Jacki Burkhart
long winded rambler...
Silver Level
Ok, this is a live 91 man tourney in a local cardroom.
We are on the bubble for the final table, so 11 players remain on 2 tables. average stack is 98,000 and blinds are 3000/6000/1000 so average M is 11.
I have 55,000 and have just been blinding out because I've had no opportunities to steal blinds, my table is very aggressive and I'm perfectly happy and willing to resteal with almost any above average hand, but in the last 4 orbits the best hand I saw was Q9 and I would have tried to resteal with it except there was a raise and a call ahead of me....anyways my point is that my image is pretty tight, and it's not because I'm tightening up because of the bubble, but that's probably what they think of me...
We are at the 5 handed table, and villain has been raising to 17,000 very frequently, and has sometimes folded to a 3bet shove, and sometimes called. He called a 3bet shove with J5s and again with QTo....but has also folded to a 3 bet shove about 3 times. It folded to his SB and he raised and I had A2o in the BB and folded and he showed me J4o....
Ok....so a few hands later I've just been biding my time waiting for an opportunity to resteal, of course this dude opens up for 17,000 again from UTG. I am UTG+1/Cutoff and I look down at A3s I jam and he insta calls with ATo
I flop a flush draw and gutshot, but don't improve and I'm out. Bubble girl....though they did pay the bubble $150 so I only lost a little....
The rail said I should have waited for a better spot because this guy likes to gamble....another friend who was sweating me said I should have 1-2 shoved on the flop....I don't think this LAG would have let me though, I think him being out of position, he would have shoved the flop and I would have had to decide whether or not to call with just a draw and A high....
I feel like it was just unfortunate that he had a hand that strong, I know A3s is not a monster but I can't just keep blinding out. He could easily have KJ or 66 and then I've got a shot to double up....or he could fold his garbage hands, or hands like A4 A5 A6 because of my image....
thoughts?
We are on the bubble for the final table, so 11 players remain on 2 tables. average stack is 98,000 and blinds are 3000/6000/1000 so average M is 11.
I have 55,000 and have just been blinding out because I've had no opportunities to steal blinds, my table is very aggressive and I'm perfectly happy and willing to resteal with almost any above average hand, but in the last 4 orbits the best hand I saw was Q9 and I would have tried to resteal with it except there was a raise and a call ahead of me....anyways my point is that my image is pretty tight, and it's not because I'm tightening up because of the bubble, but that's probably what they think of me...
We are at the 5 handed table, and villain has been raising to 17,000 very frequently, and has sometimes folded to a 3bet shove, and sometimes called. He called a 3bet shove with J5s and again with QTo....but has also folded to a 3 bet shove about 3 times. It folded to his SB and he raised and I had A2o in the BB and folded and he showed me J4o....
Ok....so a few hands later I've just been biding my time waiting for an opportunity to resteal, of course this dude opens up for 17,000 again from UTG. I am UTG+1/Cutoff and I look down at A3s I jam and he insta calls with ATo
I flop a flush draw and gutshot, but don't improve and I'm out. Bubble girl....though they did pay the bubble $150 so I only lost a little....
The rail said I should have waited for a better spot because this guy likes to gamble....another friend who was sweating me said I should have 1-2 shoved on the flop....I don't think this LAG would have let me though, I think him being out of position, he would have shoved the flop and I would have had to decide whether or not to call with just a draw and A high....
I feel like it was just unfortunate that he had a hand that strong, I know A3s is not a monster but I can't just keep blinding out. He could easily have KJ or 66 and then I've got a shot to double up....or he could fold his garbage hands, or hands like A4 A5 A6 because of my image....
thoughts?