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Taraz
06-01-2005, 06:36 AM
This is a 50+5 tournament on empire and 65 people bought in. The payouts were roughly as follows: 1st-950, 2nd-650, 3rd-450, 4th-320, 5th-275?, 6th-220?. I'm not quite sure about those last two, but top 8 paid and 8th place was $160.
Anyway, here are the hands:

12 or 13 people left, remember top 8 pay. There were 3 players at the other table with less than 2500 chips.
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: yevin ( $10009 )
Seat 2: Namorf ( $3640 )
Seat 3: ampdog69 ( $6100 )
Seat 5: Gentry77 ( $5300 )
Seat 8: lago_Spain ( $7254 )
Seat 10: tamburlaine ( $2992 )
Trny:12697524 Level:10
Blinds (300/600)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Namorf [ Kc Qc ]
ampdog69 folds.
Gentry77 is all-In [5300]
lago_Spain folds.
tamburlaine folds.
yevin folds.

Should I call this? I had played with villain at an earlier table and my read on him was that he was fishy and made a few ill-advised steal attempts. He had been playing fairly tight since making the final table however. I opted to fold figuring I should wait for a hand to open push.

I don't have the HH for this next hand, but here is the scenario:

4 players left
UTG (~t17000)
UTG+1 (~t25000)
Hero (t9000)
BB (t13000)

The two big stacks fold and I am dealt K9o in the sb. Before everyone jumps on me, I know I should have pushed. I'm an idiot, I have no excuse. I got caught in a postflop bluff at the final table and I lucked out and won the hand. I had also been pushing a hell of a lot so I felt I had a maniacal image. I know that shouldn't matter, but in any case I just completed the blind and BB checked.

Flop comes JT8 rainbow. I check, BB raises to 1000, I push in for 7000 more.

Ignoring the terrible preflop play, I have to push there, don't I? I figured I at least had an overcard and an OE straight draw. Needless to say I lost and felt I should have done better considering who was left.

Thanks in advance for reading and responding to this long post.

Sluss
06-01-2005, 07:09 AM
Hand 1- calling is hard with KQ here. Even if the guy is pretty bad you could easily see him pushing here with Ax which your behind. Or you could be fliping. Get your money in first on the bubble. You should be calling less and raising more.

Hand 2- push pre-flop (oh wait you said don't say that) push-preflop