I start thinking "if UTG folds, I call. if UTG calls, I push," and just as I get to that point in my thought process, UTG player says "I raise."
He min raises, making it an even 3k. Now it's on me, and if I move all in, it's only 2k more for UTG to call. I consider that he might be raising to isolate and essentially buy an opportunity at the $25, but I also half consider that he might actually have a hand, and I'm in a position with 15 outs, 6 of which could very easily give someone two pair, and 8 of which possibly give someone the A-high flush.
I decided to fold.
BB turns over 97. He was making a semibluff with a straight draw. UTG turns over QT, for top pair.
Turn is A :spades:, river is A :hearts:. So, I would've ended up making the flush, double-and-a-halfing, and getting another $25 bounty chip. But that's results-oriented...
I don't know...if I had the A-high flush draw, I think I'm pushing this in an instant, because I feel often enough UTG is raising with a a fairly weak hand because he's ahead right now and he doesn't want me to have the $25. But with just the K-high, I actually put UTG on AT:hearts:.
I don't know. What do you guys think? I think it was the right play, even though I would've got much needed chips, and another piece of my buy-in back.
I ended up finishing 8th out of 48. Only $$ I got was $50 from two bounties, but after $85 buy-in, that's still down $35. I was pretty much staying between between 2k and 8k in chips for most of the tournament, and busted when I had to post the 4k+100 ante out of my 5100 stack.
The problem was, when it got down to 11 players, it stayed there for a long time, so my table had 5 players, the other table had 6, I was card dead, and there were a couple of superstacks. I managed only to buy the blinds once (from UTG with 88) and ended up having to fold the next two blinds. Blinds were eating me up short handed.
Funny thing was, the big stacks were complaining about being short handed. We're talking about guys who had as many white (1k) chips as I had black (100) chips. I'm completely convinced that if I ever manage to double up during the first level in one of these tourneys, I'm going to end up winning the whole thing and collecting a lot of bounties. Unlike most of the players in these tourneys, I know how to play the big stacks...I just can't manage to build a big stack early.
Blinds are 150/300. I'm in the SB. BB is pretty short stacked. He's got about 1350 after posting, I think. UTG player is super-stack. I'm medium stack, got somewhere around 5000.
UTG player limps. Folds to me, I look at KJ:hearts: and call. BB checks.
Flop comes T85 with two hearts. I check. BB moves all in. I start thinking "if UTG folds, I call. if UTG calls, I push," and just as I get to that point in my thought process, UTG player says "I raise."
He min raises, making it an even 3k. Now it's on me, and if I move all in, it's only 2k more for UTG to call. I consider that he might be raising to isolate and essentially buy an opportunity at the $25, but I also half consider that he might actually have a hand, and I'm in a position with 15 outs, 6 of which could very easily give someone two pair, and 8 of which possibly give someone the A-high flush.
I decided to fold.
BB turns over 97. He was making a semibluff with a straight draw. UTG turns over QT, for top pair.
Turn is A :spades:, river is A :hearts:. So, I would've ended up making the flush, double-and-a-halfing, and getting another $25 bounty chip. But that's results-oriented...
I don't know...if I had the A-high flush draw, I think I'm pushing this in an instant, because I feel often enough UTG is raising with a a fairly weak hand because he's ahead right now and he doesn't want me to have the $25. But with just the K-high, I actually put UTG on AT:hearts:.
I don't know. What do you guys think? I think it was the right play, even though I would've got much needed chips, and another piece of my buy-in back.
I ended up finishing 8th out of 48. Only $$ I got was $50 from two bounties, but after $85 buy-in, that's still down $35. I was pretty much staying between between 2k and 8k in chips for most of the tournament, and busted when I had to post the 4k+100 ante out of my 5100 stack.
The problem was, when it got down to 11 players, it stayed there for a long time, so my table had 5 players, the other table had 6, I was card dead, and there were a couple of superstacks. I managed only to buy the blinds once (from UTG with 88) and ended up having to fold the next two blinds. Blinds were eating me up short handed.
Funny thing was, the big stacks were complaining about being short handed. We're talking about guys who had as many white (1k) chips as I had black (100) chips. I'm completely convinced that if I ever manage to double up during the first level in one of these tourneys, I'm going to end up winning the whole thing and collecting a lot of bounties. Unlike most of the players in these tourneys, I know how to play the big stacks...I just can't manage to build a big stack early.