4th Place SUCKS - Opinions please

[PuppetMaster]

***** Hand History for Game 87859681 *****
200/400 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (Tournament 483777) - Sun Jun 29 11:11:49 EDT 2003
Table Bachelor Party (Real Money) -- Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 2: chadmando (410)
Seat 4: qaztake (3445)
Seat 5: teddykgb1056 (895)
Seat 10: twopointstar (3250)
qaztake posts small blind (100)
teddykgb1056 posts big blind (200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to teddykgb1056 [ 7s, 7d ]
twopointstar raises (400) to 400
chadmando folds.
qaztake folds.
teddykgb1056 raises (695) to 895
teddykgb1056 calls all-In.
twopointstar calls (495)
Dealing : [ Ac, 2c, Qs, 5s, 6d ]
Creating Main Pot with $1890 with teddykgb1056
** Summary **
Main Pot: 1890 |
Board: [ Ac 2c Qs 5s 6d ]
chadmando balance 410, didn't bet (folded)
qaztake balance 3345, lost 100 (folded)
teddykgb1056 balance 0, lost 895 [ 7s 7d ] [ a pair of sevens -- Ac,Qs,7s,7d,6d ]
twopointstar balance 4245, bet 895, collected 1890, net +995 [ Ad Jd ] [ a pair of aces -- Ad,Ac,Qs,Jd,6d ]
teddykgb1056 finished in fourth place


Chadmando was playing very passively, and that just is not how i like to play late int he game. If I didnt bet this I had put my chances of waiting out chad at about 55%.
I figured here, I get a chance to have someting to play for and make a move for second or maybe 1st. Twopointstar had been raising the blinds endlessly so I needed to take a stand. Opinions?

[ZManODS]

Opinion... sure. I think it was a dumb idea to post your hand history instead of translating it.

[PuppetMaster]

poetic.

[FeliciaLee]

It must be a full moon, because people are acting more rude than I've seen in a while. And I've seen some pretty rude posts in the last few years!

There is not much you could do here, IMO. You were probably going to go all-in either way. Had you not gone all-in before the flop, he probably would have bet the ace, and you, not knowing if he was representing or not, would have probably shoved all-in anyway.

This is just one of those many situations where you have a pat hand, but a little bit of luck can swing it either way. I am, by no means, an expert, but I cannot see where you made any huge mistake. Keep going.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

I was going to say the same thing, but not as RUDELY. It is better to post a write-up as people don't like to sort through hand history. Too much extraneous info, and too hard to read.

I'll indulge you this time tho... just this one time.

I see no problem with your play. You were very short stacked, so a desperation reraise of a potential steal with a pair is fine with me. You did get all your money in with the best of it, albeit not by much, but heh... you still were the favorite.

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