($22): Exploiting the bubble, how bad was this?

[xJMPx]

($22): Exploiting the bubble, how bad was this?

7 consecutive hands…is this terrible?

PartyPoker - NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Tournament | Level: 8 - 4 players (Converter: PGC (http://client.pokergrader.com))

Chip Counts:
Button: 395 Chips
SB: 2190 Chips
<font color="red">Hero: 2916 Chips</font>
UTG: 2499 Chips

Hero is BB with Q/images/graemlins/club.gif 2/images/graemlins/heart.gif
Blinds are 200/400

PreFlop
<font color="red">UTG RAISES ($1000)</font>, <font color="blue">Button folds</font>, <font color="blue">SB folds</font>, Hero is All-In, <font color="blue">UTG folds</font>

Final Pot:4116 Chips

PartyPoker - NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Tournament | Level: 8 - 4 players (Converter: PGC (http://client.pokergrader.com))

Chip Counts:
Button: 1990 Chips
<font color="red">Hero: 4116 Chips</font>
BB: 1499 Chips
UTG: 395 Chips

Hero is SB with K/images/graemlins/heart.gif 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif
Blinds are 200/400

PreFlop
<font color="blue">UTG folds</font>, <font color="blue">Button folds</font>, Hero is All-In, <font color="blue">BB folds</font>

Final Pot:4516 Chips

PartyPoker - NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Tournament | Level: 8 - 3 players (Converter: PGC (http://client.pokergrader.com))

Chip Counts:
<font color="red">Hero: 4516 Chips</font>
SB: 1099 Chips
BB: 395 Chips
UTG: 1990 Chips

Hero is Button with 8/images/graemlins/club.gif 4/images/graemlins/club.gif
Blinds are 200/400

PreFlop
BB posts BB, <font color="green">UTG Calls</font>, Hero is All-In, <font color="blue">SB folds</font>, <font color="blue">BB folds</font>, <font color="blue">UTG folds</font>


PartyPoker - NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Tournament | Level: 8 - 4 players (Converter: PGC (http://client.pokergrader.com))

Chip Counts:
Button: 899 Chips
SB: 1385 Chips
BB: 1590 Chips
<font color="red">Hero: 4126 Chips</font>

Hero is UTG with Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif T/images/graemlins/spade.gif
Blinds are 200/400

PreFlop
Hero is All-In, <font color="blue">Button folds</font>, <font color="blue">SB folds</font>, <font color="blue">BB folds</font>

Final Pot:4726 Chips

PartyPoker - NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Tournament | Level: 8 - 3 players (Converter: PGC (http://client.pokergrader.com))

Chip Counts:
Button: 1185 Chips
SB: 1190 Chips
<font color="red">Hero: 4726 Chips</font>
UTG: 899 Chips

Hero is BB with 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif 2/images/graemlins/club.gif
Blinds are 200/400

PreFlop
Hero posts BB, <font color="blue">UTG folds</font>, <font color="blue">Button folds</font>, <font color="blue">SB folds</font>

Final Pot:600 Chips

PartyPoker - NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Tournament | Level: 8 - 4 players

Chip Counts:
Button: 990 Chips
Hero: 4926 Chips
BB: 899 Chips
UTG: 1185 Chips

Hero is SB with 2h 2s
Blinds are 200/400

PreFlop
UTG folds, Button folds, Hero is All-In, BB is All-In

PartyPoker - NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Tournament | Level: 8 - 4 players (Converter: PGC (http://client.pokergrader.com))

Chip Counts:
<font color="red">Hero: 4027 Chips</font>
SB: 1798 Chips
BB: 1185 Chips
UTG: 990 Chips

Hero is Button with A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif 3/images/graemlins/club.gif
Blinds are 200/400

PreFlop
<font color="blue">UTG folds</font>, Hero is All-In, SB is All-In, <font color="blue">BB folds</font>

[xJMPx]

bump. I thought this would get some discussion, if for no other reason than the first hand was, IMO, pretty stupid.

[mlagoo]

the initial raise is pretty reckless, but not necessarily stupid... after that it all seems ok.

[pineapple888]

The first one looks suicidal to me at the 22s, but it worked, so there you have it.

The 84s looks very shaky after a limper.

Other than that, I think you were first in the pot with decent hands each time, so those were fine.

[xJMPx]

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The 84s looks very shaky after a limper.

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Here, the BB was all-in because he couldn't cover the BB. So, I wanted to isolate against the BB to either knock him out, or keep the bubble live and not let the other guy win the pot. Here, I figured I was sacrificing the 395 which I could pick up the next hand with a steal.

[pineapple888]

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The 84s looks very shaky after a limper.

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Here, the BB was all-in because he couldn't cover the BB. So, I wanted to isolate against the BB to either knock him out, or keep the bubble live and not let the other guy win the pot. Here, I figured I was sacrificing the 395 which I could pick up the next hand with a steal.

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Of course, and it's a great strategy until UTG spite-calls you /images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[patrick dicaprio]

i cant believe you didnt get called!!! hey it worked so i guess it is good right? you had pretty good hands so i thinhk four handed it is not bad on its own but i still cant believe they let you get away with this. if i were the small stack i would have called with almost any two reasonable cards.

pat

Pat

[xJMPx]

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i cant believe you didnt get called!!! hey it worked so i guess it is good right? you had pretty good hands so i thinhk four handed it is not bad on its own but i still cant believe they let you get away with this. if i were the small stack i would have called with almost any two reasonable cards.

pat

Pat

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Are you talking about a specific hand? As for the short stack calling me, in many of those hands there is no clear short stack.

I don't push the 1st and 3rd. The rest is how I'd play them.

[kevkev60614]

I wouldn't push the first and third. Given that you pushed the first three, I wouldn't push the fourth. Given that you pushed the first six, I wouldn't push the seventh.

I'm not aggressive enough with the big stack on the bubble.