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Snakester420
Rock Star
Silver Level
Sorry for such a long post, in summary I tried a higher buyin and was sucked out on on the bubble. Let me know if I played well or any moves you would change.
I played my first $4 buyin MTT ever on ACR, the only site I play. I love MTTs and I know I'm a great MTT player I know a ton and am confident I could be profitable at MTTs with buyins as big as $20 and probably higher. I just don't have that kind of bankroll... Yet.
Just finished a massive $100 downswing a week after winning my first non free roll MTT. The field was 891 with $.55 buyin and I won $96 for first. This was huge for me, I am more than capable and I wanted to work this bankroll and play bigger buyin MTTs.
So I took a shot at a $2000 GTD $4.40 buyin MOSS tourney #25 or something. I played great, early on was lucky enough to flop a set and double up through someone who had the nut flush draw. I was over a 70% favorite and at risk, the only time I was at risk until I was KO'd.
I built and built my stack up to 7 starting stacks (35,000 chips) I was in 14th place out of about 1500 players so far. I lost 5k in a pot against a fish, I let them bluff me. I lost another to a fish who bluffed me I won't go into detail but I may make another post about it. So down to 25K in 40th or so. Blinds are raising though and I'm around 45 BB deep.
I pick up KK and a UTG short stack shoves 5K like 8 BB, I obviously play my kings. I just min raise to encourage more action, but everyone folds anyways. What should I do there? Anyways, AT sucks out on my KK (with a straight) and I'm down to what is now about 30 bigs at 20K.
I float around 20K for a long time, steal some blinds and make a few good plays to maintain this stack size.
Fast forward to 10 players away from the money bubble. I'm at exactly 20BB with 20K in the small blind with AQ. It folds around its just me and the big blind who has me covered by a measly 1K. I make the shove which seems like the obvious move here, even for a nit like myself. He snaps calls with A5 as though I'm shoving any 2 cards and he saw it coming (at best he is flipping here) and of course sucks out and I'm KO'd in 166th with 156 paid.
I didn't care about the entry fee I lost, just the shot I had at hitting it bigger and finally getting enough money to play more of these and really keep improving so I can some day be an amazing player.
Same old bad beat everyone has heard a million times. I'm pretty sure this was the right move, let me know if it wasn't.
I played my first $4 buyin MTT ever on ACR, the only site I play. I love MTTs and I know I'm a great MTT player I know a ton and am confident I could be profitable at MTTs with buyins as big as $20 and probably higher. I just don't have that kind of bankroll... Yet.
Just finished a massive $100 downswing a week after winning my first non free roll MTT. The field was 891 with $.55 buyin and I won $96 for first. This was huge for me, I am more than capable and I wanted to work this bankroll and play bigger buyin MTTs.
So I took a shot at a $2000 GTD $4.40 buyin MOSS tourney #25 or something. I played great, early on was lucky enough to flop a set and double up through someone who had the nut flush draw. I was over a 70% favorite and at risk, the only time I was at risk until I was KO'd.
I built and built my stack up to 7 starting stacks (35,000 chips) I was in 14th place out of about 1500 players so far. I lost 5k in a pot against a fish, I let them bluff me. I lost another to a fish who bluffed me I won't go into detail but I may make another post about it. So down to 25K in 40th or so. Blinds are raising though and I'm around 45 BB deep.
I pick up KK and a UTG short stack shoves 5K like 8 BB, I obviously play my kings. I just min raise to encourage more action, but everyone folds anyways. What should I do there? Anyways, AT sucks out on my KK (with a straight) and I'm down to what is now about 30 bigs at 20K.
I float around 20K for a long time, steal some blinds and make a few good plays to maintain this stack size.
Fast forward to 10 players away from the money bubble. I'm at exactly 20BB with 20K in the small blind with AQ. It folds around its just me and the big blind who has me covered by a measly 1K. I make the shove which seems like the obvious move here, even for a nit like myself. He snaps calls with A5 as though I'm shoving any 2 cards and he saw it coming (at best he is flipping here) and of course sucks out and I'm KO'd in 166th with 156 paid.
I didn't care about the entry fee I lost, just the shot I had at hitting it bigger and finally getting enough money to play more of these and really keep improving so I can some day be an amazing player.
Same old bad beat everyone has heard a million times. I'm pretty sure this was the right move, let me know if it wasn't.