Bubbled in $60 $4k guaranteed… Arggh!! HELP!

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Data: Was short stacked last hour...I played tight as hell cuz the last hour i played medium hole cards and missed every time!! Until I had to all-in short-stacked with a flush draw and made it...Keep in mind this is the largest tourney I have played in (I won my way in through satelites). 9th place (last pay level) was $120 which is huge to a micro player. I had between $11k and $4k the last hour or so and nothing was hitting! I watched rabbits etc....These were my last hands… starting with$8k Blinds: $800, $400 6 7s,
10 2, 6 10 off, A6 off, Ac9h off Flop: 8q6 all diams 6 turn.
10 10 (my best hand in an hour – flop is 46A 2 hearts raisedup $1,600 I’m glad I folded pf. My guess is ace was held.– but this may be my only pf mistake.)
104 off, J8s, J10 off,
44 UTG +1 folded. Some may play this but I was getting shorstackedand at about 15th place.
K10 off folded flop (552) raiser of $3600
J3s, 79off,
I have A2s but all-in raise in front of me… argghhh
Q5 off, K5 off, 97, J10 off, K7s, J7, 49 off
AA dblled up!!!
A10 folded to AQ, JJ – gd fold!
39 off, 8 10 s, 6 10, 97 off, Q3s, 103 off, 67s,
Last hand $4k left UTG before $1,200, $600 blinds hit me: KJ off all-in and I lose to K 10!!! River str8!!!!
Could I have played any better? Had a $90k stack at my table and a $20 k going all-in all the time.
 
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BTW: I took 10th out of like 76 or so I think. 1st was paid out: $1,337.60. I feel gd I outplayed 67 people but sheetty I couldnt get one more hand to connect - next guy had $7,900 in chips so all i needed was one stinkin hand to make $120. off a free sattelite entry!
 
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Kind of hard for me to decipher the way you are relaying the hand history, so I won't give any opinion on whether I think you could have played better or not, but if it's any consolation I bubbled the sunday 125k at merge on a freeroll entry and goodness did it feel terrible.

P.S. I have been running very hot ever since though, I hope you do too!
 
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You folded way too many hands you should have shoved with that short stack. Not gonna break it down the way you gave the info above gives me a headache but with your stack you are shoving most of your hands pre-flop - not all but most.
 
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LaserCats said:
Data: Was short stacked last hour...I played tight as hell cuz the last hour i played medium hole cards and missed every time!! Until I had to all-in short-stacked with a flush draw and made it...Keep in mind this is the largest tourney I have played in (I won my way in through satelites). 9th place (last pay level) was $120 which is huge to a micro player. I had between $11k and $4k the last hour or so and nothing was hitting! I watched rabbits etc....These were my last hands… starting with$8k Blinds: $800, $400 6 7s,
10 2, 6 10 off, A6 off, Ac9h off Flop: 8q6 all diams 6 turn.
10 10 (my best hand in an hour – flop is 46A 2 hearts raisedup $1,600 I’m glad I folded pf. My guess is ace was held.– but this may be my only pf mistake.)
104 off, J8s, J10 off,
44 UTG +1 folded. Some may play this but I was getting shorstackedand at about 15th place.
K10 off folded flop (552) raiser of $3600
J3s, 79off,
I have A2s but all-in raise in front of me… argghhh
Q5 off, K5 off, 97, J10 off, K7s, J7, 49 off
AA dblled up!!!
A10 folded to AQ, JJ – gd fold!
39 off, 8 10 s, 6 10, 97 off, Q3s, 103 off, 67s,
Last hand $4k left UTG before $1,200, $600 blinds hit me: KJ off all-in and I lose to K 10!!! River str8!!!!
Could I have played any better? Had a $90k stack at my table and a $20 k going all-in all the time.
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Yah, as already mentioned it's next to impossible to give you any solid advice re: hands because you haven't given us much to go from here 'BUT' when I see something like "KTo flop XXX I fold" it makes me wonder > "how big was our stack pre.. how did we get to seeing a flop? .. what position were we in on the table & what was the preflop action???
Another that has me questioning > (not verbatum) .. something along the lines of "I rabbitted & everything & "would've lost" (or 'not hit'). when that means very little. What's important is > are we making the correct decisions at any given moment in time (not based on the result of how the cards fell 'after the fact').
ie. I can't imagine not getting it in with the TT hand (although again I don't really know the specifics of the hand).

Sucks to be bubble boy for sure though :(
 
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Sorry i dont have hand hstory copy paste thingy down yet. My thought was just wait to get AA KK QQ JJ and shove - but after 50 hands and nothing. I waited for a weak spot with 10 10 lets say - but they were all raising. When I watched the rabbits to see what they had - i was always beat. My reads were solid. My last hand that would have put me in the money was KJ. a K 10 hit a str8 on river . I think I playe it as well as I could - remember all those shoves aorund me would have resulted in me cashing as well. So I have two ways to cash.
 
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You shouldnt put yourself in a situation though where you will get blinded out if you dont all in almost every 5 hands.
 
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Can't wait for premiums all the time, had to pick up blinds with marginal hands in good spots, a lot of people will not call you off with a damaging stack on the bubble. But if it's 3x bb or less, why not?
 
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WatchThis907 said:
Can't wait for premiums all the time, had to pick up blinds with marginal hands in good spots, a lot of people will not call you off with a damaging stack on the bubble. But if it's 3x bb or less, why not?
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Thanks - that seems standard - my only other thought was how tight to be when chips are flying everywhere - people were busting out quite quick. There were 2 other stacks about at my level that dbld up but could have busted with marginal hands. I decided to sit back and letem play their 60%/40% hands. I beleive I ultimatley got my cards in with the best hand - and simply loist but yeah - I wasnt going to get anyone to fold to my meager all in with 3xBB left. If my goal was to place in top 3 I would have went all in lot more - and earlier - but I just wanted last place LOL.
 
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You definitely wrote that in code :/

Am i correct in seeing you folded 1010 preflop as a shorty??
 
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pierceisgod said:
You shouldnt put yourself in a situation though where you will get blinded out if you dont all in almost every 5 hands.
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Agree with this. Especially since on the final table bubble it is only 5 handed, it is impossible to keep folding and just pray that somebody else busts.
 
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