This has been bothering me

[aslowjoe]

Payout top ten get a prize worth $10,000.
11-30 get a prize worth $5000

To me the secondary prize is almost as valuable is the first prize.

40 people left. my stack is about 40,000. I am about 12th. ave is around 25,000. I could most likely fold my way into a secondary prize.

blinds 1200/2400 antes 25
MP who is the chip leader with 80,000 raises to 7200.(no read as he has just been transfered in)

All fold to me in the BB AKs. I Call
pot around 15,000

FLOP is A95 rainbow. 1 of my suit.
I bet 7000. he folds.

was this awful considering the circumstances?

under a normal prize structure how should this have been played?

Since second is worth almost as much to you, I think thats ok.

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Payout top ten get a prize worth $10,000.
11-30 get a prize worth $5000

To me the secondary prize is almost as valuable is the first prize.

40 people left. my stack is about 40,000. I am about 12th. ave is around 25,000. I could most likely fold my way into a secondary prize.

blinds 1200/2400 antes 25
MP who is the chip leader with 80,000 raises to 7200.(no read as he has just been transfered in)

All fold to me in the BB AKs. I Call
pot around 15,000

FLOP is A95 rainbow. 1 of my suit.
I bet 7000. he folds.

was this awful considering the circumstances?

under a normal prize structure how should this have been played?

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Why not just push the flop? Since second place is so valuable to you, and calling preflop still leaves you with an above average stack if you check-fold the flop, then it makes your decision simple.

A better question would be this... if the flop had come down AJT with 2 of a suit (not yours), how would you have played it?

[Exitonly]

what are the actual prizes?

and this seems alright.. in a normal tournament i'd push PF. Actually i'd probably do it here too.

[aslowjoe]

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what are the actual prizes?


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1-10 recieves a trip to the Carribean Poker Classic in ST Kitts. and a buy in to the main event .

11-30 gets the trip and $1400 worth of tourney vouchers for the smaller tournaments.

As it was I finshed 12th but I am just happy to escape the drizzle and cold and lie on the beach and oggle Jennifer Tilly.

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in a normal tournament i'd push PF

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Would that be standard?

I am on crash course for tournament play as I am usually a 6max limit holdem player.

i thought this was gonna be a bad beat story. preflop, maybe wouldve reraised, but i understand your reservations. on the flop i wouldve led out, like you did. chip leaders arent to be dealt with lightly.

[Exitonly]

i think i'd be kinda standard.. you have a good hand that you should reraise w/.. i guess you could raise to like 16k and then push the rest in on the flop. You might get some hands you dominate to put more money in that way.