BEAT - Comment on my play

kram7171

PokerStars Game #16738210645: Tournament #84460496, $3.00+$0.30 Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (400/800) - 2008/04/14 - 22:52:19 (ET)
Table '84460496 152' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: fu_house_86_ (37197 in chips)
Seat 2: thomassiek (28423 in chips)
Seat 3: wally815 (11918 in chips)
Seat 4: primo uno (6305 in chips)
Seat 5: auction666 (41793 in chips)
Seat 6: Boeket (22476 in chips)
Seat 7: josen8 (9710 in chips)
Seat 8: kram7171 (22806 in chips)
Seat 9: CASHRUS (53757 in chips)
fu_house_86_: posts the ante 75
thomassiek: posts the ante 75
wally815: posts the ante 75
primo uno: posts the ante 75
auction666: posts the ante 75
Boeket: posts the ante 75
josen8: posts the ante 75
kram7171: posts the ante 75
CASHRUS: posts the ante 75
primo uno: posts small blind 400
auction666: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to kram7171 [Qd Qh]
Boeket: calls 800
josen8: raises 1600 to 2400
kram7171: raises 1600 to 4000
CASHRUS: folds
fu_house_86_: folds
thomassiek: folds
wally815: folds
primo uno: folds
auction666: calls 3200
Boeket: folds
josen8: raises 5635 to 9635 and is all-in
kram7171: calls 5635
auction666: calls 5635
*** FLOP *** [6h 4c Tc]
auction666: checks
kram7171: bets 13096 and is all-in
auction666: calls 13096
*** TURN *** [6h 4c Tc] [5c]
*** RIVER *** [6h 4c Tc 5c] [6c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
auction666: shows [6d Ad] (three of a kind, Sixes)
kram7171: shows [Qd Qh] (two pair, Queens and Sixes)
auction666 collected 26192 from side pot
josen8: shows [As Kc] (a flush, King high)
josen8 collected 30780 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 56972 Main pot 30780. Side pot 26192. | Rake 0
Board [6h 4c Tc 5c 6c]
Seat 1: fu_house_86_ folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: thomassiek folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: wally815 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: primo uno (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: auction666 (big blind) showed [6d Ad] and won (26192) with three of a kind, Sixes
Seat 6: Boeket folded before Flop
Seat 7: josen8 showed [As Kc] and won (30780) with a flush, King high
Seat 8: kram7171 showed [Qd Qh] and lost with two pair, Queens and Sixes
Seat 9: CASHRUS folded before Flop (didn't bet)

I couldn't believe it. Comment on my play and how some of you would play it.

Thanks

Unknown

Hmmmm,

Your reraise pre flop could have been bigger I think. A Pretty easy call for the guy who bumped it up originally. He needs to call 1600 for a pot of around 8000.

Auctions call is pretty rough, he has chips, and is obviously hoping to flop a flush or flush draw and stack the both of you. Likely should have moved in before the flop to block him out.

You still lose the pot, but you would have had chips left.

On the other hand, I guess you likely want A6 to call in this spot since he's drawing so lean.

Pretty tough spot since it looks like you had gone a little deepish here. I really hate grinding away in a tourney to have it all explode on a single hand, especially when you had the best of it.

DrTyore

You've got a great hand...

The short (and desperate) stack raises, and you want to re-raise, that I agree with. The AMOUNT you raised is not enough. You min raised, that causes cancer. When it gets around to the big stack, it's the same as a 4x raise, which isn't that much given his stack. That's your first mistake. I would have either raised enough to put the first short stack all in, generally about the pot size is a good re-raise (including your bet), so in this case, the pot's ~$2k to start, his raise puts it to 44k, now if you want to raise, you want to bet about 90k (44k + your 2400 call = 68k pot), so 90k neighbourhood. I'm assuming that the short stack is willing to go, and you don't want to go three way against multiple hands.

Your second mistake was teh fact that you got the chance for the repop and didn't take it. After you got the caller from your re-raise, and then had the betting re-opened, I just shove my chips all in, and gleefully play for his dead money.

Barring that, this is a bad beat re: the A6, but the AK was a coin flip.

Graham

I think first, your reraise should have been much bigger... after that, you should have reraised all-in against the short stack to isolate. Had you done either of those, I don't think A6 would have seen the flop.

Voodoo

Original raiser was probably committed with his raise so isolating with a shove isn't a bad play and probably gets the BB out, then even though you end up losing the hand you're still alive with about 13K instead of on the rail.