Does anyone else get nervous when they get high pockets late in a tourny

[witfighter]

I play solid, quality, poker and am getting close to the bubble or even just after it pops and all of a sudden pocket QQ are staring at me. More often then not it feels like a death sentence. Its like how about we undo all your hard work and patients in one hand. I call it the poker devil. Its hard not to call an all in with AA KK QQ. Generally right before late registration ends is when i get em and since everyone is in bingo mode during that time i get busted when 4 others call the all in. Low pairs r great because they r easy to fold against all in and when thdy flop your likely to make a decent pot. Ur thoughts?

 

[david1bear]

Heck yeah!!! I do cause I got busted a couple of times with aces. But what can you do I try to go with my gut but when I see pocket aces I am usually all in) Good luck out there and keep grinding

 

[ChickenArise]

I play solid, quality, poker and am getting close to the bubble or even just after it pops and all of a sudden pocket QQ are staring at me. More often then not it feels like a death sentence. Its like how about we undo all your hard work and patients in one hand. I call it the poker devil. Its hard not to call an all in with AA KK QQ. Generally right before late registration ends is when i get em and since everyone is in bingo mode during that time i get busted when 4 others call the all in. Low pairs r great because they r easy to fold against all in and when thdy flop your likely to make a decent pot. Ur thoughts?

QQ doesnt have to be a death sentence. I sometimes raise smaller or flat someone elses raise instead of 3 betting and if the Ace hits the flop I dont have a problem folding them. If I get 4bet all in then I have to decide if it is an optimal spot to go for it.

AK can be played this way as well.

AA or KK you just got to go for it and keep your fingers crossed.

 

[finaltable1]

LOL. I was nervous this spring last time, when being alone I've installed $2000 laser tube in the laser cutting CNC machine, It's a long, and very fragile glass object filled with mix of gases under pressure. 1.5K + shipping + customs = one wrong move and it's all gone.

As for the online poker, I'm not nervous at all at any stage of any tourney with less than $100 buy-in and taking cash games for under NL200 with no fear... It's just the numbers on the screen, and poker is not my favorite type of activity and is not my main income source anymore...

And well, like 5 years ago I was bluffing with 2 thousands holding 78s at KQA flop, did that several more times with lower amounts. Have called $1.5K bet on the river with $5K pot infront of me with A-high and won in the live poker game... I guess that bluffing or going all-in with much lower amounts is not touching me after such. However I'm still unhappy with ugly bad beats, even if it's a freeroll.

 

[edenman1]

Its hard late in the tournament to risk it, but with such good cards they do so well.. Even QQ for sure

 

[Dzob]

I think that close to the bubble one should aggressively play premium hands to hunt the top 9 paid places. Counting mincash is not the point of playing tournaments

 

[Master Bedroom]

If AA-QQ feel like a death sentence, then what do you do with the rest of the hands?

If I only played Aces, and Kings I would feel scared too, since everyone will obv know what I am playing and how to deal with it.

 

[Canwai]

With these hands I play, consistently, in any period of the tournament. This can be a step closer to winning positions in the tournament and winning bigger prizes.
We always think in the following way, the game is long term and with these cards in hand you will win most of the time, ie in the long run.
With banking management there is nothing to fear.
In my opinion [emoji106][emoji106]

 

[HobokenNJ]

all of a sudden pocket QQ are staring at me.

Coincidentally enough this happened to me about two hours ago. I did go all-in and was called by T9o. Wild?

Well... notwithstanding my 84.4% v. 15.3% chance (according to the cardschat calculator), I lost when the board included another T & 9. Busted out.

Had I won, I think I would've made final table. Not sure if that would've put me in the money, but it would've been a big boost.

Would I do it again? Yes. If villains are calling down w/ those kinds of cards, I must be winning in the long run.

 

[freestocks]

A TV show put heart monitors on professional poker players during a tournament.

Their heart rate increased when they got a good hand and were compelled to play.

 

[ironduke11]

i think people get nervous because they believe they need to marry reality with the expected outcomes

ie. they believe themselves to be brilliant poker players so they should win every time they play....
or they get a premium hand in a premium spot and they feel the result should follow automatically

these two streams of thinking are obviously problematic....

a good pair late in a tournament depends on the scenario infront of you wheither you trap aggressives, or you shove to steal blinds or to isolate an all in....
nervousness comes from exaggerated expectations

 

[Rumengh]

Playing solid, quality poker and are close to the bubble, or even after they came out and suddenly pocket QQ staring at me. More often then not feel like a death sentence. Something like that we have canceled all their hard work and patients in one hand. I call it poker devil. It's hard not to call all in with AA KK QQ. Usually just before the end of registration is too late when you get and since all are under Bingo during this time, I reject when four other call all in. will probably make a decent pot. Ur thoughts?

Such is the game and it's just cards will lose and win. The good news is that with more hard work and play will earn more by women than it will lose.

