Two hands from 11R

[ZBTHorton]

This is with 17 left in the tourney. I am in 13th in chips I believe.

PokerStars Game #2228387619: Tournament #10400796, Hold'em No Limit - Level XX (20000/40000) - 2005/07/31 - 03:28:58 (ET)
Table '10400796 162' Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: hurricane28 (1318728 in chips)
Seat 3: krex (962164 in chips)
Seat 4: Accordion (189389 in chips)
Seat 5: Pet Monster (617552 in chips)
Seat 6: ZBTHorton1 (447087 in chips)
Seat 7: bail3yz (252281 in chips)
Seat 8: spankdeazz (578330 in chips)
Seat 9: Pao26 (538065 in chips)
hurricane28: posts the ante 2000
krex: posts the ante 2000
Accordion: posts the ante 2000
Pet Monster: posts the ante 2000
ZBTHorton1: posts the ante 2000
bail3yz: posts the ante 2000
spankdeazz: posts the ante 2000
Pao26: posts the ante 2000
bail3yz: posts small blind 20000
spankdeazz: posts big blind 40000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ZBTHorton1 [7d 6d]
Pao26: folds
hurricane28: folds
krex: folds
Accordion: folds
Pet Monster: folds
ZBTHorton1: raises 80000 to 120000
bail3yz: raises 130281 to 250281 and is all-in
spankdeazz: folds
ZBTHorton1: calls 130281
*** FLOP *** [Qd Jh Ac]
ZBTHorton1 said, "nh"
*** TURN *** [Qd Jh Ac] [4s]
*** RIVER *** [Qd Jh Ac 4s] [5h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
bail3yz: shows [Ad 5d] (two pair, Aces and Fives)
ZBTHorton1: shows [7d 6d] (high card Ace)
bail3yz collected 556562 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 556562 | Rake 0
Board [Qd Jh Ac 4s 5h]
Seat 2: hurricane28 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: krex folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Accordion folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Pet Monster folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: ZBTHorton1 (button) showed [7d 6d] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 7: bail3yz (small blind) showed [Ad 5d] and won (556562) with two pair, Aces and Fives
Seat 8: spankdeazz (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Pao26 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

[ilikeaces]

U got served

[remen]

I don't like the initial raise here, partially due to your stack size and due to the players in the blinds. From what I have seen spank is very aggressive and resteals often. Also, you are pot committed if the SB picks up any type of hand and pushes, which is exactly what happened.

Once you made the initial raise though, you had to call the push from the shortstack.

[ZBTHorton]

The blinds going around for one round are taking 30% of my stack at this point, I am folded to on the button with a great stealing hand, and you don't like it?

This is a pretty standard raise for me. Too aggressive?

[woodguy]

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The blinds going around for one round are taking 30% of my stack at this point, I am folded to on the button with a great stealing hand, and you don't like it?

This is a pretty standard raise for me. Too aggressive?

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I like the steal here, but its important that while you shouldn't underestimate your opponents, you cannot give them too much poker credit either.

When I have a ~11-12BB stack I will often raise all in with my steals as if you raise a 3BB raise many opponents won't *know* that you are pot committed and think they have folding equity and come over the top.

When playing in any tourney where the poker knowledge might not be deep, even late in the tourney, I like to hit them over the head so they get the message.

Regards,
Woodguy

[XXXNoahXXX]

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The blinds going around for one round are taking 30% of my stack at this point, I am folded to on the button with a great stealing hand, and you don't like it?

This is a pretty standard raise for me. Too aggressive?

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I like the steal here, but its important that while you shouldn't underestimate your opponents, you cannot give them too much poker credit either.

When I have a ~11-12BB stack I will often raise all in with my steals as if you raise a 3BB raise many opponents won't *know* that you are pot committed and think they have folding equity and come over the top.

When playing in any tourney where the poker knowledge might not be deep, even late in the tourney, I like to hit them over the head so they get the message.

Regards,
Woodguy

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This is excellent advice, that makes perfect sense but for some reason I had never really considered. There have been a few times I have been reading 2+2 and a light went off in my head and I instantly had that "dying moment" flashback, where I relived everytime I had ever made this same mistake in a tourney in an instant. You've been responsible for quite a few of these "its so simple, yet im so oblivious, thanks for coming back and bringing me out of the cave" moments. Great post.