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sundizzel
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I won a freeroll ticket to a $50,000 GTD tournament that took place on Sunday. Since I've been working on building up a bankroll from $0 from freerolls and super-micros and my total bankroll was only $70, this was a huge opportunity for me. I wound up getting some run good and making it very deep in the tournament, but I may have a made a huge blunder and would appreciate some feedback.
15 players remain after 10 hours of play in a field of several thousand runners (top 500 got ITM). I've locked up $250 (nearly quadruple my measly bankroll), and the pay jumps are now huge--$6,250 up top. I am in the Hi-Jack with AsQs and 19.5 BB. It is technically full-ring, but the table is short 1 player, so there are 8 players in the hand.
It folds down to me, and the remaining players are: CO with 26.5 BB, BTN with 22.5 BB, SB with 33 BB, and BB with 30 BB. I proceed to shove my AsQs with 19.5 BB, CO and BTN fold, SB re-jams with 33 BB, and BB folds. SB shows... AhAd, yikes!
So did I make a massive blunder? If so, how could I have played this better? Some of my thoughts are:
Open Raise 3.5 BB. He either calls to slow play, re-raises to something like 10 BB, or shoves me to get the fold/called by worse.
If he jams (or re-raises really, since it would be half my stack), how easy is it to find a fold? It's hard for him to have QQ, he could have JJ or KK, which we are essentially flipping against, and of course he could have AA and we are in bad shape. Does he ever have any AJ+ or KQ+ or more middling pairs like 88 or 10s there? I guess this deep in the tourney for the huge pay jumps, I might have been able to get away from the AsQs.
If he slow plays, the flop came 8cKd6h. Probably a flop that would have slowed me down and could be folded if bet because my Q pair would be no good and my flush is out, although some backdoor nuts straight opportunities open. Turn comes 2c and the river 8d, but I imagine all the chips would have been in after the flop if no one folded.
Looking forward to any input you might have on this spot.
- Sundizzel
15 players remain after 10 hours of play in a field of several thousand runners (top 500 got ITM). I've locked up $250 (nearly quadruple my measly bankroll), and the pay jumps are now huge--$6,250 up top. I am in the Hi-Jack with AsQs and 19.5 BB. It is technically full-ring, but the table is short 1 player, so there are 8 players in the hand.
It folds down to me, and the remaining players are: CO with 26.5 BB, BTN with 22.5 BB, SB with 33 BB, and BB with 30 BB. I proceed to shove my AsQs with 19.5 BB, CO and BTN fold, SB re-jams with 33 BB, and BB folds. SB shows... AhAd, yikes!
So did I make a massive blunder? If so, how could I have played this better? Some of my thoughts are:
Open Raise 3.5 BB. He either calls to slow play, re-raises to something like 10 BB, or shoves me to get the fold/called by worse.
If he jams (or re-raises really, since it would be half my stack), how easy is it to find a fold? It's hard for him to have QQ, he could have JJ or KK, which we are essentially flipping against, and of course he could have AA and we are in bad shape. Does he ever have any AJ+ or KQ+ or more middling pairs like 88 or 10s there? I guess this deep in the tourney for the huge pay jumps, I might have been able to get away from the AsQs.
If he slow plays, the flop came 8cKd6h. Probably a flop that would have slowed me down and could be folded if bet because my Q pair would be no good and my flush is out, although some backdoor nuts straight opportunities open. Turn comes 2c and the river 8d, but I imagine all the chips would have been in after the flop if no one folded.
Looking forward to any input you might have on this spot.
- Sundizzel