My 2 bad hands from the PS $215 today

[scottjf8]

Any thoughts on these? Anything you'd have done differently? I feel like I"m playing this tourney better than I used to, but just some bad luck today.

I was at around 8k closing in on the 2nd break before these two hands, and I didn't even make the break.. the second one might have been a bit of tilt, but the blinds were going up again soon...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP2 (t7285)
MP3 (t3815)
CO (t2007)
Button (t5670)
SB (t5430)
Hero (t6965)
UTG (t1130)
UTG+1 (t7215)
MP1 (t10803)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K/images/graemlins/heart.gif, K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises to t600</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t3000</font>, CO calls t1382 (All-In).

Flop: (t5157) K/images/graemlins/club.gif, J/images/graemlins/spade.gif, Q/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Turn: (t5157) 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: (t5157) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t5157

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Hero has Kh Kd (straight, king high).
CO has 6c Ah (straight, ace high).
Outcome: CO wins t4139. Hero wins t1018. </font>


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

Button (t8585)
SB (t8470)
BB (t3664)
UTG (t5020)
UTG+1 (t3480)
Hero (t3558)
MP2 (t6355)
MP3 (t9215)
CO (t8053)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with K/images/graemlins/club.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1600</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises to t3600</font>, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, Hero calls t1933 (All-In).

Flop: (t7308) A/images/graemlins/spade.gif, 4/images/graemlins/club.gif, J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Turn: (t7308) K/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: (t7308) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t7308

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Hero has Kc Ac (two pair, aces and kings).
CO has Tc Ts (three of a kind, tens).
Outcome: CO wins t7308. </font>

[scottjf8]

Bump! Any thoughts?

(p.s. today is my birthday! whoo hoo!)

[JerBear77]

I don't see how those could have been played any differently, you had your money in as huge favorite both times....bad luck and move on to the next tourney

[Superfluous Man]

AKs is a slight, coinflippy dog to TT, but it doesn't matter, the money's still going in preflop. Sometimes you just don't win those coinflips or those bigger-than-two-to-one shots. So it goes.

[Pulplife]

EDIT: If you read my original response, forget about it. Write it off as "bad mood".

Happy birthday.

[suited_ace]

First hand is just bad luck, the second one is just a coin flip you lost. You played it fine.

[scottjf8]

[ QUOTE ]
First hand is just bad luck, the second one is just a coin flip you lost. You played it fine.

[/ QUOTE ]

I was going back thinking about the second one, though.. what if i had just called his raise preflop, then pushed when the ace flopped.. Have to wonder if it would have made him lay his second best hand down at that point...

[schwza]

these are maybe the two least interesting hands i have ever read.

[suited_ace]

You went all-in when you called his push pre-flop.

[suited_ace]

indeed.