Tried a Casino Trip
Results: 3 hours played; down $5; $10 bonus clearedMy sessions today were a bit mixed. I played a total of three sessions and only pulled ahead because of the bonus. After playing, I looked at the Poker Tracker results, and I played correctly for most of the hands. However, I was still on a bit of tilt from last night.
Last night I went with a friend to a local casino of their Saturday night tournament. It was a $60 buy-in game, and there were 31 players (if I counted right) with the top 3 places paid.
I knew going in that both my friend and I had good chances going in, but we drew seats right next to each other. We tried not to go up against each other, so I would have rather been at another table. Eventually they moved me when another one got pretty short.
The short of the story is that I made it to the final table as the short stack. I fought off the blinds and won a few hands to make it to 5th place and busted out. My friend was the chip leader with two left and got sucked out when his flopped 2 pair (AAKK) lost to pocket 8's when an 8 hit on the river. He ended up with 2nd place for $465.
Looking back on the evening, I'm not sure if I played the last hand correctly. Before the hand, I had $8500 and the blinds were $1000/$2000. I drew 5c8c in the big blind. There was one limper pre-flop and the small blind called ($6000 in the pot).
The flop was 67T rainbow. The small blind, an aggressive better all night, bet $3000. The pot was offering me 3:1 for a 2.17:1 draw. However, just calling would have but me in a very bad positionwith $3500 chips left if I lost, so I went all in. The small blind called my raise, showed a ten, and ended up taking me out.
I thought about that hand all the way home, and don't know if I made the right move or not. If I'd folded, I could have lasted another 2 rounds and might have made it to the money; one other player was out right after I was. On the other hand, if the draw would have hit, I would have doubled-up and probably would have skated to 3rd place. Tough hand -- tough decision -- tough luck.
posted by Kent @ 9:05 PM
4 Comments:
I don't think there was anything else you could have done with that hand with the blinds being what they were except maybe to push pre-flop, since your M is practically nothing. I think you played it just fine.
I talked about it with my buddy this afternoon and he suggesting pushing preflop as well. I'd already done that on the last two hands that I was in and got no callers. To be honest, it never crossed my mind this time.
I agree with Matt.. Push pre-flop. You have no chips. Get lucky. Pushing on the flop is ok too but since he bet first he is not going to fold for the additional few bucks. Rule of thumb is to only push or fold when you get to <8M (BB+SB+Ante).
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