 

[NUTZ]

YES, EVERYTIME

ESPECIALLY With ACES
sick of them getting cracked unless im going against them. well it atleast feels like it.
cant tell u how many times i have POCKET KINGS and i jam and the player has POCKET ACES. feels like 90% of the time i jam with KINGS, the opp. has pockets ACES

 

[DizzyDeb717]

I play solid, quality, poker and am getting close to the bubble or even just after it pops and all of a sudden pocket QQ are staring at me. More often then not it feels like a death sentence. Its like how about we undo all your hard work and patients in one hand. I call it the poker devil. Its hard not to call an all in with AA KK QQ. Generally right before late registration ends is when i get em and since everyone is in bingo mode during that time i get busted when 4 others call the all in. Low pairs r great because they r easy to fold against all in and when thdy flop your likely to make a decent pot. Ur thoughts?

I'm glad I'm not alone on this If I don't have a healthy stack and the bubble's coming, I find myself almost wanting to be card dead for awhile. Maybe that's why they call the big hands "monsters". Sometimes they ARE scary haha No joke though. Especially when you're seated against big, loose stacks.

 

[theANMATOR]

IF their are 4 other shoves in front of me and I'm holding Qs and I have a healthy enough stack (top 20-30) to make a run for the final table, with no maniac reads on the players - I might just fold those Qs.

4 all-in pre isn't an optimal spot, and you can find a better spot to continue your run.

On the other hand if there is only one all in before my option, I'll surely call and take the beat however it comes.

Is that NITTY? I think it's smart poker. Yes - a player has to take chances, but 5 all-in with 3rd best "starting" hand in poker, is just asking for rag Ace or K/J or any other pocket pair to suck out and take all your chips.

On the other hand - 4 all-ins might indicate A/x in everyone elses hands, or lower pockets than Qs, so that judgement call is individual.

I've been busted with AAs more times with multiple all-ins pre than I have won, so I've learned to play slightly more cautious in BINGO events, where 4 players going all-in at the same time happen regularly.

 

[Edu1]

It's just the numbers on the screen, and poker is not my favorite type of activity and is not my main income source anymore...

scorned online poker now huh? calm down there, most here can only play online poker:driver:

 

[finaltable1]

scorned online poker now huh? calm down there, most here can only play online poker:driver:

Not really. I mean not just online poker... Most of online activity is.

Ask yourself - what is that useful product that you create for yourself and for the society by playing poker. What is it? Is it service? Is it a product? Subjectively, you might be thinking about poker legends and high winnings, but objectively, even Phil Helmuth is nothing but a serotonin junkee, who was robbing those who wanted to rob him in a CARD GAME. Nothing else.

Phil Helmuth and other celebrities and other people related to "non gaming" part of the poker are doing useful thing for popularisating poker, and they're paid for that... it's their job, they work for the community and that part of the society pays them back. Most of the other types of "poker pros" falsely believe that poker is their job. It might be a source of income, but not a job.

Poker, games, movies, TV series... these things are designed to wash your life down in the toilet sewage. Think of the following.. 24hrs * 365 days = 8760 hours is one year... 100 years is 876K hours. 30% is sleep time, plus you have to eat, and do other things...
How much time you're going to spend on poker and what for? Majority of this time you'll spend generating rake for casino, that's one single positive side of the equasion named "online poker"... and it's the same for poker in general.
If one 100 year life is 876K hours, and 3 billions people have spent 3 hours watching Avengers movie, then what's the difference between such movie and some heavy bomb? This movie totally erased many millions of human hours for nothing.


and then


People are asking: "why I'm not a millionaire?" or "Why he has a yacht and a plane, and I only have a credit to pay for my old car and house."

WHy? Because he wasn't wasting his life... Instead of watching Game of Throne series, which lasts i think more than 40 hours, you can spend same 40 hours to learn new programming language or learn something else. Instead of spending 50K hours for poker, you could spend this time to learn and become a surgeon, and start saving lifes and be well paid instead of wasting your life for nothing.

 

[bigpappa325]

What scares me is when someone preflop pushes my aces all in. They lose so often around the bubble im thinking of folding from now on.

 

[ekgbeat]

Ur thoughts?

No, just don't get married to a big pocket pair, or go crazy with them. Play well post flop and be willing to fold to certain players and board textures. Also depends on if it's cash or tournament. In general, I would play them tighter in tournament vs cash game. glgl on the felt.

 

[terryk]

A big fold is a powerful tool needed to win tournaments.

 

[Index12]

Yes, especially if there’s still people waiting to go after me. Any one of them could end up with a higher pair and could take my stack depending on community cards and how we play(which on my end isn’t very well considering I’m just trash which does make sense since I’m a new player).

 

[FlopGrinder]

Must be nervous if not afraid to bust out.. especially with AA ..

 

[Claudiurox]

As a poker rule, i think you should play safe on the final table. I mean it's better to fold pocket aces if someone calls you all in and wait a hand where you cand see all the card on the table and make a strong hand.

 

[pawelmad9]

dont remember when i was playing late phase in a tournament

 

[eurosTotnd]

if i have like 18bb or less i call / shove with no regrets with high pockets JJ QQ KK AA no matter the villain profile i fil more comfortable to call if the agression started from the button or the sb vs bb