Limit Hold-em tournament at Garden City

[cferejohn]

$120, no rebuy limit hold-em tournament at Garden City casino. Started with ~100 players. Down to about 50, by my estimation. Started with 600 chips, I currently have 520. Aside from completing the small blind twice at the first level (5/10 blinds), I have seen 2 flops (in about 1.5 hours of play), won both hands (one on a showdown, one with a flop bet), and I have bought the blinds once (that's all a long way of saying that I had not been getting cards and I must have been appearing very tight). Blinds are currently 60/100.

Table is 6 handed. CO-1, who had been blind-stealing a lot, raised. His stack is significantly larger than mine (maybe double). I'm in the small blind w/A/forums/images/icons/club.gif Q/forums/images/icons/club.gif. I look at him, and I'm not sure what it is, but something about his manner tells me he doesn't have much of a hand. I reraise. BB folds, CO-1 calls. 2 of us see the flop. 700 in the pot. I have 220 left in front of me.

Flop is 10 7 3 rainbow with 1 club. I bet, CO-1 raises, I go all-in, he calls. I'm going to post the results and my thoughts in a different post. Tell me what you think.

[cferejohn]

CO-1 turns over K3o, for a pair of threes. Turn is another 3, and that's all she wrote. After the hand, I couldn't decide how to feel. On the one hand, my read was essentially right, he was blind stealing with close to nothing, and I was a moderate favorite pre-flop (I think 3-2). On the other hand, I went all-in against a player who had shown strength with a hand that probably wasn't going to be a huge favorite over anything.

In reflection, I'm wondering whether even though I was pretty sure I had a better hand pre-flop, if this wasn't a situation where I should have thrown away a small advantage to wait for a larger one. I think I may have been affected by the fact that I had gotten 3 hands worth playing all night (KQs, ATo, and QQ), and I was thinking this might be my best chance to double up. I could only survive 2 more rounds of blinds, and the table was short-handed.

Once I made the pre-flop raise, I think the rest of the play is automatic. Let me know if you disagree.

[ohkanada]

All seems fine to me. Results sometime suck!

Ken Poklitar