Tourney hand to critique

[JDErickson]

1 hand from Stars NL Tourney last night. 970 entries. Approx 300 left. I am slightly above average with chips T3340. Opponent in this hand has T2950. Blinds 75/150

I'm dealt K7o in the SB. Folded around to me, I complete. BB checks.

Flop: 7 8 K rainbow. I check hoping to check/raise. BB bets 300. I raise to 1200. BB calls.

Turn: Q (suit doesn't matter). I push all in. BB calls.

River: Q.

Of course, BB turned over Q8 for the rivered boat. I busted out of tourney soon after this.

Please crtique my play on this hand.

THanx
Jim

[ElSapo]

You got all your money in when your opponent had four outs. This is about as good a situation as I can imagine. You played it fine, you just didn't win the hand.

[Bozeman]

970 entries. Approx 300 left.

If this is true, then this is not:

I am slightly above average with chips T3340.

You may be above the median, but average is ~4700 chips.

Craig

[JDErickson]

This was based on the Tourney stats board. High stack was around 12000 and low was like 200. I guess you would say its the average on the curve based on high low stacks. Average showed as 3200 or close to this.

Jim

[Bozeman]

Stars gets their averages right, so either you were looking at an out of date Tourney stats board, you misremembered the average #, or you misremembered the number of participants (or remaining number). Perhaps this was the tourny with 647 entrants?

Craig

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Perhaps this was the tourny with 647 entrants?

Which was 25 Aug beginning at 20:00 EDT

[pokerlover]

It seems to me like a bad beat. I want my oppenent to call everytime in that situation.

[JDErickson]

No, it was the $1 NL tourney at 22:30. It actually had 999 entries. I finished 277th.

[JDErickson]

Not really sure, I looked at the stats just a bit before this hand and it said High 16000 approx, average 3200 approx, low 254 approx (Or somewhere around these numbers).

I understand if you take the total chips and divide by the remaining players you get X. But that doesn't account for higher and lower chip stacks does it? ie. 1 player has 16000, 1 player has 300, the average for 2 players is 8150. But neither one have this average. I'm no mathematician, I'm just going by what I remember. IN my old age I might have been mistaken.

Jim

[David Ottosen]

I think you should raise preflop. However after that, I don't think there's anything you can really do.