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smellikerurx
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I know the answer to this question is probably "play better" or "just trust them" but I'll throw it out so all the good players can have a good laugh or two. I am a mid to low level tourny player, online and live. Playing poker for a couple years, I am fairly good at figuring out players hand ranges fairly quickly. When it gets to mid to late stages of tournies I still can put players on a hand that is close to what they have, but still end up making a bad play and donking off all my chips.
ex.
Today I was at the Vanitian playing in their tourny. It was mid level of the tourny, I had about 20 bb and was under the gun. Made my standard raise of 2.5 bb with pocket Q's. The player to my left, who is tight and aggresive and had slightly more chips then I do, and has demistrated a pretty good game, Calls. flop come 2h 7d 8d. I put out a 1/2 size pot raise. He min raises me. I put in a reraise, and he shoves all in. I say you have a set, and then make the call. He turns over pocket 8 and lose.
So if you got any techinques besides stop being a retard to throw my way on trusting my read, that would be cool.
ex.
Today I was at the Vanitian playing in their tourny. It was mid level of the tourny, I had about 20 bb and was under the gun. Made my standard raise of 2.5 bb with pocket Q's. The player to my left, who is tight and aggresive and had slightly more chips then I do, and has demistrated a pretty good game, Calls. flop come 2h 7d 8d. I put out a 1/2 size pot raise. He min raises me. I put in a reraise, and he shoves all in. I say you have a set, and then make the call. He turns over pocket 8 and lose.
So if you got any techinques besides stop being a retard to throw my way on trusting my read, that would be cool.