How does this work?

[ElSapo]

$5+1 tournament at PartyPoker, down to four handed and I run into this hand. B/c of the idiotic (at least, I think) way Party does their hand histories, I don't know what the BB had, not that it matters, I suppose. Anyways, two questions. First, two players were eliminated on this hand - I finished third though. How is this handled? Second, should I have re-raised all in to try and get it heads up?

I'm just gonna cut and paste from the hand history, too tired to make it pretty... Oh, and does anyone know if Party will be returning to their old hand history style?



400/800 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (Tournament 321051) - Tue May 06 01:14:03 EDT 2003
Table Card Room Table 763 (Real Money) -- Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 3: snizzo (3210)
Seat 4: isawred77 (548)
Seat 6: ElSapo (1642)
Seat 7: AztecM (2600)
ElSapo posts small blind (200)
AztecM posts big blind (400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ElSapo [ Tc, Ts ]
snizzo shown [Fold,Call(400),Raise(800)to (3210)]
snizzo: nh
snizzo folds.
isawred77 shown [Fold,Call(400),Raise(548)to (548)]
isawred77 raises (548)
isawred77 calls all-In.
ElSapo shown [Fold,Call(348),Raise(748)to (1642)]
ElSapo calls (348)
AztecM shown [Fold,Call(148),Raise(548)to (2600)]
AztecM calls (148)
Creating Main Pot with $1644 with isawred77
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 4d, 3s, 4c ]
ElSapo shown [Fold,Check,Bet(400)]
ElSapo bets (500)
AztecM shown [Fold,Call(500),Raise(1000)to (2052)]
AztecM calls (500)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 5s ]
ElSapo shown [Fold,Check,Bet(400)]
ElSapo bets (594)
ElSapo calls all-In.
AztecM shown [Fold,Call(594)]
AztecM calls (594)
Dealing : [ 5h ]
Creating Side Pot 1 with $2188 with ElSapo
** Summary **
Main Pot: 1644 | Side Pot 1: 2188 |
Board: [ 4d 3s 4c 5s 5h ]
snizzo balance 3210, didn't bet (folded)
isawred77 balance 0, lost 548 [ two pairs, queens and fives -- Qd,Qh,5s,5h,4d ]
ElSapo balance 0, lost 1642 [ two pairs, tens and fives -- Tc,Ts,5s,5h,4d ]
AztecM balance 4790, bet 1642, collected 3832, net +2190 [ a full house, Fours full of fives -- 5s,5h,4s,4d,4c ]
isawred77 finished in fourth place
ElSapo finished in third place and won $10.

[DaNoob]

1 - When 2 or more players are elminated at the same time, their order is determined by stack size prior to the beginning of the hand. Thus, since you had a larger stack than the other guy, he finished 4th and you finished 3rd.

2- I would have raised all-in. Short-handed this is a great hand and well-worth playing heads up with the original raiser. No way, IMO, does BB call an all-in bet with a 4 in his hand (granted, this is results oriented advice, but still true). And, in case both Orig Raiser and BB have high cards, you don't want 3-4 overcards being held going into the flop.

The other option would be to (if you are interested in eliminating OR) check, check, check all the way to the end. This way, you and BB have a better chance of making it to final 3. I'd probably opt for #1, but given the fact that you called, I'd probably hold off and see if you can watch the board for free.