Marcotte
09-13-2004, 01:42 PM
I played my first B&M STT this weekend at Commerce Casino in LA. They are running their “Heavenly Hold’Em” tourney this month and have satellites going most days. It was a $40 buyin NLHE with 10 players, winner take all ($300 in tourney buyins and $30 in cash I think).
I did ok, doubling up with pocket 7s when I made a straight on the turn to beat top pair, and picking up a couple other small pots. When we got down to 4 people, I had a good sized stack (2nd I think, but it was close with 3rd). The short stack was to my immediate right, and had been playing pretty tight up to this point. He started going all in and picking up blinds. I knew what he was doing, but the best hand I saw was A7s and I didn’t want to risk it. It went around a couple more times when he raised my BB of T50 to T150 or so. I looked down at 44 and when he checked the flop (J 9 3) I bet T150. (I had about T750 or so, he had a little less). He raised me all in and I called. He flipped up AA and I was down to T100. This leads me to my main question.
With 1.5 BB left after posting my SB, I went all in on the next hand with 3d6d. I would have had two free hands after this to pick up something better, before being all but forced all in on my next BB. Who would wait to pick up higher cards?
When playing online, I usually use the 10 BB push/fold mentality that a lot of people advocate. But I picked up TPFAP on Sunday and started to read it and Sklansky seems to advocate waiting a bit longer. I haven’t read it all yet, and need to re-read the section dealing with this again, but what do you think? Does the size of your stack (eg. 4BB vs 8BB) change the decision on whether to play K9 or A8 (assuming your not on the bubble, but are the shortest stack). What are your hand requirements if you have a really short stack with 5 players left in a normal (top 3 paid) online SNG. What about with 3 or 4 left in a winner take all event?
I did ok, doubling up with pocket 7s when I made a straight on the turn to beat top pair, and picking up a couple other small pots. When we got down to 4 people, I had a good sized stack (2nd I think, but it was close with 3rd). The short stack was to my immediate right, and had been playing pretty tight up to this point. He started going all in and picking up blinds. I knew what he was doing, but the best hand I saw was A7s and I didn’t want to risk it. It went around a couple more times when he raised my BB of T50 to T150 or so. I looked down at 44 and when he checked the flop (J 9 3) I bet T150. (I had about T750 or so, he had a little less). He raised me all in and I called. He flipped up AA and I was down to T100. This leads me to my main question.
With 1.5 BB left after posting my SB, I went all in on the next hand with 3d6d. I would have had two free hands after this to pick up something better, before being all but forced all in on my next BB. Who would wait to pick up higher cards?
When playing online, I usually use the 10 BB push/fold mentality that a lot of people advocate. But I picked up TPFAP on Sunday and started to read it and Sklansky seems to advocate waiting a bit longer. I haven’t read it all yet, and need to re-read the section dealing with this again, but what do you think? Does the size of your stack (eg. 4BB vs 8BB) change the decision on whether to play K9 or A8 (assuming your not on the bubble, but are the shortest stack). What are your hand requirements if you have a really short stack with 5 players left in a normal (top 3 paid) online SNG. What about with 3 or 4 left in a winner take all event?