MastiffPaul
06-29-2005, 11:50 PM
Looking at my finishing percentages over the last 400 SnGs, I can't help but conclude that my bubble play has been too tight. Combined with a slump I've been experiencing (losing more than my share of coinflips + a few bad beats), my ITMs have plummeted. While slumping, I suppose I have found it difficult to play more aggressively on the bubble: I think that when I push, I am often called, and so I choose not to push. How do the following hands look?
Hand #1
200/400
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 2: gwest2 (2900)
Seat 4: jordandental (955)
Seat 6: scoobyk (3230)
Seat 10: MastiffPaul (915)
gwest2 posts small blind (100)
jordandental posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MastiffPaul [ Jc, 9d ]
gwest2: 23
scoobyk folds.
MastiffPaul raises (915) to 915
MastiffPaul is all-In.
SB has folded twice to my all-ins, called not once. I suspect it will be folded to BB; whenever I am racing someone on the bubble for fourth place, I find myself blinded before their over-aggression gets them called and knocked out. Or if I am more aggressive than them, I am the one who gets called and knocked out. Am I just experiencing a slump, or are other players able to read me too well?
Hand #2
200/400
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 1: TenInchTommy (782)
Seat 3: MastiffPaul (451)
Seat 4: itgonerain99 (2461)
Seat 5: str8flusshh (4306)
itgonerain99 posts small blind (100)
str8flusshh posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MastiffPaul [ Qc, 7h ]
TenInchTommy folds.
MastiffPaul raises (451) to 451
MastiffPaul is all-In.
Here I find myself in an awkward situation, with the blinds about to all but wipe out my stack. I had been waiting for UTG to die, but he lucked out and doubled up on a crap hand instead. (I find this often happens to me, too. I wait for the short stack to pop the bubble for me, but instead I become the short stack by waiting.)
Hand #3
100/200
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: MastiffPaul (415)
Seat 2: jkrouz (1455)
Seat 4: eltigremex (815)
Seat 5: Maverickdmd (935)
Seat 6: ScootiePufSr (3300)
Seat 10: Panther_4 (1080)
jkrouz posts small blind (50)
eltigremex posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MastiffPaul [ Ts, Kc ]
Maverickdmd folds.
ScootiePufSr folds.
Panther_4 folds.
MastiffPaul raises (415) to 415
MastiffPaul is all-In.
In conclusion: I'm getting really depressed about this slump. Has anyone seen me playing at these 20+2s and thought to themselves, Jesus, what a chump. That's certainly what I feel like lately.
Hand #1
200/400
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 2: gwest2 (2900)
Seat 4: jordandental (955)
Seat 6: scoobyk (3230)
Seat 10: MastiffPaul (915)
gwest2 posts small blind (100)
jordandental posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MastiffPaul [ Jc, 9d ]
gwest2: 23
scoobyk folds.
MastiffPaul raises (915) to 915
MastiffPaul is all-In.
SB has folded twice to my all-ins, called not once. I suspect it will be folded to BB; whenever I am racing someone on the bubble for fourth place, I find myself blinded before their over-aggression gets them called and knocked out. Or if I am more aggressive than them, I am the one who gets called and knocked out. Am I just experiencing a slump, or are other players able to read me too well?
Hand #2
200/400
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 1: TenInchTommy (782)
Seat 3: MastiffPaul (451)
Seat 4: itgonerain99 (2461)
Seat 5: str8flusshh (4306)
itgonerain99 posts small blind (100)
str8flusshh posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MastiffPaul [ Qc, 7h ]
TenInchTommy folds.
MastiffPaul raises (451) to 451
MastiffPaul is all-In.
Here I find myself in an awkward situation, with the blinds about to all but wipe out my stack. I had been waiting for UTG to die, but he lucked out and doubled up on a crap hand instead. (I find this often happens to me, too. I wait for the short stack to pop the bubble for me, but instead I become the short stack by waiting.)
Hand #3
100/200
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: MastiffPaul (415)
Seat 2: jkrouz (1455)
Seat 4: eltigremex (815)
Seat 5: Maverickdmd (935)
Seat 6: ScootiePufSr (3300)
Seat 10: Panther_4 (1080)
jkrouz posts small blind (50)
eltigremex posts big blind (100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MastiffPaul [ Ts, Kc ]
Maverickdmd folds.
ScootiePufSr folds.
Panther_4 folds.
MastiffPaul raises (415) to 415
MastiffPaul is all-In.
In conclusion: I'm getting really depressed about this slump. Has anyone seen me playing at these 20+2s and thought to themselves, Jesus, what a chump. That's certainly what I feel like lately.