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ssbn743
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Silver Level
I’m in a very low buy-in tourney filled with weak and inexperiencedplayers. Lots of open limping, limpcalling, and constantly checking top-pair. About 9-10 levels in the following hand takes place:
BB 2K, SB 1K
I’m in cutoff + 1 with 10s 10c and 23K in chips. Normally I would be shoving this stack hereexcept that I am the big stack at the table; actually the huge stack at thetable with the next highest stack around 13.5K (weak players at a weak table,position and stack sizes are not amongst their thoughts). A very weak player from 2ndposition limps in and I raise to 5.5K. The SB (stack 8.5K) calls and so does the limper. Flop is Jc Js 4c, Check, Check, I shove, theSB calls off his remaining 3K and the limper folds. He flips over K J and beats me with 3Jacks. Ok, so grading myself I would saythat I lost that hand because I didn’t shove my 23 BB stack pre-flop and letmyself get complacent because of the relative size of my stack. Had I shoved I likely would have won theblinds plus a limp – or the same result would have occurred.
Right….So I make a comment to this guy about how well heplayed that hand which, subsequently, starts a very familiar poker table backand forth argument. Of course I refuseto argue with a guy that just pulled that K J stunt, but I happened to find QsQh on the very next hand. So I kept theargument going, shoved my remaining 14.5K and said something like “call thiswith K J shithead” – he did, with Qs 5s and flopped the nut flush therebyending my day as I received no help on the turn; he continued talking trash thewhole time as I just got up and left.
I was actually kind of proud of myself though for using hisown emotions against him and it was just a $70 tourney that is absolutely meaningless– nonetheless – I would like to know how to beat him. I usually don’t play in this tourney unless Iget busted in the bigger tournament (that’s how I ended up here today as well)but it seems something stupid like this always takes me out in these low buy-intourney’s not matter how well I played the situation. Did I just lose? Or was there something I could have donebetter to retain my seat?
BB 2K, SB 1K
I’m in cutoff + 1 with 10s 10c and 23K in chips. Normally I would be shoving this stack hereexcept that I am the big stack at the table; actually the huge stack at thetable with the next highest stack around 13.5K (weak players at a weak table,position and stack sizes are not amongst their thoughts). A very weak player from 2ndposition limps in and I raise to 5.5K. The SB (stack 8.5K) calls and so does the limper. Flop is Jc Js 4c, Check, Check, I shove, theSB calls off his remaining 3K and the limper folds. He flips over K J and beats me with 3Jacks. Ok, so grading myself I would saythat I lost that hand because I didn’t shove my 23 BB stack pre-flop and letmyself get complacent because of the relative size of my stack. Had I shoved I likely would have won theblinds plus a limp – or the same result would have occurred.
Right….So I make a comment to this guy about how well heplayed that hand which, subsequently, starts a very familiar poker table backand forth argument. Of course I refuseto argue with a guy that just pulled that K J stunt, but I happened to find QsQh on the very next hand. So I kept theargument going, shoved my remaining 14.5K and said something like “call thiswith K J shithead” – he did, with Qs 5s and flopped the nut flush therebyending my day as I received no help on the turn; he continued talking trash thewhole time as I just got up and left.
I was actually kind of proud of myself though for using hisown emotions against him and it was just a $70 tourney that is absolutely meaningless– nonetheless – I would like to know how to beat him. I usually don’t play in this tourney unless Iget busted in the bigger tournament (that’s how I ended up here today as well)but it seems something stupid like this always takes me out in these low buy-intourney’s not matter how well I played the situation. Did I just lose? Or was there something I could have donebetter to retain my seat?
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