How often do you guys bubble?
 

I've been watching sheets's videos on pxf lately and he talks a lot about being aggressive on the bubble, raising a lot, etc. I know by doing this you are going to get a lot of 4th place finishes but you should get more 1st right? I just played 4 tables and got three 4th's and a 3rd. I don't usually get 4th place this much but its getting more frequent. I get more pissed about getting 4th than anything else.

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

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Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

If ur getting more 4ths than anything else then ur probably being too aggressive on the bubble (or calling too much). You can only be uber-aggro when the other players are gonna fold most of the time. If ur playing low stakes and people are calling loose on the bubble then you can tighten up cos theyr gonna bust each other out anyway.

Apart from that it sounds like you have maybe just been running bad.

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

yea im not whining, im just trying to figure out if im being over aggressive and need to tighten up or if this is normal. didnt mean to make it sound like "poor me, i keep losing." ive had a pretty good day, just a lot of 4th's. just trying to find out how often other people bubble. thanks.

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

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Apart from that it sounds like you have maybe just been running bad.

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Sounds to me more like he just has no sample whatsoever. Play a lot more games before you try to judge your results. Hundreds to thousands, not just a couple.

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

ive played a few hundred, just recently started playing more aggressivley at the bubble. i know i said i played 4 games and bubbled 3 times, but that was just one session in paticular that frustrated me. ill keep it up though and get a bigger sample playing more aggressively and see how it goes.

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

thanks leadbelly, im not really calling, put i might be too aggressive at these stakes. ill keep feeling it out.

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

i bubble more than anyone known to mank ind

but thats cause im on an alltimedoomswitch

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

too much afaik

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

14.7%

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

~15% out of like 400ish tables

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

13.6% over 5200 (I've only played v well over the last 1000 tho) so it's skewed from my earlier less than stellar play.

Re: How often do you guys bubble?
 

ok so here's a typical example of me bubbling, and confused if i made the wrong play. should i have played a little more passively and waited for the bust or was pushing the right play. or should i have made a raise large enough to put the sb all in. i dont know.

UTG is 39.6/14.6/1 over 50 hands
SB is 26/13/2 over 50 hands

Full Tilt Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t200 (4 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

Button (t5875)
SB (t840)
Hero (t2615)
UTG (t4170)

Preflop: Hero is BB with T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
UTG calls t200, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB completes, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t2615 (All-In)</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to t4170 (All-In)</font>, SB folds.

Flop: (t6985) 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>
.

Turn: (t6985) 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

River: (t6985) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t6985