14 left in a $55 6-max 54 person tourney, interesting hand

shipsngigles · #1 03-12-2007, 07:15 PM

I'm second in chips with 14 left. I get moved to a new table with the chip leader (~2k ahead) on my left, and third place (~1k behind) on my right. The chip leader whom I had been watching had used his chips to push all in a number of times to take down pots. Knowing this, how does my line look here:

PokerStars Game #8871574115: Tournament #45046785, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level VII (100/200) - 2007/03/12 - 18:57:53 (ET)
Table '45046785 4' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: action16 (4487 in chips)
Seat 2: GazMag (7210 in chips)
Seat 3: maunders (10992 in chips)
Seat 4: ships&gigles (11265 in chips)
Seat 5: MonkeyBudg (13285 in chips)
action16: posts the ante 25
GazMag: posts the ante 25
maunders: posts the ante 25
ships&gigles: posts the ante 25
MonkeyBudg: posts the ante 25
maunders: posts small blind 100
ships&gigles: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ships&gigles [Ks Ac]
MonkeyBudg: raises 600 to 800
action16: folds
GazMag: folds
maunders: folds
ships&gigles: calls 600
*** FLOP *** [Td 5d Kh]
ships&gigles: checks
MonkeyBudg: bets 1600
ships&gigles: raises 1600 to 3200
MonkeyBudg: raises 8800 to 12000
ships&gigles: calls 7240 and is all-in
*** TURN *** [Td 5d Kh] [Qh]
*** RIVER *** [Td 5d Kh Qh] [3h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ships&gigles: shows [Ks Ac] (a pair of Kings)
MonkeyBudg: shows [Js Qs] (a pair of Queens)
ships&gigles collected 22705 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 22705 | Rake 0
Board [Td 5d Kh Qh 3h]
Seat 1: action16 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: GazMag (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: maunders (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: ships&gigles (big blind) showed [Ks Ac] and won (22705) with a pair of Kings
Seat 5: MonkeyBudg showed [Js Qs] and lost with a pair of Queens

He told me afterwards my play was disgraceful, but my intent was to trap him if I hit the flop by just calling his bet preflop.

kniper · #2 03-12-2007, 07:24 PM

cooooooooooonverter

Bakes · #3 03-12-2007, 07:29 PM

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t100/t200
(Ante: t25)
5 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: t13285
CO: t4487
Button: t7210
SB: t10992
Hero: t11265

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is BB with K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
UTG raises to t800, 3 folds, Hero calls t600 (pot was t1225).

Flop: T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (t1825, 2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets t1600, Hero raises to t3200, UTG raises to t12000

multious · #4 03-12-2007, 07:30 PM

preflop is fine but i dont like the flop. i checkraise shove there personally.

shipsngigles · #5 03-12-2007, 07:34 PM

Yeah, my raise was too small in retrospect. I don't know about shoving, but maybe ~4800 would have been better. However, I didn't feel he had much of a hand. My gut feeling was hes weak, i've got him beat now. I used a small raise because I had seen him overshove a couple times, and I wanted to bait him into doing that again.

multious · #6 03-12-2007, 08:27 PM

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Yeah, my raise was too small in retrospect. I don't know about shoving, but maybe ~4800 would have been better. However, I didn't feel he had much of a hand. My gut feeling was hes weak, i've got him beat now. I used a small raise because I had seen him overshove a couple times, and I wanted to bait him into doing that again.

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i think ~4800 would be silly and make your hand relatively transparent given stacks. As you played to make him push a draw (if you really want him to) or crai so that he puts you on diamonds (obv) is better.

AragornX151 · #7 03-12-2007, 07:42 PM

I dig it. As Cloutier says, "Columbus took a chance so why can't you?" [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Your read enabled you to trap an overly aggressive opponent for all his chips. Sure it could have backfired but it also made you the massive chipleader with a super shot at 1st. vnh

shipsngigles · #8 03-12-2007, 08:16 PM

Ship it, Holla!

PokerStars Game #8872886347: Tournament #45046785, $50+$5 Hold'em No Limit - Level XI (600/1200) - 2007/03/12 - 20:13:26 (ET)
Table '45046785 5' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: ships&gigles (66116 in chips)
Seat 6: maunders (31084 in chips)
ships&gigles: posts the ante 75
maunders: posts the ante 75
ships&gigles: posts small blind 600
maunders: posts big blind 1200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ships&gigles [Ad Ah]
ships&gigles: raises 2400 to 3600
maunders: raises 2400 to 6000
ships&gigles: calls 2400
*** FLOP *** [7d As 8h]
maunders: bets 3600
ships&gigles: calls 3600
*** TURN *** [7d As 8h] [Js]
maunders: checks
ships&gigles: bets 10000
maunders: raises 11409 to 21409 and is all-in
ships&gigles: calls 11409
*** RIVER *** [7d As 8h Js] [Ac]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
maunders: shows [9d 9s] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
ships&gigles: shows [Ad Ah] (four of a kind, Aces)
ships&gigles said, "gg"
ships&gigles collected 62168 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 62168 | Rake 0
Board [7d As 8h Js Ac]
Seat 2: ships&gigles (button) (small blind) showed [Ad Ah] and won (62168) with four of a kind, Aces
Seat 6: maunders (big blind) showed [9d 9s] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines

After that AK hand there was no turning back, holla!