VizziVizo
Visionary
Silver Level
This has happened so much i have begun to make generalized decisions about early game play. i.e. There are so many people just shoving that unless i have aa or kk pre-flop i can't get involved in a hand with a large raiser ahead of me.
Trust me the suckouts can come back to back to back to back to back. I recall sitting at a site when i was multi-tabling 4 tables at once. I simultaneously went out on all 4 tables on bad beats it was ridiculous. SO just keep ya head up and make +ev decisions and it will work out for ya.This is the first time I have had so many suckouts back to back. Is this common to happen from time to time?
This isn't your only problem. Another is that you're asking the wrong questions, or at least not the best ones. You're asking why they won't fold and/or how you get them to fold. The reality is that they won't fold as often as (you think) they should, so it's more important to ask yourself other questions such as how to deal with the fact they do call, or whether it might be a good idea to get yourself into such situations less often.The only problem I've had with that style of play is when I run into a decent hand and there are so many people in the hand that I can not bet them to fold draws. When there are 5 callers the drawing odds end up being against a winning hand on the flop if the possibility for straights, flushes, boats, exist.
As to suckouts and busting out it is just a part of tourney poker.
The great Stu Ungar (3 time winner of WSOP main event and other large events) said the hardest thing about the ME was surviving to day 2. Once he did that, he knew he would probably win. The early stages of tourneys are riddled with land mines and even the best players blow up their stacks. And this was when ME fields were about 300 players. The bigger the field the more likely it is that you bust before the money.
My team and I just travelled to a live poker series. Between the 3 of us we played 17 events and we all bricked all of them except our satellites. (We all won several satellites). Now, 0 for 17 might sound really bad but it is totally normal variance. I guarantee you we are good experienced players and between the 3 of us we have just under a million dollars in live earnings (993,000 actually most of which came from our coach's record). We didn't play bad and we didn't even exactly run bad. It's just poker.
I played 10 hours yesterday. Amassed a 40k stack when avg was 18k. Win a small pot with KK once, had AK twice and broke even on it. Had QQ once and won the blinds. Those were the only premiums I got dealt in 10 hours. You can't sit around and wait for premiums in a large MTT. I was table chip leader almost entire tourney by playing in position and by playing situations not my cards. When life hands you lemons make lemonade.
And I busted 40 players from the money. Oh well...I played those hands right and I lost. Embrace variance or play cash.