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ssbn743
Visionary
Silver Level
So I’m in my normal Saturday $210 live deep stack hold ‘em tournament at my local casino. There were 130 entries and about 9 hours later we were down to the final 14, with 13 getting paid.
It had been one of those tournaments were I had to claw and scratch for each and every chip that I had and that wasn’t very many. The whole day I was hovering between 7 -9M. The blinds have been getting really high and I have shoved several times with 3-4M stacks, most of the time just winning the blinds. I did shove from UTG with A2 off one time and got called by the BB’s 55; I flopped the wheel and he flopped a set, the turn and river were a 2 and an A, chop/chop, and that pretty much sums up how may day had been going – not quite bad enough to lose, but not quite good enough to win either.
Blinds are 6K and 12K with a 1K ante, my stack is about 120K and there are 7 players at my table giving me an effective M value of 4.8. I’m in the SB, the UTG player (a 70+ year old player that I know well and play all the time) raises from UTG to 30K with his stack at about 250K.
It’s folded around to me in the SB and before I look at my cards, he says “Remember I raised from UTG.” I was polite and said “OK, Lou, I’ll keep that in mind” but what I was really thinking was “Thanks for telling me you don’t have shit.” I find AQ off and put a chip on my cards while I think it over. Then Lou says, “I’ll go to the dance floor with you.” I said, “Well Lou, I don’t know what you’ve got but I’ve got to take this one" and moved my chips all-in. The BB folds and Lou actually pauses for a few seconds before reluctantly calling – I know I’m way ahead by now!
I flip the AQ and he shows As 2s, the flop hits his deuce and gives him two spades, no queen came for me and he got the 5th spade on the river anyway. So I got the honor of being the bubble, despite damn near knowing I was way ahead and in a good spot. What possessed him to play this Ace rag like this I don’t know but I’ll bet it was because “it was suited.”
What do I do here? Fold, pre? I don’t see how? So that leaves the next question, was this just variance displaying its ugly self at the worst possible time?
It had been one of those tournaments were I had to claw and scratch for each and every chip that I had and that wasn’t very many. The whole day I was hovering between 7 -9M. The blinds have been getting really high and I have shoved several times with 3-4M stacks, most of the time just winning the blinds. I did shove from UTG with A2 off one time and got called by the BB’s 55; I flopped the wheel and he flopped a set, the turn and river were a 2 and an A, chop/chop, and that pretty much sums up how may day had been going – not quite bad enough to lose, but not quite good enough to win either.
Blinds are 6K and 12K with a 1K ante, my stack is about 120K and there are 7 players at my table giving me an effective M value of 4.8. I’m in the SB, the UTG player (a 70+ year old player that I know well and play all the time) raises from UTG to 30K with his stack at about 250K.
It’s folded around to me in the SB and before I look at my cards, he says “Remember I raised from UTG.” I was polite and said “OK, Lou, I’ll keep that in mind” but what I was really thinking was “Thanks for telling me you don’t have shit.” I find AQ off and put a chip on my cards while I think it over. Then Lou says, “I’ll go to the dance floor with you.” I said, “Well Lou, I don’t know what you’ve got but I’ve got to take this one" and moved my chips all-in. The BB folds and Lou actually pauses for a few seconds before reluctantly calling – I know I’m way ahead by now!
I flip the AQ and he shows As 2s, the flop hits his deuce and gives him two spades, no queen came for me and he got the 5th spade on the river anyway. So I got the honor of being the bubble, despite damn near knowing I was way ahead and in a good spot. What possessed him to play this Ace rag like this I don’t know but I’ll bet it was because “it was suited.”
What do I do here? Fold, pre? I don’t see how? So that leaves the next question, was this just variance displaying its ugly self at the worst possible time?
