[HC5831]

***** Hand History for Game 1712483503 *****
300/600 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 10252597) - Wed Mar 09 23:05:14 EST 2005
Table Table 35012 (Real Money) -- Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 2: payson_boy (5550)
Seat 6: ILUV2PLYPOKA (4450)
payson_boy posts small blind (150)
ILUV2PLYPOKA posts big blind (300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ILUV2PLYPOKA [ Kd, As ]
payson_boy raises (450) to 600
ILUV2PLYPOKA raises (1300) to 1600
payson_boy calls (1000)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ Jd, Qs, Tc ]
ILUV2PLYPOKA bets (800)
payson_boy raises (3950) to 3950
payson_boy is all-In.
ILUV2PLYPOKA calls (2050)
ILUV2PLYPOKA is all-In.
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 9d ]
** Dealing River ** : [ 5h ]
Creating Main Pot with $8900 with ILUV2PLYPOKA
Creating Side Pot 1 with $1100 with payson_boy
** Summary **
Main Pot: 8900 | Side Pot 1: 1100
Board: [ Jd Qs Tc 9d 5h ]
payson_boy balance 1100, bet 5550, collected 1100, lost -4450 [ 8s Ts ] [ a straight, eight to queen -- Qs,Jd,Ts,9d,8s ]
ILUV2PLYPOKA balance 8900, bet 4450, collected 8900, net +4450 [ Kd As ] [ a straight, ten to ace -- As,Kd,Qs,Jd,Tc ]

Daliman,

It's always nice to make a big comeback in a tourney. Your opponent played very poorly there. I liked your play except for the hand above. Will you explain your thinking here?

Here's my analysis. I don't like your reraise to 1600. If he calls the pot is now 3200 and if you miss the flop you are in bad shape. What do you do on the flop if you miss and he pushes? There is a good chance here that he has a PP, which makes this a coin-flip if he pushes.

The min bet is weak and could be a range of hands, but I think you should flat call here and go on from the flop. A reraise is too strong of a move in this situation w/AK.

The stacks are still deep here. So a push is not the best option because you may very likely be in a coinflip situation. He has played very weak up to this point and if you both catch a piece of the flop, he will likely pay you off.

What was your thinking? I'm guessing that you are trying to take this down preflop with a good reraise. However, he has shown a tendency to play hands with you. He is likely on tilt and will call hoping to get lucky.

I just recently started playing the $50+5's SNG's again and am trying to shake the rust off.

HC