SeriousStudent
04-10-2005, 05:05 PM
Last Friday Party Poker Special NL Holdem. 888 entrants.
I have less than 2 Big Blinds left when there are 115 players remaining and find myself in the big blind ( 1 BB in the pot, 1 remaining) facing a big raise from UTG. I have AK.
Pay table looks like this:
1st - 39K
11-20: $1420
21-30: 1065
31-40: 976
41-50: 799
51-60: 621
61-70: 532
71-80: 444
81-90: 355
In an earlier PP Million guaranteed where the lowest payout was $900, I played an AK in a similar situation and busted out at 222 when the payout was down to 200. So this time I decided to fold, hoping that with less than 1 BB left I could somehow survive to 90th.
Well, I didn't play a hand except when forced to in the blinds, and found myslef in 90th - very excited.
Then it got very strange.
I was at 80.
Then 70.
Then 60.
Then 50.
Still with less than 1 BB and never playing a hand. I even tossed AA once when I had 400 chips and the blinds were 750 / 1500 as I didn’t see the point to doubling up. I began a hand with 840 chips in the small blind when it was 750, leaving me with 90. I folded even that hand ( around 50 players left with average stack of about 20k).
This went on for 2+ more hours. I took the maximum amount of time each hand , and the table didn’t care , as they and others kept rooting me on. Guys with 10s of thousands busted out right and left. I played no hands except the blinds.
End result - 19th!
Should I have played the AA, called the small blind bet?. This result seems amazing to me, a relatively new MTT player ( 1 year) but maybe it is commonplace?
I have less than 2 Big Blinds left when there are 115 players remaining and find myself in the big blind ( 1 BB in the pot, 1 remaining) facing a big raise from UTG. I have AK.
Pay table looks like this:
1st - 39K
11-20: $1420
21-30: 1065
31-40: 976
41-50: 799
51-60: 621
61-70: 532
71-80: 444
81-90: 355
In an earlier PP Million guaranteed where the lowest payout was $900, I played an AK in a similar situation and busted out at 222 when the payout was down to 200. So this time I decided to fold, hoping that with less than 1 BB left I could somehow survive to 90th.
Well, I didn't play a hand except when forced to in the blinds, and found myslef in 90th - very excited.
Then it got very strange.
I was at 80.
Then 70.
Then 60.
Then 50.
Still with less than 1 BB and never playing a hand. I even tossed AA once when I had 400 chips and the blinds were 750 / 1500 as I didn’t see the point to doubling up. I began a hand with 840 chips in the small blind when it was 750, leaving me with 90. I folded even that hand ( around 50 players left with average stack of about 20k).
This went on for 2+ more hours. I took the maximum amount of time each hand , and the table didn’t care , as they and others kept rooting me on. Guys with 10s of thousands busted out right and left. I played no hands except the blinds.
End result - 19th!
Should I have played the AA, called the small blind bet?. This result seems amazing to me, a relatively new MTT player ( 1 year) but maybe it is commonplace?