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Bubble Trouble
Looking at my finishing percentages over the last 400 SnGs, I can't help but conclude that my bubble play has been too tight. Combined with a slump I've been experiencing (losing more than my share of coinflips + a few bad beats), my ITMs have plummeted. While slumping, I suppose I have found it difficult to play more aggressively on the bubble: I think that when I push, I am often called, and so I choose not to push. How do the following hands look?
Hand #1 200/400 Seat 10 is the button Total number of players : 4 Seat 2: gwest2 (2900) Seat 4: jordandental (955) Seat 6: scoobyk (3230) Seat 10: MastiffPaul (915) gwest2 posts small blind (100) jordandental posts big blind (200) ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to MastiffPaul [ Jc, 9d ] gwest2: 23 scoobyk folds. MastiffPaul raises (915) to 915 MastiffPaul is all-In. SB has folded twice to my all-ins, called not once. I suspect it will be folded to BB; whenever I am racing someone on the bubble for fourth place, I find myself blinded before their over-aggression gets them called and knocked out. Or if I am more aggressive than them, I am the one who gets called and knocked out. Am I just experiencing a slump, or are other players able to read me too well? Hand #2 200/400 Seat 3 is the button Total number of players : 4 Seat 1: TenInchTommy (782) Seat 3: MastiffPaul (451) Seat 4: itgonerain99 (2461) Seat 5: str8flusshh (4306) itgonerain99 posts small blind (100) str8flusshh posts big blind (200) ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to MastiffPaul [ Qc, 7h ] TenInchTommy folds. MastiffPaul raises (451) to 451 MastiffPaul is all-In. Here I find myself in an awkward situation, with the blinds about to all but wipe out my stack. I had been waiting for UTG to die, but he lucked out and doubled up on a crap hand instead. (I find this often happens to me, too. I wait for the short stack to pop the bubble for me, but instead I become the short stack by waiting.) Hand #3 100/200 Seat 1 is the button Total number of players : 6 Seat 1: MastiffPaul (415) Seat 2: jkrouz (1455) Seat 4: eltigremex (815) Seat 5: Maverickdmd (935) Seat 6: ScootiePufSr (3300) Seat 10: Panther_4 (1080) jkrouz posts small blind (50) eltigremex posts big blind (100) ** Dealing down cards ** Dealt to MastiffPaul [ Ts, Kc ] Maverickdmd folds. ScootiePufSr folds. Panther_4 folds. MastiffPaul raises (415) to 415 MastiffPaul is all-In. In conclusion: I'm getting really depressed about this slump. Has anyone seen me playing at these 20+2s and thought to themselves, Jesus, what a chump. That's certainly what I feel like lately. |
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Re: Bubble Trouble
Boink.
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