StormRaven
Cardschat Elite
Silver Level
Tonight while playing in PS's $3.30+r tourney I found myself doing quite well and ended up going very deep. We started with 6484 people and I went out in 22nd.
I'm happy to have made it that deep but very upset at myself for not at least making the final table. The truth is I screwed up and played bad. I wish I could say I took a bad beat but I played horrible.
It's been a long time since I've gone this deep in a big mtt. For a long time I held on to the 7th spot while we were under 100 people. I did this for awhile then was moved to another table when we were down to about 36 people.
I sat back, breathing in the "flavor" of the table, making notes on my opps and such and found myself going completely card dead and not taking down a pot in 5 orbits. I tried twice to steal from the btn but bb was very aggressive and protected his bb at all costs, even calling an all in shove with Q5 os and flopping 2 pair.
I finally was able to steal 2 orbits in a row from mp2 pos but that was it. I then made a horrible mistake, I convinced myself I was being patient when what I actually was doing was becoming a huge tag fish nit. Major nit really, too much so and of course a couple of the better players picked up on this.
I could see myself making the ft when the following hand happened:
Stacks:
* UTG+1 with 3631802
* MP1 with 1249578
* MP2 with 1521945
* MP3 with 1919272
* CO with 1770966
* BTN with 770307
* SB with 1847726
* BB with 1963852
* UTG with 385518
Blinds: 30000/60000
Site: pokerstars
* * Dealt to CO:J♠ J♥
* * Sklansky group 1
Preflop:
* * 3 players fold.
* * MP2 raises 120000 to 180000
* * 1 players fold.
* * Hero calls [180000]
* * BTN raises 584307 to 764307 [ all-in ]
* * 2 players fold.
* * MP2 raises 751638 to 1515945 [ all-in ]
* * 1 players fold.
* * Uncalled bet (751638) returned to MP2
* * Total folds this street: 7
* * Potsize: 2550252
Flop:
* * 9♣ J♣ 8♥
* * Potsize: 2550252
Turn:
* * 3♣
* * Potsize: 2550252
River:
* * 6♠
Results:
* * MP2 shows a pair of Jacks:
* * A♦ J♦
* * BTN shows a pair of Tens:
* * 10♣ 10♥
* * MP2 collected 1852614 from pot
As you can see, I folded my JJ and would have won. I don't think I quite recovered from that hand, not that it cost me a lot of chips, mentally I mean, I began to question everything too much.
No pots were going unchallenged, so in my defense I really needed to have a decent hand to be in a pot at this table. However, I became too picky on which hands I would play. I called a pfr of 3.5x bb 2x and both times while in pos I folded to a pot sized bet from my opps. Both times I called a LAG (the chip leader) with AQsu and both times folded to a low dry board.
2x I called pfr's from the btn & co with A8su & A9su and checked a flop that provided me with nothing and folded to the cbet when I probably could've taken the pot down if I had led into my opps.
Anyways, my goal is to make ft, not to make it to the next level and I screwed up by being too cautious and becoming a nit.
Any strategy advice about how to play mtt's when you've gone deep, when you're down to the last 3 tables on how to make the ft would be appreciated. Also if you can add strategy on being mostly card dead with a bone thrown in once in a while but would be great.
Thank You!
I'm happy to have made it that deep but very upset at myself for not at least making the final table. The truth is I screwed up and played bad. I wish I could say I took a bad beat but I played horrible.
It's been a long time since I've gone this deep in a big mtt. For a long time I held on to the 7th spot while we were under 100 people. I did this for awhile then was moved to another table when we were down to about 36 people.
I sat back, breathing in the "flavor" of the table, making notes on my opps and such and found myself going completely card dead and not taking down a pot in 5 orbits. I tried twice to steal from the btn but bb was very aggressive and protected his bb at all costs, even calling an all in shove with Q5 os and flopping 2 pair.
I finally was able to steal 2 orbits in a row from mp2 pos but that was it. I then made a horrible mistake, I convinced myself I was being patient when what I actually was doing was becoming a huge tag fish nit. Major nit really, too much so and of course a couple of the better players picked up on this.
I could see myself making the ft when the following hand happened:
Stacks:
* UTG+1 with 3631802
* MP1 with 1249578
* MP2 with 1521945
* MP3 with 1919272
* CO with 1770966
* BTN with 770307
* SB with 1847726
* BB with 1963852
* UTG with 385518
Blinds: 30000/60000
Site: pokerstars
* * Dealt to CO:J♠ J♥
* * Sklansky group 1
Preflop:
* * 3 players fold.
* * MP2 raises 120000 to 180000
* * 1 players fold.
* * Hero calls [180000]
* * BTN raises 584307 to 764307 [ all-in ]
* * 2 players fold.
* * MP2 raises 751638 to 1515945 [ all-in ]
* * 1 players fold.
* * Uncalled bet (751638) returned to MP2
* * Total folds this street: 7
* * Potsize: 2550252
Flop:
* * 9♣ J♣ 8♥
* * Potsize: 2550252
Turn:
* * 3♣
* * Potsize: 2550252
River:
* * 6♠
Results:
* * MP2 shows a pair of Jacks:
* * A♦ J♦
* * BTN shows a pair of Tens:
* * 10♣ 10♥
* * MP2 collected 1852614 from pot
As you can see, I folded my JJ and would have won. I don't think I quite recovered from that hand, not that it cost me a lot of chips, mentally I mean, I began to question everything too much.
No pots were going unchallenged, so in my defense I really needed to have a decent hand to be in a pot at this table. However, I became too picky on which hands I would play. I called a pfr of 3.5x bb 2x and both times while in pos I folded to a pot sized bet from my opps. Both times I called a LAG (the chip leader) with AQsu and both times folded to a low dry board.
2x I called pfr's from the btn & co with A8su & A9su and checked a flop that provided me with nothing and folded to the cbet when I probably could've taken the pot down if I had led into my opps.
Anyways, my goal is to make ft, not to make it to the next level and I screwed up by being too cautious and becoming a nit.
Any strategy advice about how to play mtt's when you've gone deep, when you're down to the last 3 tables on how to make the ft would be appreciated. Also if you can add strategy on being mostly card dead with a bone thrown in once in a while but would be great.
Thank You!