Comments Please

moose

Went out 38/1615 in a 60k tourney last night. I'm happy with the way everything went. As Beanie said, it was mostly a case at the end of getting action on my steals and no action on my big hands.

This is the only hand I don't feel good about and I went out 2 hands later. I'll take any comments. Thanks.

Villian had just sat down and I had no read on him. Ave stack at this point is about 200k.

POKERSTARS GAME #11917265909: TOURNAMENT #59855132, $10+$1 HOLD'EM NO LIMIT - LEVEL XIX (4000/8000) - 2007/09/07 - 03:04:44 (ET)
Table '59855132 58' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: UrMy401k (123252 in chips)
Seat 2: Sudgie (145445 in chips)
Seat 3: cdnmoose07 (125444 in chips)
Seat 4: Bar@zzutti (285533 in chips)
Seat 5: Halfy9 (387233 in chips)
Seat 6: WillieDM3 (385646 in chips)
Seat 7: can darr (165392 in chips)
Seat 8: SLOT (279424 in chips)
UrMy401k: posts the ante 800
Sudgie: posts the ante 800
cdnmoose07: posts the ante 800
Bar@zzutti: posts the ante 800
Halfy9: posts the ante 800
WillieDM3: posts the ante 800
can darr: posts the ante 800
SLOT: posts the ante 800
Halfy9: posts small blind 4000
WillieDM3: posts big blind 8000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to cdnmoose07 [8s 9h]
can darr: folds
SLOT: folds
UrMy401k: folds
Sudgie: folds
cdnmoose07: raises 14000 to 22000
Bar@zzutti: folds
Halfy9: calls 18000
WillieDM3: folds
*** FLOP *** [8c 7s Qc]
Halfy9: bets 16000
cdnmoose07: raises 24000 to 40000
Halfy9: raises 324433 to 364433 and is all-in
cdnmoose07: folds
Halfy9 collected 138400 from pot
Halfy9: doesn't show hand
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 138400 | Rake 0
Board [8c 7s Qc]
Seat 1: UrMy401k folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Sudgie folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: cdnmoose07 folded on the Flop
Seat 4: Bar@zzutti (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Halfy9 (small blind) collected (138400)
Seat 6: WillieDM3 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: can darr folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: SLOT folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Royal Flush

Gj on the placing

Did you place in the money?

Monteroy

Yeah, that is one of those trapped yourself style hands and one of the problems with folding when you did is that it crushes your mood as well and even though you are still a bit above desperation mode (you had about 8x BB left ) the mood will likely cause a shove with a marginal hand (A rag in early position) that normally you would not do.

That run-on comment aside, I guess with the stack you had I might have either shoved or called on the flop. The call if you hit a 5 outer to improve your hand and/or see what villain does next if you do not. If you fold on a turn brick/bet by opponent then you still have about 12x BB in chips.

Of course if villain does the dorky super small bet on turn then you continue to be in that tilt inducing frustration hell that is created when opponents straddle that line between completely brilliant and idiotic play while you hold a marginal hand.

g2

Villain leads out for less than 1/3rd of the pot, headsup, on a very draw heavy board... this says to me he has a drawing hand and wants to see it for cheap. You raise... but leave yourself enough to fold if he reraises, so he pushes knowing its only costing him less than 1/3rd of his stack if you call and he misses.

FWIW I think raising on this flop if you intend to fold to a push is a total waste of chips. Stacks aren't deep enough, and he has you covered 3-1 so "I raised to see where I'm at" doesn't apply. I think Watts would say "Push or fold". And Watts does seem to have a decent record deep in MTTs.

/g2

Hobbes

Bad steal attempt from the cutoff. You really don't have the chips to do that esp against an unknown player still to act.

The small blind called getting 2:1 on his call and he's oop. Since you have no read on him, gotta give him some some credit for a hand here. Plus he has a big stack, so he's not a complete donk.

With that, I am not real sure where I am in the hand with him. He bet out on the flop into the raiser. I think your only choice here is Push or Fold since your raise only leaves an M of about 3.

I fold to the flop bet (even though my m is only 6).

Congrats on the finish though.