xOneCoolHandx
Legend
Bronze Level
So, today I played in 4 freerolls, in the first three I got knocked out in three consecutive hands. In the first one, I was cruising along, even though it was early, I had doubled my stack a few times when I caught QQ on the button. There had been an raise from the UTG player, but he raised every hand preflop, so I 3 bet him. He pushed, I called. He had AK and caught both on the flop. We had nearly equal stacks so I was left with just a few chips so I closed the table and jumped to another tournament. The first hand I pick up was AK suited. The pot again had been raised. I re-raise and get called. Flop comes A 10 8. I bet, he calls. Turn is a J giving me top pair/top kicker, gutshot straight draw and 4 to the flush. River is a 3. Knocked out again. Jump into another tournament. Jump into another tournament, first hand I get JJ, raise preflop and get re-raised. I push and get called by 77. He flopped a set. I jumped into a fourth and I won!
During the tournament I won, I was in the BB when the CU raised. I defended with Q2s. The flop came giving me 4 to a flush. CU raised and I called. Miss the turn but I didn't feel like the CU was very strong so I lead out. He calls. I hit the flush on the river and check. He bets strong and I raise, he calls with AA. I was thinking back through tournaments and I think in every tournament I have ever won, I have given at least one bad beat to someone else. Later in this tournament, I was sitting with a huge chip lead (I was over 100k in chips to the next guy down) when I caught KQs in EP. I raise and it folds around to the button, he pushes, BB then pushes over the top. I felt like I had the worst hand of the three and the pot odds were 't really there for me to make the call but I did. Button had AJ and BB had 99 and I catch a queen on the flop and end up with a flush. Still later, I take another bad beat (get aces cracked, but the other player was just under average so it didn't hurt much).
Has anyone else ever noticed that on your way to winning (or deep runs) in a tournament that you can play great but also need to get lucky a few times to win?
During the tournament I won, I was in the BB when the CU raised. I defended with Q2s. The flop came giving me 4 to a flush. CU raised and I called. Miss the turn but I didn't feel like the CU was very strong so I lead out. He calls. I hit the flush on the river and check. He bets strong and I raise, he calls with AA. I was thinking back through tournaments and I think in every tournament I have ever won, I have given at least one bad beat to someone else. Later in this tournament, I was sitting with a huge chip lead (I was over 100k in chips to the next guy down) when I caught KQs in EP. I raise and it folds around to the button, he pushes, BB then pushes over the top. I felt like I had the worst hand of the three and the pot odds were 't really there for me to make the call but I did. Button had AJ and BB had 99 and I catch a queen on the flop and end up with a flush. Still later, I take another bad beat (get aces cracked, but the other player was just under average so it didn't hurt much).
Has anyone else ever noticed that on your way to winning (or deep runs) in a tournament that you can play great but also need to get lucky a few times to win?
. So, I wait the 45-ish minutes until the league game starts on PS. Not even 5 hands into the game, I catch 10 10 from UTG. I raise pot (very standard for me). Button makes a small raise not even doubling my original raise. At this point maybe the better option would have been to flat call and see a flop, but because I have experience with this player (and the hand before he made the same same raise and called an all in with A8), I did not think he was very strong and I pushed figuring that with my table image that he would realize that I did have a fairly big hand and lay his down or I would be at least a small favorite. He calls with aces (irony much?). Since I was steaming, I took a break to watch videos, post on here and do some writing and then got back on ACR. Entered a Venom and built up a pretty decent sized stack until I had QQ run into aces. Next tournament was a 50 cent MTT and once again, an early position player (that I have played against often) raises. I have AQs on the button but I flat call him because I know I can outplay him postflop 90% of the time. Flop an ace and he bets (he is a persistent CBer but also plays any ace from any position at any time so I am guessing he has an ace) knowing that he probably has an ace I raise and he pushes. I call and he DOES have an ace -- AK. Enter another 50 cent MTT and have JJ run into aces. Switch to BCP and have KK run into aces and next tournament have AK run into aces.