Home MTT madness, with bonus hand!
I'm pretty inexperienced at MTT's in general, only played a few online and this is my second live tourney which my friend is putting together for all our poker playing buddies. He's had good turnouts so far, with over 50 people at the first one and over 20 at this one. Types of players range from inexperienced and unpredictable to solid and tricky. I didn't place in the first tourney but have made it to the final table in this one, and am sitting amongst the chip leaders.
Villain in this case is a fairly new player, but one whom I've played with before. He's loose and passive, and tends to limp in PF with all sorts of junk hands. He's fairly easy to push off of hands, but is improving steadily and knows when to push his edge on draws and not just made hands.
Prizing structure is top 5, 50%-5%
Blinds are 250/500
Hero w/ ~6,000
Villain w/ ~5,000
Preflop (7 players): Hero is SB with Q [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
UTG folds, MP1 folds, MP2 calls, Villain calls, Button folds, Hero completes, BB checks.
Flop (4 players): 5 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]6 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Hero checks, BB checks, MP2 checks, <font color="red"> Villain bets 1000 </font> , <font color="red"> Hero raises to 2000 </font> , BB folds, MP2 folds, <font color="red"> Villain raises to 4000 </font> , Hero folds.
Think this was the wrong time to push, being so close to the bubble? I tend to step up my aggression close to the bubble because people tighten up so much, but it has bitten me in the ass before. What's your advice?
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