K9 Money Tour Third Bullet Nov. 18th
This site is fast becoming a favourite of mine for tournaments. With 16 minute levels you really can afford to sit back and wait for some cards to come your way. That was really lucky for me in this game because I had very few playable hands early on. With only 10 runners this was like a monster SNG, a $5+50 buy-in and $50 added, top 3 places paid.
My earlier victory at 5th Street had mellowed my mood somewhat, and with such poor cards I was happy to sit back and wait it out and hopefully hit a rush towards the end. That`s pretty much what happened, I see no need to go into any great detail over the hands, except one which I`ll discuss in a minute. I managed to edge into the money with a 3rd place finish, taking my K9 results here in four tourneys to two 4th places on the World Tour and a 1st and a 3rd in the Money Tour.
Right onto the hand I mentioned; With 5 players left, myself and another the short-stacks. If I remember correctly I was on the button, UTG calls, short-stack moves all-in, I have AQos and also push all-in. SB calls or makes a small raise, BB folds and UTG calls the raise for a four-way pot with 2 all-ins. I forget the flop, maybe it was J-7-7, but it doesn`t really matter in this instance. SB raises enough to put UTG all-in, he thinks for a while then folds.
The cards are turned over (you can see what`s coming can`t you?) SB has KQ, short-stack has 88 and I have AQ. No-one has hit the flop, fortunately for me the turn is a Q and the river is of no importance. Short-stack is busted out and I gain enough chips to hang onto 3rd place when my nemesis MurryTheCat bubbles out.
So we come across that old chestnut of poker etiquette, the check-down. I have to say that if I`m in this situation I will always check it down unless I have, or feel I have the best hand in which case I see nothing wrong with shutting out any other players who still have chips.
Now in this case the short-stack was eliminated, but what if the Q hadn`t come. I would still have had chips, as would the short-stack. Even worse what if the player who was forced out would have beaten us both? Even, even worse, what if the short-stack had gone on to win the tourney!
I just don`t understand why a player would risk keeping 1 or maybe 2 players in the game in this way. If the side pot was dry, this is a definite no-no. And as the SB was chip leader I really think he could have afforded to risk a small amount of chips in a side pot anyway, for a better chance of bursting the bubble in a single hand.
My earlier victory at 5th Street had mellowed my mood somewhat, and with such poor cards I was happy to sit back and wait it out and hopefully hit a rush towards the end. That`s pretty much what happened, I see no need to go into any great detail over the hands, except one which I`ll discuss in a minute. I managed to edge into the money with a 3rd place finish, taking my K9 results here in four tourneys to two 4th places on the World Tour and a 1st and a 3rd in the Money Tour.
Right onto the hand I mentioned; With 5 players left, myself and another the short-stacks. If I remember correctly I was on the button, UTG calls, short-stack moves all-in, I have AQos and also push all-in. SB calls or makes a small raise, BB folds and UTG calls the raise for a four-way pot with 2 all-ins. I forget the flop, maybe it was J-7-7, but it doesn`t really matter in this instance. SB raises enough to put UTG all-in, he thinks for a while then folds.
The cards are turned over (you can see what`s coming can`t you?) SB has KQ, short-stack has 88 and I have AQ. No-one has hit the flop, fortunately for me the turn is a Q and the river is of no importance. Short-stack is busted out and I gain enough chips to hang onto 3rd place when my nemesis MurryTheCat bubbles out.
So we come across that old chestnut of poker etiquette, the check-down. I have to say that if I`m in this situation I will always check it down unless I have, or feel I have the best hand in which case I see nothing wrong with shutting out any other players who still have chips.
Now in this case the short-stack was eliminated, but what if the Q hadn`t come. I would still have had chips, as would the short-stack. Even worse what if the player who was forced out would have beaten us both? Even, even worse, what if the short-stack had gone on to win the tourney!
I just don`t understand why a player would risk keeping 1 or maybe 2 players in the game in this way. If the side pot was dry, this is a definite no-no. And as the SB was chip leader I really think he could have afforded to risk a small amount of chips in a side pot anyway, for a better chance of bursting the bubble in a single hand.
Labels: K9 Poker Tour
posted by DangerMouse at 6:29 PM
2 Comments:
Hey Mouse, first response didnt show up (trying again) That was bizarre. The chip leader actually raised it about 5x above the two all-ins. There is no need to do that. And the call by UTG, three in the pot,AA and maybe KK are the only 2 playable hands in this situation.His dry pot bet could have cost UTG the hand and a double elimination.Also when UTG reraised my bet from 800 to 1150 putting himself all-in with K-3 made no sense. The extra 350 isnt folding me. I don't know what he was thinking in that situation. I was the recipiant of all the bizzare happenings for the 2nd game in a row there.Eliminating players at the final table is the most important thing, bar none. Cheers
I'll never understand why people can not get it thro they head that its best to check it down in MOST cases...
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