Mugetsu
Rock Star
Silver Level
Hey guys, I’ve returned from lurking in the shadows for a while.
Got a general question about my play. I was really wondering if my play was just too weak at tournament level. I unfortunately don’t have any hands that can be analysed by yourselves so ill simply try and set the scene as best I can.
I won a seat into a £10+1 feeder tournament through a top ten qualify kind of thing. The tournament was for a £100+1 ticket into the main qualifier for a live seat in England for Blue Square poker. The tourney only had 15 players in it, 9 of which id already beaten when we won our tickets earlier so I was fairly confident.
It started off well, I won a few hands hitting sets with mid pocket pairs or hitting top pair top kicker with ace face. These were mid sized pots and weren’t exactly building my stack into a monster. I started with 1.5k and after hitting three ‘key’ hands I was on 2.8k. After that things gradually dried up on the hand front so after a while I decided to play position for a few hands. This didn’t really work as the person to my left either raised my blinds or reraised me constantly. This wasn’t helped by the person to my right who used any time villain A didn’t raise as an excuse to raise huge herself! Unfortunately I was in no position to challenge her as I didn’t have hands and she had a huge stack due to an early triple up!
Things eventually came to a head when I found half my stack in a pot after being raised by Villain A, I was on BB and flat called. The flop had a pair on it and a nut flush draw. I actually had AQ of clubs and the flop was 669 with two clubs. He checked and I bet my last 600 chips. The pot was 1400 at this point so I thought why not. He called fast and showed a pair of tens. Needless to say nothing came out to help me.
Im not bothered about the final hand or really the hands that I was dealt, im just wondering if there are ways to be more aggressive with sets/good pairs/hands without falling into the freeroll all in style. I feel that I may have over thought several of the hands and probably would’ve doubled each time had I just pushed when I hit them.
Very vague and very sparse of real info but please try to help
Got a general question about my play. I was really wondering if my play was just too weak at tournament level. I unfortunately don’t have any hands that can be analysed by yourselves so ill simply try and set the scene as best I can.
I won a seat into a £10+1 feeder tournament through a top ten qualify kind of thing. The tournament was for a £100+1 ticket into the main qualifier for a live seat in England for Blue Square poker. The tourney only had 15 players in it, 9 of which id already beaten when we won our tickets earlier so I was fairly confident.
It started off well, I won a few hands hitting sets with mid pocket pairs or hitting top pair top kicker with ace face. These were mid sized pots and weren’t exactly building my stack into a monster. I started with 1.5k and after hitting three ‘key’ hands I was on 2.8k. After that things gradually dried up on the hand front so after a while I decided to play position for a few hands. This didn’t really work as the person to my left either raised my blinds or reraised me constantly. This wasn’t helped by the person to my right who used any time villain A didn’t raise as an excuse to raise huge herself! Unfortunately I was in no position to challenge her as I didn’t have hands and she had a huge stack due to an early triple up!
Things eventually came to a head when I found half my stack in a pot after being raised by Villain A, I was on BB and flat called. The flop had a pair on it and a nut flush draw. I actually had AQ of clubs and the flop was 669 with two clubs. He checked and I bet my last 600 chips. The pot was 1400 at this point so I thought why not. He called fast and showed a pair of tens. Needless to say nothing came out to help me.
Im not bothered about the final hand or really the hands that I was dealt, im just wondering if there are ways to be more aggressive with sets/good pairs/hands without falling into the freeroll all in style. I feel that I may have over thought several of the hands and probably would’ve doubled each time had I just pushed when I hit them.
Very vague and very sparse of real info but please try to help