Game has gone to crap - hand reviews....

[Maulik]

You need to look at your game and figure out how to amass chips earlier, or at least not bleed so many away.

Rather than amassing chips its far more important not to bleed chips. I think that's what you need to look at.

i reccomend reading all of duron & tigerite's posts asap. they are all excellent low buy-in players ... and will be good higher buy-ins as well.

[nWirb]

You are not that short in hand #1, I might fold this and leave the even shorter stacks to knock themselfs out.

[Wevie]

I've read HoHv1 and was doing terrific with the info I learned. I think a re-read may be in order.

I went back through some HH's and I found the point where the game turned. I was aggressively playing hands earlier in the tourney, but I was seeing that a good hand, such as QQ was falling when I wasn't the first to raise the pot. It looks like this has made me gun shy behind a raisor (raiser ? hmmm..). Looks like I'm re-reading HoH tonight and concentrating on my stage fright after a raise.

Thanks for everyone's advice. I post here for the criticism and I really appreciate the chance to tap into the vast knowledge available here.

[skirtus]

I think you should take Maulik's advice and look for spots you might be bleeding chips early. Look at where you lost small amounts of chips at levels 1-3. Post some of those hands. 30-50 chips add up quickly. In some SnGs you just get short-stacked. It happens sometimes. AK can be a chip burner for me at the 10s because they call so many raises. Sometimes I get alot of pockets but dont hit my set. If you aren't bleeding chips in levels 1-3 than you might want to look for opportunities to get some chips at level 3. At level 4 I'm usually in push or fold mode unless I've built a stack already.

[45suited]

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***** Hand History for Game 2538954606 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:14858666 Level:4 Blinds(50/100) - Monday, August 15, 10:02:29 EDT 2005
Table Table 39774 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 4: Auger628 ( $2570 )
Seat 9: twuch ( $3440 )
Seat 10: jmo34 ( $355 )
Seat 3: simi82 ( $675 )
Seat 7: Wevie ( $960 )
Trny:14858666 Level:4
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Wevie [ 7s 7d ]
Wevie is all-In [960]

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Depending on the looseness of the table, folding here is entirely reasonable. In fact, on most low limit buy-in tables, this is a fold for me.

[Freudian]

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[ QUOTE ]
***** Hand History for Game 2538954606 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:14858666 Level:4 Blinds(50/100) - Monday, August 15, 10:02:29 EDT 2005
Table Table 39774 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 4: Auger628 ( $2570 )
Seat 9: twuch ( $3440 )
Seat 10: jmo34 ( $355 )
Seat 3: simi82 ( $675 )
Seat 7: Wevie ( $960 )
Trny:14858666 Level:4
Blinds(50/100)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Wevie [ 7s 7d ]
Wevie is all-In [960]

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Depending on the looseness of the table, folding here is entirely reasonable. In fact, on most low limit buy-in tables, this is a fold for me.

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UTG sixhanded it is a fold for me. Fivehanded I would probably push at a tight table, fold on a loose table.