First MTT

[OrianasDaad]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

saw flop|<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>

<font color="#C00000">Hero (t770)</font>
MP3 (t2020)
<font color="#C00000">CO (t910)</font>
<font color="#C00000">Button (t2215)</font>
<font color="#C00000">SB (t1135)</font>
<font color="#C00000">BB (t1395)</font>
UTG (t910)
<font color="#C00000">UTG+1 (t835)</font>
<font color="#C00000">MP1 (t880)</font>

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with J/images/graemlins/heart.gif, J/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls t15, MP1 calls t15, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t65</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, CO calls t65, Button calls t65, SB calls t55, BB calls t50, UTG+1 calls t50, MP1 calls t50.

First level of tournament, pretty loose table. Button is solid, BB calls with everything.

Flop: (t452.50) 4/images/graemlins/heart.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(7 players)</font>

4 checks, Hero bets 350, CO folds, Button raises all-in, SB calls all-in, BB calls all-in, 2 folds, I call all-in.

I figure I'm getting good odds to turn a boat, and mabye end up with a dominating stack. I also figure that I am ahead at this point.

Good play? Just got HoH, so I'll spend the next few days reading.

[durron597]

I raise slightly more preflop. Otherwise your play is perfect.

[dmk]

you don't need odds to turn a boat. you have your 20 opponents drawing to 9 outs, some of which are quite easily shared between them. good hand.

[Juff]

I call this almost without hesitation, and expect to see a flush draw or two, an AJ, and maybe a set of 4s or KK-QQ. Of course it's possible that one of them is holding the only hand that beats you, but you can multiply your stack by 4 here, and I wouldn't be so scared of rockets as to pass that up.

[transmitt]

nothing to see here, carry on. Seriously, your play was fine. If AA is hiding under the bed, it will happen this time but not the next X times.

[transmitt]

goint to reply to myself here, you lare laying ~2.3-1 odds with your flop bet, a flush draw is at 1.8 or so, so he should be folding, but a call (especially w/ the K suited) is not totally out of hand, maybe fore at the flop a little more to chase out the draw--that being said, personally unless I'm drawing to the K nut flush I'm gone anyway