Partypoker.com – My Recent Tournaments
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www.partypoker.com – This week at my local live game I had a real chance to triple up early on, but as it was, a combination of my opponents playing their hands very strangely, and a mistake on my part, led to this chance passing me by.
Early on, I had played fairly carefully, and gradually built my 6,000 stack up to 7,000 in the first hour of the game. Then, I found myself faced with a small preflop raise when I was holding (3,3). I called of course, hoping to catch a set, and the player on my left called too. Both players were loose and aggressive, and so I was delighted to see a rainbow flop of (4,3,K). At this point the original raiser fired out a sizeable bet of 1,500 chips, and I really felt that if I flat called, I could induce another bet on the turn.
I didn’t think he would have raised preflop with a hand such as (5,6), and there was no danger from the flush.
So with this in mind, I felt that slow playing the hand was the right choice, despite recently writing an article about how I hardly ever slow played hands these days.
Needless to say, I was taken aback when the player on my left moved all in for about 4,000 chips, and even more so when the oringinal raiser then immediately shoved all in for a total of about 6,000. Perhaps I spent too long thinking about it, or was worried about comitting all my chips this early, but mostly, I think I was just completely thrown off by the fact that all the evidence said I had completely misjudged the situation.
I should have reraised in the first place, but as it was, I eventually folded, feeling one player had to have a bigger set. Again, I was then shocked to see our original raiser who had made the second all in move, turn over (6,6) for second pair. The player on my left then turned over his (A,J) for top pair. I ended up down to about 5,000 in this hand, but I should probably have been stacking up my 16,000 or so.
Ironically, (A,J) was then the hand that finished my tournament later on when I walked into (Ad,Kd) after getting shortstacked.
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