Same money, more pissed-couple hands.

[Nick B.]

Playing in sets of fours, does anybody else get a lot more pissed off busting in the first three and winning the last one rather than taking a 2nd and 3rd. I feel a lot worse getting 1 1st after busting in 3.

For the hands, these are 215's. I will give my opinions after.

***** Hand History for Game 2623722193 *****
200/400 TOURNEY TEXAS HOLD'EM GAME TABLE (NL) (TOURNAMENT 15296733) - TUE AUG 30 13:25:24 EDT 2005
Table Table 17029 (Real Money) -- Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 4: fiVph (2635)
Seat 7: JoeBad2005 (1970)
Seat 8: TEPop84 (2735)
Seat 9: Pdoodle (2660)
Pdoodle posts small blind (100)
fiVph posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to TEPop84 [ As, Jd ]
JoeBad2005 folds.
TEPop84 raises (525) to 525
Pdoodle: 73 te
Pdoodle folds.
fiVph raises (2435) to 2635
fiVph is all-In.
TEPop84

***** Hand History for Game 21256325982125491 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $200 Buy-in + $15 Entry Fee Trny:153255648884 Level:6 Blinds(100/200) - Wednesday, August 31, 15:33:44 EDT 2005
Table Table 13305 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: HUGESODAS ( $1650 )
Seat 8: DumDumbo ( $2500 )
Seat 10: TEPop84 ( $1210 )
Seat 7: baitruner ( $2275 )
Seat 5: pocero ( $1205 )
Seat 9: edags ( $1160 )
Trny:15328884 Level:6
Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to TEPop84 [ 7d 6d ]
HUGESODAS folds.
pocero raises [400].
baitruner folds.
DumDumbo folds.
edags folds.
TEPop84 calls [200].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, 9d, 9h ]
TEPop84 is all-In.
pocero folds.
TEPop84 does not show cards.
TEPop84 wins 1710 chips

[DeathbySuckout]

Not knowing much about the $215 players,

Without a good read, I'm folding the 1st hand.

I like the 2nd hand.

[Newt_Buggs]

fold hand one to the reraise
I'm surprised that SNGPT says that open pushing from the button against slightly loose blinds (66+,Ats+,AJo) is -EV

Second one I fold preflop. I'm curious to hear more about that one. Of course having called you need to push that flop.

[raptor517]

u an yer odd bets.. if im not 21058928592 tabling, ill raise the top one to 500 and fold to a push.. as for the bottom one, looks just fine to me. perfect hand for a stop an go imo. i hate those other ones, but 67s = teh pwn. holla

[Nick B.]

Here is the rest of the hand.

***** Hand History for Game 2623722193 *****
200/400 TOURNEY TEXAS HOLD'EM GAME TABLE (NL) (TOURNAMENT 15296733) - TUE AUG 30 13:25:24 EDT 2005
Table Table 17029 (Real Money) -- Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 4: fiVph (2635)
Seat 7: JoeBad2005 (1970)
Seat 8: TEPop84 (2735)
Seat 9: Pdoodle (2660)
Pdoodle posts small blind (100)
fiVph posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to TEPop84 [ As, Jd ]
JoeBad2005 folds.
TEPop84 raises (525) to 525
Pdoodle: 73 te
Pdoodle folds.
fiVph raises (2435) to 2635
fiVph is all-In.
TEPop84 calls (2110)
Creating Main Pot with $5370 with fiVph
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2h, 3s, Ts ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 6d ]
** Dealing River ** : [ 3h ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 5370 |
Board: [ 2h 3s Ts 6d 3h ]
fiVph balance 5370, bet 2635, collected 5370, net +2735 [ Ks Tc ] [ two pairs, tens and threes -- Ks,Tc,Ts,3s,3h ]
JoeBad2005 balance 1970, didn't bet (folded)
TEPop84 balance 100, lost 2635 [ As Jd ] [ a pair of threes -- As,Jd,Ts,3s,3h ]
Pdoodle balance 2560, lost 100 (folded)

I was pretty sure that he felt if he pushed any 2 cards, that I would fold. I felt like AJ was way ahead here, but I don't know how low I would go. I don't know if I would call with ATo. Anyways, somehow I still snuck into the money with only 100 left here.

[Unarmed]

Nick,

Ever limp the AJ hand? I've been limping in bubble spots with >10BB effective stacks with good, but not great hands. (defined as those I dont want to be all-in with PF) Is it possible that aggressive, thinking opponents are more afraid to come over the top of a limp than a raise?