I know someone will ask why not reraise so I will answer. I try to mix up my play by playing my bighands a little sneaky from time to time. Most of the time I reraise but in this case I was trying to get the pot after the flop hoping that the original raiser would cont bet his late position preflop raise. Just happened to have rockets lol. Hard not to go broke. Any thoughts?

Full Tilt Poker Game #4767711976: $28,000 Guarantee (35523313), Table 56 - 80/160 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:23:32 ET - 2008/01/06
Seat 1: s69ss396 (6,630)
Seat 2: jjweather (1,150)
Seat 3: Riverducks (7,505)
Seat 4: ponceD (4,720)
Seat 5: Meetraz (9,810)
Seat 6: Wheller (1,580)
Seat 7: mazoo1950 (5,710)
Seat 8: RonFezBuddy (3,980)
Seat 9: brevity7 (3,125)
Riverducks posts the small blind of 80
ponceD posts the big blind of 160
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ponceD [Kc Kd]
Meetraz folds
Wheller folds
mazoo1950 folds
RonFezBuddy folds
brevity7 folds
s69ss396 has 15 seconds left to act
s69ss396 raises to 320
jjweather folds
Riverducks folds
Riverducks has been disconnected
ponceD has 15 seconds left to act
ponceD calls 160
*** FLOP *** [9s 7d Ts]
ponceD bets 450
s69ss396 raises to 900
ponceD raises to 4,400, and is all in
Riverducks has reconnected
s69ss396 calls 3,500
ponceD shows [Kc Kd]
s69ss396 shows [Ac Ah]
*** TURN *** [9s 7d Ts] [Qd]
*** RIVER *** [9s 7d Ts Qd] [Td]
ponceD shows two pair, Kings and Tens
s69ss396 shows two pair, Aces and Tens
s69ss396 wins the pot (9,520) with two pair, Aces and Tens
ponceD stands up
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9,520 | Rake 0
Board: [9s 7d Ts Qd Td]
Seat 1: s69ss396 showed [Ac Ah] and won (9,520) with two pair, Aces and Tens
Seat 2: jjweather (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: Riverducks (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: ponceD (big blind) showed [Kc Kd] and lost with two pair, Kings and Tens
Seat 5: Meetraz didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Wheller didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: mazoo1950 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: RonFezBuddy didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: brevity7 didn't bet (folded)

don't think you're "being sneaky", you're just playing the hand wrong and losing value.

no idea how to play a donkament but i'd raise to 1k preflop and snapcall when he shoves.

cooler he had aces.

Well even if I play it your way I still go broke lol

Originally Posted by ponceD

Well even if I play it your way I still go broke lol

lol.


When you play it his way, you get value from a shitload of other hands. Just unlucky this time you ran into aces.

I didnt know the forum is for calling people retards lol. I figured it was for constructive analisis. Guess I was wrong. Well thanks for letting me know what a retarded donk I am. I could have just asked my wife to tell me that.

I understand that but this is a tournament guys not a cash game and in a tournament you need to get value out of your hands and for a tight player like me reraising there to a guy that has anything but AA is going to know I have a big hand. It is all in Harrington on holdem book. You have got to mix up your play. If you always raise big and reraise big with AA KK you are read like a book to the table. In this hand the fellow that made the bunk raise from late position looks like a steal. Well it just so happened he had rockets but it does not appear that way. I would say most of the time it is a steal with a marginal at best hand. If I go over the top with a huge reraise I get no value (if he does not have Aces) because he will most likely fold. In this case I made a bad read. I figured a measly try to steal the blinds so the call is made to do 2 things. Induce a cont bet (Bluff), or hope he hits a little of his hand and then get paid because I didnt do the standard reraise with the big hand. I am tight everyone at the table knows it. You dont get enough hands in a tournament so when you get them you need to get value. I agree with all of you in cash but in a tournament you need to get chips and being creative is the best way to do it. Its all in harrington on holdem. Raise/reraise with big hands 75% of the time the other 25% call. Oh well it didnt work out this time but this play of mine has made me big cash in tournaments before. Oh well I totally respect all the imput I was just trying to strike up a convo and see some different imputs. I dont really mind my play because it IS SNEAKY. Thats how you get paid when you are labeled as a tight player. GL fellas