First hand of the SnG, no reads on anything or anybody...
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (10 handed)
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Button (t1500)
SB (t1500)
Hero (t1500)
UTG (t1500)
UTG+1 (t1500)
UTG+2 (t1500)
MP1 (t1500)
MP2 (t1500)
MP3 (t1500)
CO (t1500)
Preflop: Hero is BB with
,
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UTG calls t20, UTG+1 calls t20,
2 folds, MP2 calls t20, MP3 calls t20,
2 folds, SB completes,
Hero raises to t150, UTG calls t130, UTG+1 calls t130, MP2 folds, MP3 calls t130, SB calls t130.
Since nobody showed any strength PF, I decided a decent raise would run most of them out...I was wrong...
Flop: (t770)
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,
(5 players)
SB checks,
Hero bets t250, UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, MP3 calls t250, SB folds.
I figured about a 1/3 pot would be a nice continuation bet...I'm really afraid of small trips, so if I'm reraised I can get out of here...If I'm called, I decide I can put the caller on Kx...
Turn: (t1270)
(2 players)
Hero bets t500, MP3 calls t500.
I like this card. I decide that because of the Kx will probably fold to a nice sized bet here...oops...
River: (t2270)
(2 players)
Hero bets t600 (All-In), MP3 calls t600 (All-In).
Not sure what I was thinking here. While I feel I'm fairly pot committed, I can still get away with a small (but playable) stack and have a chance at coming back...I thought about the hand and decided that he may see me as a superagressive and decided I was trying to steal the pot...my read of Kx may still be good and if he's got me beat then there is another SnG around the corner...
BTW, I was stone cold sober when I played this. I've been observed as playing too scared so I'm trying to get more bold with hands I feel I'm ahead with. Since there are a lot of players in these SnG that are fish (especially the first few people knocked out).
Final Pot: t3470
Results in white below:
Hero has Ah Js (one pair, aces).
MP3 has 8d Kc (one pair, kings).
Outcome: Hero wins t3470.
OK...AI on the first hand is a fishy move. I could have been up against somebody slow playing trips and I really didn't give him a chance to play back at me (he could have on the turn when the A hit figuring that any A would call a move), but since I had been the agressor throughout, it was better to let me bet off my stack...looking back, I guess I played this really agressive and.
Looking back, I'm thinking that the PF raise was probably not a good idea...AJ isn't that strong and with that size of field, I should have figured most of them would come in and play...
Once I got the pot as big as I did PF, the other raises had to be too big (in relation to the pot size) for me to do anything else with (The way I see it) so my biggest mistake was the PF raise. without that, I could have gotten away from the hand cheaply...