RVP EXPERT SERIES

RFJ · #1 08-19-2004, 07:05 PM

I was play this expert series. It was out of 100 people. top 20 get paid 25 people left. I had AA the other guy has AK. We were all in preflop I lost to K K that came on board. I was like [censored] 7% takes it. After that i had only enough chips to cover the blind. During the tournament I had only good pockets QQ, KK, AA. I lost to all 3 of them. All in preflop. The QQ, KK i lost to a coin flip. Yes i can accept that, but when it's AA vs AK come one you have to give me that. It be easier to accept if he won with a flush or a straight. [censored] happens. Top prize was over 900. I was honestly thinking of folding the aces. I probably had enough chips to get to the final table till that point. When i got royally screwed.

trillig · #2 08-19-2004, 07:21 PM

That happens, most tourneys come down to surviving with AA and against it at some point....

I shrug it off and enter another one... It's just the pain of playing...

But lay it down? NEVER! I had a very timely AA last night against the chip leader when it was down to final 4, he had Q9o... He went all in, next guy folded, I was caller with about 100k....

and I needed them, flop came 4Q4...

He and I chopped dead even after each taking out one of the others....

How's this for a bad run:

I lost AA/KK/KK/QQ/JJ/TT/AK/AKs/AQs/ATs all in one session... not one sob held up and I wasn't slowplaying.... chit happens, be expecting it on occasion and it's not so bad.... LOL!

-Bri

RFJ · #3 08-19-2004, 08:15 PM

For you to have lost with those many hands and make it to the top 2nd must mean you had incredible luck. Especially if u didn't slow play them. That means you made good sized bets with them. I don't know if you were all in preflop or if u decided to fold them on the flop, but making good sized bets with them means that those bets would have made good sized dent in your chip stack. I don't know the duration of your tourney maybe it was one where it's a couple of thousand that 10 hands would not kill you. If it was many other players i'd think that one or two of those bad beats would end yoru tournament. Maybe you gave a couple of people some bad beats where you made an untouchable lead.
I know that i was playing a PS tourney with about 1400 people. There were about 300 people left. I was about 10th place. I went in with JJ vs 55 all in preflop. Lost to his sets. one hand goes by. Then i get KK. all in preflop. KK vs QQ. He gets his sets. I lose again. This basically crippled my stack and i didn't have much chips to play with. So i don't know how you could take so many beats with them and still win. Unless you had some incredible luck to sustain you for your beats. All the beats were heads up so i know that they were not coin flips involved. It was and 80% chance that i'd win on both occasions.