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Gambler47
Rising Star
Bronze Level
I played a tourney earlier today and was involved in a hand kind of similar to what you're asking about. Top 35 places got paid, we were down to 52 left, and keep in mind I don't play to min cash in any tourney, I play to win the thing, why else would anyone play? In the hand I was involved in I was in the CO position with roughly 25 BB's left. I got dealt Ad 5d. Everyone folds around to me and I make a standard 3x BB raise which I usually don't do in any position with a weak A, but since I had been at the table with the same group of people for quite some time and everyone left behind plays rather tight, I went ahead and raised. Button folds, SB calls, BB folds. Flop comes 4d 6d 10c. SB checks to me and I make a C bet, hoping to take the pot then, but the SB calls. My C bet was 2/3 of the pot, which left me about 18 BB's behind. The turn was the Ah and the SB checks to me again. At this point I'm not sure what hand he could have, so I should've checked back to him to see if the nut flush made it on the river, but I made a bad play and bet half the pot, leaving myself about 11 BB's behind. After my 1/2 pot bet, the SB check/raises me all in. I laid it down to play another hand because I felt I was obviously behind and don't like getting my chips in behind or on a draw. Looking back I wish I had checked the turn to see if the diamond came, but hindsight is and always will be 20/20.