DrShankem
06-12-2003, 04:17 PM
Playing a $10 tourney on PP last night at a pretty soft table when I hit a streak of hands that left me shaking my head. Round 3 came around and I was sitting on a dominating high stack of chips (3860), none of the remaining players had more than 1200 and all seemed easy. Post up BB and 4 players call to me and I check with a 4c 9c. Flop comes up 4d 9h 9s. I quickly check down waiting to see if anyone has a hand. Player in MP, who has been really aggressive and really loose, comes in for 100. I raise him everyone else folds and MP calls. 4th street is an Ac I bet 300, and MP goes all in. I put him on a pair of aces and call him. River is a Ad. MP flips over As Jc. A little upset at losing what I considered a sure thing I remembered the poker tour show I saw earlier that night where the odds of a pair hitting on the turn and river was 329 to 1. So I just chalked up my loss to really bad luck and was not too upset as I was high stack on the table.
Very next hand I get dealt a 2c 2d from the small blind. Everyone folds, I even up (Should I have raised?) and BB checks. Flop comes 2h 4d 10c. I bet 200 and BB calls. I put him on a middle pair, tens, fours or possible straight draw. Fourth street is a 4h. I make my boat and check raise him. BB goes all in, I figure he has either two pair or trips, either way a definite second best hand and I call. River is a Kh. BB flips over a Kd 4s and once again I am screwed out of my boat on the river. What I had now considered bad luck was making me think that perhaps I should have played differently.
Two hands later my stack is about even with the other two people who just doubled up off me and I get dealt A A. I raise it up to 250 and get on player from early position with a short stack, who goes all in. I call. He flips a Q T o. Cards come K A 9 3 J. Meaning of course that his straight beats my trip Aces.
Last hand I played of my rapidly depleting stack was a full house which lost to 4 of a kind after I went all in preflop with about 250 on a Q Q. So I got bounced out of tourney I was dominating in about 6 hands on 3 boats and preflop bullets. I am pretty new to the poker scene but I thought I played my hands well to get opponents to go all in, but it always seemed to backfire. I would appreciate any critiques that could help me avoid such a difficulty in the future.
Very next hand I get dealt a 2c 2d from the small blind. Everyone folds, I even up (Should I have raised?) and BB checks. Flop comes 2h 4d 10c. I bet 200 and BB calls. I put him on a middle pair, tens, fours or possible straight draw. Fourth street is a 4h. I make my boat and check raise him. BB goes all in, I figure he has either two pair or trips, either way a definite second best hand and I call. River is a Kh. BB flips over a Kd 4s and once again I am screwed out of my boat on the river. What I had now considered bad luck was making me think that perhaps I should have played differently.
Two hands later my stack is about even with the other two people who just doubled up off me and I get dealt A A. I raise it up to 250 and get on player from early position with a short stack, who goes all in. I call. He flips a Q T o. Cards come K A 9 3 J. Meaning of course that his straight beats my trip Aces.
Last hand I played of my rapidly depleting stack was a full house which lost to 4 of a kind after I went all in preflop with about 250 on a Q Q. So I got bounced out of tourney I was dominating in about 6 hands on 3 boats and preflop bullets. I am pretty new to the poker scene but I thought I played my hands well to get opponents to go all in, but it always seemed to backfire. I would appreciate any critiques that could help me avoid such a difficulty in the future.