07-28-2005, 10:45 AM
i was in a tournament the other night and we were about half way through with the blinds up to $500-$1K. first guy to act raised to $2K the guy right behind him raised to $4K (he had a huge stack)everyone folds around to me in the small blind. i go all in with $15.5K. big blind folds, initial raiser folds. next guy mulls it over and ends up calling for a little more than half his stack. i had pocket K's and he turns over A-4 offsuit. low and behold an A comes on the turn. and i am out.
my thoughts were, the initial raiser was short stacked and didnt think he had any thing decent, especially the way he was playing. the second raiser i hadnt had the pleasure of seeing too many of his hands since i was just moved to that table a few hands before this one. i put him on AK or AQ. so i feel i made the right move. two questions:
-what was he thinking risking more than half his stack with A-4. he had to at least think i had A-x since three hands earlier i went all in with pocket Qs.
-second, should i have waited until after the flop and risk the A coming up on the flop? i feel i could have scared him off if i did that.
thanks for your input. this has been driving me nuts.
my thoughts were, the initial raiser was short stacked and didnt think he had any thing decent, especially the way he was playing. the second raiser i hadnt had the pleasure of seeing too many of his hands since i was just moved to that table a few hands before this one. i put him on AK or AQ. so i feel i made the right move. two questions:
-what was he thinking risking more than half his stack with A-4. he had to at least think i had A-x since three hands earlier i went all in with pocket Qs.
-second, should i have waited until after the flop and risk the A coming up on the flop? i feel i could have scared him off if i did that.
thanks for your input. this has been driving me nuts.