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Old 07-24-2005, 09:35 AM
Jonathan Jonathan is offline
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Default I don\'t understand MTTs

Here are two hands from a Pokerstars satellite, 500FPP, top
nine finishers win an entry to the weekend satellite to WCOOP #15 (worth 5000 FPP).

The preflop (and postflop) play completely baffles me. I'd
appreciate it if you took a look at this and explain to me
what these people might be thinking. And what is the proper
line to take. Thanks.
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First hand of tournament:

PokerStars Game #2174790649: Tournament #10403283, Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2005/07/24 - 08:00:00 (ET)
Table '10403283 8' Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: gambler381 (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (1500 in chips)
Seat 4: Shabana (1500 in chips)
Seat 5: Final Table2 (1500 in chips)
Seat 6: drugHabit (1500 in chips)
Seat 7: dominos1 (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: firewall82 (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: Spectrum359 (1500 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind 10
Shabana: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Kh Ks]
Final Table2: folds
drugHabit: raises 20 to 40
dominos1: calls 40
firewall82: folds
GB2005 is connected
Spectrum359: calls 40
gambler381: folds
Hero: raises 100 to 140
Shabana: folds
drugHabit: calls 100
dominos1: calls 100
Spectrum359: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [5d 8h 6h]
Hero: bets 500
drugHabit: calls 500
dominos1: raises 860 to 1360 and is all-in
Spectrum359: calls 1360 and is all-in
Hero: folds
drugHabit: calls 860 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [5d 8h 6h] [Qc]
*** RIVER *** [5d 8h 6h Qc] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
drugHabit: shows [7h 2h] (a pair of Sixes)
dominos1: shows [4c 7c] (a straight, Four to Eight)
Spectrum359: shows [8s As] (two pair, Eights and Sixes)
dominos1 collected 5160 from pot

My 500 flop bet was misclick...I meant to bet around 400...
but thats not important. What is drig habit thinking? And dominos? And can Spectrum really think that his TPTK is
any good after this kind of action?

I don't understand the thinking here, and I don't know how
to counteract it.
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Hand 2....Final hand (for me)
NB. This is NOT a bad beat post.

PokerStars Game #2174882894: Tournament #10403283, Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2005/07/24 - 08:45:47 (ET)
Table '10403283 8' Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: gambler381 (820 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero (950 in chips)
Seat 3: tricktree12 (2990 in chips)
Seat 4: bridgemaniac (2010 in chips)
Seat 5: LargeLars (1945 in chips)
Seat 6: DarkWan (1410 in chips)
Seat 7: dominos1 (4735 in chips)
Seat 8: firewall82 (2990 in chips)
Seat 9: bluffsniffer (1030 in chips)
gambler381: posts small blind 50
Hero: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Ac Kc]
tricktree12: calls 100
bridgemaniac: calls 100
LargeLars: calls 100
DarkWan: folds
dominos1: folds
firewall82: folds
bluffsniffer: folds
gambler381: calls 50
Hero: raises 850 to 950 and is all-in
tricktree12: folds
bridgemaniac: raises 1060 to 2010 and is all-in
LargeLars: folds
gambler381: folds
*** FLOP *** [Qs 8d 2c]
*** TURN *** [Qs 8d 2c] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [Qs 8d 2c 7d] [Tc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Hero: shows [Ac Kc] (high card Ace)
bridgemaniac: shows [Qc 9c] (a pair of Queens)
bridgemaniac collected 2200 from pot

In this hand I have almost 10BB, and there are 4 limpers to
me in the BB, so if I have garbage, I'll just check and see
a free flop. Why would I go all in unless I have a real hand?
I just don't understand bridgemaniacs isolation play in this
case. There is just no chance that the BB would be raising
allin with a hand that does not beat Q9s.

What is going on in these peoples minds?

Thanks,
Jonathan
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