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Kyle Fowler
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Hey guys,
I just want to talk about what happened to me at my local casino last night and see what others with a little more experience have to say about it.
So to start, the tournament was a $100 buy-in Deep Stack turbo w/rebuys up until first break. 15K Starting Stack. 10 min levels.
I am a new player at the casino (3rd MTT at this/any casino), none of the players at my starting table knew me, but almost all of them knew eachother. So right away I knew I was at a disadvantage having no previous information on any of these players. I started off the tournament very slowly, playing tight but also getting card dead - making me appear even tighter than I am.
Shortly before the first break (rebuy cut-off), on my BB, cut-off position min-raised and dealer/SB fold to me and I defended with A7s heads-up. Flop comes 8-8-2 with one of my suit. I check-raised his min bet to 2k. Feeling that I could bluff this player off the pot (3k in the pot prior to my 3-bet) since he was a little more aggressive with out of position raises. He 4-bet me to 6k and I folded the hand - knowing that his 4-bet range should better than A7s+ against me if he's reading me as a tight player. Now in hindsight I realize I may have been good against this player. Just before re-buy cut off he shipped all his chips blind against another blind player so one of them could re-buy. Knowing his plan was to try and re-buy anyways I speculate I may have had a better hand with my ace - even going as far to mention re-buying after he won the pot.
After this hand a separate player commented on the 4-bet "smelt something fishy?". The player responded that he noticed I was a very tight player and wasn't even defending my blinds up until now. Right then and there I felt I was outted as a weak player to the table - which my own mindset ultimately defeated me with a poor read later on...
My strategy now going into the next levels was to raise heavy on a suited connector hand basically anywhere from T6s+/67o+ something in that range. Hoping a player will call thinking I have paint or better. This way, if the flop comes paint, I should be able to bluff him off. Or if the flop comes mid-range, I will hit and be able to win the hand.
Is this a sound strategy for the circumstance I was in or should I have just continued to wait out the dead hands until I hit a monster or could play the lower part of my range for a decent price?
Unfortunately I never got an opportunity to execute my plan. At the $300/$600 level not long after the break (I had approx 18 BB in my stack). My position was SB. UTG min raised with 2 out of position calls. Dealer folds to me. I call the min raise with A4o. BB jams the 5.4k Pot for 10k+ (just barely covering my stack) and everyone folds to me. I made a poor read believing he was trying to buy the pot. Called and ran into AKs. Flopped a wheel draw and missed.
I felt like such an idiot walking out of that room - my worst placing in the 3 MTT's I've played at this casino.
If anyone has any advice for me I would love to hear it. Thank you.
I just want to talk about what happened to me at my local casino last night and see what others with a little more experience have to say about it.
So to start, the tournament was a $100 buy-in Deep Stack turbo w/rebuys up until first break. 15K Starting Stack. 10 min levels.
I am a new player at the casino (3rd MTT at this/any casino), none of the players at my starting table knew me, but almost all of them knew eachother. So right away I knew I was at a disadvantage having no previous information on any of these players. I started off the tournament very slowly, playing tight but also getting card dead - making me appear even tighter than I am.
Shortly before the first break (rebuy cut-off), on my BB, cut-off position min-raised and dealer/SB fold to me and I defended with A7s heads-up. Flop comes 8-8-2 with one of my suit. I check-raised his min bet to 2k. Feeling that I could bluff this player off the pot (3k in the pot prior to my 3-bet) since he was a little more aggressive with out of position raises. He 4-bet me to 6k and I folded the hand - knowing that his 4-bet range should better than A7s+ against me if he's reading me as a tight player. Now in hindsight I realize I may have been good against this player. Just before re-buy cut off he shipped all his chips blind against another blind player so one of them could re-buy. Knowing his plan was to try and re-buy anyways I speculate I may have had a better hand with my ace - even going as far to mention re-buying after he won the pot.
After this hand a separate player commented on the 4-bet "smelt something fishy?". The player responded that he noticed I was a very tight player and wasn't even defending my blinds up until now. Right then and there I felt I was outted as a weak player to the table - which my own mindset ultimately defeated me with a poor read later on...
My strategy now going into the next levels was to raise heavy on a suited connector hand basically anywhere from T6s+/67o+ something in that range. Hoping a player will call thinking I have paint or better. This way, if the flop comes paint, I should be able to bluff him off. Or if the flop comes mid-range, I will hit and be able to win the hand.
Is this a sound strategy for the circumstance I was in or should I have just continued to wait out the dead hands until I hit a monster or could play the lower part of my range for a decent price?
Unfortunately I never got an opportunity to execute my plan. At the $300/$600 level not long after the break (I had approx 18 BB in my stack). My position was SB. UTG min raised with 2 out of position calls. Dealer folds to me. I call the min raise with A4o. BB jams the 5.4k Pot for 10k+ (just barely covering my stack) and everyone folds to me. I made a poor read believing he was trying to buy the pot. Called and ran into AKs. Flopped a wheel draw and missed.
I felt like such an idiot walking out of that room - my worst placing in the 3 MTT's I've played at this casino.
If anyone has any advice for me I would love to hear it. Thank you.