How often have you busted out of a tourney on a resteal?
Was just in a $100 MTT earlier, not many entrants, but nice pay outs. 17 people left and I was about 5th or 6th in chips but I wasn't some huge dominating stack. Blinds were 500/1000 and I had about 12-13k chips I believe. I'm in the big blind with 8/9 suited and it folds to the button who has been raising plenty of pots on steals. Not long before this hand he raised a pot and got called, but flopped two pair with 6/4. So anyway, I didn't respect his raise and put him on a steal. He raised to 2300 and I pushed all in hoping he was stealing and if not hopefully I have live cards.
And if I did run into a huge pair, I have the best hand against it. So ofcourse I push, he has AA this time and i'm out. I've done prety well in MTTs the past month or so and have made very similar plays as this going with my read and have been right, this time I was wrong and feel sh*tty. I coulda just folded but that's being results oriented. He had about 15k chips and I felt he was not calling that much of his stack without a huge hand, so I felt i had alot of fold equity.
I went with my gut and got burned, i'm mainly a cash game player but have had alot of success in MTTs since I started out as a Sng player and play aggressively. But I think my inexperience is the reason i'm feeling regret. If I had been correct I woulda been at the final table probably (people were dropping like flies) and woulda thought I made a great play. Surely other experienced MTT players can relate?
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