party 5$ rebuy hands --bubble and image considerations

[EnderIII]

A couple of orbits before this Me2Rich reraised all-in over a steal attempt of mine and he showed me a pair of kings.

Here are a trio of hands that occurred one after another somewhat near the bubble of a party 5$ rebuy tournament. Comments on any hand are welcome. My main concern is my call on the last hand, I called primarily because of what I thought my image was (I had been stealing the blinds somewhat frequently recently and then was also involved with these two hands.) and because i thought people might be gettting over-aggressive with big stacks nearing the bubble. I tried getting the hand converter to work using the advice in the sticky, but I failed, so I’m sorry.

#Game No : 2557041063
***** Hand History for Game 2557041063 *****
750/1500 Table Multi-Table R+A(429868) Table #3 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 2: peteS123 ( $51344 )
Seat 3: suicidal222 ( $17155 )
Seat 5: ME2RICH ( $62986 )
Seat 6: THEVON23 ( $11818 )
Seat 7: nofreride ( $63351 )
Seat 9: EnderIII ( $34890 )
Seat 10: dbowling ( $7525 )
Seat 1: Dim_Mak ( $32170 )
Seat 8: Chillb ( $27655 )
Seat 4: papaphred ( $56390 )
Trny:14948110 Level:13
Blinds (750/1500)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to EnderIII [ Th 9h ]
ME2RICH calls [1500].
THEVON23 folds.
nofreride folds.
Chillb folds.
EnderIII calls [1500].
dbowling folds.
Dim_Mak raises [6000].
peteS123 folds.
suicidal222 folds.
papaphred folds.
ME2RICH calls [4500].
EnderIII calls [4500].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jc, Tc, 7s ]
ME2RICH checks.
EnderIII is all-In [28890]
Dim_Mak folds.
ME2RICH folds.
EnderIII does not show cards.
EnderIII wins 49140 chips
Game #2557046855 starts.

#Game No : 2557046855
***** Hand History for Game 2557046855 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:14948110 Level:13 Blinds (750/1500) - Thursday, August 18, 17:57:58 EDT 2005
Table Multi-Table R+A(429868) Table #3 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 2: peteS123 ( $51344 )
Seat 3: suicidal222 ( $16405 )
Seat 5: ME2RICH ( $56986 )
Seat 6: THEVON23 ( $11818 )
Seat 7: nofreride ( $63351 )
Seat 9: EnderIII ( $49140 )
Seat 10: dbowling ( $7525 )
Seat 1: Dim_Mak ( $26170 )
Seat 8: Chillb ( $27655 )
Seat 4: papaphred ( $54890 )
Trny:14948110 Level:13
Blinds (750/1500)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to EnderIII [ Kd Ah ]
THEVON23 folds.
nofreride folds.
Chillb folds.
EnderIII raises [3000].
dbowling folds.
Dim_Mak folds.
peteS123 folds.
suicidal222 folds.
papaphred folds.
ME2RICH calls [1500].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, 2d, 8s ]
ME2RICH is all-In [53986]
EnderIII folds.
ME2RICH does not show cards.
ME2RICH wins 60736 chips
Game #2557051630 starts.

#Game No : 2557051630
***** Hand History for Game 2557051630 *****
NL Texas Hold'em Trny:14948110 Level:13 Blinds (750/1500) - Thursday, August 18, 17:58:55 EDT 2005
Table Multi-Table R+A(429868) Table #3 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 2: peteS123 ( $51344 )
Seat 3: suicidal222 ( $16405 )
Seat 5: ME2RICH ( $60736 )
Seat 6: THEVON23 ( $11818 )
Seat 7: nofreride ( $63351 )
Seat 9: EnderIII ( $46140 )
Seat 10: dbowling ( $7525 )
Seat 1: Dim_Mak ( $26170 )
Seat 8: Chillb ( $27655 )
Seat 4: papaphred ( $54140 )
Trny:14948110 Level:13
Blinds (750/1500)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to EnderIII [ Ts Td ]
nofreride folds.
Chillb folds.
EnderIII raises [3000].
dbowling is all-In [7525]
Dim_Mak folds.
peteS123 folds.
suicidal222 folds.
papaphred folds.
ME2RICH is all-In [59986]
THEVON23 folds.
EnderIII is all-In [43140].

thanks if you waded through that,
EnderIII

[DVC Calif]

Hand One (Th 9h): Loose call PF with the late position raiser (but I guess you were getting a good price to see a flop (and T9s plays better multiway). Flop push to the gutshot and 2nd pair is dangerous. Worked out though.

Hand Two (Kd Ah ): I don't like this minraise in early position. (Were you hoping to get played back at?) Good fold on the flop but might have taken this PF with a bigger raise.

Hand Three (Ts Td ): I really hate this minraise in MP1. And I feel like throwing up to Villian's re-raise All-in. Do you really want to put your tourney life at risk to a bigger stack, even if it is a coinflip? I may be weak-ish but I lay this one down.

[EnderIII]

Thanks for the feedback it is most appreciated. I think you are dead on with your comments to hand one, couldn't agree more.

I raised to 2.5x bb because that seemed more or less standard at the table...very few people were still raising 3x bb and blinds were still being stolen. But just because everyone else is doing it doesn't make it right, so i will take that into consideration and keep on making bigger raises even when the blinds get higher. I'm fairly new to rebuy tournaments and am used to shorter stacks at this level, so minraises are more common in the games i'm used to playing because each bb is so valuable.

As for hand 3, i'd like to see if there is any additional feedback before posting my thoughts about it. Thanks again,

EnderIII

[DVC Calif]

[ QUOTE ]
I raised to 2.5x bb because that seemed more or less standard at the table...

[/ QUOTE ]

If the BB was 1500, a t3000 raise is only 2x, not 2.5.

And yes, if that was what the table had been playing as a standard raise, then that's fine...go with the flow. However, you must consider that when you've made these plays, you were in early position and you've (admittedly) been stealing a number of pots.

Unless you want to bleed chips, you need to make the decision a little harder for the other players as to whether they should play their hand.

[EnderIII]

Right you are, i'm surprised i made such a simple mistake as not knowing what the blinds were...just goes to show that i need to pay more attention both to my game and to my posting.

[EnderIII]

Results for the curious...i think i should have laid this down, but overthought into how i would play this if i were the villain...and most people aren't as crazy as i am.

** Dealing Flop ** [ 5s, 9d, 6s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Ad ]
EnderIII shows [ Ts, Td ] a pair of tens.
dbowling shows [ Kh, As ] a pair of aces.
ME2RICH shows [ Kd, Ks ] a pair of kings.
ME2RICH wins 14596 chips from side pot #2 with a pair of kings.
ME2RICH wins 77230 chips from side pot #1 with a pair of kings.
dbowling wins 24075 chips from the main pot with a pair of aces.
Player EnderIII finished in 133 place
EnderIII has left the table.
Game #2557055328 starts.